We've been told for years that The Terrorists "hate our freedoms," yet we cannot seem to rid ourselves of those who think the solution is to voluntarily abolish those freedoms ourselves.
A right-wing website "reported" the smear against Saadiq Long. And from there, a wide range of media outlets and individuals with prominent platforms and all kinds of axes to grind explicitly declared him a Terrorist: no evidence, no trial, no due process, not even any charges.
In Cameroon, American soldiers are launching drones from a little-known base near the Nigerian border. The surveillance flights bring the U.S. closer to the brutal ground war against Boko Haram.
This hideous event is the opposite of aberrational. It’s the natural, inevitable byproduct of the culture of fear and demonization that has festered and been continuously inflamed for many years.
Civil rights organizations say this is the latest in a long string of incidents targeting pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses across the U.S.
The Center for American Progress censored its own writers to placate anger from AIPAC and embraced some shockingly extreme policies of militarism.
The U.K. government seeks powers to ensure that working for any political outcomes regarded by British politicians as "extremist" will not only be a crime, but can be physically banned in advance.
Washington and the industries that own it are determined to suppress the truth of the savagery and brutality our society uses. Imprisoning nonviolent activists as "terrorists" is their current weapon of choice.
More damage has been inflicted historically by censorship than by the "terrorism" used to justify it.
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