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[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On my radio show/podcast—the Ralph Nader Radio Hour—interviews of knowledgeable people have detailed the ravages by the cruel, serial law violator, Tyrant Trump, inflicted on millions of Americans. Still, the report from the V-Dem Institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg produced a jolting Common Dreamsheadline: Trump is Dismantling U.S. Democracy at a Speed ‘Unprecedented in Modern History.’ The report described the first year of Trump’s second term as achieving in one year what budding autocracies take a decade to accomplish, adding that “the speed of decline is comparable to some coups d’état.” To wreck,…
[ad_1] Say what you will about Caligula’s plan to appoint his horse Incitatus to the Roman Senate, I find it less ridiculous than Jared Kushner’s role as Uncle Sam’s negotiator with Iran. If the stallion did attend any Senate sessions, we do not know. That Kushner negotiated with the Iranians, we do know. And we also know the results: “Nul,” as they say in France, where Kushner’s father, a criminal pardoned by Trump, is our ambassador. Kushner and Steve Witkoff, a real-estate shark friend of the Donald’s, have been Uncle Sam’s top negotiators with Iran. If the Marx Brothers were…
[ad_1] Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell. The facts of this case are likely not of concern to most constitutional law scholars, but the dispute is of serious concern to the business community. The plaintiff sued Monsanto (which is owned by Bayer) for harms caused by the Roundup herbicide. (Don’t call it a pesticide, as Justice Thomas–a former Monsanto employee–reminded us.) The jury awarded $1.25 million in compensatory damages based on a failure to warn about possible harms. Bayer counters that the EPA did not require those additional warnings, so the state tort claims…
[ad_1] This article was first published by Al Jazeera in Arabic. False historical narratives abound in our contentious and divided world, as leaders and complicit historians endeavor to use public understanding of the past to push policies and gain control in the present. One of the most egregious cases is the widely accepted account of the decision by U.S. leaders to drop the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 of 1945, respectively. The generally held view, which is frequently taught in schools across the U.S. and beyond, is that the bombings…
[ad_1] In 1982, the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sent a naval task force 8,000 miles across the Atlantic to expel an Argentine invasion force from the Falkland Islands, a remote archipelago 300 miles east of the Patagonian coast. The mission was to liberate 2,000 British subjects living there. It was successful, but the price for Britain was high—255 dead and seven vessels lost, including two destroyers and two frigates. Would any British government attempt anything so audacious today, even if it could somehow find the boats? The Falklands has become a live issue again, now that President Donald Trump…
[ad_1] April 28, 2026 Elliot Sperber Photo: Elliot Sperber. Troparia – the plural ofTroparion,A hymnA short, religious songAnd read reversed its AiraportAirport for shortAnd what’ll we do with this glutShutDown a bunchYou fly too muchThe new museums look like airportsAnyhowSo turn ‘em all, the terminalsInto museums,Housing, gardens, schoolsEach runway a forest, or farmDo no harm Elliot Sperber is a writer, attorney, and adjunct professor. He lives in New York City and can be reached at elliot.sperber@gmail.com and on twitter @elliot_sperber Are articles like this important to you? We are 100% reader supported and we need your help to keep publishing articles…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump was irritated when a reporter pointed out we have been at war with Iran for longer than the originally promised four to six weeks. He noted this was still a much briefer military adventure than various past wars and even accidentally invoked an enduring gag from the 1990s sitcom Friends. “I took a break,” Trump said in the Oval Office, presumably referring to the ceasefire that remains in effect at this writing. While Trump has never channeled Ross Geller before, he has previously mentioned America’s longer wars in comparison with what is transpiring in Iran. “And…
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[ad_1] Consider the change remarkable in its own fashion. The “President of PEACE” in his first term in office has distinctly become the President of WAR the second time around, whether in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, in Venezuela, in Nigeria, in Somalia, or now in Iran. And it was indeed true that, though in his first term he took ludicrous credit for bringing peace to the planet by stopping wars that he generally didn’t halt, Donald Trump did not launch any significant wars himself. The second time around, however, the Peace President of increasingly “Epic Fury”…