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[ad_1] Image by Milos Hajder. What is democracy? Few have answered this question with more needed might than German-American Jewish political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt. Writing in the immediate aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust, Arendt sought to protect humankind from ever again facing such totalitarian destruction. She argued that totalitarianism reduces human beings to abstract cogs in a machine, denying what she called the “living soul” of bodypolitik. For Arendt, the people’s will, and the demos, are fluid. As she writes in On Revolution, it is not a static document or a single day of voting; but a river…

[ad_1] From In the Matter of Gun Permit Appeal of A.A.R., decided yesterday by the N.J. intermediate appellate court (Judges Katie Gummer, James Paganelli, and Christine  Vanek): [The New Jersey State Police] denied petitioner’s application [for a gun purchase permit] …, concluding he “lack[ed] the essential character and temperament necessary to be entrusted with a firearm, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:53-3C(5).” The Superintendent’s decision was predicated “on the totality of the circumstances” after reviewing records demonstrating: Freehold Township (Freehold) had denied petitioner’s two previous FPIC [Firearms Purchaser Identification Card] applications—one of which was affirmed on appeal to the Law Division; and…

[ad_1] All of the four activists who raided a Wolverhampton arms factory were immediately released on bail after the jury was deadlocked, John McEvoy and Hanna-Johara Dokal report.Roof of Moog factory in Wolverhampton; area around “Free Palestine” banner enlarged by Consortium News for visibility. (Staffordshire police handout via Declassified-UK) After more than 17 hours of deliberation, a jury at Birmingham crown court on Thursday failed to reach a verdict over whether four pro-Palestine activists committed criminal damage at an arms factory. Iain Evans, Hana-Yun Stevens, Frank Sherman and Hisham Alkhamezi were each accused of criminal damage at a factory owned…

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[ad_1] Pritzker's Social-Media-Tax Belly Flop [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Max Blumenthal The Grayzone Charlie Kirk’s media empire and his right-wing activist organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), have come under the control of the Israel-directed forces he spent the last months of his life antagonizing. Erika Kirk now claims her husband supported Israel to the end, while TPUSA misrepresents his opposition to war on Iran.  The Charlie Kirk Show is now distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel tasked with seeding American media with Zionist propaganda. It is part of a whopping $46 million dollar annual contract between the Israeli government and Brad Parscale, the former chief…

[ad_1] The International Red Cross in action, 1864. Public Domain. The United States is going through a period of gloom and doom. Confidence in its institutions has fallen, politics is deeply polarized, and talk of decline has now become mainstream. The American Dream has turned into a global nightmare. But most importantly, the question is not simply whether the United States is declining; it is whether there can be a national renewal. The United States has renewed itself before as part of broader social awakenings. During the nineteenth century, revival movements helped generate the moral energy behind some of America’s…

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[ad_1] As part of President Donald Trump’s plan to deport every single undocumented immigrant—and perhaps tens of millions of citizens and legal residents—the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) planned to spend billions of dollars buying up industrial warehouses across the country. The stated purpose was to convert them into detention centers to house migrants targeted for deportation, with the ultimate goal of expanding total detention capacity to 100,000. Reportedly, and in a welcome development, the DHS is largely scrapping the plan, and most of the warehouses it has already purchased will be sold…

[ad_1] Brazilian organizer Thiago Ávila recounts what he describes as one of the most brutal crackdowns yet against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla movement. By Joshua ScheerScheerPost In a disturbing interview with Chris Hedges, Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila describes what he says was a brutal campaign of violence, intimidation, and abuse carried out after Israeli forces intercepted the latest Gaza Freedom Flotilla mission in international waters. Ávila, a longtime organizer with the flotilla movement, alleges that activists were seized hundreds of miles from Gaza, held aboard what he describes as a floating military prison, denied adequate food and medical care, subjected to…