But be warned: the Republicans have been planning for this moment with Mao-esque foresight--they've been planning for it since the 1980s at the very least, targeting key institutions, purging the GOP of effective politicians and replacing them with corrupt and docile hacks, packing the courts, rolling the press and Academe long before the current grotesque Blitzkrieg.
They're not about to give up: not after having invested four decades and untold billions of dollars in crushing the republic and replacing it with something sleazier and more billionaire-friendly.
Yes, Americans are waking up: Republicans, Democrats, independents, and no-longer-give-a-damns are beginning to remember just what it is they stand to lose if these devils have their way. More and more Americans are joining the struggle every day.
But the Republicans are far from finished with us. Be ready for a long, long fight. This is a Winston Churchill moment:
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Norm, thank you for all you do and for these week roundups of everything that has happened; so much happened and how you find the time to put together such well written and informative pieces is so impressive! I appreciate you and once again thank you!
Not enough credit is being given to Bernie Sanders and, especially, AOC. They are spending a lot of time and money holding huge townhalls in red states and districts. Look at the crowds they have drawn in places like Utah and Montana, as well as the district of some republicon US rep in California.
AOC needs to be given a very prominent leadership position in the Democratic party yesterday. No one, absolutely no one, in the Democratic party can rouse democratic minded people all over the United States like AOC. You do not need to agree with all of her positions, but you have to agree she is more effective than anyone since Nancy Pelosi, or even more than Nancy.
Arkansas Blue, Thanks for writing this. I've been watching AOC during the "Fighting Oligarchy" Tours with Bernie Sanders, and she is a powerhouse! She's not only warm and personable, but the crowds relate to her, she's really smart, and she's a terrific speaker--one of the few we've got--who appeals to everyone. I've said this before, but Nancy Pelosi needs to stop fighting against her or retire. AOC badly wanted the top Democratic seat on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Pelosi used all of her power to whip the votes for Gerry Connolly. We have a new star in the Democratic Party, and she should be embraced, whether or not people agree with all of her policies!
Very well said. I fully agree with you on everything you've said.
AOC is the star of the future Democratic party and everyone needs to get out of her way. Nancy needs to admit she made a big mistake disrespecting her.
Thank you! But, Pelosi won't change. We have too many people who have remained in their jobs too long. These never were meant to be lifetime jobs as imagined by the founders. And, then they have seniority, and remain committee chairs for too long, and it doesn't open up leadership appointments for younger members. Yes, they have to win to remain, but now that there is so much dark money, people can't even afford to run unless they are rich.
"ICE" autocracy is growing as well. Both Newsweek & CNN reported yesterday that a U.S. Citizen, LOPEZ GOMEZ,20, was pulled over by the Florida Highway Patrol in Leon county under a new FL law making it a crime for people who are in the country illegally to "enter the state " of Florida.
Just one big problem here, only 1, LOPEZ GOMEZ, is a United States Citizen.
What to do? Well call Mom, of course, but don't forget to call the 'Florida Immigration Center'.
GOMEZ was actually arraigned in a Florida state court where Mom produced her son's: (1) FL state identification card; (2) her son's birth certificate. THEN Florida Judge LAWSHAN RIGGINS found "no basis for the charge". Good one your Honor & charges were formally dismissed.
Bit, wait -- what's the rest-of-the story? This is where PBS picks up the Story and reports that "LOPEZ GOMEZ remained in custody briefly AFTER the court dismissed the charges" ...... as [you knew this was coming] because the U.S. Immigratrtion & Customs Enforcement (ICE)🥶 requested GOMEZ remain in custody for 48 hours. What? No way! But, TRUE.
PBS followed up & reported that "ICE did not respond for comment".
Moral: Good to call Mom but, 'Better-call-Saul' now for civil damages💲.
Our contrarian hearts have been lightened just a bit by the current SC vote 7/2 & the Senator visiting Mr. Garcia in El Salvador. So many of us felt the tensions of the recent weeks reach critical mass this week. Something had to give & it did. The fight must continue as the issues continue to pile up. As Trump loses on one front he continues to impose just another illegal rule. He’s predictable but tiresome.
Ah, Norm, you are such a sweetheart. It’s amazing how you keep your lighthearted-yet-fierce attitude during all the work you’re doing. I know we only see the tip of the iceberg, but you remain most pleasant, positive and supportive. I’m so glad you and Jen are here for us with your intelligence and dedication for the greater good.
The Resistance is alive and well and growing. Today we attended protest rally in Boerne, TX (a small quaint very much republican town), but had a wonderful, enthusiastic anti-Trump crowd. Then went to larger rally in San Antonio. I met a family with 3 sons, and one of them told me, "My Dad said I had the heart of a Ukranian fighter." From the mouths of babes.
On the global going on, not a word - yet another time - on the genocide in Gaza. No solidarity whatsoever, no empathy, no nothing for a biblical destruction of land and people. Every day tens of children are killed, hundreds wounded, Gaza basically in rubbles. I am heartbroken to see this lack of humanity - and it is a major threat to the US democracy, with people illegally detained for peacefully protesting. At the same time, Yemen is being bombed, an act of international terrorism - the US had not declared the war - just because of its support for Palestine. The top US universities are under frontal attack - and some giving in like Columbia - for allowing free speech and politically independent education. This will have catastrophic consequences for the country - the greatest aspect of the US has been its educational system, attracting students from all over the world, that are now less and less inclined to go there. My own students, that until yesterday craved to pursue PhD in the States, are now opting for Europe and Asia.
What will il take, how much more human suffering, after more than 50000 killed in 18 months, so many of them children and women, that this and similar platforms start caring? Or at least, start worrying for the tragic impact it has for democracy and the rule of law. AOC has been outspoken from the beginning of the onslaught of Palestinians, Bernie Sanders has started it too, and yet the whole issue is being avoided as non existent. It is mind boggling, and I cannot comprehend it for the life of me.
Goran, you are so correct. Please keep up your efforts to frequently remind us all of our willful duplicity regarding the Genocide in GAZA. There are many criminal injustices in the world but none that I’m aware of so criminal and despicable and which go virtually ignored.
Barbara, sure, the Ukraine war is equally painful - but it is not a genocide, not a proclaimed extermination or expulsion of entire people. Not some 77 years of apartheid - 750 000 Palestinians were displaced in 1948 and now for decades Gaza has been a huge concentration camp. And the US has been supporting Ukraine, at least until this fascist takeover. The destruction of Gaza, on the contrary, is being committed with a full moral, political, social, economical and above all military support of the US, Democrats as much as Republicans. Biden has been a great buddy, fierce supporter of Netanyahu, a Trump-like criminal with nazi ideas, who has been preaching the end of Gaza for decades - and now orchestrating it. Without the US support Netanyahu would be in prison, as you know - he is fugitive from the ICC. And moreover, every time he is supposed to appear in front of Israel law - he has been losing a process after a process and has been trying to do everything to eliminate the rule of law in Israel - the bombing of Gaza gets intensified.
What we have been witnessing is long time coming zionist project, that is not only killing Gaza, but destroying Israeli and American democracies. And you blame Hamas, as if it was responsible for all this, as if land snatching, expulsion, apartheid and endless killing and destruction have been perpetrated by Hamas. It is to me like blaming Ukrainians and Zelensky - as Trump is doing now - for defending their land. It is mind boggling and heartbreaking to hear your justification of genocide - you and I should blame Hamas for this, it seems. Until Hamas comes out of tunnels, we should keep supporting the genocide - this is how your message reads. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I could write here a long history of the Palestinian tragedy, and would do it gladly, if you were interested to discuss it. But just one question: do you know that Hamas was founded in 1987, 20 years after the 1967 war run by Begin,. a terrorist (officially), who founded Likud whose charter rejects Palestinian state and officially preaches land snitching through settlements? Hamas is not a cause, but a response to a zionist fascist plan of getting rid of Palestinians.
Goran, I appreciate your information about the Palestinians. My understanding of the 77 years of Palestinian history is limited but I have read about how Israelis treat Palestinians and the hostilities that never fade.
I recall Yasser Arafat showing up in DC with Clinton to try and achieve a two state solution and hoped they would be successful.
You are partly correct concerning my feelings about Hamas being an equally bad player in this war. I have simplified a complicated situation and apologize for my ignorance. Genocide is a heinous act and I do not condone it in the strongest terms no matter what. The media rarely has labeled it genocide that I have read. America supporting genocide is an unthinkable concept and, honestly, I was disturbed by Biden’s unwavering support for Netanyahu.
As for Ukraine, I read “The Gates of Europe” last year which covers the last 1000 years of upheaval, war, famine and death for the people of Ukraine. They have had centuries of invasions from Sweden, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Mongolia, the Ottomans, the Hapsbergs and of course, Russia. Stalin manufactured a famine in Ukraine in 1933 and killed 3 million people.
This history is not here to side track the genocide of Palestinians but to explain the way in which I think about Ukraine today. This is what I meant when I wrote, Goran, I hear you
Just to clarify: it was Arafat who ultimately rejected the Camp David peace deal, not the Israelis. And, despite the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the International Court of Justice has not ruled it a "genocide" per international law. Calling this terrible war a genocide doesn't make it so.
I am not sure why you start the history with the Camp David and with Arafat. That is neither the beginning nor the present situation - and it makes sense only to face the drama of today or go back to the beginning of the zionist crime against Palestinians.
You ask me not to use the word genocide because it is not (yet) officially recognised as such. Tell me please, would you have waited in say 1938 for the world to officially proclaim the genocide of Jews before calling it out? Let me remind you that the world watched in silence the Holocaust for quite some time, that the US and the UK would not grant visas to Jews but rather let them be eventually exterminated in Germany.
I am still willing, for the sake of civil debate, not to use the word genocide. Would destruction of Palestine be acceptable? If not, what expression should I use for Gaza being tuned into dust and oblivion, for countless victims, for the destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, museums, universities, you name it? You use the word war, but war implies two armies to clash - a destruction of basically unarmed civilians is not a war.
Barbara, thanks for your caring response. I share with you the pain for Ukraine tragedy and the only reason I do not write about it here is simply that this an American, not a Russian platform. It is not the US that is behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine - on the contrary, the US is completely behind the destruction of Palestine, in every possible way. I bring Ukraine every time I talk to Russians that are silent on invasion, but here, on this platform, Ukraine is defended - and so I for one believe that we have moral, social, human, political obligation to bring up this tragedy of biblical proportions. Forgive me, but this is why I feel propelled to say more.
I believe it ought to be our main focus. We talk about the longest human persecution in modern history - all of Gaza is just a huge concentration camp that is now being bombarded into dust and oblivion. And most of Palestinians have lived all their lives in this concentration camp, please think about it. They are being persecuted for being Palestinians, just as Jews or Romani people, or gays were during Holocaust - the zionist plan spoke from the beginning of getting rid of them, of stealing their land. Of course, the degree of persecution may vary, but the principle is the same and this is why nazism was and is considered the greatest evil, the greatest danger for the survival of our species.
The worst, most tragic aspect of this is that the Holocaust tragedy is used as an excuse for this new tragedy and defending Palestine makes you often be accused of being antisemite - while it is clearly zionism the main anti semitism we are facing today. It equates any evil committed by the nazi like government of Isreal by being Jewish and so if you criticise Israel it is claimed you are criticising all Jews - which is the text-book example of anti semitism.
And yet, even here there is a complicit silence on the part of the leaders of the platform who tell us that we are all in this together - all, except for Palestinians and those that speak on their behalf, those that wish to defend their right to their lives, their freedom and their land. Here lies probably the greatest threat to American democracy - similarly that way the fear of communism was used in the McCarthy era to dangerously threaten the rule of law. People lose jobs for defending Palestine - even if one is a brilliant black woman president of Harvard. People get illegally detained by masked men and sent to isolated places for just speaking openly about the issue. Unless there is a public outcry, the US will get closer and closer to the abyss of dictatorship.
It means a lot that you hear me, I only wish more of us would speak out on this unbearable human tragedy.
Hi Contrarians! I wanted to send you this music video of our weekly protest from last Sunday via submit@contrarian.news.org, but the link doesn't seem to work. I get "Address not found
"Polls. The only poll that ultimately matters is the one at the ballot box, where the anti-autocracy vote has outperformed in contest after contest so far, with surprisingly lopsided wins in that Wisconsin Supreme Court race and a Pennsylvania special election. Look for more of the same ahead in 2025 in the Pennsylvania judicial elections, and the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial and down-ballot ones in June"
Correction: The gubernatorial and down-ballot elections are in November 2025, not June. The primaries for the various state elections are on June 17 in Virginia, but the general elections are in November. Could just change this to "the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial and down-ballot elections."
Such an uplifting newsletter. The hard work is paying off. The Contrarian is such a positive leader in our fight for democracy.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/xA9wsVayx98gck8N9
Prior Lake/ Shakopee/ Savage Minnesota chapter of INDIVISIBLE
held a Candlelight Vigil for KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA, to bring him home, to his family.
Bless you for this.
Green shoots everywhere.
But be warned: the Republicans have been planning for this moment with Mao-esque foresight--they've been planning for it since the 1980s at the very least, targeting key institutions, purging the GOP of effective politicians and replacing them with corrupt and docile hacks, packing the courts, rolling the press and Academe long before the current grotesque Blitzkrieg.
They're not about to give up: not after having invested four decades and untold billions of dollars in crushing the republic and replacing it with something sleazier and more billionaire-friendly.
Yes, Americans are waking up: Republicans, Democrats, independents, and no-longer-give-a-damns are beginning to remember just what it is they stand to lose if these devils have their way. More and more Americans are joining the struggle every day.
But the Republicans are far from finished with us. Be ready for a long, long fight. This is a Winston Churchill moment:
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Maybe so, but Garcia case is only incidental and hurting them. A poor implementation.
Norm, thank you for all you do and for these week roundups of everything that has happened; so much happened and how you find the time to put together such well written and informative pieces is so impressive! I appreciate you and once again thank you!
Norm, you're a whirlwind of greatness! I'm proud to be a paid Contrarian. Thanks for all you do.
State actions are crucial. If federal courts impose sanctions, Trump will just pardon people. He can’t pardon state offenses.
Not enough credit is being given to Bernie Sanders and, especially, AOC. They are spending a lot of time and money holding huge townhalls in red states and districts. Look at the crowds they have drawn in places like Utah and Montana, as well as the district of some republicon US rep in California.
AOC needs to be given a very prominent leadership position in the Democratic party yesterday. No one, absolutely no one, in the Democratic party can rouse democratic minded people all over the United States like AOC. You do not need to agree with all of her positions, but you have to agree she is more effective than anyone since Nancy Pelosi, or even more than Nancy.
Yep on AOC!
Arkansas Blue, Thanks for writing this. I've been watching AOC during the "Fighting Oligarchy" Tours with Bernie Sanders, and she is a powerhouse! She's not only warm and personable, but the crowds relate to her, she's really smart, and she's a terrific speaker--one of the few we've got--who appeals to everyone. I've said this before, but Nancy Pelosi needs to stop fighting against her or retire. AOC badly wanted the top Democratic seat on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Pelosi used all of her power to whip the votes for Gerry Connolly. We have a new star in the Democratic Party, and she should be embraced, whether or not people agree with all of her policies!
Very well said. I fully agree with you on everything you've said.
AOC is the star of the future Democratic party and everyone needs to get out of her way. Nancy needs to admit she made a big mistake disrespecting her.
Thank you! But, Pelosi won't change. We have too many people who have remained in their jobs too long. These never were meant to be lifetime jobs as imagined by the founders. And, then they have seniority, and remain committee chairs for too long, and it doesn't open up leadership appointments for younger members. Yes, they have to win to remain, but now that there is so much dark money, people can't even afford to run unless they are rich.
"ICE" autocracy is growing as well. Both Newsweek & CNN reported yesterday that a U.S. Citizen, LOPEZ GOMEZ,20, was pulled over by the Florida Highway Patrol in Leon county under a new FL law making it a crime for people who are in the country illegally to "enter the state " of Florida.
Just one big problem here, only 1, LOPEZ GOMEZ, is a United States Citizen.
What to do? Well call Mom, of course, but don't forget to call the 'Florida Immigration Center'.
GOMEZ was actually arraigned in a Florida state court where Mom produced her son's: (1) FL state identification card; (2) her son's birth certificate. THEN Florida Judge LAWSHAN RIGGINS found "no basis for the charge". Good one your Honor & charges were formally dismissed.
Bit, wait -- what's the rest-of-the story? This is where PBS picks up the Story and reports that "LOPEZ GOMEZ remained in custody briefly AFTER the court dismissed the charges" ...... as [you knew this was coming] because the U.S. Immigratrtion & Customs Enforcement (ICE)🥶 requested GOMEZ remain in custody for 48 hours. What? No way! But, TRUE.
PBS followed up & reported that "ICE did not respond for comment".
Moral: Good to call Mom but, 'Better-call-Saul' now for civil damages💲.
Our contrarian hearts have been lightened just a bit by the current SC vote 7/2 & the Senator visiting Mr. Garcia in El Salvador. So many of us felt the tensions of the recent weeks reach critical mass this week. Something had to give & it did. The fight must continue as the issues continue to pile up. As Trump loses on one front he continues to impose just another illegal rule. He’s predictable but tiresome.
Ah, Norm, you are such a sweetheart. It’s amazing how you keep your lighthearted-yet-fierce attitude during all the work you’re doing. I know we only see the tip of the iceberg, but you remain most pleasant, positive and supportive. I’m so glad you and Jen are here for us with your intelligence and dedication for the greater good.
Thank you from my heart!
This list of feel-good news and fun snark just made my day! Of all the substacks I subscribe to, this one is by far the 'best buy'!
Hear hear!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The Resistance is alive and well and growing. Today we attended protest rally in Boerne, TX (a small quaint very much republican town), but had a wonderful, enthusiastic anti-Trump crowd. Then went to larger rally in San Antonio. I met a family with 3 sons, and one of them told me, "My Dad said I had the heart of a Ukranian fighter." From the mouths of babes.
On the global going on, not a word - yet another time - on the genocide in Gaza. No solidarity whatsoever, no empathy, no nothing for a biblical destruction of land and people. Every day tens of children are killed, hundreds wounded, Gaza basically in rubbles. I am heartbroken to see this lack of humanity - and it is a major threat to the US democracy, with people illegally detained for peacefully protesting. At the same time, Yemen is being bombed, an act of international terrorism - the US had not declared the war - just because of its support for Palestine. The top US universities are under frontal attack - and some giving in like Columbia - for allowing free speech and politically independent education. This will have catastrophic consequences for the country - the greatest aspect of the US has been its educational system, attracting students from all over the world, that are now less and less inclined to go there. My own students, that until yesterday craved to pursue PhD in the States, are now opting for Europe and Asia.
What will il take, how much more human suffering, after more than 50000 killed in 18 months, so many of them children and women, that this and similar platforms start caring? Or at least, start worrying for the tragic impact it has for democracy and the rule of law. AOC has been outspoken from the beginning of the onslaught of Palestinians, Bernie Sanders has started it too, and yet the whole issue is being avoided as non existent. It is mind boggling, and I cannot comprehend it for the life of me.
Goran, you are so correct. Please keep up your efforts to frequently remind us all of our willful duplicity regarding the Genocide in GAZA. There are many criminal injustices in the world but none that I’m aware of so criminal and despicable and which go virtually ignored.
Thanks Lori, it helps a lot to see someone care - this tragedy and a lack of solidarity is heartbreaking.
Goran, I hear you. It’s a heartbreaking war as is Ukraine’s unprovoked war.
Look at how Ukraine has suffered these years and now they use Zelensky like a chip.
Hamas needs to get out of the tunnels and stop using Gaza’s people as shields.
The children losing their lives is the hardest to bear. And, My heart breaks everyday for Ukraine, my ancestral country.
Barbara, sure, the Ukraine war is equally painful - but it is not a genocide, not a proclaimed extermination or expulsion of entire people. Not some 77 years of apartheid - 750 000 Palestinians were displaced in 1948 and now for decades Gaza has been a huge concentration camp. And the US has been supporting Ukraine, at least until this fascist takeover. The destruction of Gaza, on the contrary, is being committed with a full moral, political, social, economical and above all military support of the US, Democrats as much as Republicans. Biden has been a great buddy, fierce supporter of Netanyahu, a Trump-like criminal with nazi ideas, who has been preaching the end of Gaza for decades - and now orchestrating it. Without the US support Netanyahu would be in prison, as you know - he is fugitive from the ICC. And moreover, every time he is supposed to appear in front of Israel law - he has been losing a process after a process and has been trying to do everything to eliminate the rule of law in Israel - the bombing of Gaza gets intensified.
What we have been witnessing is long time coming zionist project, that is not only killing Gaza, but destroying Israeli and American democracies. And you blame Hamas, as if it was responsible for all this, as if land snatching, expulsion, apartheid and endless killing and destruction have been perpetrated by Hamas. It is to me like blaming Ukrainians and Zelensky - as Trump is doing now - for defending their land. It is mind boggling and heartbreaking to hear your justification of genocide - you and I should blame Hamas for this, it seems. Until Hamas comes out of tunnels, we should keep supporting the genocide - this is how your message reads. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I could write here a long history of the Palestinian tragedy, and would do it gladly, if you were interested to discuss it. But just one question: do you know that Hamas was founded in 1987, 20 years after the 1967 war run by Begin,. a terrorist (officially), who founded Likud whose charter rejects Palestinian state and officially preaches land snitching through settlements? Hamas is not a cause, but a response to a zionist fascist plan of getting rid of Palestinians.
Goran, I appreciate your information about the Palestinians. My understanding of the 77 years of Palestinian history is limited but I have read about how Israelis treat Palestinians and the hostilities that never fade.
I recall Yasser Arafat showing up in DC with Clinton to try and achieve a two state solution and hoped they would be successful.
You are partly correct concerning my feelings about Hamas being an equally bad player in this war. I have simplified a complicated situation and apologize for my ignorance. Genocide is a heinous act and I do not condone it in the strongest terms no matter what. The media rarely has labeled it genocide that I have read. America supporting genocide is an unthinkable concept and, honestly, I was disturbed by Biden’s unwavering support for Netanyahu.
As for Ukraine, I read “The Gates of Europe” last year which covers the last 1000 years of upheaval, war, famine and death for the people of Ukraine. They have had centuries of invasions from Sweden, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Mongolia, the Ottomans, the Hapsbergs and of course, Russia. Stalin manufactured a famine in Ukraine in 1933 and killed 3 million people.
This history is not here to side track the genocide of Palestinians but to explain the way in which I think about Ukraine today. This is what I meant when I wrote, Goran, I hear you
Just to clarify: it was Arafat who ultimately rejected the Camp David peace deal, not the Israelis. And, despite the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the International Court of Justice has not ruled it a "genocide" per international law. Calling this terrible war a genocide doesn't make it so.
I am not sure why you start the history with the Camp David and with Arafat. That is neither the beginning nor the present situation - and it makes sense only to face the drama of today or go back to the beginning of the zionist crime against Palestinians.
You ask me not to use the word genocide because it is not (yet) officially recognised as such. Tell me please, would you have waited in say 1938 for the world to officially proclaim the genocide of Jews before calling it out? Let me remind you that the world watched in silence the Holocaust for quite some time, that the US and the UK would not grant visas to Jews but rather let them be eventually exterminated in Germany.
I am still willing, for the sake of civil debate, not to use the word genocide. Would destruction of Palestine be acceptable? If not, what expression should I use for Gaza being tuned into dust and oblivion, for countless victims, for the destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, museums, universities, you name it? You use the word war, but war implies two armies to clash - a destruction of basically unarmed civilians is not a war.
Barbara, thanks for your caring response. I share with you the pain for Ukraine tragedy and the only reason I do not write about it here is simply that this an American, not a Russian platform. It is not the US that is behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine - on the contrary, the US is completely behind the destruction of Palestine, in every possible way. I bring Ukraine every time I talk to Russians that are silent on invasion, but here, on this platform, Ukraine is defended - and so I for one believe that we have moral, social, human, political obligation to bring up this tragedy of biblical proportions. Forgive me, but this is why I feel propelled to say more.
I believe it ought to be our main focus. We talk about the longest human persecution in modern history - all of Gaza is just a huge concentration camp that is now being bombarded into dust and oblivion. And most of Palestinians have lived all their lives in this concentration camp, please think about it. They are being persecuted for being Palestinians, just as Jews or Romani people, or gays were during Holocaust - the zionist plan spoke from the beginning of getting rid of them, of stealing their land. Of course, the degree of persecution may vary, but the principle is the same and this is why nazism was and is considered the greatest evil, the greatest danger for the survival of our species.
The worst, most tragic aspect of this is that the Holocaust tragedy is used as an excuse for this new tragedy and defending Palestine makes you often be accused of being antisemite - while it is clearly zionism the main anti semitism we are facing today. It equates any evil committed by the nazi like government of Isreal by being Jewish and so if you criticise Israel it is claimed you are criticising all Jews - which is the text-book example of anti semitism.
And yet, even here there is a complicit silence on the part of the leaders of the platform who tell us that we are all in this together - all, except for Palestinians and those that speak on their behalf, those that wish to defend their right to their lives, their freedom and their land. Here lies probably the greatest threat to American democracy - similarly that way the fear of communism was used in the McCarthy era to dangerously threaten the rule of law. People lose jobs for defending Palestine - even if one is a brilliant black woman president of Harvard. People get illegally detained by masked men and sent to isolated places for just speaking openly about the issue. Unless there is a public outcry, the US will get closer and closer to the abyss of dictatorship.
It means a lot that you hear me, I only wish more of us would speak out on this unbearable human tragedy.
Hi Contrarians! I wanted to send you this music video of our weekly protest from last Sunday via submit@contrarian.news.org, but the link doesn't seem to work. I get "Address not found
Your message wasn't delivered to submit@contrarian.news.org because the domain contrarian.news.org couldn't be found. Check for typos or unnecessary spaces and try again." Anyway, here's the video link. Keep up the great work! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGmpQ4vdyx0
I tried twice to submit protest pictures to your link and they were rejected both times.
Same here.
"Polls. The only poll that ultimately matters is the one at the ballot box, where the anti-autocracy vote has outperformed in contest after contest so far, with surprisingly lopsided wins in that Wisconsin Supreme Court race and a Pennsylvania special election. Look for more of the same ahead in 2025 in the Pennsylvania judicial elections, and the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial and down-ballot ones in June"
Correction: The gubernatorial and down-ballot elections are in November 2025, not June. The primaries for the various state elections are on June 17 in Virginia, but the general elections are in November. Could just change this to "the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial and down-ballot elections."