Mick Hall looks into the justification, precedence, thinking and tactical logic behind a longstanding means of confronting unjust systems and laws.
Civil Disobedience: Preventing Tyranny
Tag: Martin Luther King
Hedges Report: We Are All Antifa Now
The designation of the amorphous group antifa as a terrorist organization allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of antifa and prosecute them as terrorists.
WATCH: For Once Trump Gets It Right on Censorship
Robert Scheer discusses Trump’s executive order banning government censorship and a range of free-press matters with Consortium News’ editor in chief Joe Lauria.
Vijay Prashad: Rust Belt & Broken Road
From the 1942 “American century” to Trump’s “American carnage,” the U.S. has shifted from a post-WW2 boom to decline and is now facing political divides, economic crisis, poverty and social decay.
Sick Cultures: When Belief Systems Turn Pathological
Harry Belafonte — Confronting the ‘Triple Evils’
Both the late singer and his close friend Martin Luther King Jr. saw their civil rights advocacy as the cutting edge of a still broader struggle for equality, writes Sam Pizzigatti.
Scott Ritter: The Best Speech I Never Gave
“I once was corrupted by the hatred that comes from fear generated by ignorance.” The author offers a text of a speech he wrote, but will not be giving at the Feb. 19 antiwar rally in Washington.
Chris Hedges: They Crush Our Song for a Reason
Questioning America’s Warlords
Endless war is a feature of American national programming, argues William Astore.
The Liberal Contempt for Martin Luther King’s Final Year
This Sunday, on the anniversary of his assassination, few will recall Dr. King’s condemnation of U.S. militarism, write Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon.