#mccarthyism — Public Fediverse posts
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#LauraLoomer, gadfly & #Trump favorite, told…Michael Scherer in an interview…that “we need to make McCarthy great again.” And she told The New Yorker that McCarthy is “one of the most underrated & underappreciated political figures in history.” #JackPosobiec, a prominent #FarRight influencer & #ConspiracyTheorist, has posted that “McCarthy didn’t go far enough.” #SteveBannon, in a recent phone conversation with Breland, put it even more starkly: “We need to do #McCarthyism to the tenth power.”
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a sidetrack I shall have to return to after I finish my PMBS research but damn the HUAC interrogation of musicians here is very sadly fascinating. came to it when searching the names of some minor PMBS members on Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/investigationofc5702unit/page/n7/mode/2up -
Consider what happened in Texas in 2010. As part of a highly publicized revamp of the state social studies curriculum, the Republican-controlled Texas Board of Education removed slavery as the central cause of the Civil War and replaced it with states' rights and secession, with Republican board member Patricia Hardy calling slavery "an after issue." The Republican members also considered referring to the slave trade as the "Atlantic Triangular Trade" before finally settling on "Transatlantic Slave Trade."
The new curriculum was silent on the KKK during Reconstruction and failed to mention the Jim Crow era at all. It also equated Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln.
In addition, the curriculum claimed that Joseph McCarthy was correct when he said the U.S. government had been infiltrated by communists in the 1950s, included lessons on why the U.S. needs to return to the gold standard, and asserted that the United Nations, International Criminal Court, and global environmental initiatives undermined U.S. sovereignty. And it scrubbed any mention of Thomas Jefferson's role in U.S. history because he advocated for the separation of church and state.
#confederacy
#confederate
#LostCause
#UnitedDaughtersOfTheConfederacy #UDC
#slavery
#education
#textbooks
#censorship
#BookBans
#Lincoln
#Jefferson
#McCarthyism
#UN
#JimCrow
#Texas
#KKK
#ICC
#Reconstruction
#redemption
#racism
#WhiteSupremacy
#GoldStandard (yes, the clamour for the gold standard is part of white supremacy OMG no-one told me) -
A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good. The Un-American Activities Committee seems to me to be better for a police state than for the USA.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #America #freedomofthought #inquiry #marketplaceofideas #mccarthyism #RedScare #society #trust #huac #unamerican
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #chillingeffect #fear #freespeech #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #mccarthyism #policestate #RedScare #selfcensorship #tyranny
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #chillingeffect #fear #freespeech #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #mccarthyism #policestate #RedScare #selfcensorship #tyranny
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #chillingeffect #fear #freespeech #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #mccarthyism #policestate #RedScare #selfcensorship #tyranny
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #chillingeffect #fear #freespeech #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #mccarthyism #policestate #RedScare #selfcensorship #tyranny
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #chillingeffect #fear #freespeech #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #mccarthyism #policestate #RedScare #selfcensorship #tyranny
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Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’ -CNN
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Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’
By Elizabeth Wagmeister, 14 hr ago
Jane Fonda at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France on May 24. Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty ImagesEight decades after Hollywood legends like Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland launched the Committee for the First Amendment to stand up to McCarthyism, Jane Fonda is bringing back the organization at a time she calls “the most frightening moment of my life.”
The younger Fonda issued a plea to her Hollywood community in a letter shared with CNN, asking her peers to join the relaunched committee, writing, “I’m 87 years old. I’ve seen war, repression, protest, and backlash. I’ve been celebrated, and I’ve been branded an enemy of the state. But I can tell you this: this is the most frightening moment of my life.”
“When I feel scared, I look to history,” Fonda wrote. “I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers – but there never has been.” She went on to underscore the value of solidarity and “binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”
“That’s why I believe the time is now to relaunch the Committee for the First Amendment – the same Committee my father, Henry Fonda, joined with other artists during the McCarthy era, when so many were silenced or even imprisoned simply for their words and their craft.”
More than 550 Hollywood figures have joined Fonda’s fight, adding their names as supporters of her newly relaunched committee, with signatories include including Aaron Sorkin, Barbra Streisand, Glenn Close, Gracie Abrams, JJ Abrams, John Legend, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julianne Moore, Kerry Washington, Larry David, Lily Tomlin, Natalie Portman, Nikki Glaser, Patti LuPone, Pedro Pascal, Quinta Brunson, Rob Reiner, Rosie O’Donnell, Sean Penn, Spike Lee, Viola Davis, Wanda Sykes, Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and more.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’ | CNN
#2025 #America #CNN #CommitteeForTheFirstAmendment #DonaldTrump #Education #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfSpeech #Health #HerFather #History #JaneFonda #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #McCarthyism #Opinion #Politics #Reading #Resistance #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates
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A bit of sad #truth - JIMMY KIMMEL live in Brooklyn show with Colbert
Amid calls for #cancellation from the former enemy of #CancelCulture & spew of lies about #Epstein & #terror...
Is this event ( #ABC ) now cancelled?
Holy #hypocrisy ,Spatman! It's over!
Cancelled! No more 'woke' humor!🥲 Goodbye #Freedom of the #Press, #FreeSpeech #Democracy #1stAmendment #laughter #satire #TVnetworks
Hello #censors #disinformation #fascism #authoritarian #BigBrother #MinistryofTruth #McCarthyism
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"In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers—communists, progressives, liberals—and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself [...] its commitments to principles of equality and justice—to say nothing of truthful accounts of history—are being trashed."
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-general-air-of-anxiety/
#USpol #USpolitics #UShistory #stateRepression #AcademicFreedom #education #AmericanSchools #UShigherEd #Trumpism #civilLiberties #SecondRedScare #McCarthyism -
#RedScare: Blacklists, #McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America | #KALW
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Via Aaron Melnick:
#McCarthyism returns to #immigration #law, as #USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law & its definition is entirely up to the #Trump admin.
#Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
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Via Aaron Melnick:
#McCarthyism returns to #immigration #law, as #USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law & its definition is entirely up to the #Trump admin.
#Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
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Via Aaron Melnick:
#McCarthyism returns to #immigration #law, as #USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law & its definition is entirely up to the #Trump admin.
#Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
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Via Aaron Melnick:
#McCarthyism returns to #immigration #law, as #USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law & its definition is entirely up to the #Trump admin.
#Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
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Via Aaron Melnick:
#McCarthyism returns to #immigration #law, as #USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law & its definition is entirely up to the #Trump admin.
#Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent #NaziState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
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Chris Hedges Report: How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/08/chris-hedges-report-how-paradise-lost-revolutionized-the-world/
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are few pieces of literature that remain as prescient and…
#Politics #Books #Commentary #Poetry #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AlexanderHerzen #AndrewMarvell #C.l.r.James #Chartists #Christianity #Democracy #EnglishCivilWar #EnglishRepublic #HannahArendt #JohnMilton #Levellers #MalcolmX #MccarranAct #Mccarthyism #Mirabeau #Monarchy #NewTestament #OlaudahEquiano #OliverCromwell #OrlandoReade #ParadiseLost #PercyShelley #Restoration #Revolution #SamuelJohnson #TheChrisHedgesReport #ThomasJefferson #VirginiaWolff #WilliamBlake -
Chris Hedges Report: How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/08/chris-hedges-report-how-paradise-lost-revolutionized-the-world/
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are few pieces of literature that remain as prescient and…
#Politics #Books #Commentary #Poetry #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AlexanderHerzen #AndrewMarvell #C.l.r.James #Chartists #Christianity #Democracy #EnglishCivilWar #EnglishRepublic #HannahArendt #JohnMilton #Levellers #MalcolmX #MccarranAct #Mccarthyism #Mirabeau #Monarchy #NewTestament #OlaudahEquiano #OliverCromwell #OrlandoReade #ParadiseLost #PercyShelley #Restoration #Revolution #SamuelJohnson #TheChrisHedgesReport #ThomasJefferson #VirginiaWolff #WilliamBlake -
Chris Hedges Report: How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/08/chris-hedges-report-how-paradise-lost-revolutionized-the-world/
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are few pieces of literature that remain as prescient and…
#Politics #Books #Commentary #Poetry #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AlexanderHerzen #AndrewMarvell #C.l.r.James #Chartists #Christianity #Democracy #EnglishCivilWar #EnglishRepublic #HannahArendt #JohnMilton #Levellers #MalcolmX #MccarranAct #Mccarthyism #Mirabeau #Monarchy #NewTestament #OlaudahEquiano #OliverCromwell #OrlandoReade #ParadiseLost #PercyShelley #Restoration #Revolution #SamuelJohnson #TheChrisHedgesReport #ThomasJefferson #VirginiaWolff #WilliamBlake -
Chris Hedges Report: How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/08/chris-hedges-report-how-paradise-lost-revolutionized-the-world/
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are few pieces of literature that remain as prescient and…
#Politics #Books #Commentary #Poetry #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AlexanderHerzen #AndrewMarvell #C.l.r.James #Chartists #Christianity #Democracy #EnglishCivilWar #EnglishRepublic #HannahArendt #JohnMilton #Levellers #MalcolmX #MccarranAct #Mccarthyism #Mirabeau #Monarchy #NewTestament #OlaudahEquiano #OliverCromwell #OrlandoReade #ParadiseLost #PercyShelley #Restoration #Revolution #SamuelJohnson #TheChrisHedgesReport #ThomasJefferson #VirginiaWolff #WilliamBlake -
Chris Hedges Report: How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/08/chris-hedges-report-how-paradise-lost-revolutionized-the-world/
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are few pieces of literature that remain as prescient and…
#Politics #Books #Commentary #Poetry #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AlexanderHerzen #AndrewMarvell #C.l.r.James #Chartists #Christianity #Democracy #EnglishCivilWar #EnglishRepublic #HannahArendt #JohnMilton #Levellers #MalcolmX #MccarranAct #Mccarthyism #Mirabeau #Monarchy #NewTestament #OlaudahEquiano #OliverCromwell #OrlandoReade #ParadiseLost #PercyShelley #Restoration #Revolution #SamuelJohnson #TheChrisHedgesReport #ThomasJefferson #VirginiaWolff #WilliamBlake -
PATRICK LAWRENCE: ‘Completely & Totally Obliterated’
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/23/patrick-lawrence-completely-totally-obliterated/
The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Towers went down and history arrived on its shores. By Patrick Lawrence…
#Politics #Analysis #Column #Iran #Iraq #Israel #MiddleEast #Military #U.s. #Amwaj.media #DonaldTrump #IraqInvasion #JohnBirchSociety #KarlRove #Mccarthyism #PatrickLawrence #RonSuskind #Sept.11 #SeymourHersh #TheNewYorkTimes #W.j.Hennigan -
PATRICK LAWRENCE: ‘Completely & Totally Obliterated’
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/23/patrick-lawrence-completely-totally-obliterated/
The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Towers went down and history arrived on its shores. By Patrick Lawrence…
#Politics #Analysis #Column #Iran #Iraq #Israel #MiddleEast #Military #U.s. #Amwaj.media #DonaldTrump #IraqInvasion #JohnBirchSociety #KarlRove #Mccarthyism #PatrickLawrence #RonSuskind #Sept.11 #SeymourHersh #TheNewYorkTimes #W.j.Hennigan -
PATRICK LAWRENCE: ‘Completely & Totally Obliterated’
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/23/patrick-lawrence-completely-totally-obliterated/
The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Towers went down and history arrived on its shores. By Patrick Lawrence…
#Politics #Analysis #Column #Iran #Iraq #Israel #MiddleEast #Military #U.s. #Amwaj.media #DonaldTrump #IraqInvasion #JohnBirchSociety #KarlRove #Mccarthyism #PatrickLawrence #RonSuskind #Sept.11 #SeymourHersh #TheNewYorkTimes #W.j.Hennigan -
PATRICK LAWRENCE: ‘Completely & Totally Obliterated’
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/23/patrick-lawrence-completely-totally-obliterated/
The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Towers went down and history arrived on its shores. By Patrick Lawrence…
#Politics #Analysis #Column #Iran #Iraq #Israel #MiddleEast #Military #U.s. #Amwaj.media #DonaldTrump #IraqInvasion #JohnBirchSociety #KarlRove #Mccarthyism #PatrickLawrence #RonSuskind #Sept.11 #SeymourHersh #TheNewYorkTimes #W.j.Hennigan -
PATRICK LAWRENCE: ‘Completely & Totally Obliterated’
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/23/patrick-lawrence-completely-totally-obliterated/
The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Towers went down and history arrived on its shores. By Patrick Lawrence…
#Politics #Analysis #Column #Iran #Iraq #Israel #MiddleEast #Military #U.s. #Amwaj.media #DonaldTrump #IraqInvasion #JohnBirchSociety #KarlRove #Mccarthyism #PatrickLawrence #RonSuskind #Sept.11 #SeymourHersh #TheNewYorkTimes #W.j.Hennigan -
it was axed when she appeared before the house un-american activities committee because she'd been a vocal opponent of mccarthyism & of racial segregation. 'to hell with this', she said (or, perhaps, something saltier), & she moved to paris until 1967.
#paris #hazelScott #HUAC #mcCarthyism #illustration -
"unparalleled attack on the rule of law" not seen "since the days of McCarthyism,"
The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries experiencing rapid decline in civic freedoms. The US joins the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia on the first watchlist of 2025.
H/t @adirtyhippie
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Cold War Canada: Ongoing state support for East European émigré groups with deep fascist roots
“Manufacturing Consent”
… for fascism
“If the triumph of communism
is the worst imaginable result,
the support of fascism abroad
is justified as a lesser evil.”
In 1988, just before the destruction of the USSR, #Herman and #Chomsky published a theory on the use of mass media “to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior” that “integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society.” (p.1.) The media’s “societal purpose,” they explained, is to “defend the economic, social, and political agenda of privileged groups that dominate the domestic society and the state.” (p.298.)
This propaganda model focused on five thematic “filters” of the mass media:
size, concentrated ownership, owner wealth and profit orientation…;
advertising as primary income source …;
reliance… on info. provided by government, business and “experts” funded and approved by these primary sources and agents of power;
“flak” as a means of disciplining the media;
“anticommunism” as a national religion and control mechanism. (p.2.)
With the “specter” of communism as “the ultimate evil,” the media created a “cultural milieu in which anticommunism is the dominant religion.” By “elevating opposition to communism to a first principle of Western ideology and politics,” the media used it as a “potent” “political-control mechanism.” This “fragment[ed] the left and labor movements” and sidelined “social democrats” accused of being “too soft on communists.” While many Cold War “liberal” progressives supported US-led wars justified with anticommunist pretexts, “others lapsed into silence, paralyzed by the fear of being tarred with charges of infidelity to the national religion.” (p.29.)
By stirring “anti-Communist fervor … the demand for serious evidence in support of claims of ‘communist’ abuses is suspended, and charlatans can survive as evidential sources.” These “charlatans” take “center stage” as media “experts” and “remain there even after exposure as highly unreliable, if not downright liars.” (p.30.)
Source: Edward S.Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent, 1988.
Source: Ukraine: A Captive but Unconquerable Nation, Bulletin of the World AntiCommunist League, Jun 1969
#^https://coat.ncf.ca/P4C/70/70_2-8.htm
The Civil War: A Brief History of the Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada
#^https://aftershock.news/?q=node%2F1419406
#europe #Western #coldwar #USA #US #canada #ukraine #Vietnam #Iran #Guatemala #Brazil #Dominican #NATO #propaganda #fascism #anticommunism #mccarthyism #russophobia #anti-Russia in #soviet #USSR #russian #ukrainian #Russia #history -
The #FarRight Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport
#BetarUS said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.”"This conflation of speech critical to #Israel with #antisemitism or support of Hamas will do little to protect Jews in the United States from hate, said #JonahRubin, with #JewishVoiceForPeace, a progressive #JewishAmerican group that advocates for #Palestinian #HumanRights."
Jonah Valdez
February 6 2025"The premise behind Trump’s more recent order is rooted in #ProjectEsther: a treatise by the authors of #Project2025. The document was billed as 'a blueprint to counter antisemitism' and offered strategies to target and silence critics of Israel, including deportation. A fact sheet about the executive order related by the Trump administration mirrored language from Project Esther and laid bare the order’s intent to 'cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses,' vowing to deport 'all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests.'
"Such ideas are increasingly gaining purchase in conservative discourse. Pledges to deport supporters of Palestinian rights were a key part of the Republican Party’s platform. A congressional bill introduced last May called for similar measures.
"#Academia is a key focus of Project Esther and Trump’s executive orders. While the most recent order instructs all agencies within the executive branch to take part in the crackdown, it encourages #surveillance in specific areas, such as #universities and even K-12 schools, where administrators are being told to monitor and report #InternationalStudents for possible deportation.
"On Monday, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched investigations into five schools — #ColumbiaUniversity; #UCLABerkley; #NorthwesternUniversity; #UniversityOfMinnesota, Twin Cities; and #PortlandStateUniversity — for #antisemitism, the first use of the executive order.
"'Americans and college students that visit the United States should be able to protest the #Israeli government’s human rights violations in the same way that the United United Nations, the International Criminal Court [#ICC], #AmnestyInternational, #HumanRightsWatch, and other respected institutions have for the past several years, without fear of retaliation,' said Robert McCaw, a leader with the Council on American-Islamic Relations who heads the government affairs department. He decried the order’s fact sheet of peddling anti-Muslim terms such as 'pro-Jihad.'"
"Trump’s efforts have inspired a grassroots campaign to identify possible targets for deportation. On #SocialMedia, groups such as #MothersAgainstCollegeAntisemitism and the #ChicagoJewishAlliance have shared links to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line and called on people to report 'foreign students and faculty who support Hamas' and 'students on visas who are suspected of engaging in pro-terror activities,' respectively."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/06/betar-palestine-school-activists-target-deport-trump/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/fCZve
#McCarthyism #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #DontSnitch #ICE #ICERaids #ICEArrests #Deportation #CollegeStudents #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #authoritarianism #USPol -
US Congress Revives Cold War Tactics With New Anti-Communism School Curriculum
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/12/18/us-congress-revives-cold-war-tactics-with-new-anti-communism-school-curriculum/
Alan MacLeod on the “Crucial Communism Teaching Act,” which is now being read in the U.S. Senate, where it is all but certain to pass. By Alan MacLeod MintPress News Congress has just passed a bill that will see the…
#Politics #Books #Censorship #Chile #Commentary #Cuba #Propaganda #Taiwan #U.s. #U.s.Congress #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Venezuela #:AlanMacleod #ColdWar2.0 #Communism #Mccarthyism #RedScare #TheCrucialCommunismTeachingAct -
This is the new #McCarthyism on a global level.
Fascism is spreading and their victims are Palestinians.
@palestine @israel #feminism #Fascism #Palestine #Gaza #IWMF
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I haven't been around during the #VietnamWar. However, what I have read (and watched) about it and what I have been reading and watching now seems to be some kind of a repeat.
Only that the #RedScare* and #McCarthyism back then was completely blown out of proprotion and this time round foreign #ElectionInterference is not being taken seriously enough and the former #Comunist countries are doing a splendid job of further polarizing the West.
https://mstdn.social/@GreenFire/112329113066924494
*Second Red Scare
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Added to my "must read" list: "The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: #McCarthyism, #Communism, and the Myth of #AcademicFreedom", Steve Batterson's chronicle of a leftist #Michigan professor and his impressive battle against those who wished him silenced. Fascinating review in #SolidarityUSA journal #AgainstTheCurrent. #Academia #History #Socialism #RedScare #CPUSA #Politics #UM #UMich #UniversityOfMichigan #Literature #Books https://againstthecurrent.org/atc229/chandler-davis-dissent-and-solidarity/
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>Der Kommunisten-Jäger Joseph McCarthy l DER KALTE KRIEG<
Die aktuelle #Debattenkultur im Kontext des Krieges in Israel erinnert in #Deutschland zunehmend an den #McCarthyism der USA... 🤔
Die Absage der Ausstellung von
#CandiceBreitz in #Saarbrücken ist nur eines von vielen Beispielen des kulturellen Kahlschlags, statt offener Debattenkultur!So wird #Koexistenz und #Frieden rhetorisch unterminiert, statt gestärkt!
Destruktiver kann #Kulturpolitik nicht sein!
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#film
#GoodNightAndGoodLuck (2005) Official Trailer - George Clooney, David Strathairn Movie HD
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Canadian democracy is on edge — and China isn’t to blame
Chinese interference fears have gripped Ottawa.
But appearing before House committees recently, I realised Canada should be scared most of its own MPs.by Andrew Mitrovica via Al Jazeera
#CdnPoli #ChineseInterference #McCarthyism #FauxScandal
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/6/7/canadian-democracy-is-on-edge-and-china-isnt-to
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Amazing film to be made during the McCarthy era
All the social ills in 1950s america under a glitzy, chrome plated veneer
https://archive.org/details/7.2-no-down-payment-1957
(Free)
#racism #ptsd #censorship #McCarthyism #society #promiscuity #1950s #film #movie #retro #MentalHealth #BenMaddow
Set in a California subdivision, the story follows four neighbor couples facing problems such as alcoholism, racism and promiscuity
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Down_Payment -
This is very good! Christoph Schuringa on #radicalism, #analyticphilosophy, and #McCarthyism. A really good explanation of why working in academic philosophy can be an alienating experience even today.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-mccarthyism-postwar-communism -
This is very good! Christoph Schuringa on #radicalism, #analyticphilosophy, and #McCarthyism. A really good explanation of why working in academic philosophy can be an alienating experience even today.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-mccarthyism-postwar-communism -
This is very good! Christoph Schuringa on #radicalism, #analyticphilosophy, and #McCarthyism. A really good explanation of why working in academic philosophy can be an alienating experience even today.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-mccarthyism-postwar-communism -
This is very good! Christoph Schuringa on #radicalism, #analyticphilosophy, and #McCarthyism. A really good explanation of why working in academic philosophy can be an alienating experience even today.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-mccarthyism-postwar-communism -
This is very good! Christoph Schuringa on #radicalism, #analyticphilosophy, and #McCarthyism. A really good explanation of why working in academic philosophy can be an alienating experience even today.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-mccarthyism-postwar-communism