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On Memorial Day, Freedom's Price Must Never Be Forgotten Source link
When Justice Neil Gorsuch recently described America as a “creedal nation”—one defined by ideas rather than bloodlines—it sparked a debate. But Gorsuch is right about this: America is based on the ideas of the Declaration of Independence, not heritage. America’s unique capacity to attract and assimilate people from around the world has proven this thesis since its founding. From the American Revolution to today, foreign-born individuals have fought for America—not because they shared a lineage with native-born Americans, but because they believed in America’s principle of individual rights and chose to defend it. Perhaps the most famous example of a…
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair When Edmund Burke learned that the French Assembly had proclaimed all men to be possessed of natural and inalienable rights, he is reported to have responded that he preferred his rights as an English man. Inalienable rights sound good, but who is going to enforce them? Under the cloak of Liberalism that question of enforcement has been profitably postponed for two centuries, usefully providing cover for an expansive Capitalism that now covers the globe. Whilst in the early 19th century so called democratic rights were granted to tame the dangerous classes at Capitalism’s core – deluding…
Will Trump Bail Out Iran's Regime? Source link
For Their Sacrifice, Troops Deserve Accountability Source link
By Nicholas Powers This article was originally published by Truthout Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present. Ibanged my head on the bars. It was 2:00 am. I was in a Brooklyn jail. Under the fluorescent light, other men slept on the bench. Each one of us was arrested for so-called quality-of-life crimes like drinking a beer on a stoop, blasting a radio, or being unhoused. I shook the bars again. The walls closed in on me. I had a hard time breathing. When I got…
We All Should Boycott Racist States, Not Just Black Athletes Source link
Hoist a Glass for Red on Memorial Day Source link
Edward Curtin Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were to honor the dead, all its pageantry would be in opposition to war. Rather than being haunted by the ghosts of war, many Americans are very proud of all its soldiers killed while killing foreigners for the military industrial complex and the super-rich who own the country. For the U.S.A. is a warfare state; it has been waging imperialistic overseas wars for a long, long time, and using its…
“Everything in my life is controlled, living is becoming too expensive. I have no dreams. My only joy is thinking about dying.” Ji-woo, nineteen years of age. It seems, especially to older generations, the youth are giving up. A malaise and wider apathy has taken hold among the younger generations of East Asia. In China it has been called, Tang Ping, or ‘Laying Flat’. In Japan, Hikikomori, or ‘Pulling Inwards’ and in South Korea, they have become known as the N-po generation or ‘Resting Youth’. It’s not that these sentiments are exclusive to East Asia, or any particular laziness found…