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Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian | The Trump Presidency, or How to Further Enrich ‘The Masters of the Universe’ via Reader Supported News (Tom Dispatch)

Posted on 2017/10/04 by nfield

[…] Not all of the damage can be blamed on the con man who is nominally in charge, on his outlandish appointments, or on the congressional forces he has unleashed. Some of the most dangerous developments under Trump trace back … Continue reading →

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What We Talk About When We Don’t Want to Talk About Nuclear War via TomDispatch (Reader Supported News)

Posted on 2016/10/05 by norma field

Nick Turse Last month, near the end of the first presidential debate, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton laid a masterful trap for her Republican rival. Reminding viewers of Donald Trump’s frequent crude comments about women, she mentioned “a woman in a … Continue reading →

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The Atomic Bomb, Then and Now via Reader Supported News

Posted on 2014/08/07 by norma field

Sixty-nine years ago, the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on Japan — Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 — killing over a quarter of a million people. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and other … Continue reading →

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