Rebecca Gordon
Rebecca Gordon is the author of the new book American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes and previously, Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States. She teaches in the philosophy department at the University of San Francisco. She is a member of the War Times/Tiempo de Guerras collective. You can contact her through the Mainstreaming Torture website.
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Views Monday, June 25, 2018 Nicaragua at the Barricades... And a Crossroads On April 19th, university students in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, exploded onto the streets. Their initial demand? A more effective government response to wildfires burning out of control in the country’s most precious repository of biodiversity. Soon, a social wildfire took hold in Managua and... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 24, 2018 Trump Drones On They are like the camel’s nose, lifting a corner of the tent. Don’t be fooled, though. It won’t take long until the whole animal is sitting inside, sipping your tea and eating your sweets. In countries around the world -- in the Middle East , Asia Minor , Central Asia , Africa , even the... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 29, 2018 Can Bean Counters Save the World From Trump? They call people like us “bean counters”—the soulless ones beavering away in some windowless accounting department, the living calculators who don’t care about desperation or aspirations, who just want you to turn in your expense report on time and explain those perfectly legitimate charges on the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 29, 2018 Trump, Making Atrocities Great Again A barely noticed anniversary slid by on March 20th. It’s been 15 years since the United States committed the greatest war crime of the twenty-first century: the unprovoked, aggressive invasion of Iraq. The New York Times, which didn’t exactly cover itself in glory in the run-up to that invasion,... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 22, 2018 The 9/11 Hijackers Were Iraqis, Right? I was teaching the day the airplanes hit the World Trade Center. It was the second meeting of “The Communist Manifesto for Seminarians,” a course for my fellow graduate students. By the time I got to class, both towers had collapsed. A few hours later, Building 7 came down as well. We dispensed... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 22, 2018 2018: The Year We Must Strive to Become Very Stable Geniuses A little over a year ago at TomDispatch I wrote about the bloody nightmares rupturing my sleep and the night terrors gripping my little household in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. That piece was reposted by a wide range of publications. And then, in what at first seemed like a terrible... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 18, 2017 The President Plays with Matches “I’ve just heard that my family home near Carpenteria is literally in flames at this moment,” a friend told me recently. She was particularly worried, she said, because “my mom has MS. She and my dad got the call to evacuate after midnight last night. They were able to grab a few photos, my sister’... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 21, 2017 Don't Rehabilitate George W. Bush: Why the Enemy of Our Enemy Is Still a War Criminal He received a prestigious award from the West Point Association of Graduates. He published a “ runaway ” bestselling autobiography. Last February, a lavishly produced book celebrating his paintings of Americans who served in the military was, as Time put it , “burning up the Amazon charts.” Still,... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 26, 2017 Take Your Tiny Fingers Off the Button, Trump Preventing a nuclear war between the United States and North Korea may be the most pressing challenge facing the world right now. Our childish, ignorant, and incompetent president is shoving all of us -- especially the people of Asia -- ever nearer to catastrophe. While North Korea probably hasn’t... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 15, 2017 When All the World’s a War... Since September 11, 2001, the United States has been fighting a “war on terror.” Real soldiers have been deployed to distant lands; real cluster bombs and white phosphorus have been used; real cruise missiles have been launched; the first MOAB , the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal, has... Read more |