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‘The lion has fallen!’
Recently, Manbij has fallen under the control of Kurdish militias and their allies. And that is only a rough summary of the city’s grim and complex history.
How Trump is following Hitler’s playbook
History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.
Re-electing a brutal outlaw-in-chief makes America a rogue outlaw nation
Heinous outcomes are inevitable if Trump is able to get away with relentlessly targeting law and order as his prime opponent.
Could ‘sneaky, conniving’ Democrats help pump ‘Trump the Dictator’ surges after...
For now, it’s grin and bear it time, enduring one more round of crazed Trumpism until the zombie is declared dead and buried.
‘Gangster in the White House’: Noam Chomsky on COVID-19, WHO, China,...
“This is typical behavior of autocrats and dictators. When you make colossal errors which are killing thousands of people, find somebody else to blame.”
The Trump dictatorship
Democracy is about means, while dictatorship is about ends. Trump uses any means available to achieve his own ends.
Trump’s fascist efforts to demolish democracy
Driven by a hatred of “the other” and infused with narratives of decline and victimization, fascist politics trade in an incendiary rhetoric of fear, demonization and violence.
Six dictators who divided children from parents
Separating children from their families has been characteristic of the biggest dictators of the modern era.
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Spain blocks US war operations in Iran and calls conflict “profoundly illegal”
Madrid closes airspace and denies military base access, widening tensions with Washington as legal experts cite violations of the UN charter
Trump, complicity in genocide, started a terrible war; he must be removed NOW.
When will this march into Trump authoritarianism be stopped by some powerful, fearless leader?
Nuke power equals Trump profits
Amidst his escalating attacks on renewable energy and atomic safety, the Trump family’s investments in nuclear fusion live under a bad cloud that threatens us all.
Trump’s Iran war drives more than $100 billion to fossil fuel giants as global...
Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits.
How Democrats helped clear Trump’s path back to power
The Democratic Party has chosen again and again to abandon working people and cling to corporate power, militarism, and a feckless, out-of-touch leadership class, Norman Solomon of RootsAction says. And we’re all paying the price.