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Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, America's Wars and the "More" Strategy

TomDispatch — Thu, 11 May 2017 15:01:13 +0000

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Tomgram: William Hartung, Ignoring the Costs of War

TomDispatch — Tue, 09 May 2017 17:34:02 +0000

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Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss

TomDispatch — Mon, 08 May 2017 17:08:15 +0000

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Since the late eighteenth century, the United States has been involved in an almost ceaseless string of wars, interventions, punitive expeditions, and other types of military ventures abroad -- from fighting the British and Mexicans to the Filipinos and Koreans to the Vietnamese and Laotians to the Afghans and Iraqis. The country has formally declared war 11 times and has often engaged in undeclared conflicts with some form of congressional authorization, as with the post-9/11 “wars” that rage on today.

Tomgram: John Dower, Terror Is in the Eye of the Beholder

TomDispatch — Thu, 04 May 2017 15:42:14 +0000

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Tomgram: Nomi Prins, All in the Family Trump

TomDispatch — Tue, 02 May 2017 15:03:57 +0000

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Tomgram: Nick Turse, The U.S. Military Moves Deeper into Africa

TomDispatch — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:53:27 +0000

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Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, The Criminalization of Immigrants From Clinton to Trump

TomDispatch — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:37:30 +0000

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Chameleon Presidency

TomDispatch — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:48:41 +0000

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Tomgram: Michael Klare, Do African Famines Presage Global Climate-Change Catastrophe?

TomDispatch — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:05:52 +0000

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There are the terrorists, who get attention out of all proportion to their actual clout, and then there are those with big-time clout -- I think of them as the terrarists -- who get almost no attention at all. Back in May 2013, I came up with that term and here’s how I described those I thought it should apply to:

Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Remind Us How This Ends...

TomDispatch — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:22:53 +0000

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