This month, we examine how this elevation of selfishness and lack of compassion and empathy have reached the stage that it has.
Notes from the US: Fascist cultism
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Activists shut down Elbit facility in Massachusetts
Community members blocked the entrances of Elbit Systems’ Cambridge facility to prevent Elbit employees from going to work.
Notes from the US: Politicised denial of truth
The wave of book-banners should be seen in the knowledge that fully 80% of states in the US have either introduced and/or enacted legislation and other legal measures to promote hatred, supremacy and intolerance of diversity
Notes from the US
Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the stories that have emerged over the last few weeks. Racism In November’s midterm elections, racist bigot Greg Abbott was re-elected governor of Texas. He won almost 55% of the votes. In other words, nearly four and a half million people thought
Notes from the US
Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the last few weeks. Education ‘Notes from the US’ focuses on education this month – for two reasons. Firstly, educators, families and theorists have long known that a broad, deep and unbiased
Notes from the US
Freedom US correspondent Louis Further reports on the lesser- known happenings in the United States. Violence Those who still try to see any substantial difference between Democrats and Republicans might want to look at last month’s military spending bill. The majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives – including the entire party leadership – joined
Notes from the US: No backers for gas power? Just hire some!
Louis Further rounds up the latest in dodgy goings on across the pond. Truth – convenient or inconvenient – is counting for less and less in Trump’s United States. Any kind of understanding which the élite have of the climate – let alone climate change – is hard to find. In part this can be
Book Review: Tramp Printers – Forgotten Trails of the Travelling Typographers
This handsomely and mostly hand-produced book is a tribute to the craft of printing and of historical insight, both of which verge on extinction in the modern world. by Charles Overbeck ISBN: 978-0-965097-90-1 PP: 200 Publisher: Eberhart Press 2017 Review by Steve Izma Tramp printers, like journeymen in a guild, learned skills as apprentices and then took
Film Review: Detroit
The misnamed film “Detroit” is more about a triple slaying by police than the city’s 1967 Rebellion. Director: Kathryn Bigelow Released August 2017 143 min Reviewed by William Boyer It first opened in the Motor City in July, and then nationwide 50 years to the day of the final riot fatality, a firefighter electrocuted trying to
Book Review: Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho Punk Identifications
Like many anarchists who came of age in the 1990s, my first exposure to anarchism came through the punk scene. by Edward Anthony Avery-Natale ISBN: 978-1-498519-98-4 PP: 235 Publisher: Lexington Books 2016 Review by Ruhe A friend gave me a cassette tape full of classic punk bands as part of an effort to satisfy my ever expanding
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State-sponsored suicide: Who do you trust?
Not enough has been written about the mindset of a state which is introducing this Assisted Dying Bill at high speed, with only 5 hours for debate, in a climate whipped up to support it ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ It’s too terrible to think that our very own Prime Minister could—is it too terrible?
