They are all nouns. The F word can also be used as an adjective. They are all used as invectives. Today all these words are being overused. And misused, says Joe Lauria.
The F Word, the C Word & the N Word
Category: Free Speech
WATCH: A Rally for Sanity
Ray McGovern, Dennis Kucinich, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Scott Ritter, Gerald Celente, Garland Nixon, Roger Waters (video) and Joe Lauria addressed a rally in Kingston, NY Saturday in defense of sanity in a world gone mad.
Hedges Report: Trump’s Crackdown on Anti-War Activists
CODEPINK’S Medea Benjamin joins host Chris Hedges to discuss the current moment in American politics, which sees free speech sitting on a knife’s edge.
Parliament Blocks Declassified, Citing Gaza ‘Standpoint’
Parliament has been accused of an “outrageous abuse” that is “worthy of the Trump White House,” after blocking Declassified from holding a media pass, reports Martin Williams.
Vijay Prashad: An Intellectual Is Nothing Without Confronting Oppression
Berta Cáceres, a Honduran leader in the struggle for indigenous and environmental rights, was killed in 2016 – a price too often paid by those who fight for human dignity and social justice.
WATCH: Defending Free Speech on Palestine
Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, accused in court of antisemitism because of her reporting critical of Israel, was among the speakers at this rally in Melbourne covered by CN.
Fighting Trump’s Witch Hunt on Campus
A coalition of University of California faculty, students, staff, and labor unions are suing the Trump administration for violating their free speech and academic freedom.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Age of Unreason
We have lost that connection between reason and morality …. We have decisively lost our idea of the commonweal as the anchor from which reason will make its case.
Caitlin Johnstone: A Charlie Kirk Ministry of Truth
The proposed “Charlie Kirk Act” would give the U.S. government sweeping new powers to decide what does and does not constitute propaganda and untruth and administer penalties accordingly.
Hedges Report: Israel, Kirk, & the Coming Repression
Max Blumenthal provides important context on Charlie Kirk’s changing relationship with Israel and tension within the Trump administration in the lead up to his assassination, and discusses the political impact of his death.