Articles by: Brian Trautman

From Protecting Voting Rights to Honoring Veterans, The Post Office Is An Essential Service

From Protecting Voting Rights to Honoring Veterans, The Post Office Is An Essential Service

The capacity of the United States Postal Service (USPS) to provide mail services that generations of Americans have relied on has been severely weakened by the Trump administration. The assault on the Postal Service has only grown stronger and more brazen in recent weeks. We know by Trump’s own admission that his targeting of the agency is by design and[Read More…]

by 22/08/2020 Comments are Disabled World
Veterans Challenge Trump’s Islamophobia

Veterans Challenge Trump’s Islamophobia

The U.S. president, Donald Trump, revealed his inner nature again earlier this week when he retweeted a series of anti-Muslim propaganda videos from the deputy leader of an ultranationalist, neo-fascist hate group in the UK. Trump sank to a new low in terms of the blatant falsehoods and myths he will invoke and propagate to incite enmity against Muslims. He[Read More…]

by 02/12/2017 2 comments World
Resisting Imperialist Militarism On Memorial Day

Resisting Imperialist Militarism On Memorial Day

The United States is the most militarized and jingoistic nation on earth. Its foreign policy is guided by imperialist militarism, neoliberal capitalism and racial xenophobia. For more than sixteen years now, three presidential administrations have carried out a so-called “War on Terror” (GWOT), a perpetual state of war that is waged globally, under the depraved reasoning that “the world is[Read More…]

by 24/05/2017 4 comments Imperialism
Veterans Help #NoDAPL Resistance Achieve Significant Victory

Veterans Help #NoDAPL Resistance Achieve Significant Victory

Over the past eight months, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota have been joined by more than 200 allied tribes and tens of thousands of non-Native activists for a nonviolent resistance campaign against Energy Transfer Partners’ (ETP) $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The pipeline, which has been projected to transport at least 470,000 barrels of oil per[Read More…]

by 09/12/2016 Comments are Disabled Environmental Protection
Veterans Talk Pathologies of Hate and Violence After Orlando Nightclub Tragedy

Veterans Talk Pathologies of Hate and Violence After Orlando Nightclub Tragedy

In the days following the horrific attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando – one of the worst mass shootings in modern U.S. history, which claimed the lives of 49 people (50 counting the shooter) and left over 50 wounded – evidence began to mount that the gunman likely possessed multiple motives. This evidence is not surprising in light of[Read More…]

by 21/06/2016 4 comments World