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1 week ago |
juancole.com | William D. Hartung |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com ) – The Trump administration seems intent on undermining America’s ability to make human rights a significant element of its foreign policy. As evidence of that, consider its plan to dramatically reduce policy directives and personnel devoted to those very issues, including the dismantling of the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Rights, and Labor.
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1 month ago |
juancole.com | William D. Hartung |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Under the guise of efficiency, the Trump administration is taking a sledgehammer to essential programs and agencies that are the backbone of America’s civilian government.
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2 months ago |
fpif.org | William D. Hartung |John Feffer
Originally published in TomDispatch.
Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the coauthor of a new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. In it, he calls for a renewed sense of national purpose and even greater cooperation between government and the tech sector. His book is, in fact, not just an account of how to spur technological innovation, but a distinctly ideological tract.
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2 months ago |
juancole.com | William D. Hartung |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the coauthor of a new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. In it, he calls for a renewed sense of national purpose and even greater cooperation between government and the tech sector. His book is, in fact, not just an account of how to spur technological innovation, but a distinctly ideological tract.
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2 months ago |
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Olivier De Schutter |William D. Hartung
On Friday, March 7 all tuberculosis (TB) related health activities were terminated in Pakistan and elsewhere as a result of President Trump’s January 20 executive order ending the $44 billion funding of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and State Department projects for 90 days. The proclamation also called for all foreign service officers (FSO) in Pakistan to be placed on administrative leave.
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Feb 12, 2025 |
juancole.com | William D. Hartung |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com ) – The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and economic inequality, war and the threat of more war, a rampaging climate crisis, and an accelerating nuclear arms race (and that’s just for starters) — all occurring in a climate of massive mis- and disinformation that makes it ever harder to build a consensus toward solutions to the multiple problems we face.
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Feb 3, 2025 |
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Danaka Katovich |Lawrence Wittner |William D. Hartung
With the world awash in countless power-hungry cloud-computing and AI data centers, crypto mining farms, growing fleets of electrical vehicles, new all-electric homes and commercial buildings, existing power generation capacity and distribution grids globally are experiencing overloads and power supply shortages. In the US, operators are looking at increasing the electrical power supply by 3.5 gigawatts of additional generating power which is enough to power three million homes.
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Jan 24, 2025 |
countercurrents.org | Danaka Katovich |Lawrence Wittner |William D. Hartung |S G Vombatkere
I interviewed three anti-nuke activists to understand the Doomsday Clock and how our society thinks about the very real threat of nuclear war. “Dear young people who have never experienced war, ‘Wars begin covertly. If you sense it coming, it may be too late.’” -Takato Michishita, survivor of the bombing of Nagasaki. On a rainy Saturday afternoon in the Catskill Mountains where New Yorkers went for the summer to escape the city heat, Alice Slater’s mother took her to go see a movie in town.
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Jan 24, 2025 |
countercurrents.org | Lawrence Wittner |Danaka Katovich |William D. Hartung |S G Vombatkere
Will the world ever be free of the menace of nuclear annihilation? There was a promising start along these lines during the late twentieth century, when―pressed by a popular upsurge against nuclear weapons―the nations of the world adopted a succession of nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements. Starting with the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, these agreements helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
truthout.org | Liz Theoharis |William D. Hartung
With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, advocates for peace, social justice, racial and economic equality, fair immigration policies, climate renewal, trans rights, and other movements for change are bracing for hard times. The new administration will be doggedly opposed to so many of the values we hold dear, as well as programs that have helped keep millions of Americans above the poverty line.