abusive use of “domestic terrorism” investigative authority is not a new problem, but it is a serious onewww.aclu.org How NSPM-7 Seeks to Use "Domestic Terrorism" to Target Nonprofits and Activists | ACLU What President Donald Trump’s latest memorandum targeting civil society does, does not, and cannot do.
Friday, July 17
Thursday, July 16
Thinking on Louis Farrakhan, Elijah Muhammad, and earlier Black nationalists, and Israel: if a domestic movement demanding a separate, ethnically exclusive Black nation is rightly criticized for rejecting pluralism and equality, then a foreign government doing the exact same thing through military force cannot be funded as a "beacon of democracy." To argue otherwise is racism.
Wednesday, July 15
Israel does not deserve more American money for weapons. Prime Minister Netanyahu has taken Israel down an ugly path. Self-defense does not include indiscriminately bombing homes, hospitals, churches, ... — Joaquin Castro
Just over two years ago, only 37 House Democrats — mostly on the party’s hard-left flank — voted for a similar bid to crack down on U.S. aid for Israel.
This time, a much broader swath of Democrats came along — 103 of the 211 members voting Wednesday, plus another 10 who voted “present.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/15/israel-aid-vote-house-democrats-00999917
Monday, July 13
Herman & Chomsky said it back in 1988.
The hypothesis advanced by the propaganda model, excluded from debate as unthinkable, is that in dealing with the American wars in Indochina, the media were "unmindful", but highly "patriotic" in the special and misleading sense that they kept -- and keep -- closely to the perspective of official Washington and the closely related corporate elite, in conformity to the general "journalistic-literary-political culture" from which "the left" (meaning dissident opinion that questions jingoist assumptions) is virtually excluded. The propaganda model predicts that this should be generally true not only of the choice of topics covered and the way they are covered, but also, and far more crucially, of the general background of the…Read the whole note →
How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza
By Adam H. Johnson
Foreword by Noura Erakat
A gripping exposé of how the corporate media fueled genocide in Gaza
The American Transformation, 1945–1975
A Self-Study Curriculum on the National Security State, Propaganda, and the Political Economy of Systems
core readings, counterpoint readings (the strongest opposing case), primary sources/films
- A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954
Saturday, July 11
Andrew Callaghan traveled directly to the West Bank to interview Palestinians about living under military occupation and dealing with Israeli settlers.