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November 24, 2014
The final days of US empire are fast approaching. Perhaps its end will pass slowly and gradually, or perhaps the event will unfold rapidly and catastrophically.
Overexpansion, overreach and over-indebtedness will take their toll-as all past empires have discovered.
What does the empire feed on? It feeds on money and fear; your money and your fear, both obtained with your cooperation.
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November 24, 2014
Covering war, empire, the national security state, and occasionally culture, TomDispatch features some of the best and most established progressive writers on the block, the likes of Barbara Ehrenreich, Noam Chomsky and Andrew Bacevich. Read more
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November 20, 2014
Former congressman says that despite grim political realities, a new paradigm is still possible for those willing to fight for it
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October 12, 2014
It's just that it's not the war we thought it would be, that is, a confrontation between major powers with the possibility of a nuclear exchange. Read more
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October 10, 2014
On Monday the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that the isolated Kurdish enclave of Kobani was "about to fall" to a massive, sustained assault from ISIS. Read more
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October 6, 2014
"The US created these terrorist organizations. America does not have the moral authority to lead a coalition against terrorism." Hassan Nasralla, Secretary General of Hezbollah Read more
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October 6, 2014
Is there a "Plan B" in Barack Obama's brain? Or in David Cameron's, for that matter? I mean, we're vaguely told that air strikes against the ferocious "Islamic State" may go on for "a long time". But how long is "long"? Read more
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October 1, 2014
There was something surreal about the president announcing that he had just launched a heavy airstrike against militants in Syria - in effect, plunging the United States further into an unending quagmire in the Middle East Read more
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September 25, 2014
Conflicts over turf, profit and power in Latin America's drug war have claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, from Tijuana to Montevideo. Read more
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