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The murder of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in the winter of 2012 was a turning point.

This nation was founded upon terrorism, namely that of slavery, whose unspeakable degradations hardly ended with formal emancipation.

The war on terrorism has morphed into a new form of authoritarianism whose real enemy is not terrorism at all, but democracy itself.

The “Deep State” is system composed of high-level elements within the intelligence services, military, security, judiciary and organized crime.

Noam Chomsky discusses the historical embedding of an elite “guardian class” in US society going back to the framers of the Constitution.

The very amendment to the US Constitution that was to have performed the miraculous conversion of “chattel into man” actually facilitated his and her re-chattelization through imprisonment.

Winning requires a “we,” a community, a group, an organization. And transformative change, in the face of powerful forces, requires a fight.

We are conducting elections, but not under conditions that allow for a diversity of viewpoints and opposition to be heard.

The teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx's “Das Kapital.”

The philanthro-capitalists have silenced their critics. The question is how, and for how long.