Culmination of a Counterrevolution
Many of the elements of fascism that have taken a new form in American society were already present there. This is not just about Trump.
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Fear Makes Us Dumb, and Possibly Doomed
There is now a political constituency being crafted at the highest level that has fear as a motivating factor. Once the limits are taken off, we end up in this Mad Max world where whatever is politically profitable will be used, no matter how destructive it is.
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Justice Over Order: Antifa in Depth
There’s a lot of antifa work that people aren’t giving credit to. It has been important in revealing Venn-diagrammatic circles that go all the way to the white house, and how these groups are organizing together.
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On Struggle, Suffering, and Meaning
Exiled Syrian dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh in conversation with Loubna Mrie and Mustafa – The Irrelevant Arabs
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Universalizing Resistance to Capitalism
As long as all these different movements are segmented into their own silos, they are likely to be contained. But when you bring them together…
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The Hidden Private Wealth Behind Everything that Sucks
Investigators may not even be able to find the root of all of this.
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We Are More Than Them
Stop! Take the time to think it through. Who’s holding power? Who can give you what you need in the campaign that you’re trying to win? How much power do you have to bring to bear to win the fight?
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Bashing the Fash, Then and Now
“It’s a trip right now, because it’s thirty years later, and here we go again. We’re all grappling with the differences between what we faced in the Reagan era and what we’re looking at right now.”
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Syria Retold
Bashar al-Assad wanted to remove the moderates so he could say, “See? It’s only me or the extremists.” But there are still moderate Syrians, many of them. If their numbers are fewer, we need to ask ourselves why. Where did they go?
For a Truly Radical Anti-Racism
Combating Islamophobia at its roots means attacking the structures of domination and division that produce it, promote it, and use it. If we ignore those and fight only its surface expressions, we will lose.
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