Austin C. McCoy, Truthout Echoes of anti-slavery and civil rights struggles reverberate through the current uprising against ICE. It is difficult to find inspiration on this Juneteenth. We are still living in difficult times. In the last year, hundreds of thousands of African Americans have lost jobs. Some state legislatures in the South — Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi — have […]
In the second episode of Zeteo’s three-part series, Mehdi breaks down how the World Cup has historically been used by fascists to cover up their records of torture, genocide, and more.
The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism. Chris Hedges The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is easy, as late-night comics do — and as the cabarets did for the Nazis in Berlin […]
British courts have upheld the proscription of Palestine Action and sentenced four of its activists as terrorists. A series of abuses of legal process ensured these outcomes were all but predetermined Jonathan Cook [First published by +972] It was virtually inevitable that, once the British government decided to actively support Israel’s mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza, an […]
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Iran has forced the US into one of the biggest strategic defeats in its short, violent and bloody history. The memorandum of understanding with Iran, signed (symbolically or not), at Versailles yesterday, signalled, as I wrote earlier this week, that we’re witnessing the collapse of American hard power. After it was […]