Month: September 2018

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The Republican party is about to face the wrath of women

L.A. Kauffman September 25, 2018 L.A. Kauffman

Source: The Guardian

Women aren’t just mad – they’re organized and mobilized politically in a way we’ve never quite seen before

If there’s cause for hope in these horror-show days, it’s this: the Republican party has no idea what’s about to hit it this November.

Even the dimmest and most misogynist of Republican operatives must realize, by this point, that the supreme court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh and the handling of the sexual assault allegations against him will hurt their chances, especially with women voters, in the upcoming midterm elections. read more

Crisis After Crisis: 10 Years After the Crash, There’s No ‘Reforming’ Global Capitalism

Walden Bello September 25, 2018 Walden Bello

In critical areas where major economic reform is needed, few to no measures have been taken to prevent a recurrence of 2007. The next big implosion may be just around the corner. The way forward will be largely determined by the outcome of a political struggle between two post-globalization camps. One would not be too far off in characterizing this confrontation as between fascism and democratic socialism.

The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage: Revolutionary Theories and Anticapitalist Dreams of Subcomandante Marcos

Benjamin Dangl September 24, 2018 Benjamin Dangl

“Sometimes, in the predawn hours when they find me wandering around without possibility for rest, I am able to climb up on a wisp of smoke and, from very high up, I look at us. Believe me that what can be seen is so beautiful that it’s painful to look at. I’m not saying that it’s perfect, nor that it’s finished, nor that it has no gaps, irregularities, wounds to close, injustices to remedy, spaces to liberate. Eppur si muove. And yet it moves. As if everything bad that we are and carry were mixed with the good that we can be, and the entire world redrew its geography and its time were remade with another calendar. Well, as if another world were possible.” - Zapatista Subcommandante Marcos

How Republican-Led Voter Suppression is Undermining Democracy in America

John Lasker September 20, 2018 John Lasker

This in-depth Toward Freedom investigation points to the likelihood of massive voter suppression in the mid-term elections, particularly targeting Democrat-leaning demographics. Republicans have passed laws across the country to deny voters their constitutional right to vote. “These laws are part of an ongoing strategy to roll back decades of progress on voting rights,” says Bobby Hoffman of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project.