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Chris Hedges: The Dawn of the Apocalypse

"The profits from fossil fuels, and the lifestyle the burning of fossil fuels afforded to the privileged on the planet, overroad a rational response. The failure is homicidal."

Ralph Nader: Weaning the State Department Off War-making

Perhaps, the State Department can host a meeting with Veterans for Peace to remind itself of its original mission.

Where should the climate movement go next? A Burning Planet, by Thea Riofrancos

Despite the green rhetoric, only 6 percent of the fiscal stimulus packages implemented by the G20 nations in 2020 and 2021 have contributed to emissions reductions, even as oil company profits soared to record highs.

17 Lawmakers Arrested Outside Supreme Court Amid Abortion Rights Protest, by Nina Golgowski

“There is no democracy if women do not have control over their own bodies and decisions about their own health, including reproductive care.”

Noam Chomsky: Is U.S. Censorship Worse Than Soviet Russia?

American thinker Noam Chomsky discusses the changes taking place in American culture and what to expect.

MILITARISM

508, 2022

The Chris Hedges Podcast: Dissecting the Mythology of War, with Andrew Bacevich

Twenty years of America’s Global War on Terror produced little tangible success while exacting enormous harm. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States sustained tens of thousands of casualties, expended trillions of dollars, and inflicted massive suffering on the very populations that we sought to “liberate.” --Macmillan Publishers

U.S. Cognitive Warfare: the Battle to Capture Our Minds, by Todd E. Pierce

Cognitive war is waged against the U.S. population to capture our minds and assimilate us thoroughly into a militaristic 'weltanschauung' or worldview.

Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us, by Sue Ann Martinson

It’s time to acknowledge how the failure to connect the dots between U.S. imperialism and the growing climate crisis threatens all life on this planet in more ways than one. ‘A Just Transition to a Regenerative Economy’ must end wars, military culture, and the violence of militarized forces and police in our More

Nader: Time for a Taxpayer Revolt Against Rich Corporate Welfarists

You’ve been required to subsidize these companies for them to make a profit and you get nothing in return – silent partners pouring money indirectly into big-name corporations. They misleadingly call these subsidies “incentives,” but they are really coerced entitlements.

‘A Revolutionary Ruling, and Not Just for Abortion’: A Supreme Court Scholar Explains the Impact of Dobbs

"The ruling signals a massive change in how we read the Constitution, from a living reading to an original reading. The court has firmly rejected the theory of the living Constitution, which argues that the meaning of the document’s language changes as the beliefs and values of Americans change."

Chris Hedges: Fascists In Our Midst

"Fascists achieve power by creating parallel institutions – schools, universities, media platforms and paramilitary forces – and seizing the organs of internal security and the judiciary. They deform the law, including electoral law, to serve their ends. They are rarely in the majority."

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