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This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Extinction Rebellion
The British-based group Extinction Rebellion has called for nonviolent acts of civil disobedience on April 15 in capitals around the world to reverse our “one-way track to extinction.”
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The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Tyranny or Revolution
I lived among the wealthiest Americans. They knew only how to take. They could not give. They were deformed and deeply unhappy people in the grip of an unquenchable narcissism.
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Becoming Serfs
We live in a new feudalism. We have been stripped of political power. Workers are trapped in menial jobs, forced into crippling debt and paid stagnant or declining wages. Where will this end?
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The Coming Collapse
Once the economy crashes and the rage across the country explodes into a firestorm, the political freaks will appear, ones that will make Trump look sagacious and benign.
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How We Fight Fascism
In 1923, the radical socialist and feminist Clara Zetkin warned that the longer the stagnation and rot of a dysfunctional democracy went unaddressed, the more attractive fascism would become. History has amply illustrated where our current trends lead.
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The Deadly Rule of the Oligarchs
Oligarchs, though they speak of deconstructing the administrative state, actually increase deficits and the size and power of law enforcement and the military to protect their global business interests and ensure domestic social control.
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Thought Police for the 21st Century
The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive and left-wing sites, have given the corporate state the power to destroy freedom of speech.
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Reign of Idiots
The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanov, Wilhelmine, Pahlavi and Soviet dynasties crumbled because the whims and obsessions of ruling idiots were law. Donald Trump is the face of our collective idiocy.
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A Last Chance for Resistance
The crawl toward despotism within a failed democracy is always incremental – no regime planning to utterly extinguish civil liberties advertises its intentions in advance.
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The Return of American Race Laws
The warmup act for a full-blown American fascism and orchestrated race war is taking place in immigrant and marginal communities across the United States: Racial profiling. Random police stops. Raids at homes and businesses.
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Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
The country has never moved as close to the course it took under Benito Mussolini as it is doing now — and even if Meloni is not a neo-fascist politician, she has put herself in a position to appeal to and broaden fascism's political base.
