History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. History isn’t whispering: it’s shouting, says Thom Hartmann.
Call Trump ‘Detention Camps’ by Their Real Name
Category: Right Wing
Mamdani Backs Modi Critic Jailed Without End
The NYC mayor supports dissident leader Umar Khalid, jailed five years without bail in a deliberate attempt to turn the process into punishment, writes Betwa Sharma.
Hedges Report: Narco-Trafficking Elite Set to Run Venezuela
Marco Rubio’s [peripheral] personal ties to drug trafficking underscore a deep irony in the Trump administration’s attempts to use the drug war as a means of achieving their imperialist goals in Latin America.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s ‘End of History’ Moment
Recent executive orders and presidential memorandums go beyond even the Patriot Act in facilitating nebulous and overreaching state surveillance.
The Richest Men in the World Are Media Moguls
Alan MacLeod on the capture of media systems by the planet’s mega-rich and the existential threat that poses to an open society and the free flow of information.
Jonathan Cook: This Time the BBC Chose the Wrong Target
Heads have rolled at the BBC, but not due to a journalistic blunder – it makes them all the time. It foolishly deferred to the billionaires in the political battle over image-laundering: where to direct the hate.
Not Only Gaza: When Britain Aided Genocide in Indonesia
Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s Labour government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.
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.
Vijay Prashad: Liberals Paved the Way to the Far Right
The passivity — and complicity — of Global North liberals and social democrats has paved the way for the global rise of the far-right of a special type.
The Chris Hedges Report: When Religious Mafia & Rightwing Extremists Take Over
Rollo Romig, author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist book I Am On the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Ruse of Autocracy in India examines the historic and political context of the 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh and chronicles the rise…