Tom Engelhardt: Slaughter Central
The United States as a Mass-Killing Machine
Abby Zimet: On Numberless Dead Bodies and Weapons of War Being Necessary to the Security Of A Free State
Congress, for God’s sake and all of ours, do your job.
Donald Krieger: Unveiling
I listened to the learned
seeking meaning, hundreds crowded
into the Beth Shalom basement,
police in armor at the entrance.
Matt Hohner: Viral
Imagine someone with nothing left to lose as a virus
armed with a gun and desperate to spread its bullets.
Nick Turse: The Moral Injury of War
Some men are very nearly monsters, capable of killing without compunction or remorse. In the everyday civilian world, we generally seek to lock them up. In war, they have a chance to fully flower.
Alexandra Minna Stern: White nationalists’ extreme solution to the coming environmental apocalypse
The public needs to recognize ecofascism as a dangerous cloud gathering on the horizon.
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz: What an American Terrorist Looks Like
Despite racist and anti-immigrant scapegoating, data shows that most American terrorists are resentful White men inspired by White supremacist and misogynist rhetoric.
Abby Zimet: Racism Has A Name
Everyone knows who to blame for these massacres: Trump, an accomplice to white nationalist terrorism.
Phoebe A. Cirio: 22 July — A film that helps us understand a mass killing
22 July, a film currently streaming on Netflix, depicts the events that occurred on that day in 2011, when Anders Behring Breivik began a killing rampage in Norway. Breivik turned … Continue reading
Thom Hartmann: Trump and Fox News Have Blood on Their Hands
It’s already started. They’re messaging, texting, tweeting, and even calling into my radio/TV show. Breitbart is even bragging that they got it on CNN. “This killing in Pittsburgh has nothing … Continue reading
Nahal Amouzadeh: 3 Things America Doesn’t Want To Tell You About White Terrorism
I was 6 years old when 9/11 happened. I don’t remember a lot. I don’t remember what the news was reporting. I don’t even remember how or if my parents … Continue reading
Jess McIntosh: Are we finally realizing the men who commit mass shootings started by beating women?
We always debate religious and political affiliation in the wake of these events. But one enormous and tragic corollary has been consistently ignored. One would think, listening to the devastated … Continue reading
Video: “Loss”
. In recent years, several media outlets have taken to calling President Obama the ‘Mourner-in-Chief’ due to the frequency with which he addresses the nation following fatal incidents of mass … Continue reading
