To Defeat Trump’s Fascism, We Must Confront Militarism

While most Americans instinctively understand the threat U.S. militarism poses to democracy, the times call for more explicit links between militarism and rising fascism and a blueprint for reversing this threat.

The Silence of the Generals

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Reader Comments & Tidbits, June 12, 2025

Readers Comments: Key Characteristics of Fascism; National Guard, Marines, 3000 Seized by ICE Each Day - Nuremberg Laws Went into Effect in 1935; No Kings Day - This Saturday in More Than 2000 Communities and Cities; Resources; Shorts; Cartoons; more

Countries All Waited Until Too Late: Is America Next?

Step by Step, MAGA Is normalizing repression and setting America up for tyranny. Will we wait, like so many before us, until the knock comes to our own door?

Target Boycott has 'Awakened a Sleeping Giant’

The Georgia megachurch leader called for a #TargetFast over its DEI rollback. Now Dollar General is next, he says, as consumers mobilize against Trump’s policies

Joan Baez on Trump's America: ‘Feels Like Torn Fabric'

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Wall Street to Insurers: Keep Denying Care

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Global Left Midweek – June 11, 2025

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