Sunday, June 1, 2025

Tag: U.S. history

2084

The world as it might be (or do I mean might have been?)

Empire decline and costly delusions

Historically, declining empires often provoke denials and delusions that teach their people “hard lessons” and impose on them “hard choices.” That is where we are now.

My ultimate history crash course

To understand the present, study the past. 

The 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis, right?

The good news is that they want to learn. The bad news: nowadays, they tend to think that the men who flew those planes on 9/11 were from Iran.

POPULAR

Family sues fossil fuel giants for wrongful death in first climate disaster case of...

In a legal first, a Washington state woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against some of the world’s largest fossil fuel...

This campaign against deportation flights shows how to target companies enabling Trump

A multiracial crowd of all ages carrying witty signs and chanting: Their target was the commercial airline Avelo, which has proposed operating as an ICE subcontractor to carry out deportation flights. 
video

US military vets and allies begin 40-day hunger strike for Gaza

The hunger strikers are gathering at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. for their action.

Is Trump’s axis of the plutocrats marginalizing Israel?

President Trump managed to realign U.S. Middle Eastern policy to center on—and yes, it should be capitalized!—an Axis of the Plutocrats, Gulf sheikhs who are using their galactic fortunes to reshape the region.

22 young Americans sue Trump administration to block executive orders pushing fossil fuels over...

In Lighthiser v. Trump, the youth plaintiffs say the administration’s actions violate their constitutional rights to life, health and safety and breach congressional mandates to safeguard public health and ecosystems.