The New ‘Black Codes’, by Chris Hedges
"Aggressive policing is the bulwark of a segregated America."
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Far Right’s War on Culture
How to Displace the Great Replacement It Really Does Boil Down to Us Versus Them Posted by John Feffer Tom Dispatch October 20, 2019. Here’s a simple, if grim, reality: we are living in an ever more extreme world, as the residents of significant parts of California undoubtedly realized recently when the electricity went off amid ever increasing More
The Age of Radical Evil, by Chris Hedges
Who are those who would sacrifice us on the altar of global capitalism? How did they amass the power to deny us a voice?
The War on Immigrants
WITH THE SO-CALLED Migrant Protection Protocols program, or MPP, expanding along the southern border and trapping more U.S. asylum-seekers in dangerous Mexican cities, violations of due process are intensifying in traditional courts — and in newly built tents that physically separate immigrants from the judges who hear their cases. Trump’s Attacks on the Press Fuel Harassment More
The Problem With Impeachment, by Chris Hedges
Trump...will not go quietly into this good night. He will attempt to bring the whole rotten edifice down with him. And he may succeed.
Trump Attacked the Women of Color Who Led the Push for Impeachment. Then CNN Erased Them
Taken together, the picture speaks to an even more grim dynamic: While Trump demonizes Congress’s progressive women of color, CNN erases their work.
Ella’s Song: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest, Sweet Honey and the Rock
We who believe in freedom still cannot rest. “Ella’s Song” is still our song. We who believe in freedom still cannot rest. But we who are disgusted, enraged, exhausted might need a moment of comfort today. We might need a mantra for our march, a credo for our confrontations, a song for our solace. And because others More
The Systems That Silence, The Intercept, by Ali Gharib
The U.S. borderlands have become laboratories for new systems of enforcement and control.
10 Ways We Pretend War Is Not a Crime and How to Change Them
The concept of defensive war has been used to excuse numerous aggressive wars.
The Curse of Moral Purity, by Chris Hedges
Collective self-delusions, have now been mainstreamed. They are trumpeted by media platforms across the political spectrum and by the political establishment.
In Explanation of Our Times, by Langston Hughes
LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
The World According to George Galloway, by Chris Hedges
Trump is failing the people he conned.