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...
The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik
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...
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...
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...
W. Bush’s life is a case study in the insidious affirmative action for the rich.
Real life, our own life, is viewed next to the lives of celebrities as inadequate and inauthentic.
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.
The sack of kittens sinking in the icy creek increases the cold
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...
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...
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...
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...
We live in a two-tiered legal system, one where poor people are harassed, arrested, and jailed for absurd infractions, such as selling loose cigarettes—which led to Eric Garner being choked to death b...
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.
Those who manipulate the shadows that dominate our lives are the agents, publicists, marketing departments, promoters, script writers, tel- evision and movie producers, advertisers, video technicians,...
Trump is not an anomaly. He is the grotesque visage of a collapsed democracy.
The mantra of the least worse does not work—look at the steady deterioration in American politics. The least worst paves the way for the worst.
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