Tag Archives | McCarthyism

Taking down the “Soviet Menace” in America, (part 1) was, not a response to any real “national security threat,” but a very real threat to corporate profits and neocolonial domination by the U.S. ruling class.

 The students in short are moved by a pure sense of humanity.

With the encouragement of the state, universities from coast to coast are taking draconian steps to silence debate about U.S.-backed violence in the Middle East.

Wadie Said on the new Gaza McCarthyism.

Republican Congressman Max Miller, who recently made a genocidal call to turn Gaza into a “parking lot,” has joined with Republican Congressman David Kustoff to push through a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that “clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.”

“A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul,” the New York Times (8/5/23) announced on its front page. “The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide,” read the subhead.

Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, “Black Identity Extremists” are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state.

In legislatures across the country, Republican lawmakers are introducing bills to curtail what educators–in public schools and universities–can say and teach about racism and sexism.