Category Archives: Racism

The Last Third Party to Win: The Republicans, The Civil War, The “Slave Power,” and The Current Crisis

Posted on September 3, 2020 by

“Third parties can never win” or so you have heard a thousand times. Except — and it’s one huge exception — under historical circumstances much like the conditions we currently face. We are living in a rare historical moment when … Continue reading →

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Cops and Constitutions

Posted on July 22, 2020 by

(Doug Brown/ACLU of Oregon) The cops are violating the Constitution by attacking people exercising their basic rights — — that much is obvious. The rounding up of random protestors because they “fit the description” is related to the discriminatory policing that … Continue reading →

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White Privilege: The Psychic Wage, Mass Incarceration and Class Solidarity

Posted on June 18, 2020 by

Also at CounterPunch White Skin Privilege White privilege is a thing. It’s just not the same thing the corporate Democrats use to boss us around with. The concept of white privilege was not invented by some liberal university professors. In … Continue reading →

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Can White People ‘Organize Their Own’ Against White Racism?

Posted on June 11, 2020 by

“ Their (the poor “whites”) own position, vis-a-vis the rich and powerful . . . was not improved, but weakened, by the white-skin privilege system.” “The ‘white race’ is the historically most general form of ‘class collaboration.”  Theodor W. Allen* … Continue reading →

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Ten Best Messages for Waging Peace

Posted on January 23, 2020 by

  Also in Counterpunch. The rapid response to US war moves against Iran has been an exciting start toward rebuilding the anti-war movement we so desperately need. Thousands took to the streets in more than 80 cities. It’s a great beginning. … Continue reading →

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The Empire Is Running Out of War Stories. Or is it? Will American Exceptionalism Rise Again?

Posted on October 11, 2019 by

The First American War Stories Are Still With US American Exceptionalism remains one of the innermost ideas shaping our national identity and still lies behind all of the war stories used to justify US foreign policy. Exceptionalism has been a … Continue reading →

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Soldiers and Veterans are Anti-War Leaders. Could This Be The Peace Movement of Our Time?

Posted on September 27, 2019 by

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world: My own government.”  — Martin Luther King If you want to stop the wars, challenge the empire and deal with climate crisis then support our anti-war soldiers and veterans. Soldiers and veterans carry … Continue reading →

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Howling Hypocrisy?

Posted on February 12, 2019 by

After two years of non-stop saber-rattling and war preparations against possible microscopic meddling by Russia, the mere mention of a verifiable truth that Israel meddles in our affairs on a continuous basis draws faux-righteous rebukes from the elites. With the … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Go Home Again: The Liberal State Is No More

Posted on January 24, 2019 by

Also in Counterpunch. In a previous article I argued that often confusing and divergent arguments within the neoliberal critique could be best understood as the tensions between two opposing currents of thought. One tendency understands neoliberalism as the unfettered reign … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism: Free Market Fundamentalism or Corporate Power?

Posted on January 10, 2019 by

Also in CounterPunch. I’ve been hearing about neoliberalism for a long time now and never could make much sense of it. It turns out the story we tell about neoliberalism is as contradictory as neoliberalism itself. Two currents within the … Continue reading →

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