[The following was originally published in 1995 by Covert Action Quarterly.] … Independence Day was designed by the first state propaganda agency, Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information (CPI), created during World War I to whip a pacifist country into anti-German frenzy and, incidentally, to beat down the threat of labor which frightened respectable people [...]
Wow, U.S. social media is suffering a pandemic of nationalism just in time for a celebration of a declaration of the crimes and abuses of King George, a laundry list of horrors that pale beside the accomplishments of any recent U.S. president — the quaint abuses of his royal highness of the blue piss who [...]
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are a “hate group,” and what they hate is “America,” says the National Review. Zohran Mamdani hates America, says Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker is also accused of hating America. In 2004, after filmmaker Michael Moore released the antiwar documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, an entire response film was called Michael Moore Hates America.
America’s 250th Birthday Comes With a Crisis of Democracy Too few of us would pass as credentialed American historians or licensed litigators for maintaining our legal protections, but all of us can feel that this U.S. experiment in democracy over 250 years is slipping away. What should be a moment of national pride on this [...]
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In the lead-up to the semiquincentennial, President Donald Trump has waged a war on topics he deems “divisive,” from DEI to critical race theory. As a reporter and fact-checker, I’ve examined this attack on our history closely. I’ve interviewed historians about how our past shapes our current moment, observed the spectacles put on by administration, […]