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How the Show Might Stop
This piece was originally published in Hard Crackers #7. We are republishing various Trump-related articles, as explained in Why We’re Publishing Some Trump Stuff Again. I have never attended a Trump rally. I don’t believe that ...
On Political Repression: A Hard Crackers Discussion with Michael Deutsch
Michael Deutsch is an experienced human rights attorney in the U.S., perhaps one of the most veteran and well-informed lawyers at that extremely difficult craft in this country. Michael graciously allowed us at Hard Crackers to pick his brains and share some of his experiences with us.
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Treason to Zionism is Loyalty to Humanity
In this essay, I’m going to argue that the continuing opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza should be centrally grounded in a determined opposition to the whole Zionist project. No sympathies for any variant of Zionism ...
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What Eisenhower Told Ben-Gurion
In 1956, Israel, in cooperation with Britain and France invaded the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. They were overly confident that they would not be stopped. “Then the roof fell in.” Eisenhower, the US President, ...
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The Words They Heard at The Word is Change
June 21, 2023. On Wednesday last week, we held our long-anticipated discussion of Don Hamerquist’s A Brilliant Red Thread at our favorite bookstore in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The featured speakers were: Luis Brennan, the editor of ...
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How a Terrifying Event Became a Commercial for the Police
During the morning rush hour on April 12th, an individual, after putting on a gas mask, set off one or two smoke canisters in a subway car on the Manhattan-bound N line just outside the 36th Street ...
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A Matter of Life and Death: Winning the Fight for Vaccines
It seems increasingly likely that a real end to the COVID pandemic will require all but universal vaccination.[1] There are three challenges that need to be met: The development of much more effective strategies to work ...
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Rosanne Boyland is Dead—WTF!
When I listened to the “American Radical” podcast for the first time, I had a hard time keeping track of the people and events so I decided to take detailed notes. Then I realized that the ...
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After Memorial Day
Once when I was a kid, my father took me to a Memorial Day Parade in Manhattan. I had no idea why he decided to do so. I remember feeling uncomfortable during the parade and wondered ...
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On Bruce Springsteen and his Super Bowl Ad…Two Short Essays
“Against the Middle” By John Garvey There’s a chapel in Kansas Standing on the exact center of the lower forty-eight. It never closes. All are more than welcome To come meet here, in the middle. It’s ...
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