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The Biden-Trump Persecution of Julian Assange
For a good while one could blame Trump for the prosecutorial monstrosity perpetrated on journalist Julian Assange. But now it’s time for Trump to move over. The single worst assault on the first amendment and a free press in recent centuries is no longer solely his. Biden owns it. Biden could end this state persecution of a journalist today, if he felt like it. A persecution that a U.N. expert has called torture. A persecution that could easily lead to Assange’s death.
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What Is Juneteenth, How Is It Celebrated, and Why Does It Matter?
Juneteenth isn’t the "other" Independence Day, it is the Independence Day. By Jameelah Nasheed.
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The Legacy of Malcolm X
Malcolm X died fifty-one years ago today, just as he was moving toward revolutionary ideas that challenged oppression in all its forms. By Ahmed Shawki. (Feb. 2016)
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Sense of Entitlement much?
How many people with a sense of entitlement does it take to screw in a light-bulb? Why just one, of course. They stand still holding the bulb and the world revolves around them. And when the govern…
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Suu Kyi defense of jailing of Reuters journalists 'unbelievable':...
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters journalists had nothing to do with freedom of expression and they can appeal against their seven-year sentences, prompting a sharp rebuke from the United States.
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How the far right skirts German hate laws
Tommy Frenck is the proud owner and proprietor of The Golden Lion, a traditional, half-timbered guesthouse surrounded by meadows in a small village in central Germany.
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I Woke Up in a Fucked-Up America
Lonnie Holley
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Long Night of Ideas: How can culture counter populists?
The Long Night of Ideas in Berlin took a look this year at growing threats to freedom of expression around the world. A talk at the Maxim Gorki Theater examined what Germany can do to help protect this human right.
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Spinoza's philosophy of freedom
Steven Nadler on Spinoza.
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The Black Woman Who Biked Across the US Alone During the 1930s Jim Crow Era
Despite pervasive racism and the weight of the Great Depression, Bessie Stringfield found freedom on the open road. By Giselle Defares.
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Ecosophia: Zeno’s Laughter
We really are going to have to start a conversation about ethics, aren’t we? By John Michael Greer.
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Martin Luther King’s Radical Anticapitalism
King’s vision for civil disobedience cannot be separated from his anticapitalism and his concern with the “evil” of poverty. By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
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The Consent of the (Un)governed
“Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now. By Laurie Penny.
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We’re thinking about internet freedom in all the wrong ways
There is no public space on the internet. This needs to change. By Navneet Alang.
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Free Thought and Official Propaganda
“Apparently it has not occurred to anyone that a ‘good American,’ like a ‘good German’ or a ‘good Japanese,’ must be, pro tanto, a bad human being.” By Bertrand Russell. (1922)
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852.
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Never-Before-Published Hannah Arendt on What Freedom and Revolution Really Mean
Thoughts on poverty, misery, and the great revolutions of history.
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How Far Should Societies Go to Prevent Terror Attacks?
Almost everyone is unwilling to do certain things to eliminate terrorism. And that is fortunate, for the endurance of a free society depends upon it. By Conor Friedersdorf.
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Powerful Letters From Former Slaves To Their Old Masters
Moving messages of both anger and forgiveness.
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Here’s What Western Accounts of the Kowloon Walled City Don’t Tell You
“If the energy of young designers in both Hong Kong and abroad were focused less on criticizing places that are actually doing fine, there are real urban and social problems in Hong Kong that are currently, like the Walled City once was, being neglected…” By Rory Stott.
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