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Law and Disorder September 16, 2024

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2024/09/16

Understanding Capitalism The great German playwright, and political figure, Berthold Brecht, observed that to understand fascism you have to understand capitalism, from whence it springs. Today, it is also helpful for us to understand that the rise of fascism in Germany 100 years ago, has parallels we can see now with the rise of fascism in the United States. Prior to World War I, which began in 1914, the German working class and middle class were relatively prosperous. The German unions were

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Law and Disorder September 9, 2024

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2024/09/09

September 11, 2001: Lessons Learned And Overlooked It has been 23 years ago this week since the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring more than 6,000. On that day, the United States had a choice: The George W Bush administration could have treated the attacks as a violation of US and international law, launched a criminal investigation, and brought the perpetrators to justice in accordance with the rule of law

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Law and Disorder September 2, 2024

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2024/09/02

Present Danger Of Fascism In The United StatesThe rise of Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters has transformed American politics, perhaps more than anything else has since the gathering of forces of the rebellious slave owners in the south, a century and a half ago. His first four years in office were chaotic, uninformed programmatically, and not animated by any kind of cadre of capable administrators. It was, instead, full of his statements and actions that many critics deemed to be racist,

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Law and Disorder August 26, 2024

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2024/08/26

Book Banning, Censorship And Freedom Of SpeechAmericans have a love-hate relationship with freedom of speech: They love to protect their own free speech and they hate to protect the free speech of those they disagree with. The First Amendment to the US Constitution was intended to protect freedom of speech and freedom of the press, yet throughout American history, governments at all levels have censored speech and tried to muzzle the press. The anti-censorship group PEN America, in a survey of

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Law and Disorder August 19, 2024

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2024/08/19

Separation of Powers And Project 2025The US Constitution created the three branches of the federal government to serve as a check on one another. In particular, the judiciary was intended to ensure that the actions of the Executive and Legislative branches did not violate the Constitution. But what happens when the Supreme Court is in the grip of a highly partisan, result-oriented super-majority half of whom were appointed by a President who has been convicted of 34 felonies and faces 57 more

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Law and Disorder August 12, 2024

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2024/08/12

Healing Divisions Within Jewish Communities Over Israeli War And Destruction Ever since October 7, the American Jewish community has been deeply divided over how to react to the brutality of what Hamas did that day, the fate of the hostages, Israel’s overwhelming military assault in Gaza, the ensuing humanitarian crisis, the unspeakable death toll suffered by the Palestinians, and the deadly clashes in the West Bank. All of this has spilled over to college campuses across the United States,

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Law and Disorder August 5, 2024

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2024/08/05

The California Criminal Legal System ReconsiderationIn recent years, District Attorneys around the country in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and elsewhere have broken the law and order mold as they look for better ways to address public safety, crime, prosecution, and sentencing in America, including a wholesale reconsideration of the death penalty. To examine the criminal legal system in the United States, we’ve invited one of the leading progressive prosecutors in America,

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Law and Disorder July 29, 2024

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2024/07/29

Ralph Nader On Continuing War In GazaThe American supported Israeli war against the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza continues on since last October. The area, the size of Philadelphia, has been partially obliterated by American fighter planes, bombs, tanks, artillery shells, and bullets. The number of dead Palestinians is at least 186,000 according to a recent article in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently left Washington

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Law and Disorder July 22, 2024

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2024/07/22

Religious Nationalism and Separation of Church and StateThe separation between church and state is a key component of our democracy, ensuring that freedom of belief is a right for all, not a privilege for some. The First Amendment’s establishment clause, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” has been understood to prohibit the government from establishing an official religion or favoring one religion over others. This interpretation aims to ensure

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Law and Disorder July 15, 2024

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2024/07/15

Trump v United StatesOn July 1, the United States Supreme Court handed down one of the most important decisions in the history of our democracy. In the aptly named case of Trump verses United States, the six arch conservative justices awarded the ex-president – who appointed three of them – a vast and complex criminal immunity scheme. In three ways the majority delivered Trump a tailor made “Stay-Out-of-Jail” trifecta of expanded constitutional protections for Presidents: First,

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Law and Disorder July 8, 2024

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2024/07/08

Two Very Important Supreme Court DecisionsWhen does the government cross the line from using its highly visible bully pulpit to advocate for policies and principles it has every right to promote into the prohibited zone of threatening to use its awesome powers to punish viewpoints it opposes by coercing others to refrain from doing business with the speaker. In two very important recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court was asked to decide whether it is still the law of the land that a

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Law and Disorder July 1, 2024

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2024/06/30

Freedom For Julian Assange!After serving 1901 days in solitary confinement in a tiny cell in the infamous Belmarsh prison in London, journalist and publisher Julian Assange is free at last. Julian gained his freedom pursuit to a plea bargain with the government of the United States which had sought to extradite him and try him under the 1917 Espionage Act He faced a certain conviction in a hostile Virginia court and 175 years in prison on 17 count of conspiracy to commit espionage for

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Law and Disorder June 24, 2024

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2024/06/24

A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to LavenderTwo artificial intelligence systems are being used by Israel and the United States to compile kill lists of Palestinians in Gaza. They are called Lavender and Where’s Daddy. This has led to the indiscriminate slaughter of whole families and has killed mostly women and children. The CIA and the US military have always tried to use the latest data processing technology to identify and kill their enemies. The history of American government

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Law and Disorder June 17, 2024

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2024/06/17

Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden There are defendants in a lawsuit brought in the northern district of California called Defense for Children International– Palestine v. Biden. The plaintiffs are represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and attorney Marc Vander Hout. We’re going to talk about this lawsuit against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Austin. This lawsuit follows a January 2024 historic hearing that

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Law and Disorder June 10, 2024

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2024/06/10

I Am GitmoIt’s been 22 years since the United States opened its prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Specifically, it was four months after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. And that was when we started seeing images of men and boys arriving there, bound and hooded, in orange jumpsuits, confined indefinitely without charges, legal process or trials…. And it was not long after that we began hearing reports that the US government was using torture, and even that

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Law and Disorder June 3, 2024

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2024/06/03

Counter Protest Tactics Attempt To Plague University Anti-Genocide Encampments As the Israel-Gaza War rages on, protests have spread throughout American campuses as students oppose Israeli’s military onslaught and the tragic humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Student have demanded a ceasefire, an end to US military support for Israel and that universities divest from Israel. In response, University officials have suspended and expelled students, banned pro-Palestinian student groups, called in

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Law and Disorder May 27, 2024

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2024/05/27

We remember cultural historian and scholar Bruce Franklin. H. Bruce Franklin, a regular guest here on Law and Disorder, passed away last week, on May 19, at the age of 90. He was one of the country’s leading historians, and a scholar in American studies, science fiction, and other diverse fields. Bruce Franklin’s memory lives on through his many books, and his hundreds of professional articles.— Crash Course : From the Good War to the Forever War US Army Ranger turned

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Law and Disorder May 20, 2024

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2024/05/19

The More Effective Of Two EvilsThe extensive growing repression and censorship in our country is manifest daily. Already some 3000 students have been arrested and many of their encampments on college campuses have been violently closed down. The leading newspaper, the New York Times, has instructed reporters not to use the words “genocide” or “ethnic cleansing.” Journalist Chris Hedges has been removed from The Real News Network for interviewing, Dennis Kucinich, the independent candidate

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Law and Disorder May 13, 2024

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2024/05/13

Free Speech: Protest Testing The Limits Of Protection As controversy rages over protests, encampments, and arrests at hundreds of college campuses around the country, in reaction to the war in the Middle East, free speech is once again at the forefront of national debate. Time and again in American history, the nation has been gripped by the complex question of whether certain speech is or is not protected by the First Amendment. Recently, college presidents have been under fire for failing to

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Law and Disorder May 6, 2024

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2024/05/06

Police, Politics And Violent Repression Against Pro-Palestine Student Protest During the Occupy Wall Street protests of late 2011 and early 2012, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a domestic terrorist threat. That was even though the Bureau acknowledged that organizers were calling for peaceful protests. Massive resources were deployed to track the movement, and FBI and counter-terrorism agents around the nation coordinated with local and federal law enforcement to track and gather

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