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The Most Terrifying Thing About 9/11 Was America’s Response
The fear I experienced that terrible day in New York doesn’t begin to compare with the dread I’ve developed watching our path since.
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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The 9/11 Wars
What the U.S. Could Have Bought After 9/11 Instead of a "War on Terror"
We could have had a cooler planet, universal health care, and an end to the coronavirus pandemic — if we'd chosen life over death.
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USAID’s Samantha Power Reaches New Summit of Cynicism About International Criminal Court
Power recently celebrated Sudan for voting to join the ICC. She discreetly did not mention who hasn’t joined: the United States.
$10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000
Was the Afghanistan War a failure? Not for the top five defense contractors and their shareholders.
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Laura Ingraham Confronts the Core Problem for Capitalists
And workers should thank her for that.
Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Seemingly Acknowledges That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons
Gilad Erdan, also the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, quietly liked a tweet referring to “Israel's nuclear deterrent.”
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The Murder of the U.S. Middle Class Began 40 Years Ago This Week
Reagan's firing of striking air traffic controllers was the first huge offensive in corporate America's war on everyone else.
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I Tried to Make Claims About Election Fraud So Preposterous Trump Fans Wouldn't Believe Me. It Was Impossible.
I was acting as Trump and his minions do: free to say anything, no matter how ridiculous, with no basis in observable fact.
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At 245, America Is Old Enough to Be Honest About Its Founding
The Declaration of Independence's clause about "merciless Indian Savages" and its deleted passage on slavery say a lot about us.
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Farewell to Donald Rumsfeld, Dreary War Criminal
Rumsfeld managed to do terrible things throughout his life while remaining tremendously banal.