The Panopticon Review: FASCIST AMERICA 2025: Two Of the Most Important, Courageous, and Relentlessly Brilliant Truth Tellers in the Entire Country Are the Always Brilliant, Dynamic, Informative, Witty, and Right On Target Journalists, Media Producers, Public Intellectuals, Authors, and Activists Wajahat Ali and Danielle Moodie Who Also Always "Keep the Receipts" On What is Really Happening and Why and Are Passionately Dedicated To Sharing Their Much Needed and Deeply Appreciated Knowledge, Insight, Compassion, and Fearless Indefatigable Reportage With Us All. THANK YOU BIGTIME FOR YOUR SERVICE to the Truth, To the Freedom Struggle, And To The People In General Writ Large!

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FASCIST AMERICA 2025: Two Of the Most Important, Courageous, and Relentlessly Brilliant Truth Tellers in the Entire Country Are the Always Brilliant, Dynamic, Informative, Witty, and Right On Target Journalists, Media Producers, Public Intellectuals, Authors, and Activists Wajahat Ali and Danielle Moodie Who Also Always "Keep the Receipts" On What is Really Happening and Why and Are Passionately Dedicated To Sharing Their Much Needed and Deeply Appreciated Knowledge, Insight, Compassion, and Fearless Indefatigable Reportage With Us All. THANK YOU BIGTIME FOR YOUR SERVICE to the Truth, To the Freedom Struggle, And To The People In General Writ Large!

Trump Promised Peace & Prosperity — America Got Chaos Instead

Wajahat Ali

October 27, 2025

VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkcyJbcEs2o

For Trump & MAGA, it's all projection, all the time. All his promises have failed, & the truth is replaced with gaslighting & lies to cover Trump's disastrous record that has made America crap again.

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/tr...

Nina Simone (1933-2003)

"There's no other purpose, so far as I'm concerned, for us except to reflect the times, the situations around us and the things we're able to say through our art, the things that millions of people can't say. I think that's the function of an artist and, of course, those of us who are lucky leave a legacy so that when we're dead, we also live on. That's people like Billie Holiday and I hope that I will be that lucky, but meanwhile, the function, so far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times, whatever that might be."

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Kofi Natambu, editor of The Panopticon Review, is a writer, poet, cultural critic, and political journalist whose poetry, essays, criticism, reviews, and journalism have appeared in many literary magazines, journals, newspapers, and anthologies. He is the author of a biography MALCOLM X: His Life & Work (Alpha Books) and two books of poetry: THE MELODY NEVER STOPS (Past Tents Press) and INTERVALS (Post Aesthetic Press). He was the founder and editor of SOLID GROUND: A NEW WORLD JOURNAL, a national quarterly magazine of the arts, culture, and politics and the editor of a literary anthology NOSTALGIA FOR THE PRESENT (Post Aesthetic Press). Natambu has read his work throughout the country and given many lectures and workshops at academic and arts institutions. He has taught American literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history and criticism, film studies, political science, creative writing, philosophy, critical theory, and music history and criticism (Jazz, Blues, R&B, Hip Hop) at many universities and colleges. He was also a curator in the Education Department of Detroit’s Museum of African American History. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Natambu currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Chuleenan.

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