That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and...
Speculators, meanwhile, have seized control of the global economy and the levers of political power. They have weakened and emasculated governments to serve their lust for profit. They have turned the...
Real life, our own life, is viewed next to the lives of celebrities as inadequate and inauthentic.
Politicians, a moribund labor movement, and the mass media—either cowed or in the service of corporate power—assure the population that the old prosperity is still attainable, but via a different rout...
No one who lives under constant surveillance, who is subject to detention anywhere at any time, whose conversations, proclivities, and habits are recorded, stored, and analyzed, can be described as fr...
The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik
Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more fu...
The sack of kittens sinking in the icy creek increases the cold
On the first night of the program. She waltzed around the set topless. She asked what asparagus was and said, Rio de Janeiro, ain’t that a person? She referred to East Anglia as East Angular, thought...
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We extract one hundred tons of coal from the earth every two seconds in the United States, and about seventy percent of that coal comes from strip mines and mountaintop removal, which began in 1970.
We do have a grand strategy, says Zeese, who was the spokesman for Ralph Nader’s 2004 presidential campaign. Nonviolent movements shift power by attacking the columns that hold the power structure in...
W. Bush’s life is a case study in the insidious affirmative action for the rich.
Trump is not an anomaly. He is the grotesque visage of a collapsed democracy.
Those who resist are relentlessly self-critical. They ask the hard questions that mass culture, which promises an unachievable eternal youth, fame and financial success, deflects us from asking. What...
The capitalist who does no useful work has the economic power to take from a thousand or ten thousand workingmen all they produce, over and above what is required to keep them in working and producing...
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.
The attacks by this movement on the rights and beliefs of Muslims, Jews, immigrants, gays, lesbians, women, scholars, scientists, those they dismiss as nominal Christians, and those they brand with th...
The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we present our history from the perspective of the winners, from those in p...
In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.