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Book review. In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action. Vicky Osterweil

Book review. In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action. Vicky Osterweilby Ian SinclairPeace NewsMarch 2021 Written in the wake of the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, Vicky Osterweil’s central argument is that looting and rioting are positive actions, which ‘in most instances… transform and build a nascent moment into a movement’. She […]

Trump’s show trial is just the next step in a very American coup

Yes, a coup. Call it what it was. Ignore what the part of your mind that has been subconsciously conditioned to American exceptionalism says. Ignore the brainwashing that associates the words "America" and "democracy" and the idea of "rule of law". Reject all that programming we've all been subjected too since we first watched television that tells us this kind of thing "just doesn't happen here". It does, and it is.