Erasure or sublimation of memory makes it easier to shape the present by controlling or editing history. Doing so preserves a mythic version of a country’s identity, postulates Michael Brenner.
Tag: Donald Trump
The Blob Insists on Clinging to an Obsolete Past
YouTube Rejects Consortium News Appeal
Will Biden Finally Bring Troops Home from Afghanistan?
Earn the Peoples’ Trust Rather Than Rely on Fortresses
Tearing Down the Edifice of American Democracy
How Big Pharma Pursues ‘Killer Profits’ at Americans’ Expense
Biden Freezes US Arms Sales to Saudis; Reviews UAE Sales
Biden Executive Order Ends DOJ Private Prison Contracts
Joe Biden’s order directs the office of the attorney general to “not renew Department of Justice contracts with privately operated criminal detention facilities.”
Counter Trumpism By Ending the Conditions That Created It
People actually interested in ending Trumpism would be promoting an end to the corruption, opacity, a uniquely awful electoral system, and to neoliberal policies making Americans poorer and poorer, writes Caity Johnstone.