“America is now one of the world’s chief, unrepentant, unapologetic, still-polling-positive-on…torturers. How did we get here?”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/confronting-america-the-torturer/
“The trials of the Catonsville Nine, the Chicago Seven and Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon Papers — all of those events came after the Spock trial, each an escalation of the government’s response to dissent.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/when-the-government-went-after-dr-spock.html
“It is easy for us to forget just how extremely challenging the dissemination of dissenting ideas remained back in the days of print, paper, and ink.”
Read more: http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-our-great-purge-of-the-1940s/
“As the Saudis attack the Yemeni port town of Hodeidah, the stated goal is to starve the residents into opposing the Houthi forces controlling the city. The US is actively participating in what is clearly a war crime against civilians. Why?”
“The German company Adidas may provide shoes for players forced to switch last minute as recent EU law has sought to shield EU companies from American sanctions on Iran.”
“Was it General Eisenhower who saw more clearly than any of us?”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/trumps-not-like-ike/
“With its intention to destroy the black community and anti-war peace activists, which has certainly been ‘successfully’ achieved for the black community, the shamefulness of the War on Drugs is elevated to a much higher level of despicably, evil immorality.”
“State and local officials are doling out $4.5 billion and 1,000 acres to lure the Taiwanese manufacturing giant.”
“The United States is at war in so many places that the majority of citizens would struggle to name half of them.”
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/congress-may-declare-the-forever-war/562175/
“Who really gets hurt by Mexican tariffs on American cold cuts? The answer: Mexicans. Who really gets hurt by Canadian tariffs on American steel? Canadians.”
Read more: http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=9398