You can only be on one side of this assault on human rights, this assault on international law, this assault on the broader post-war system. Either you are in support of those attacking it, which is the U.S. and Israel axis and their allies, or you are in support of those who are defending it, and therefore, of the victims, therefor, of the vulnerable, therefor, of the people who believe in international law, and it's a moment in history when we all have to choose.

Craig Mokhiber

 Israel has no right to exist — as a matter of morality and international law. it's not a state, it's a lawless genocidal settler-colonial entity.

 Sorry Earth, I wish you all the best, 

—Love, your Moon

 Obama mobilized millions of new voters and formidably challenged white racism, yet deference to the structures and strictures of neoliberalism meant these new voters were left with no meaningful material improvement to their lives, and no organization to mobilize them to resist the reactionary backlash.

Benjamin Balthaser

Boston Review

The Lobby of Hope & Change.

 “You feel like saying to these folks, ‘Don’t you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it? Do you think that the only problem is that I don’t care enough about the plight of poor people, or gay people, or immigrants?’”

—Barack Obama

The building reflects both power and isolation, anchoring the historically underdeveloped and redlined neighborhoods it looms over while clearly standing apart from them. One can see it as a testament to “defying history,” as Coates puts it, in all the ambivalence of that phrase.

It was hard to know what I’d walked into. Past the security desk I turned a corner and was greeted by a concrete wall, on which black, unadorned letters spell out Hope and Change Lobby. The name is doubly strange: not only are we still waiting on hope and change, but there is also nowhere to sit.

In many ways, Donald Trump is the ghost haunting the Center—the emblem of political realities that Obama still refuses to name.*

Benjamin Balthaser

Boston Review

*The ghost of Trump, reminds me of the noose found early in the construction of Obama's tower. Where did it wind up? I guess not in his museum.

 We knew when we watched the stupid television shows and we played cowboys and indians somebody had to be the indian we knew the government was playing with our minds and one day we would all be the indians. 

  Why the U.S. Military is 'Earth's Greatest Enemy' (w/ Abby Martin) | The Chris Hedges Report. We must all be anti-imperialist if we want to survive.