Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky |Frida Berrigan |Binoy Kampmark |Sumanta Banerjee

“Flights to Guantánamo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our homeland.”With those words the U.S. government announced the fate awaiting “criminal aliens” in its custody.

1 month ago | progressivehub.net | Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky |Tom Dispatch

The Trump administration is honing a well-oiled deportation machine that it hopes will move millions out of the country. By Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Tom Dispatch“Flights to Guantánamo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our homeland.”With those words the U.S. government announced the fate awaiting “criminal aliens” in its custody.

2 months ago | forward.com | Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky

It would be a mistake to deny that the United States is facing a crisis of antisemitism. Anti-Jewish bias and antisemitic violence continue to represent clear and present dangers to our communities: I myself am a survivor of the neo-Nazi assault in Charlottesville in 2017. But there's a right and wrong way to fight that bigotry. And President Donald Trump's first efforts to "combat antisemitism" in his second term are, clearly, in the wrong.

May 31, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Marcy Winograd |Richard D. Wolff |Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky |Taj Hashmi

The justifications used to defend police actions against Columbia University students advocating for Palestine evoke a disheartening sense of déjà vu. Instead of reflecting progress, they remind us that old patterns persist. Mayor Eric Adams of New York City invoked the specter of “Outside Agitators” to justify the crackdown, suggesting that external influences manipulated the student movement into extremism.

May 30, 2024 | thenation.com | Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky

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