‘I Feel Trapped in Violence That Extends From Palestine to the UK’

Pádraig Ó Meiscill and Shahd Abusalama Red Pepper (UK)
I feel trapped in violence that extends from Palestine to here and I don’t know how to get free from it. I’m trying my best, but even when I call out what is obvious, when we call out the oppression, we are silenced and so I always feel alienated.

The Media Celebrated Julian Assange and Is Now Too Afraid To Defend Him

Patrick Cockburn CounterPunch
When WikiLeaks first released its hoard of documents, extracts were published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El País. None of these has campaigned for Assange’s freedom, though if he did anything wrong, so did they.

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Seven Steps Before the Midterms

Poor People's Campaign
This Declaration to Reconstruct American Democracy was adopted at a Mass Poor Peoples and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls as a warning and a call to action.

Originalism Run Amok at the Supreme Court

Michael Waldman Brennan Center for Justice
Originalism, as used by this Court, just provides cover for a right-wing polit­ical agenda. It is a threat to democracy.