Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism
Henry Giroux Counterpunch The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer – James Baldwin The legacy of Nuremberg is…
Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era (w/ Susan Neiman) | TCHR
Chris Hedges Report In her new book, “Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era,” Susan Neiman investigates the structural evils of the Trump administration and how people are becoming ‘Good…
Letter from Germany
Steve Wasserman ScheerPost An ill wind is blowing through Europe (and not only there, as we know from these last frightening years in America). It is possible to travel through…
Donald Trump and the Age of Evil
Chris Hedges ScheerPost By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil. Donald…
This Group Made Tech To Protect Users’ Privacy. Trump Labeled Them Terrorists
By Cody Bloomfield This article was originally published by Truthout Trump’s war on the left is coming for anti-surveillance technology providers. When the government puts a target on your back,…
Trump’s Unconscionable United Nations Rant
Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Donald Trump threatened Iran with annihilation from the seat of diplomacy on the East River Tuesday. And then dismissed the real threats of AI as a…
The Espionage Act Monster: How Washington Crushes Those Who Expose Its Crimes
Whistleblowers are often celebrated in retrospect, but rarely protected when they actually expose the crimes and abuses of powerful institutions. That contradiction sits at the heart of this remarkable discussion…
Stop Pretending This Is A Democracy
Jim Mamer ScheerPost You can have democracy or you can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but you cannot have both. Ralph Nader Quoting Supreme Court…
The National Security Exception Was Never Going to Stop at Prosecuting Muslims
For 25 years, the US ran a parallel legal system targeting Muslims. It now reaches activists, immigrants, and the left. By Sufia Khalid This article was originally published by Truthout…
Post-9/11 Surveillance Has Made The U.S. Less Free. Reversing It Won’t Be Easy, Advocates Say
Maurizio Guerrero Prism The surveillance apparatus created after 9/11 has expanded substantially during the second Trump administration, advocates say, engulfing more individuals, derailing the lives of immigrants, activists, and peaceful…
Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit Is Analyzing Americans’ Finances
Joseph Cox, 404 Media. And Pulling Them Over. 404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol’s predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people…
The Next Election May Be Our Last
Chris Hedges ScheerPost Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike. The Trump White House has put into…
You Could Be Next: Trump’s Gestapo Tactics Are Getting Worse
Wake up, America. You’re living in a nightmare. Robert Reich Common Dreams Imagine living in a country that can arrest and imprison you whenever it wants, without any judge or…
Free Speech Groups Sound Alarm on “Red Scare” Repression of ICE Watch Activists
By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Advocates asked a court to unseal more details on Trump’s surveillance of churches, schools, and libraries in Minnesota. Free speech…
‘Vance Is a Dirtbag’: Troy Jackson Responds to VP Downplaying ICE Killing in Maine
Jake Johnson Common Dreams “To come here and say, ‘Have some perspective’? You ought to have some damn perspective,” Jackson said in a video reply to the vice president. Troy…