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For those seeking a deeper understanding of our post-9/11 world & a clear sense of how our imperial globe actually works.

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From TomDispatch this morning: Tom Engelhardt, "Once Upon a Time (And Not Any Time Either!), My Strange Tale of How the War on Terror Came Home in the Age of Donald J. Trump" https://t.co/x5htL83nfF

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From TomDispatch this morning: Tom Engelhardt, "Once Upon a Time (And Not Any Time Either!), My Strange Tale of How the War on Terror Came Home in the Age of Donald J. Trump" https://t.co/x5htL83nfF

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American imperial decline and whether the world will have any reason to regret the passing of Washington’s world order in the years to come -- Alfred W. McCoy, "After America, The Causes and Consequences of U.S. Global Decline" https://t.co/KkbvP60sao

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From TomDispatch last evening: Rebecca Gordon, "About That Arc of the Moral Universe, Sometimes It's More Like a Meandering Sine Wave" https://t.co/ANyvGIH86p

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From TomDispatch this morning: Can the pillars of the MAGA movement manage to stick together in the ever-grimmer Trumpian years to come? -- William D. Hartung, "Donald (Disaster) Trump, And the Fight for a Humane Future" https://t.co/aCojsInwwW

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From TomDispatch this morning: Can the pillars of the MAGA movement manage to stick together in the ever-grimmer Trumpian years to come? -- William D. Hartung, "Donald (Disaster) Trump, And the Fight for a Humane Future" https://t.co/aCojsInwwW

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From TomDispatch this morning: Robert Lipsyte, "A Short History of Sportswriting (from Bat Masterson to Shams Charania), The Clues Are on the Billionaires' Scorecards" https://t.co/zqZwzwWSBI

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In Pete Hegseth’s eyes, of course, women should only be on the front lines of war if they’re naked and in ink. Jasper Craven, "Pete Hegseth's Desperate Crusade for Masculine Validation, Failed Wars and the Secretary of War's Flailing Identity"
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From TomDispatch this morning: Donald Trump's America is starting to seem ever more like an aircraft in distress -- John Feffer, "Is the U.S. Heading Toward a Hard Landing? What Can North Korea Tell Us About America's Future?" 
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From TomDispatch this morning: Frida Berrigan, "Butter (and Schools), Not Guns (and Warfare), The War Against Iran, Up Close and Personal (and All Too Far Away)" https://t.co/luHkiMfxS4

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The Great Hormuz Fuel Crisis of 2026 has the potential to permanently reduce petroleum demand in a striking fashion -- Juan Cole, "The Electric Car Is the Only Winner in the Latest Iran War, The Hormuz Chokepoint and the Twilight of Petroleum"
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The Great Hormuz Fuel Crisis of 2026 has the potential to permanently reduce petroleum demand in a striking fashion -- Juan Cole, "The Electric Car Is the Only Winner in the Latest Iran War, The Hormuz Chokepoint and the Twilight of Petroleum" 
https://t.co/Jr8a07oftB

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A "Best of TomDispatch" piece from TomDispatch this morning: Eduardo Galeano, "A World of Violence: On Women Who Refused to Live in Silence and Be Consigned to Oblivion"
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From TomDispatch this morning: How Donald Trump climbed into bed with "the world's coolest dictator" -- Rebecca Gordon, "Gangs and Climate Change, Born in the USA, Drive Migration and Autocracy in Central America" https://t.co/w5xyaB0a1P

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From TomDispatch this evening: Donald Trump has always given unpredictability new meaning, but these days, a constant version of unpredictability is his aging middle name -- Tom Engelhardt, "A World in Trumple Deep (And We Are All His Apprentices Now)" https://t.co/SCAsRAwCnv

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From TomDispatch last evening: Donald Trump has always given unpredictability new meaning, but these days, a constant version of unpredictability is his aging middle name -- Tom Engelhardt, "A World in Trumple Deep (And We Are All His Apprentices Now)" https://t.co/SCAsRAwCnv

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From TomDispatch this morning: Andrea Mazzarino, "The Global War on Terror's Journey Home, The Collective Trauma of America's Twenty-First Century Wars" https://t.co/dApLrLzEuJ

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From TomDispatch last evening: President Trump is now presiding over perhaps the most corrupt, incompetent, repressive regime in the history of this republic -- William D. Hartung, "Reining in the Pentagon, Can the Military-Industrial Beast Be Tamed?" 
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From TomDispatch this morning: Alfred McCoy, "American 'Micro-Militarism,' Or How Defeat in the Iran War Will Accelerate American Global Decline" 
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From TomDispatch yesterday morning: Tom Engelhardt, "'You Dirty Orange Maniac! You Blew It All Up! Damn You to Hell!,' The President of Ultimate Destruction" https://t.co/efjzzFvGwn