Rania Khalek Dispatches from the Underclass

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/ July 15, 2019 / 1 Comment

Concentration camps at the border

Watch me yell at rich white people crying about the use of the term “concentration camp” (👋🏽 Chuck Todd and Meghan McCain). AND then watch me highlight the Democratic party’s complicity in the caging of children pic.twitter.com/5dqtB6hb0Q — Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) July 12, 2019

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/ June 6, 2016 / Leave a comment

Class Politics, Not White Male Angst, Inspires Wide Support For Sanders

Throughout the Democratic presidential primary, journalists and commentators have relied upon their interactions with Bernie Sanders supporters on social media to promote the myth that what drives white men to support the democratic socialist is angst or some form of racial resentment. But there simply is no basis in fact for this argument; in fact, […]

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/ January 17, 2016 / 1 Comment

In War Games, Navy SEALs Normalize Treating U.S. Citizens as Enemy

United States Navy SEALs planned war games in the state of Washington for mid-January, where they would encroach upon residential areas, state parks, national parks, etc, without the consent of the public. The war games treat citizens as pawns because SEALs were trained to react to citizens as potential terrorists. One of the most alarming […]

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/ September 19, 2015 / 5 Comments

Israeli leaders delight in Europe’s cruelty toward refugees

Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada As most of the world looks on in horror at Europe’s atrocious response to refugees escaping war and persecution in the Middle East and Africa, some Israeli officials are quietly reveling in the chaos. Dore Gold, director general of the Israeli foreign ministry, expressed optimism that the refugee influx will shift […]

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/ September 13, 2015 / Leave a comment

Podcast: The unprecedented collaboration between the CIA and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ filmmakers

New documents containing details on the inspector general investigation into collaboration between the CIA and “Zero Dark Thirty” filmmakers show ethics violations and potential federal crimes by former CIA director Leon Panetta and other CIA officers were uncovered. These were referred to the Justice Department for prosecution, but the department declined to prosecute anyone. According […]

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/ May 4, 2015 / 8 Comments

Europe’s border policy is designed to push refugees into the sea

Originally published at The Electronic Intifada Shortly before a huge migrant boat disaster early this month, The Sun, a daily paper owned by Rupert Murdoch, published a column by British TV star and rightwing provocateur Katie Hopkins calling migrants “cockroaches” and “a plague of feral humans.” Not long after it went to press, as many as 850 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean when […]

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