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DN! “Humane”: Yale Historian Samuel Moyn on “How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War”
“…when Biden gave his two speeches the other week defending the pullout from Afghanistan, he made utterly clear that while giving up on failed counterinsurgency, he is turning to, and maybe will intensify himself, the real fruit of 9/11, which is kind of endless counterterror, no matter what the constraints of international law say, unless they require the drones to strike or the special forces to visit with care for the victims.”
Matt Taibi: Why “Securing Democracy” Will Be Taught in Journalism Schools
“It is impossible to anticipate all the threats that you will face when confronting powerful governments.”
Henry Giroux on His Latest Book — The Terror of the Unforeseen — and How Neoliberal Capitalism Sets the Stage for Fascism
Money drives politics. We all know that now. But the other side of this is that it’s not just an economic system, it’s also an ideological system. [Neoliberalism] operates off the assumption that the market can solve all problems — not simply in the economy, but in all of social life — so it becomes a template and a model for all social relations.
The ‘Weaponization’ of Social Media — And Its Real-World Consequences
Singer and Brooking tackle the mind-bending questions that arise when war goes online and the online world goes to war.
Disarming the Weapons of Mass Distraction by Madeleine Bunting
Distraction has become a commercial and political strategy, and it amounts to a form of emotional violence that cripples people…
Chris Hedges | Memories lost with author Russell Banks, On Contact (Video)
In his books, screenplays and short stories, Banks uncovers the humanity of the marginalized.
Rebecca Solnit Tackles the Silencing That’s Quieted So Many Women
Solnit draws on an equation that has preoccupied women writers from Virginia Woolf to Audre Lorde: that silence is a form of marginalization.
Henry A. Giroux | America’s Addiction to Terrorism
Giroux discusses torture, militarisation, surveillance, racism, education and austerity … and draws the links to the military-industrial-academic complex.
David Swanson | The U.S. National Bird Is Now a Drone
Linebaugh says there is no way to distinguish the little “civilian” blobs from little “militant” blobs.
Elliott Colla | A Veteran Novel That Finds No Reception in War
War Porn contains some of the most significant and original writing on deployment to be found in contemporary American literature about the Iraq War.
The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism
The Terror Factory reveals shocking information about the criminals, con men, and liars the FBI uses as paid informants…
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
The book careens around the globe, diving into campaigns and surfacing to offer fresh and often surprising lessons, even when examining well-known events.
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israeli Propaganda
“I wish every American would watch this powerful documentary. Not only every person of conscience, but every taxpayer, must see it — and then ask themselves if the status quo is acceptable and can continue deep into the 21st century.”
Nazila Fathi: Until We Are Free
The 1979 Islamic Revolution stripped Ebadi of her judgeship after it banned women from holding the position, forcing her to stay home and raise her two daughters. A decade later, she opened a law firm and became vocal against the country’s laws that discriminate against women and others.
Philip Farruggio: Rollerball Amerika 2015
Cassius had said it most succinctly: “The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.” By Philip Farruggio | NationofChange | Blog Post February 4, 2015 You must see or revisit Norman Jewison’s 1975 film Rollerball starring James Caan as superstar player Jonathan E. In it, we see a world is no longer […]
Lulz and Dissent: A New Book on Anonymous
“Coleman does a fantastic job of chronicling Anonymous’s political turn while explaining her own moral pretzels as a researcher. She illuminates a movement that bucks the cultural trend to self-promote and examines the “fractal chaos” of a leaderless collective that is deliberately hard to pin down but looks a little bit like the Internet when […]
Robert Reich: Axioms for Organizers by Fred Ross, Sr.
Ross organized people to challenge police brutality, fight segregation, and become politically powerful… Robert Reich Monday, September 15· Fred Ross, Sr., was probably the most influential (but little-known) community organizer in American history. It was Ross who first identified, recruited and trained Cesar Chavez to become a leader and an activist. Ross’s influence continues in […]
They Can’t Represent Us: a riveting defense of democracy
They Can’t Represent Us by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini is a fiery indictment of electoral politics and a riveting defense of real democracy. By Jerome Roos ROARMAG.org June 16, 2014 Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini (2014), They Can’t Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (with a foreword by David Harvey). London and New York: Verso. A […]
Glenn Greenwald: A Response to Michael Kinsley’s NYT book review of No Place to Hide
Does Michael Kinsley think NYT’s Neil Sheehan—who “aided & abetted” the Pentagon Papers stories—should be jailed too? http://t.co/kpusmKU2Vo — Daniel Ellsberg (@DanielEllsberg) May 23, 2014 I wonder how many years Michael Kinsley now thinks I should have spent in prison for revealing the Pentagon Papers? https://t.co/c0naeyeUFU — Daniel Ellsberg (@DanielEllsberg) May 23, 2014 By Glenn Greenwald The Intercept 23 May […]
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