Apologists for Israel’s genocide in Gaza reject freedom for Palestinians and insist on Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish supremacist state.
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FISA Exchanges Real Liberty for Phantom Security
House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House. Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of...
One Hundred Years of IRS Political Targeting
One hundred years ago, Senator James Couzens, a Michigan Republican, took to the Senate floor to denounce the Bureau of Internal Revenue for abusing its power and trampling innocent taxpayers. Couzens launched a sweeping Senate investigation of federal tax collectors....
House Votes To Extend Warrantless Spying Powers
US lawmakers have passed a bill reauthorizing a law which allows the government to surveil American citizens without a warrant.
History Last, Polemics First: A Critical Review of Jacob Heilbrunn’s ‘America Last’
The Western commentariat has spilled much ink and expended considerable effort attempting to explain our era of political malaise, particularly the disruptions underway within the Republican Party and the American Right. It is into that maelstrom that Jacob Heilbrunn...
What Is ‘Extremism’?
Amidst protests in the United Kingdom that have been going on since October 7, there have been multiple allegations of extemists among the protestors intimidating, harassing, and scaring innocent people who are not involved in the demonstrations. It seems that even...
The TikTok Totalitarians
On Wednesday, March 13th, a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives voted to give the U.S. president the power to remove any website, computer or mobile application, or even service provider that the president determines—without due process—is run by “a person...
U.S. Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Is a Cynical PR Ploy
Under the administration of President Joseph R. Biden, the U.S. government has been portraying itself as being seriously concerned about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been waging a devastating military assault that the International...
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