“The Border Patrol took me.” That was the Facebook message from Mary Givins, a librarian and native-born U.S. citizen who lives in Tucson. She had been visiting in Mexico, a short visit, along with her adult daughter, Luce Guillen-Givins, who is also a native-born U.S. citizen (and lives in Minnesota.) Why were these two U.S. citizens detained for eight hours by the U.S. Border Patrol? Continue reading
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“Things Happen.”
Jamal Khashoggi was a U.S. permanent legal resident and a columnist for the Washington Post in 2018 when Saudi operatives lured him to the Saudi consulate in Turkey, and then abducted, tortured, and murdered him. Then they cut up his body with a bone saw. U.S. intelligence agencies investigated and determined that his assassination was ordered by […]
The Emperor Has No Clothes
You remember the Hans Christian Anderson story: the vain emperor orders the most beautiful suit of clothes from swindlers who dress him in exactly nothing. The sycophants around him exclaim over the beautify of his new clothes. And everyone agrees, afraid to say that they cannot see anything, because that would mean they are stupid or […]
Hope and Challenge
U.S. District Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, issued a scathing 161 page opinion telling the Trump administration that free speech is for everyone, and that their arrest, imprisonment, and attempted deportation of international students for pro-Palestinian statements violates the U.S. Constitution. Because we have so little good news from courts or Congress, and none at all […]
Trump’s Paramilitaries
The Trump regime’s paramilitary troops pose a greater threat to U.S. democracy than its threats to deploy National Guard or regular military in U.S. cities. Merriam Webster says that “paramilitary” means “of, relating to, being, or characteristic of a force formed on a military pattern especially as a potential auxiliary military force.” That’s exactly how […]
Diabolical “Saints” and Accelerationism
A common thread connects the August school shooting in Minneapolis with the 2011 terror attacks by neo-Nazi in Norway and the 2019 mosque massacres in New Zealand. The guns carried by the Minneapolis shooter carried the names of the perpetrators of the other massacres. Their social media posts idolized the shooters, expressed hatred of almost everyone—black people, brown people, […]
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- Mary Turck is a writer, editor, and blogger. She is also the former editor of theTC Daily Planet and of the award-winning Connection to the Americas and AMERICAS.ORG and a recovering attorney.
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