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| A Brief History of US Concentration Camps |
By BRETT WILKINS 2019-07-02
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has ignited a firestorm of criticism, from both the left and the right as well as the mainstream media, for calling US immigrant detention centers “concentration camps.” To her credit, Ocasio-Cortez has refused to back down, citing academic experts and blasting the Trump administration for forcibly holding undocumented migrants “where they are brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying.” She also cited history. “The US ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during World War II,” she tweeted. “It is such a shameful history that we largely ignore it. These camps occur throughout history.” Indeed they do.... |
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| The Omnipresent Surveillance State |
By JOHN W. WHITEHEAD F 2019-06-30
The government now has at its disposal technological arsenals so sophisticated and invasive as to render any constitutional protections null and void. Spearheaded by the NSA, which has shown itself to care little to nothing for constitutional limits or privacy, the “security/industrial complex”—a marriage of government, military and corporate interests aimed at keeping Americans under constant surveillance—has come to dominate the government and our lives. |
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| Can Twenty-First Century Fascism Resolve the Crisis of Global Capitalism? |
By William I. Robinson 2019-06-23
The Transnational Capitalist Class and state apparatuses at its disposal attempt to resolve both the economic crisis of overaccumulation and to manage the political conditions of that crisis, that is, the spread of global revolt. "Trump’s populism and protectionism has no policy substance; it is almost entirely symbolic...." |
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