Armed attacks are not covered by the First Amendment. I can and have argued at length for the strategic — never mind legal — need to respect odious free speech, and — more importantly — to respect and build bridges of understanding to the troubled people preaching hatred. But the human right to free speech is not found in a gun or a torch or a can of pepper spray any more than in corporate advertising. When we hold peace rallies in U.S. cities we are sometimes forbidden to bring posters on wooden poles.
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We all know that Amazon is an uber-capitalist octopus swallowing ever more industries and openly collaborating with the CIA. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, probably the #2 richest man on earth, is no friend of radicals, or socialist revolution, that's for sure. But this app, ironically, promises to donate some money to whoever uses it to search and make a purchase on Amazon. Since many people will go on using Amazon due to habit or convenience, make it kick back a few dollars our way to continue our pro-peace and anti-imperialist work. Our financial situation leaves us no choice at this point. So consider it. A boycott of Amazon by lefties at this point is hardly going to register on their radar. But any funding we get, at our puny level, will keep us going. Simple as that.
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Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
What was predicted about the election of Donald Trump is being effected, a schism and polarization of the country between the liberals, the bourgeois left and the reactionary elements in the USA. The chaos will spread with concomitant aggressive violence, while the common people will suffer. Most of what changes will be cosmetic like every popular street theater in the opposition to the current strong social make-up of a capitalist country and it will sweep deep emotions among the above-mentioned groups. Once the consequences are experienced of rebellion, it will subside in the usual memory of impulsive and heroic occasional… Read more »
I don’t think it’s possible to legitimately address current tensions while ignoring the central cause — extreme economic stresses. Twenty-some years into this country’s war on the poor, even liberals simply ignore the consequences. We lost some 5 million jobs since 2000, in a country that has stripped the jobless poor of the most basic human rights of food and shelter. People of color, and especially immigrants, are regarded by some as increased competition for scarce jobs. Millions of people are a single job loss from losing everything, with no way back up. We clearly don’t want to talk about… Read more »