The huge Israeli protests have been about bringing down the Netanyahu government. They also had a deeper, more subversive message. Without any of the speakers explicitly saying as much, Sunday’s demonstrations were for an end to the war.
Authoritarians and would-be authoritarians are only too aware that universities are primary sites of critique and dissent. Attacks on universities are the canary in the coalmine of fascism.
In addition to a press conference with foreign media, Netanyahu dispatched his confidant Ron Dermer to US media to address the hostage negotiations, as the PM is anxious about increasing U.S. media attention on the hostage families' criticism of him.
Amid a surge in book bans nationwide, the Louisiana librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back. She went to court against her attackers, and then wrote a book. And, she still a librarian.
Many young men seem to admire Trump’s king-of-the-jungle vibe: he roars, he bellows, he boasts that no one can ever beat him (unless they cheat). He isn’t an icon of positive masculinity. He did very little for young men during his term as president
US media made it seem like German people were turning out en masse to support fascists-when in fact less than a third of the only 7 percent of the German electorate that voted last week cast ballots for the extreme right Alternative for Germany(AfD).
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