Curt Wechsler | March 29, 2018 Those who perpetrated the Iraq War are still at large, we are reminded by Attytood blogger Will Bunch. “The good people who made a few tiny mistakes back…
A Failure of Accountability Made Gina Haspel’s Nomination Possible
Curt Wechsler | March 17, 2018 Few people have paid a professional price for involvement in America’s torture program, notes Rogue Justice author Karen Greenberg. John Yoo, the author of the infamous 2002 memos…
The Mustache and The Sentry Team Up to Bomb North Korea
Curt Wechsler | March 23, 2018 “There are few people more likely than Mr. Bolton is to lead the country into war. His selection is a decision that is as alarming as any…
Madiha Tahir podcast: Drones & The Military Present
Click To Play This four-part series explores various aspects of how the present is shaped by war. To do so, we’ve invited anthropologists to help usmake sense of the current political moment….
Comparison of ICE Raids to Nazi-era Roundups Is Hard to Avoid
Curt Wechsler | March 14, 2018 {jathumbnailoff} The French term for targeted arrest of wartime Jews was rafle; in Denmark and the Netherlands, the practice was called razzia. The Polish lapanka can be translated as “to…
War Is Peace, Bad Is Good, and Mike Pompeo Is a Diplomat
Curt Wechsler | March 14, 2018 If confirmed as secretary of state, the former Kansas congressman “would become the first person to have served as both the United States’ top spy and top…
How Many People Does It Take to Drive Out an Oppressor?
Curt Wechsler | February 24, 2018 “We are still in the early stages of an authoritarian regime change,” warns Salon writer Chauncey Devega. “We still have an aspiring authoritarian leader. Many people have gotten to the…
The Guantanamo Bay Reboot, Part of the Vicious “America First” Fascism of the Trump/Pence regime.
Refusefascism.org | February 19, 2018 {jathumbnailoff} In his first State of The Union message, Donald Trump announced the signing of a new executive order to keep Guantánamo Bay open to the sound…
The Changing Nature of Tyranny
Curt Wechsler | Feburary 14, 2018 Whether Trump/Pence is a direct replica of the Nazi regime has little relevance compared to the serious challenges he poses, argues Henry Giroux at Truthout. When…
Students Need Reality About U.S. Wars
World Can’t Wait | Feburary 13, 2018 {jathumbnailoff} World Can’t Wait began sending veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq into classrooms in 2007, as GW Bush, and then Obama, claimed the wars on…