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Supporters of Bolivian President Evo Morales

The Many Lies and Untruths We’re Being Told About the Bolivian Coup

Gregory Shupak / FAIR Nov 19, 2019 Corporate media would have us believe that Evo Morales was a dictator in the making. The facts on the ground tell a very different story. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

How Endless War Helps Old Dixie Stay New

By Greg Grandin, TomDispatch Jul 8, 2015 The Department of Defense says it isn’t even reviewing the possibility of a ban on the Confederate flag, deciding instead to leave any such move to the various service branches, while military bases named after Confederate officers will remain so. One factor in this decision: The South provides more than 40 percent of all military recruits, many of them white; only 15 percent are from the Northeast. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

The War to Start All Wars

By Greg Grandin, TomDispatch Dec 22, 2014 As we end another year of endless war in Washington, it might be the perfect time to reflect on the War That Started All Wars -- or at least the war that started all of Washington’s post-Cold War wars: the invasion of Panama. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Melville, Capitalism and Slavery

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 3, 2014 A new history of the events behind Herman Melville's 1855 novella "Benito Cereno" takes up the question of how slavery shaped the "psychic and imaginative" dimensions of contemporary capitalism, rather than merely the "social or financial" aspects. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Bleached Bones of the Dead

By Greg Grandin, TomDispatch Feb 24, 2014 Slave ships were floating laboratories, offering researchers a chance to examine the course of diseases in fairly controlled, quarantined environments. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

The Two Faces of Empire

By Greg Grandin, TomDispatch Jan 27, 2014 The captain ready to drive himself and all around him to ruin in the hunt for a white whale has been used as an exemplar of unhinged American power. But what’s really frightening is our soberest politicians, scholars, journalists, professionals, and managers, men and women who enable the wars, devastate the planet, and rationalize the atrocities. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Latin American Exception

By Greg Grandin, TomDispatch Feb 19, 2013 On a map published in conjunction with the Global Society Institute's damning new CIA report, no region except Latin America escapes the red stain of the United States' global rendition and torture gulag. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )