2022’s danger signs: From totalitarian paranoia to authoritarian madness
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The danger signs were everywhere in 2022.
Search Results for civil rights
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‘War is over, if you want it’: Time to end US complicity in the awful war in Yemen
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Last Thursday marked 42 years since John Lennon was killed. Many people, including me, lament his death and can recall where we were when we heard the heartbreaking news.
Can the protests in China against COVID lockdowns lead to something more?
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Significant dissent in China reared its head for the first time since the Tiananmen uprising in 1989.
America needs to wake up to the horrors of its hate: ‘I am because you are’
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This year so far, there have been 601 mass shootings (a “mass shooting” defined as at least four people being shot or killed) “in nearly every corner of the nation.”
John Whitehead: The government is still waging war on America’s military veterans
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The U.S. government is still waging war on America’s military veterans. Especially veterans who exercise their First Amendment right to speak out against government wrongdoing.
Alon Ben-Meir: Mending the US-Saudi relationship critical to their geostrategic interests
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Even a cursory review of the US-Saudi Arabia relationship over the past several years suggests that the US has generally misperceived its bilateral relations with Saudi Arabia.
Miyares spokesperson: AG expects apology from NAACP on voter-intimidation claims
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A spokesperson for Attorney General Jason Miyares is waiting for an apology from the Virginia NAACP, which is pressing the AG for background on his Orwellian-named Election Integrity Unit, after Robert N. Barrnette Jr., the president of the civil-rights group, expressed “grave concerns” this week about what Miyares aims to do with it.
Virginia NAACP fighting Attorney General for background on so-called Election Integrity Unit
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The Virginia NAACP is asking Attorney General Jason Miyares for background on his Orwellian-named Election Integrity Unit.
Anarchy in America: We’re being gunned down like dogs in the street
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Day after day, the government’s crimes against the citizenry grow more egregious, more treacherous and more tragic.
Bob Topper: The notion of America as a Christian nation is ironic
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Sixty-two percent of Republicans believe that America should be declared a Christian country, even though they also understand such a declaration would be unconstitutional. Christian nationalists do not believe in the separation of church and state.
