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Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Believe the Autocrat
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Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Teflon Wars
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Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Would-Be Strongmen Worldwide
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PA DOC Will Finally Treat Mumia's Hep-C infection, But Only Because Prison's Neglect has Caused Cirrhosis
By Dave Lindorff
Tomgram: Rajan Menon, Making America Insecure Again
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Terror attacks like the recent one in London send a shudder through Americans. Since 9/11, they have been the definition of what TomDispatch regular Rajan Menon calls “national (in)security.” They've also been the lifeblood of a media machine that loves to focus 24/7 on immediate and obvious horrors (especially against folks like “us”). In the age of Donald Trump, preventing such attacks has, if anything, become even more the essence of what American security is all about.
Tomgram: John Dower, Body Count for the American Century
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Tomgram: Jon Else, Eyes on the Prize 2017
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The Gorsuch blackout: Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Hiring Practices: Privilege or Prejudice?
By Linn Washington, Jr.
Depending on What Denominator is Used, Either 62% or 42% of the Federal Budget Goes to the Military
By Dave Lindorff
Trump in No Hurry to Staff ‘Enemy of the People’ Offices
By Dave Lindorff
(published originally by FAIR.org)
Ryancare wreckage: Don the Con's Health Care Pushes Serious Problems Aside
fdsBy Linn Washington, Jr.
The desperate scramble of President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress to salvage a cure for their ailing health care proposal to replace Obamacare completely ignores correcting a deadly problem plaguing the very heart of America’s health care system.
There Won't Be Another Jimmy Breslin, But We Need More Like Him in the Mainstream Media
By Dave Lindorff
There only was and only will be one Jimmy Breslin, and after his death last Sunday at 88, he is no more.
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Words Not to Die For
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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Walled In
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[Note for TomDispatch Readers: I’ll be on the road this week, so the next post won’t be until Tuesday, March 21st. Tom]
President Blowback
How the Invasion of Iraq Came Home
By Tom Engelhardt
If you want to know where President Donald Trump came from, if you want to trace the long winding road (or escalator) that brought him to the Oval Office, don’t look to reality TV or Twitter or even the rise of the alt-right. Look someplace far more improbable: Iraq.
The Gov. Lamm approach: Social Security Starves Us Slowly as the GOP Tries to Kill Us by Gutting Health Care
By Dave Lindorff
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Winning World War II in the Twenty-First Century
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The other day, I walked across much of Manhattan Island on the street where I grew up. Once upon a time, in a space of just four blocks along that very street there were four movie theaters (no small wonder in the 1950s). Only The Paris Theater, somewhat the worse for wear, still stands. Tao, a pan-Asian restaurant, has replaced one of them; the other two were obliterated, their buildings razed and built anew in a city that regularly eats itself for breakfast.
Tomgram: John Feffer, Next Stop: The Deconstruction Zone
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New poem by TCBH! poet Gary Lindorff: The life expectancy of a homeless person is 50 years
A crow will never peck out the eyes of another crow.
Perhaps that is why they live longer than men.
(Paraphrase from a poem by Shukrulla.)
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Surging to Failure
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Uh-Oh, there goes the Democrats’ 'Russia Did It' campaign: WikiLeaks’ Latest CIA Data Dump Undermines Case Against Russia Electi
By Dave Lindorff
The so-called Deep State and Democratic Party campaign to demonize Russia for allegedly "hacking the US election," and delivering the country into the hands of Donald Trump suffered a huge and probably mortal blow this week with the release by WikiLeaks of over 7000 secret CIA documents disclosing secret CIA hacking technologies.
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, War Without End
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Tomgram: William Hartung, The Generals vs. the Ideologues or the Generals and the Ideologues?
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The Sessions stench: Trump AG Jeff Sessions is Trapped in the Malodorous Maelstrom of an ‘Alabama Hurricane’
By Linn Washington, Jr.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the target of demands for resignation due to his triggering yet another Trump Administration scandal related to lying under oath in the Senate about contacts with Russian officials, finds himself in an ‘Alabama Hurricane’ of his own making.
Paving the way for a new progressive party?: Democratic Leaders are a Craven Bunch of Idiots Bent on Self-Destruction
By Dave Lindorff
The Democratic Party leadership, both in the Democratic National Committee and in Congress, is full of bad ideas these days, and they’re risking disaster because of it.
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Forever Prisoners of Guantanamo
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Tomgram: William Astore, In Afghanistan, America's Biggest Foe Is Self-Deception
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New TCBH! poem: 'True Story of a One-Legged Duck'
I was walking down the bike path
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Trumpian Snapshot of America
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