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The man who seeks to rule the world
by Lawrence S. Wittner 984 words Although Donald Trump has never been modest about his abilities or reluctant to exercise personal power, during his second term in office he has shown clear signs of megalomania. One sign, of course, is his blatant demand for the territory of other nations. Since January 2025 alone, he has suggested annexing
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The Department of Peace will live again
by Robert C. Koehler 888 words It’s hard to avoid noticing, and internally screaming over, the Trump administration’s proposed military budget upgrade to $1.5 trillion annually – as though the present trillion-dollar annual gift to the end of the world weren’t enough. It’s not just the proposed taxpayer bleed. It’s the collective assumption that “self-defense”
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Introducing trauma-informed diplomacy
by George Cassidy Payne 1654 words We are trained to see war as a failure of diplomacy. It is often a failure of perception long before diplomacy begins. We usually arrive at violence too late in the story. By then it appears inevitable, as if it emerged fully formed from bad decisions or bad actors.