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As Trump Declares War On Shadowy Leftist Terrorists, Corporate Media Gives Him Cover

But Trump’s wildly dishonest declaration of political war has gotten cover from corporate media in multiple ways. It begins with…

6 days ago

County Assess LA Wildfire Impacts And Recovery Prospects

The data-intensive approach could not convey the enormous human cost involved, much less the stark underlying racial disparities involved. But…

6 days ago

photos from the edge 20 Farmworkers and Deportees – Survival is Resistance

People arriving to work in U.S. fields come from communities that speak languages that long predate European colonization, and their…

1 week ago

Trump Declares Antifa (Which Is Not An Organization) A “Domestic Terrorist Organization” (Which Isn’t A Thing In Federal Law)

  On Sept. 21, Trump signed an executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization.”  But antifa is not an…

3 weeks ago

The Hypocrisy of Kirk and the Far Right on Free Speech

The point is, has the media followed up on the Epstein files lately? Has that headline been buried by his…

3 weeks ago

The Tomato Soups of Andalusia

In the same way that locals prefer to drink Tinto de Verano, while the tourists drink their overpriced sangria, salmorejo…

3 weeks ago

Rhyming With Hitler’s Germany

His murder was reprehensible. All murders are. But a murdered hatemonger is a hatemonger nonetheless. And that’s who Kirk was:…

3 weeks ago

photos from the edge19 – BERKELEY’S STUDENT AND WORKING CLASS HISTORY

But Berkeley also has a working class history that is much less discussed. In the years after World War 2…

4 weeks ago

From Iraq to Standing Rock

On July 4, About Face launched their “Right to Refuse Campaign,” an initiative that argues that service members deserve legal…

1 month ago

From 9/11 To Trump’s Death Threat To American Democracy

They hijacked public discourse about Islam, first by stoking fears with emotional, attention-grabbing messaging, then by forging ties with established…

1 month ago