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John Ganz, a fairly center-of-left voice found in the pages of The Nation, had correctly condemned Trump as a “tyrant”, citing such evidence as Trump’s decision to send in federal troops into major cities, and how Trump simply ignores basic tenets of the U.S. constitution. Ganz so far as to argue too, however, that Trump should not be seen as a “fascist”, since the regime is so “cheap and tawdry that to give it the name of a grand historical tragedy like ‘fascism’ grants it a dignity it does not deserve”. Yes, Trump is a bumbling, fumbling buffoon as much as he’s a tactician, pressing his thumbs into the wounds of the American system when it counts. But what’s so fascinating here about the critiques levelled by a Ganz, not to mention an Ezra “Charlie Kirk did politics the right way” Klein among others, is that even with their critiques of Trump, they oftentimes still offer a rather incomplete view of A) the Trump administration’s connective tissue to previous administrations that have paved the way for us to get here and B) muddy the waters in terms of what phrases like fascism actually should mean.
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Ambrose Biece, in The Devil’s Dictionary, defines homicide as “the slaying of one human being by another.” Fair enough. But then he elaborates with the following qualification: “There are four kinds of homicide – felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” The classification makes no difference to the victim, Bierce writes without stating the obvious that he or she […]
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Recent polls suggest that public support for Trump’s immigration policies might be waning; a welcome sign for those of us opposed to the ruthless targeting of immigrant communities. And, while a decline in illegal crossings at the Southern border may have contributed to this shift, recent polling also reveals that attacks on civil liberties are becoming a growing concern among the general population.
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Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. – Bertolt Brecht Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices. – Percival Everett On 16 September […]
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On 5 September 1972, the Black September group took 11 Israeli athletes hostage at the Munich Olympics, subsequently murdering all of them during a bungled German rescue attempt. On 7 and 8 September, Israel indiscriminately bombed Lebanon and Syria. Lebanon and Syria pressed the UN for a response. On 10 September the UN Security Council […]
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On September 9, Israel tried to assassinate Hamas’ political leadership in a surprise bombing raid on a compound in Doha where they were gathered in a Qatari government building to assess the latest ceasefire proposal with the imprimatur, for what it’s worth, of the Trump administration. It wasn’t worth very much. In fact, it may […]
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Increasingly, the United States and the European Union leverage their dominance in the world capitalist system to impose sanctions on other countries. Political leaders who impose these sanctions sometimes argue that sanctions are a “more humane” alternative to war. But that is not necessarily so. Sanctions are war by another name.
How deadly are sanctions? A study published in one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, The Lancet, finds that unilateral sanctions imposed by the U.S. and/or the EU have caused an average of 560,000 deaths per year since 1971. That is annual, not total. The Lancet study examined sanctions imposed on a total of 152 countries for the period of 1971 to 2021. So for those 50 years, unilateral sanctions imposed by the U.S. and/or the EU have resulted in the premature deaths of more than 28 million people.
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Wednesday, September 10th. Demonstrators of all ages used their bodies, vehicles, and street furniture to grind the gears of French capitalism to a halt. Eight days later, they were back at it. The direct actions opposed the government of President Emmanuel Macron. According to Spear’s wealth management magazine, Macron and his wife, Brigitte, have an […]
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Activists tend to see the climate crisis and US militarism as two separate issues. However, the hard-hitting documentary Earth’s Greatest Enemy persuasively argues that, in fact, the two are inextricably connected. But not only because many of Washington’s countless wars – especially in the Middle East – have been linked to securing and maintaining American […]
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“Killing African nationalists is like killing animals. My men and I killed between five and ten thousand Congolese rebels.” – Mike Hoare, British-Irish military officer and the author of Congo Mercenary, quoted in Cold War on Five Continents. Unlike D. F. Fleming, the godfather of cold war historians, Alfred McCoy argues that the cold war […]
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The United States: Failing In a Class by Itself How did this wealthy nation drift into the twenty-first century with such a backward and class-divided healthcare system? The United States certainly has world-class centers of medical research and teaching, but it also has “the highest rate of maternal death among its economic peer nations,” according […]
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“Given the chance, I could see the old man’s anti-immigrant rant sliding seamlessly into a screed about Ottawa strangling Alberta as he moaned about what he paid for at the pumps. But here’s the cosmic joke, like all gospel, it was based on myth and like most prairie scripture, it was printed on the thinnest […]
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Immigration today provokes some of the fiercest political passions in the UK. It changes the shape of communities, stretches housing and public services, and unsettles those who feel the familiar slipping away from them. These concerns, in themselves, are not signs of prejudice. They deserve to be heard and addressed honestly. As George Eliot wrote, […]
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The Milk Way Galaxy is on full display as it passes by a ground-based electro-optical deep-space surveillance telescope located on White Sands Missile Range–the location of Detachment 1, 20th Operations Group and their space surveillance mission, March 29, 2017 in New Mexico. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. David Salanitri) The Milk Way Galaxy is on […]
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Hiroshima Palestine vigil in front of the A-Bomb dome, photo by Roger Peet. Hiroshima Palestine vigil in front of the A-Bomb dome, photo by Roger Peet. Hiroshima Palestine vigil in front of the A-Bomb dome, photo by Roger Peet. Hiroshima Palestine vigil in front of the A-Bomb dome, photo by Roger Peet. Hiroshima Palestine vigil […]
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Unprecedented numbers of heat records have been broken in locations throughout the Northern Hemisphere this summer, and even more records will fall in coming years. Meanwhile, Israel’s mass slaughter and starvation of Palestinians is escalating day by day. And the United States is a central player in creating and sustaining both catastrophes.
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At some point in Israel’s starvation of Gaza, hunger stopped being just physical, and started to erode the mind. You would see people wandering aimlessly, not even asking for food anymore. Children stopped playing. Conversations became quieter, slower. People forgot certain tastes. The memory of sweetness faded. – Mahah Hussaini Israel is doing its evil […]
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I’d like to be a pig. Man alone can be ridiculous. – Gaugin Last night I had a strange dream. I was sitting in an old Uptown lounge called the Saxony. It was darkest midday and the only other occupant of the place was a very old and sickly man. He leaned into me, trying […]
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100117-N-6247V-083 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Jan. 17, 2010) Pallets of food, water and supplies sit on the flight line at the airport as a MH-53E helicopter from Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 awaits to be on loaded with supplies. Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing 17 are conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations as part of Operation […]
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Living in Gaza now requires a choreography of absence. We don’t walk; we drift. We don’t eat; we search. We don’t sleep; we remain alert, ears tuned to the sound that will send us running. Survival is a ritual of adaptation in a world that offers none…And yet I persist. I speak. I write. Because […]
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When the US entered the war, Miller went back to work for American Vogue and followed the D-Day landings into France. She was no embedded reporter. In fact, during her first week in France, Miller violated orders from the Army and entered the besieged village of St. Malo. She was the only photographer to capture the decimation of this small French town. She also rode into Paris on the day of its liberation.
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Tomorrow more Palestinians will die, but the unsaid thing is that it is alright because that’s what those people do … – Omar El Akkad, One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will always have been […]
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How many people are out of work? What is the real unemployment rate? We don’t know. What we do know is that the true number is far higher than the unemployment rate at any given time. There are some measures that purport to give a better answer than the standard unemployment rate, such as the […]
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