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How Trump’s Attack Against Congress Members and Senators Mirrors Dark Days of McCarthyism: Is Democracy Gone?

How Trump’s Attack Against Congress Members and Senators Mirrors Dark Days of McCarthyism: Is Democracy Gone?

Trump Has Returned to Destroy Our Democracy Our democracy is currently navigating a particularly dangerous period for our fundamental republican institutions. However, this turmoil goes far beyond the usual partisan squabbles in the modern national political milieu. It reveals a lust to absolute political power that profoundly threatens the fragile balance guaranteeing our constitutional rights. Thus, Trump's attack against congress members and senators, now, harbingers as an existential threat. Trump is demanding the immediate arrest of members of Congress who have reminded us of the need to obey the Constitution and not a psychologically ill person. He has even mentioned…
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Gaza and the Anglo-Saxon Colonial Nightmare: Tony Blair, the GITA, and Imperialism’s Humanitarian Charade

Gaza and the Anglo-Saxon Colonial Nightmare: Tony Blair, the GITA, and Imperialism’s Humanitarian Charade

By Ron Jacobs One of the most powerful conversations I've had this century took place in Washington Square in New York City on September 11, 2001—as the sky bore the acrid scent of a world that had just turned upside down. My friend and I were there, stunned, in the midst of the collective shock. A few blocks away, smoking concrete, flames, rubble: the material embodiment of a global trauma. Within earshot, a group of young people were discussing. One of them asked, "What should we do with the perpetrators?" I replied, "Find them, arrest them, try them." Another retorted…
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