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Was Trump Hoping for a Coup?

January 7, 2021 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Originally published by Common Dreams There is so much that we don’t know about Wednesday’s assault on our national capital and our limited constitutional democracy. The new Congress should not only investigate why the Capital police and Homeland Security were missing in […]

Election challengers protest and demand to enter the room where ballots were being counted in Detroit on Nov 4. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)

Something Important Happened in Detroit

November 19, 2020 Dan Luker

by Rev. Wendy von Courter, Dan Luker, and Bob Master November 4th, 2020, TFC Convention Center, Michigan Ballot counting location The day after the election, November 4th, large groups of people gathered outside the TFC Convention Center in Detroit where the votes for the presidential […]

Count Every Vote rally, Boston Common, Nov 4, 2020

The Uncertain Election: Defending Constitutional Democracy and Human Survival

November 5, 2020 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson first published by the International Peace Bureau In the run up to the U.S. election, Daniel Ellsberg, the courageous whistleblower who risked 115 years in prison in the early 1970s for revealing the Pentagon’s secret history of the Vietnam War in his […]

Authoritarianism on the Rise

October 8, 2020 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson The Authoritarianism Working Group has shared and discussed readings and organized two excellent webinars featuring Noam Chomsky, Van Gosse, Ty dePass, Mic Krenshaw and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. Among the lessons from the readings has been the central role of middle classes in […]

Against Tyranny: Buying Time for Democracy

September 24, 2020 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson The central question in November’s election is the choice between preserving a semblance of constitutional democracy or the imposition of repressive, white supremacist authoritarianism. As Trump’s enablers urge violence and declaration of martial law if he loses the election, and as the […]