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As I write, the American media is filled with remembrances of the September 11, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, some of critical reflection, most in a patriotic vein, yearning for that moment of national unity. This is a fleeting interlude for a country consumed by internal (...)
The legal carte blanche signed days after the 2001 attacks is still used to authorise military action – just one way US society has been shaped, or corroded, by its backlash to terror
Over the past few weeks, the Biden administration has launched drone strikes against suspected terrorist (...)
TRUMP’S JANUARY 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol didn’t begin on that day, of course. It was prepared by the outgoing president’s feverish “stolen election” lies and bumbling lawsuits and cultish rightwing and social media disinformation in which a sizable sector of the Republican voting base has (...)
« It is only the second federal holiday connected to African Americans [recognition of the end of slavery]. The first was declared in 1983 to honour the leader of the civil rights revolution, Martin Luther King Jnr. »
Juneteenth Independence Day (which falls on June 19) has finally become a (...)
Thousands of adoring fans turned out in Ohio to remind America that Trump’s cult of personality never went away
There were raucous cheers and boos. There were Secret Service agents and metal detectors, food trailers in long grass and loudspeakers booming songs by Elton John and Dolly Parton. (...)
Voting rights are threatened across the US and Trump allies are vying to control elections in multiple states. Can US democracy survive the post-Trump onslaught?
If Donald Trump’s inaugural address can be summed up in two words – “American carnage” – Joe Biden’s might be remembered for three: (...)
Ashley Smith contextualizes the Biden administration program, and argues that it represents a Keynesian break from decades of neo-liberal policy. However, it is a break driven in the first instance by the imperative to rehabilitate the profitability of U.S. capitalism and U.S. imperial power. (...)
Trump, who now completely dominates the Republican Party, continues to claim that President Joseph Biden and the Democrats won in 2020 through election fraud. Election authorities of both major parties around the country have demonstrated that there was no significant voter fraud. Trump and the (...)
The right-wing cultural war in the United States is not an academic debate about race, history and freedom. It is a life and death struggle for Blacks, Latinos, Asians, indigenous peoples and transgender youth, and for women’s right to abortion and jobs.
The Republican Party has turned to a (...)
Biden’s Families Plan is the third of his economic packages. Billed at $1.8 trillion over ten years, the Families Plan complements the immediate support provides by the Rescue Plan and the long-term Jobs/infrastructure Plan.
The Families Plan concludes the sequence, but the family has been a (...)
Perhaps the most frequently discussed question lately is: Will President Joseph Biden be another Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)’s presidency, from 1933 to 1945, transformed the United States with its New Deal, a collection of social welfare programs that rewrote the nation’s (...)
With the failure of the January 6 attack on Congress to overturn the 2020 election, Trump’s final attempt to do so, many progressives and socialists thought that we were finished with Trump.
But it has become clearer that the Republican Party remains under Trump’s control. The concerted drive by (...)
JusticeLA’s activists have devoted themselves to shutting down a jail construction plan – and they aren’t ‘playing to the middle’
There was a moment in late 2016 when Los Angeles county was set to invest $2.2bn in rebuilding and revamping parts of its jail system, the largest in the world. The old (...)
Voting rights are under attack in the United States. In 43 out of 50 states, legislation seeks to limit voting rights for Black and Brown citizens.
The Republican Party is leading the attack, following on from former President Donald Trump’s big lie that last year’s presidential election was (...)
In Atlanta, Georgia on March 16 a gunman killed eight people, in three spas, six of them Asian women. Then on March 22 in Boulder, Colorado, a man with a gun killed ten people. On March 31, 2021, in Orange, California, a gunman murdered four people, one a nine-year-old boy. Since the Atlanta (...)
Much of today’s advocacy around racial justice places the onus on individual actors and the private sector. We need collective action instead
Americans are talking more and more about racism and inequality, and that should be a good thing. It’s not just policing and incarceration – black (...)
Mississippi Congressperson Bennie Thompson filed a federal lawsuit on January 16, accusing former United States president Donald Trump, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and white supremacist outfits the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers of conspiring to incite the violent riot at the US Capitol on January (...)
The Senate voted 57 to 43 to find former president Donald J. Trump guilty of incitement of the insurrection at the Capitol building January 6. The vote, however, was not enough to convict Trump of his crime. The Constitution states that a two-third Senate majority is required to convict. (...)
President Joseph Biden, in office for less than a month, continued to move ahead with his plan to solve the American health and economic crises and to reassert U.S. global dominance. As he pushes ahead with his relief program, Republicans have lined up behind Trump, whose impeachment trial in (...)
The most important aspect of the January 6 march on the Capitol building, where both the House of Representatives and the Senate meet and where the Congress people have their offices, and the subsequent violent occupation of the building, was its open display of white supremacy.
It was (...)
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