Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Homeward Bound? (Not in Donald Trump’s America)

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Sometimes, in this strange world of ours, I wonder where I would be today if Donald J. Trump had been president when, as my Aunt Hilda wrote me so many years ago, “Your great-grandfather, Moore Engelhardt, a boy of 16, arrived in New York from Europe in March 1888.” He took that “Moore” as his first name later in life but it was probably “Moishe” on arrival. “It read more

Why Not Another Half Trillion Dollars for War?

Normally, when one develops all the symptoms of a disease, the response ought not to be exacerbating the disease, but seeking to cure it. Approaches to healthcare in the United States have gone off the rails, of course, but think about the disease of military spending.

What are some of the symptoms we’ve suffered recently? Wars, bombings, threats of wars, kidnappings of foreign presidents, arming of distant genocides, attempts to take over or control various countries, hatred, resentment, terrorism, read more

Tomgram: William Astore, America’s Teflon Pentagon

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At the moment I began writing this introduction, ICE agents had just shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old White man — an intensive care unit nurse, in fact — in Minneapolis. He was carrying in his hand — no, not a gun, but a phone. In a sense, Minneapolis is, for ICE, if not the U.S. military, the Afghanistan of this moment. In the Trump era, there’s no need to go thousands read more

Speaking Truth to Empire

Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Gloria La Riva, a socialist activist who has run for political offices multiple times on the platforms of the Workers World Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Peace and Freedom Party.
They discuss Trump’s attack on Venezuela and its aftermath; the Cuban and Bolivarian Revolutions.

Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Sam Theoharis, Why We Need Young Organizers Now

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How strange and deeply uncomfortable to think that, should he last, we will have (at least) three (3!) more years of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Honestly, I can barely imagine what that might mean. After all, every extra day of him — or rather him — is eye-blinkingly strange. For instance, it’s true that, while at the World Economic Forum read more

Tomgram: Juan Cole, Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran

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At almost 82, I still walk six miles a day without fail. And sometimes now, when I’m walking in my city, New York, I imagine ICE agents arriving here in the hundreds or even thousands as they have in other cities across this country to cause distinctly Trumpian chaos.

And no one should be surprised. As Amnesty International has read more