Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail, a TomDispatch regular, is a recipient of numerous honors, including the Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for his work in Iraq. He is the author of two books: Beyond the Green Zone and The Will to Resist. His next book will be The End of Ice (the New Press). He is a staff reporter for Truthout. This is a joint TomDispatch/Truthout report.
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A good news storyline: Trump repudiated, Biden steady but insufficient. Enter systemic reformers.
Biden is no FDR. To expect systemic reform from Biden is naive but to envision him as a stepping stone is good progressive strategy.
It could have been different
And keep in mind, when assessing this world I’m going to leave behind to those I hold near and dear, that Covid-19 is hardly the worst of it. Behind that pandemic is something so much worse.
Trump just admitted on live television he will ‘terminate’ Social Security and Medicare if...
"We just heard it straight from Trump's own mouth: If reelected, he will destroy Social Security."
U.S. Cold War China policy will isolate the U.S, not China
The U.S. must stop pursuing its counterproductive effort to undermine China, and instead work with all our neighbors on this small planet.
Video: Restrained detainee begs for life as guards kill him
Neville’s family has filed a civil lawsuit against the county of Forsyth and Wellpath, the medical agency that employs the nurse, for failing to save Neville’s life and negligently causing his death.