Tag: America: Still Hasn’t Learned

NOVANEWS The internecine war for the soul of American democracy continues in our own time, as the rage and fear tapped almost 50 years apart by Richard Nixon and Donald Trump have continued to mesmerize successive generations of Americans. by: Peniel Joseph Jeers greet Chicago law enforcement and security officers as they attempt to disperse demonstrators outside the Conrad Hilton, location of Democratic Convention headquarters on Wednesday, August 29, 1968. (Photo: AP/RHS) Fifty years ago, anti-war protesters swarmed the streets of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention to reject the Vietnam War, state violence, and injustice. In the process they turned the city into a veritable battleground over the fate of American democracy. "The whole world is wa...