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Whenever the scale of US military spending is questioned, defenders insist the system is merely inefficient, not corrupt. But at this point, it is fair—indeed necessary—to ask a harder…
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In this conversation, Robert Scheer and Nolan Higdon dig into the contradictions at the heart of America’s elite class — the philanthropists, technocrats, and political leaders who…
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US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Friday that Attorney General Pam Bondi should be facing impeachment, pointing to the top Justice Department official’s handling of the Epstein…
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A bombshell Saturday report from the Wall Street Journal revealed that a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family secretly backed a massive $500 million investment into the Trump family’s…
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A recent article by Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman, Further Back to the Future, deserves to be better known and is a good road toward defining Trumpism. To capture what makes this…
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Critics have weighed in on Amazon’s documentary about first lady Melania Trump, and their verdicts are overwhelmingly negative. According to the review aggregation website Metacritic,…
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The United States spends more on its military than any other country on Earth—and then some. In fact, it spends more than the next nine countries combined, including China, Russia,…
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Marco Rubio arrived before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week with polished talking points, practiced calm, and a deeply troubling message: Americans, he insisted, should…
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In the aftermath of the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by US forces in early 2026, the Trump administration has repeatedly proclaimed the full “cooperation” of…
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By Chuck Idelson / Common Dreams “The border between democracy and authoritarianism is the least protected border in the world.” Ivan Krastev, Bulgarian chair of the Centre for…
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