The Panopticon Review: 11/23/25

Friday, November 28, 2025

FASCIST AMERICA 2025: Relentless Truth Tellers, Major Journalists, Public Intellectuals, Critics, Authors, Media Mavens, Teachers, and Activists Wajahat Ai and Danielle Moodie On the Real Sources Of the Rampant Corruption, Pathological Hatred, Pervasive Greed, Extreme Cruelty, and Relentless Stupidity that Currently Dominates America Today

It's a Big Club, And You Ain't In It, America!

Wajahat Ali

November 19, 2025

VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2uzk5_Pp00

As Americans struggle to afford groceries, find jobs, and have affordable healthcare, the rich continue getting richer, proving that it's a big club for billionaires and nobody else. Danielle and I connect the dots, from the Epstein Files to the broligarchy to Trump selling our country to foreign dictators, revealing how the rich are their own tribe, willing to protect and enrich themselves at the expense of our democracy, freedom, and wages.

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

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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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