Posted by Joshua Scheer In a stark warning about the collapse of organized dissent, Chris Hedges argues that the U.S. has entered an age of authoritarian consolidation, where meaningful resistance must be rebuilt from the ground up. In this vital speech journalist and author Chris Hedges examines why mass movements in the United States have […]
While the tour is traditional for Chinese foreign ministers, it would be naive to pretend that recent shocks did not shape which capitals made the itinerary.
Minnesota state investigators say the FBI is blocking them from investigating the ICE shooting of Renee Good, a mother of three and award-winning poet who was killed in her car on January 7. The federal government’s claims of immunity for the ICE officer — identified as Iraq War veteran Jonathan Ross — go against precedent, as does its refusal to cooperate with state authorities, says Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is demanding a local and state-led investigation into Good’s homicide and an end to the Trump administration’s “smear tactics” against Good. “This is Third Reich stuff,” adds Ellison, decrying the escalation in aggressive tactics employed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis and throughout the country. “This is an unprecedented attack on American institutions.”
The developments in Yemen, which remains divided between a Saudi-led coalition and the Iran-backed Houthis, carry regional and global implications.
Trump’s toadies smear a dead mother as their murder coverup collapses, federal agents shoot two more Americans in Oregon, and is Elon Musk cashing in on AI child porn?
Trump told The NYT that he was free to use military or economic power as he chose, limited only by strength rather than treaties or conventions.
Washington has stepped up its rhetoric about taking over the island, potentially by force.
Difficult as it is for westerners to hear, we don’t need a stronger West, we need a weaker one. Harder still, Trump is teaching us that the very concept of ‘the West’ is an illusion.