COMMON DREAMS: Week in Review: The Violence at Home Against Those Decrying Violence Abroad

 

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Saturday, April 27, 2024 ■ The Week in Review Violent Arrest of Emory Professor Spotlights Brutality of Police Crackdown on Campus Protests "To sustain this level of blind support for Israel, the U.S. must erode its own democracy," said one foreign policy expert. "And that is what we see happening on U.S. campuses now." By Julia Conley • Apr 26, 2024 Right-Wingers Plot to Give Trump Control Over Federal Reserve If Reelected "Under such an approach, the chair would regularly seek Trump's views on interest-rate policy and then negotiate with the committee to steer policy on the president's behalf," The Wall Street Journal reported. By Jake Johnson • Apr 26, 2024 Supreme Court Urged to 'Rule Quickly' After Trump Immunity Arguments "It'd be a travesty for justices to delay matters further," said one legal expert. By Jessica Corbett • Apr 25, 2024 Bernie Sanders to Netanyahu: 'It Is Not Antisemitic to Hold You Accountable' "Please, do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government," said the Vermont senator to Israel's prime minister. By Jake Johnson • Apr 25, 2024 Holocaust Survivor Tells Student Anti-Genocide Protesters: 'Just Keep Doing It' "There is a question of historical responsibility towards injustice, genocide, and fascism," said Stephen Kapos. "If you are indifferent, if you do not take a stand, you acquire a degree of guilt." By Brett Wilkins • Apr 25, 2024 US Dodges Growing Calls for Probe of Mass Graves at Gaza Hospitals "Somehow I don't think the U.S. State Department would defer to Russia as a credible source to investigate itself if a mass grave were discovered in Ukrainian territory it had occupied," said one legal expert. By Jessica Corbett • Apr 24, 2024 Texas State Troopers in Riot Gear Crack Down on UT Students' Gaza Protest "Why do we even have these institutions of higher learning if we won't let students speak their conscience and protest?" said one University of Texas professor. By Julia Conley • Apr 24, 2024 Defeating 'MAGA Dark Money,' Summer Lee Wins Primary in Landslide "This is a huge testament to our collective strength and resilience as a progressive movement," said the executive director of Justice Democrats. By Jake Johnson • Apr 24, 2024 Biden Labor Department Finalizes Pro-Worker Rules on Overtime, Retirement Savings "Democrats are delivering for working people!" declared Rep. Pramila Jayapal as the AFL-CIO noted that GOP ex-President Donald Trump "gutted the rules that required overtime pay for millions of workers." By Julia Conley • Apr 23, 2024

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■ Opinion The Trump-Biden Rematch Is a Stunning Image of the Decline and Fall of the USA With those two old men, one of whom is also bizarre beyond compare, wrestling each other for the presidency, this country is threatening in its own odd fashion, like the USSR in 1991, to come apart at the seams. By Tom Engelhardt • Apr 23, 2024 How Reaganomics Fueled America's Homelessness Crisis Forty-three years into America's Reaganomics experiment, homelessness has gone from a problem to a crisis. By Thom Hartmann • Apr 22, 2024 Edward Said Warned Against Anti-Palestinian McCarthyism Said’s legacy reads today as a scathing condemnation of the hypocrisy of U.S. liberal institutions, their moral corruption, and the hollowness of the very values that they profess to teach. By Seraj Assi • Apr 21, 2024 From Namibia to Gaza With Love The Israeli brutality in Gaza, but also the Palestinian sumud, resilience and resistance, are inspiring the Global South to reclaim its centrality in anti-colonial liberation struggles. By Ramzy Baroud • Apr 21, 2024

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