2016 U.S. Presidential Election
By Isabel Cárdenas, Salvadoran-American Activist; April 11, 2017 On November 9, 2016, I imagined that just as I, millions of U.S. Citizens were stunned upon learning that Donald Trump was the President-Elect! Again, I thought angrily, our popular votes had been disrespected. How was it possible that a candidate -who during his campaign had been […]
Spicer Channels Nazi Spokesman Goebbels
From: #NoFascistUSA on Twitter twitter.com “Holocaust denial on the second night of Passover. It’s time for the whole administration to go. Never again is now!”
The Hardening of Society and the Rise of Cultures of Cruelty in Neo-Fascist America
by Henry Giroux This article first appeared on Counterpunch. Giroux, a professor in the English and Cultural Studies Department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, argues that the “the roots of neo-fascism in the United States ,,, and the economic, political, and cultural forces that produced it” must be understood in order to be eliminated.
Why the Democrats Cheer Trump When He Wages War…and Why We Must Not Join Them
April 10, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us All it took was Trump firing off 59 cruise missiles against Syria for most leading Democrats, who had been posing as staunch Trump opponents, to start singing his praises.
War as Political Weapon
By Charles M. Blow Trump’s official statement claimed that the [U.S. missile] strikes were in response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s monstrous chemical weapons attack against his own people. But the statement also went further into the fiction of fear often touted to buttress humanitarian missions: “It is in this vital national security interest of […]