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DN! “Free the Truth”: The Belmarsh Tribunal on Julian Assange & Defending Press Freedom
Is the FREE PRESS the "enemy of the people'? Or is PRESS FREEDOM, how the public is informed and an absolute necessity in a democracy and any form of government that is not authoritarian where all those who live under that government have an equal voice and a say?
Henry Giroux: Killing Children, the Burdens of Conscience, and the Israel-Hamas War: A Criminal Policy of Revenge
In this case, there is a need to get beyond the language of moral condemnation, which overrides what it might mean to both provide security for Israelis and liberation and freedom for Palestinians.
Rise Up Times: Media For Justice And Peace, Looking At Gaza And More…Post Summary
GAZA: Hedges, Pilger, David Swanson, Johnstone, WAMM, more; MEDIA: Alternative, Taibbi, Censorship, Greenwald; ASSANGE: Belmarsh Tribunal, Lies of War; more ...
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ACTIVISM
The Belmarsh Tribunal, Free Assange, hosted by Democracy Now!
What is at stake: To all people of conscience an exhortation to act: "We will not be silent." Expert witnesses from the U.S. and Europe speak to what amounts to the "framing" of Julian Assange, how his case progressed as Trump filed the indictments, then to the hearings, and to how all of this will affect free speech if Assange is extradited and found guilty in a U.S. court for publishing the truth about American drones' "collateral damage" in the murder of civilians. Mike Pompeo characterized WikiLeaks (a publisher!) as an "enemy espionage organization" for the release of condemning CIA data. And the global rise of fascism begins with targeting and discrediting journalists. Freedom of the press and the right of people to know what their government is doing as well as the rights of journalists and their publishers of all viewpoints to publish the truth is threatened, but Biden foolishly pushes forward to extradite Assange instead of freeing him, although journalist and human rights organizations as well as heads of state worldwide have spoken up for Assange, press freedom, and the people's right to the truth.
MEDIA
What Media? Alternatives to Mainstream Corporate Media and where to find them.
WHAT MEDIA? ALTERNATIVES TO MAINSTREAM CORPORATE MEDIA AND WHERE TO FIND THEM By David Mulinix and Sue Ann Martinson / Original to Rise Up Times The first thing to know is that we have to be skeptical of the U.S. corporate-controlled mainstream media (MSM) because their so-called reporting on More
Caitlin Johnstone: The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine
Ukraine is a giant advertisement for weapons of mass slaughter, and the cost of that corporate ad is not money but human blood.
MILITARISM
Nick Mottern on Merchants of Death, with Kathy Kelly & David Swanson of World Beyond War
Kathy Kelly Serenades War Profiteers
Nick Mottern on Merchants of Death, with David Swanson of World Beyond War on World Talk Radio
This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Nick Mottern, long-time stand-out peace activist, reporter, researcher, speaker, and prop-creator. Nick is co-coordinator of Ban Killer Drones and organizer of Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, as well as a member of the national board of Veterans For Peace.
By Talk World Radio, September 26, 2023
Here is this week’s video and all the videos of World Talk Radio on Youtube.
Clare Daly and Jeffrey Sachs, Why Provoke Russia? How It Happened and Why
We are on the verge now of a new world’s order. U.S hegemony has had its day. The present juncture is a sign not of their strengths but of their weakness, and the countries which represent the majority of the world’s population have had enough; they’re not prepared to be dominated by Empire or the Old Colonial European powers any longer.
Part of the Veterans For Peace 2023 Online Convention
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VOICES
Rise Up Times: Media For Justice And Peace, Looking At Gaza And More…Post Summary
GAZA: Hedges, Pilger, David Swanson, Johnstone, WAMM, more; MEDIA: Alternative, Taibbi, Censorship, Greenwald; ASSANGE: Belmarsh Tribunal, Lies of War; more ...
APARTHEID, by Susu Jeffrey
APARTHEID By Susu Jeffrey / Original to Rise Up Times / December 2, 2023 Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning apartness, literally apart-hood. It is pronounced apart-tate. Apart-tate rhymes with hate. Apartheid is a word from the European colonial period when the Dutch East India Company established a trading post in More
ECOLOGY
‘Not Reduce. Not Abate’: UN Chief Calls for Total Fossil Fuel Phaseout at COP28, by Olivia Rosane
"Humanity's fate hangs in the balance," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres at second day of global climate conference. 'Not Reduce. Not Abate': UN Chief Calls for Total Fossil Fuel Phaseout at COP28 Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres delivers an address at the opening ceremony of the World More
Minnesota regulators OK rare fund to decommission new Enbridge pipeline
Under the deal, Enbridge will pay more than $61 million a year into the trust fund until Oct. 1, 2041. That's 20 years after the pipeline started operating. The company estimated decommissioning the new pipeline will cost $1.25 billion.
ECONOMY
Chris Hedges: Corporations Run the World, with Matt Kennard
Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's book, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy," looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact development on their own terms.
EQUAL RIGHTS
Chris Hedges: Exterminate All the Brutes
It is an attempt by Israel to erase not only a people, but the idea of Palestine. It is a carbon copy of the massive campaigns of racialized slaughter by other settler colonial projects who believed that indiscriminate and wholesale violence could make the aspirations of an oppressed people, whose land they stole, go away. And like other perpetrators of genocide, Israel intends to keep it hidden.
POLITICS
Chris Hedges: Fascism Comes to America
Eighty million eligible voters did not vote in the last presidential election, no doubt because they did not expect much to change in their lives whoever was in office. And they were probably right.
Caitlin Johnstone: Pay Attention To The Everyday Horrors
Pay Attention To The Everyday Horrors By CAITLIN JOHNSTONE Substack.com September 9, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Have you ever noticed how the criticisms that both mainstream US political factions make about their opposition tend to be cartoonish exaggerations and whole cloth More
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Oh, sacred world now wounded,
we pledge to make you free,
of hate, of war, and selfish cruelty,
and here in our small corner
we plant a tiny seed,
and it will grow to beauty
to shame the face of greed.
Pete Seeger
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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