Vijay Prashad – What Do You Fear the Far Right Will Do That You Have Not Already Done?

Link to an article by Vijay Prashad:

“What Do You Fear the Far Right Will Do That You Have Not Already Done?”

 

Bonus link: “The 1619 Project Revisited: A Retrospective Evaluation in Light of Trump’s Assault on Democracy” and “Understanding APEC: The Making of Global Value Chains”

Jacob Crosse – Trump Administration to Begin Continuous Police-State Surveillance of 55 Million US Visa Holders

Link to an article by Jacob Crosse:

“Trump Administration to Begin Continuous Police-State Surveillance of 55 Million US Visa Holders”

Bonus links: “ICE Risks Overplaying Its Hand. We’ve Seen It Happen Before.” and “ICE Agents, National Guard Could Arrive in Chicago by Weekend” and “Federal Judge Said Trump Can’t Be National Police Chief. Will His Word Be Final?” and “Federal Judge Bars Trump Administration from Sending Any National Guard Troops to Portland” and “Trump Doubles Down on Threats to Arrest Illinois Democrats Pritzker, Johnson During Fascist ‘Antifa’ Roundtable” and “Trump DOJ Expands Political Vendetta with Indictment of New York AG Letitia James” and “Trump Admits: ‘We Took The Freedom Of Speech Away'” and “Immigration Thugs Assault, Kidnap US Citizens in Chicago, Portland” and “Roaming Charges: Aspirations to Omnipotence” and “Feds Used Chemical Agents Dozens of Times in Chicago—Even After Judge Said To Stop” and “Residents Demand Oversight Commission Investigate CPD Cooperation with ICE” and “Federal Agents Arrest Citizen Observer Watching ICE Detain Neighbors on Her North Minneapolis Block” and “Alarming Criminalization of Green Card Holder Based on ‘Antifa Materials'” and “Most Americans Don’t Want Troops Deployed Without an External Threat, Reuters/Ipsos Poll Finds” and “Trump’s Military Occupation of America” and “Pentagon Sets January 1 Deadline to Set up National Guard ‘Riot Control’ Units” and “You’ve Heard About Who ICE is Recruiting. The Truth is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.” and “USA: Torture and Enforced Disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and Krome in Florida” and “From Racism and Anti-communism to Global Dominance: On the Use of ICE’s Foreign Policy Provision” and “Tracking, Targeting, and Terrorizing: ICE’s Surveillance State” and “Fragmentation, Force, and Fascism: The Architecture of the Repressive National Security State” and “How the Bipartisan ‘War on Terror’ Created ICE” and “ICE Gestapo Murders Woman in Minneapolis, Sparking Mass Outrage” and “Renee Good Shooting: Three Shots, One Timeline: A Preliminary Forensic Video Breakdown” and “New Video Confirms ICE Gestapo Murdered Renee Good in Cold Blood” (and see “US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them”) and “ICE: ‘Fucking Bitch'” and “Minnesota Should Charge ICE Agent With Murder” and “Top City Prosecutors Form ‘FAFO’ Coalition to Bring Charges Against Federal Agents” and “Hundreds of Minnesota Students March to the Capitol to Protest ICE” and “Hundreds of Roosevelt High Students Walk Out to Protest Immigration Actions” and “ICE Detains Indigenous People in Minneapolis, Tribes Cite Treaty Violations” and “Federal Agents in Minneapolis Tear Gas Family, Sending 2 Children and a Baby to Hospital” and “ICE Claim That a Man Shattered His Skull Running Into Wall Triggers Tension at a Minnesota Hospital” and “Trump Threatens to Use the Insurrection Act to End Protests in Minneapolis” and “‘We Know Where You Live.’ Protesters Say ICE Agents Retaliate With Threats, Investigations” and “Turning to Bovino, the Court specifically finds his testimony not credible. Bovino appeared evasive over the three days of his deposition, either providing ‘cute’ responses to Plaintiffs’ counsel’s questions or outright lying” and “Why Treat DHS’s Known Liars as Reliable Sources?” and “Whistleblowers Expose ICE Memo that Disregards the 4th Amendment” and “Former ICE Instructor Testifies That Agents Were Trained to Disregard Constitutional Rights” and “ICE Detains 5-year-old Minnesota Boy; School Leader Says Agents Used Him as ‘Bait'” and “‘I Have Been Here Too Long’: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility” and “White House Posts Digitally Altered Image of Woman Arrested After ICE Protest” and “ICE kills in Minnesota, Then Moves to Crush Protest” and “The ICE Killing of Alex Pretti, the Second in Minneapolis, Prompts Quick Legal Action” and “Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government” and “Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting” and “FBI Won’t Provide Minnesota Investigators with Evidence in Alex Pretti killing, State Says” and “Identified: the El Paso BORTAC Crew Rampaging Through the Midwest” and “Ecuador Says ICE Agent Tried to Enter Consulate in Minneapolis” and “Journalist Don Lemon, Anti-ICE Protesters Arrested on Orders of Trump Administration” and “University Police Escort Music Professor Out of Alex Pretti Vigil for Wearing ICE OUT Sign, ‘You Know We Aren’t Taking Sides Here.'” and “Pennsylvania High School Students Violently Attacked by Police During Anti-ICE Walkout” and “Pennsylvania Student Protesters Face Daunting Legal Battle in ‘Quakertown 5’ Case” and “Ice in Kenwood Park” and “How One Minneapolis Man is Helping Neighbors Surveil ICE Back” and “They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE” and “DoJ Cases Against Protesters Keep Collapsing as Officers’ Lies are Exposed in Court” and “Judge Says ICE Violated Court Orders in 74 Cases—See Them All Here” and “The Unfathomable Minnesota Transcript that Must be Read, as it Tells the Reality of America Today” and “Ruling Against the Tide, a North Dakota Judge Denies Emergency Petitions for Minnesota ICE Detainees” and “Tracking Habeas Cases” and “Legal Aid Issues Statement” and “A Statement from the MSBA, HCBA, and RCBA Presidents” and “ICE Protester Says Her Global Entry Was Revoked After Agent Scanned Her Face” and “The Legal Fallout in Minnesota Has Only Just Begun” and “The Trauma of ICE Raids is Rippling Through Public Schools Across the US” and “Why is ICE Seizing People’s Phones and Documents?” and “Lawsuit: DHS Blocking Lawyers from Meeting with Detainees” and “Federal Judge Rules Against Feds, Orders Overhaul of Treatment of Detainees at Whipple Building” and “Lawyers Filed Over 1,000 Lawsuits Challenging Immigrant Detentions During Operation Metro Surge” and “ICE Drawdown? Indications Point to Steady Enforcement Activity Outside the Twin Cities” and “Operation Metro Surge Hasn’t Ended. It’s Expanded to the Suburbs.” and “Blind Refugee Found Dead on Street After US Border Patrol Left Him Miles from His Home” and “Haitian Man Dies in US Immigration Custody with Untreated Toothache, Brother Says” and “ICE Memo Outlines Massive $38.3 Billion Expansion of Concentration Camp Network” and “We Ran High-level US Civil War Simulations. Minnesota is Exactly How They Start” and “Minnesota Confrontations Mirror Simulation of How Civil War Begins, Law Professor Says” and “Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis” and “Steve Bannon Says ICE Will ‘Surround the Polls’ as Trump Doubles Down on Taking Over Elections” and “Trump is Violating the Long-forgotten Guarantee Clause; Minnesotans Should Invoke It”  and The Nation Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize” and “What Is Your Emergency?” and “Under Federal Siege: Minneapolis is Rising!” and “Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong” and “Anti-ICE, Anti-Imperialism. A Primer on the Role of ICE and How to Fight It”

Hal Turner – Russian and Chinese Military Cargo Planes Shuttling Weapons, Missiles, Supplies into Iran

Link to an article by Hal Turner:

“Russian and Chinese Military Cargo Planes Shuttling Weapons, Missiles, Supplies into Iran”

Bonus links: “Iran Now First Line of Defense of BRICS and the Global South” and “The Illegal Attack on Iran” and “Tic-Toc Thread On The War On Iran – 4” and “Why America Is at War with Iran” and “U.S./Israel-Iran War: The Issue Is Palestine. The Issue Is Zionism.” and “Proliferation, Retaliation, and Other Consequences of the War On Iran”

Iker Suarez – The Migrant Genocide

Link to an article by Iker Suarez:

“The Migrant Genocide: Toward a Third World Analysis of European Class Struggle”

Bonus link: “The Recent Upsurge in Military Expenditure” and “A Class-based Catastrophe: US Suicide Rate Jumps 37 Percent in a Quarter-Century” and “Analysis Finds Low-Income Older Adults Die Nine Years Earlier than Wealthier Peers” and “Why Doesn’t the U.S. Government Know How Many People Die in Custody?” and “Effects of International Sanctions on Age-specific Mortality: A Cross-national Panel Data Analysis” and “Interview with Brian Goldstone, author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: ‘In America right now, a low-wage job … is homelessness waiting to happen” and “The Darién Gap Straddling Panama and Colombia is a Mass Migrant Graveyard that Exemplifies Injustice of Today’s Global Economy” and “Anti-ICE, Anti-Imperialism. A Primer on the Role of ICE and How to Fight It”

Wolfgang Messner – Is AI Sparking a Cognitive Revolution That Will Lead to Mediocrity and Conformity?

Link to an article by Wolfgang Messner:

“Is AI Sparking a Cognitive Revolution That Will Lead to Mediocrity and Conformity?”

Bonus links: “You Are Having Fun” and “Soft Surveillance and Control: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool of Gradual and Deep Political Repression in the Service of Contemporary Capitalist Hegemony” and “Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop”

U.S. Peace Council – Trump Is the Symptom, U.S. Imperialism Is the Disease

Link to a statement by the U.S. Peace Council:

“Trump Is the Symptom, U.S. Imperialism Is the Disease”

 

Bonus links: “Imperialism’s Revival Strategy” and “After ‘Years of Neglected Oversight,’ House Votes to Repeal Authorization Used by Presidents to Wage ‘Forever Wars’ “ (” ‘the 1991 and 2002 AUMFs’ are ‘good to remove,’ but . . . it’s ‘mostly the 2001 AUMF that is exploited for forever wars.'”)