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Lock Up Washington

Rise Up or Die

Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria

California Man Sues Officers He Says Nearly Beat Him to Death

The Promise of a Courageous Al-Jazeera America May Be Fading

Glaciers Are Melting Slowly but Surely
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

How America Became a Third World Country: 2013-2023
By Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford, TomDispatch

Lock Up Washington
By Richard Reeves

Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch

California Man Sues Officers He Says Nearly Beat Him to Death

The Promise of a Courageous Al-Jazeera America May Be Fading

A Step Closer to Immigration Reform

GOP Senator’s Hypocrisy on Tornado Aid, Jon Stewart Hates Washington, and More

Our God of Imagination

Videos Capture Scary EF-5 Oklahoma Tornado

Economic Murder: How and Why Austerity Kills

‘Left, Right & Center’: The White House Scandal Trifecta

Save Our Democracy: Buy the L.A. Times for $660 Million

‘The Daily Show’: Stewart Slams Hypocrites Cheney and Rumsfeld

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

Daily Rituals
By Gabriel Thompson

The Girls of Atomic City
By Scott Martelle

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor

By Tad Friend
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Predator Nation

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —

The CIA’s global drone assassination campaign has turned much of the rest of the planet into what can only be considered an American free-fire zone.

Posted on May 14, 2012 READ MORE | 9 COMMENTS

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Weapons ‘R’ Us: Making Warbirds Instead of Thunderbirds

By William Astore, TomDispatch —

“Makin’ Thunderbirds” is about auto workers back in 1955 who were “young and proud” to be making Ford cars. But in the early 1980s, Bob Seger sings, “the plants have changed and you’re lucky if you work.” Now America’s plants make the deadliest of weapons.

Posted on Jan 26, 2012 READ MORE | 3 COMMENTS

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‘Reaper’ Ready to Watch Over Iraq

One way the U.S. military could maintain a presence in Iraq, even if by proxy, in the near future is through the use of unmanned drones with foreboding names like the MQ-9 Reaper and the Predator, both of which are able to carry seriously sinister weaponry like the laser-guided Hellfire missile.