The US security state, the censorship industrial complex: call it whatever you like. The US Bill of Rights, a founding document of the republic has lately undergone an assault by diverse organizations—many allied with US government agencies—all seeking to throttle freedom of speech in abrogation of the Bill of Rights to the US Constitution, specifically […]
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I have four degrees from the institution, starting with the undergrad Columbia College, and I was there as a junior in 1968 when anti-Vietnam War/anti-Harlem slumlord protestors shut down the campus and the Spring semester, canceling final exams, demanding that the university divest from its investments in arms manufacturers. Protestors occupied four buildings, including the
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After reading a recent ScheerPost column by Michael T. Klare, professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association, my first thought was, ah, yes, the warmonger maniacs are really pushing as hard as possible for global extinction now. Professor Klare (https://scheerpost.com/2024/02/21/emergent-ai-behavior-and-human-destiny) describes enthusiasts (maniacs
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I’m re-posting here a comment that I left on a Chris Hedges post about the upcoming last-ditch appeal for the freedom of Julian Assange. The comment was extreme, and it led the pack in likes. But that was not my purpose. My sentiments, here are genuine: I’ve had it with the failure of the promise
Traditional Liberals — what those of us on the real left sometimes call “shitlibs” because their production of fecal stupidity in the name of liberalism (aka the democratic Party) is so blatant and putridly fetid — are calling for their followers to vote republican. More specifically, they’re suggesting that in sates with open primaries, registered
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Groups of Israeli — and American Zionists/ UK Zionists appear in various videos virtually cheering Israeli actions in Gaza, i.e., murder, war crimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing. Initiatives to prohibit pro-Palestinian rallies and censor pro-Palestinian speech are rampant, supposedly because they support Hamas terrorism, while the actual terrorism (IDF, Netanyahu government) is conveniently ignored. Jewish people
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So I’m hearing from all the voices I trust — Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, etc. how Jewish college students are terrified by the anti-semitic environment, apparently referring to pro-Palestinian rallies and demands for cease-fire, and whatever other perceived anti-Israeli war criminality is present on campus. They’re terrified to the extent of demanding a response from
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Zionism ≠ Judaism In a recent Grayzone video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2x9gcPmA7E&t=1603s, Aaron Maté, a Canadian Jew characterized Zionism and Israel’s right-wing government as driven by chauvinism. Seems like an apt descriptor and an effective tool to illustrate the important distinction between Zionism, a political—specifically a settler-colonialist—philosophy and Judaism, a religion and set of moral principles guiding the
Of all the outrages chronically imposed by Israel on the inhabitants of Gaza, we often hear this one almost glossed over in passing: Israel limits food supplies going into this concentration camp, thus limiting the calories available to Gazans. This presumably includes all aspects of nutrition, including protein calories. As any competent biologist (including me)
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In a sense, this is a review of the 2016 book, “The General’s Son,” by Miko Peled, son of Matti Peled, a Zionist Israeli General who was integral to Israel’s victories over Egypt and its other “victories” in the 1950s and ’60s, which established the state of Israel. But perceiving a ticking time bomb of
