Essential Reading On “Border Security” & Walls

Recommendations from Sunsara Taylor |  It is critical that Trump’s Fascist Border Wall be stopped, but it is just as crucial to understand why it cannot be stopped by relying on the Democrats – and how the Democrats themselves have played a criminal role in the heartless and murderous militarization of the border, mass deportation, […]

Katherine Stewart: Why Trump Reigns as King Cyrus

In an important opinion piece in the New York Times (12/31/18), writer Katherine Stewart shines a sobering and revealing spotlight on the forces and the outlook behind Christian evangelical cohesion around Donald Trump. She quotes an influential evangelical who declared “I believe the 45th president is meant to be an Isaiah 45 Cyrus,” who will “restore […]

What Should We Make of This Chaos?

Here’s how 2018 ended. Trump ordered a withdrawal of troops from Syria. Defense Secretary “Mad Dog” Mattis issued a public rebuke in his resignation letter, stating “My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion […]

We Can’t Wait on a Savior to Remove Trump. We Must Resist En Masse.

by Coco Das, posted at TRUTHOUT The word complicity comes from the Latin root complicare, meaning to fold or weave together. When scholars talk about the moral complicity of the German people under Adolf Hitler, this Latin root cuts to the heart of the question we must be asking about ourselves: How do good people become […]