Committee Chair and gatekeeper to a progressive foreign policy: Eliot Engel’s violent incumbency

June 15, 2020 by Stephen Semler in Featured, New Left

Sixteen-time incumbent Eliot Engel supported the racist 1994 crime bill, building more prisons, and gutting public schools. His foreign policy is even worse. As House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Engel stands in the way of a progressive foreign policy.

Emergency Nation: It’s only an emergency when the elites say it is

March 25, 2020 by Ian Larson in Featured, Working Class

COVID-19 pandemic is a national emergency. In that sense, it differs from the 34 active national emergencies. As it turns out, national emergency declarations are yet another way the national security establishment perpetuates working-class insecurity by ignoring crises of healthcare access, social mobility, student debt, and climate change.