FEATURED
Alfred de Zayas: Provocation is Not an Innocent Act
The mainstream media frequently manages the narrative in an attempt to “legitimize” the use of force, e.g. by the US and NATO countries in Yugoslavia (1999), Afghanistan (since 2001), Iraq (since 2003), or to absolve the provocateur, e.g. to downplay or outright ignore NATO’s continuing provocations of Russia.
Sami Rasouli, Iraq Today: 32 years of war, sanctions and occupation since 1991
After a large protest in Iraq for change, led by young people, what is the Iraq of the people now.
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange — A Fight We Must Not Lose
The detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press.
TOP STORIES
ACTIVISM
Active nonviolence is the only way out of the folly of war, Europe for Peace
It is clear then that the real question is how to create this unity and how to create a convergence between organisations fighting for justice and human rights. There is a great truth in the saying “there is strength in unity”.
MEDIA
Matt Taibbi: Eleven Minutes of Media Falsehoods, Just On One Subject, Just On One Station
You’re not hearing one or two stories about Russian bots or evil anti-vaxxers or even the treachery of Jill Stein and the Green Party, you’re hearing hundreds just on one channel, and God knows how many more in other outlets and via social media.
Glenn Greenwald, SPECIAL EPISODE: The Real Story of Julian Assange, on the 4-Year Anniversary of His Imprisonment
On the 4th anniversary of Assange's arrest and years spent in the high security prison in England called Belmarsh, this video is a clip of a longer Glenn Greenwald video on his show System Update. To Twin Citians: The film Ithaka featuring John Shipton, father of Julian Assange, will be More
MILITARISM
Seymour Hersh: The Ukraine Refugee Question
Zelensky’s desire to take the war to Russia may not be clear to the president and senior foreign policy aides in the White House, but it is to those in the American intelligence community who have found it difficult to get their intelligence and their assessments a hearing in the Oval Office.
Sami Rasouli: On the Anniversary for the Battle of Fallujah
thermal weapons, white phosphorus, and depleted uranium, as if the Iraqis were guinea pigs. Research confirms that unusual amounts of uranium and mercury are present in the roots of hair, important evidence linked to the use of weapons prohibited by international law.
VOICES
Reports Back from Cuba: Cuban Values and Cuba, Close But No Cigar
"The literacy campaign taught us how to share, how to give without expecting anything in return, because in the literacy campaign, nobody went to be paid; nobody was given anything. We went to share what we knew, to give our good intentions, to work for the satisfaction of people learning to read and write."
Summary March 2023: Rise Up Times, articles of substance you won’t find in the mainstream media
Chris Hedges/ Glenn Greenwald/Media; Henry Giroux:Education/Freedom; Fair Trade/ Green Trade; Sami Rasouli: Legacy of War; Coleen Rowley: Nuclear Warning/WW3; UN/Climate: "On thin ice"; FBI infiltrates peace and justice groups; Assange/Ithaka movie now available in U.S., more. . .
ECOLOGY
Minneapolis: Bikes vs. Business, by Susu Jeffrey
“The corridor reconstruction will impact most of the existing trees” from the Walker Art Center to Lake Street admitted Director of Public Works, Margaret Kelliher.
ECONOMY
War is a climate killer, by Angelika Claußen
More arms means more damage to the climate, not greater security.
EQUAL RIGHTS
Chris Hedges: Taking Back Our Universities From Corporate Apparatchiks
The public defunding of universities, along with their seizure by corporations and the uber rich, is part of the slow-motion corporate coup d’état. The goal is to enforce conformity and obedience, to train young people to fill their slots in the corporate machine and leave unquestioned the status quo. The accumulation of vast wealth, no matter how nefarious, is prized as the highest good.
POLITICS
Trump Town Hall: Is CNN Normalizing Fascism Next Week?
Before fascism can fully seize power in a nation, it must first be accepted by the people as a “patriotic” system of governance, representing the will of the majority of the nation. This is why fascists always scapegoat minorities first — delighting the privileged caste — before they acquire enough power to subjugate the entire nation itself.
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Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Throughout her life, Addams struggled not only for women’s rights, but also for labor and civil rights, free speech and world peace.
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