FEATURED
Making a Killing: Weapons of War, by Brian Chval
The return on jobs is paltry at best, while sectors that create far more jobs relative to the money spent, such as education, green energy, health care, and infrastructure – sectors that could actually serve to create a better future – are grossly underfunded.
Chris Hedges: You Saved Julian Assange
This sustained pressure — during a London hearing in 2020, to my delight, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser of the Old Bailey court overseeing Julian’s case, complained about the noise protestors were making in the street outside — shines a continuous light on injustice and exposes the amorality of the ruling class.
Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism, by Joseph Stiglitz
Neoliberalism was predicated on the belief that unfettered markets are the most efficient means of achieving optimal outcomes. Yet even in the early days of neoliberalism’s ascendancy, economists had already established that unregulated markets are neither efficient nor stable, let alone conducive to generating a socially acceptable distribution of income.
TOP STORIES
ACTIVISM
Nero’s Guests in Palestine, by Chris Hedges
Hatred is a dangerous political commodity. The Palestinian “human animals,” when eradicated or subdued, will be replaced by Jewish apostates and traitors. A politics of hatred creates a permanent instability, exploited by those seeking the destruction of civil society.
MEDIA
Glenn Greenwald: Julian Assange’s Plea Deal: EXPLAINED
Unless you are somebody who has been in [Assange’s] position and has shown a willingness to sacrifice even more than Assange has ─ nobody has any standing to object to what Assange chose to do [in pleading guilty to charges of espionage] but that doesn't mean that the decision they forced him into [for freedom] isn't incredibly dangerous to the Press freedoms that the United States repeatedly claims around the world that it protects.
How to Get Press for Peace Activists, with Norman Solomon and Kathy Kelly
Speaking truth to AND ABOUT power with Kathy Kelly and Norman Solomon.
MILITARISM
What Is This “New Russian Space Threat”? by Joel Weisberg
Exaggerating and hyping a “new” Russian threat revives Cold War fears, moves us further away from negotiation and cooperation, and provides the rationale that we’ve seen countless times before to increase military spending. This article examines if, and how seriously we need to take media reports.
Image: 1957, Russian satirical magazine Krokofdil
What Is This “New Russian Space Threat”?
by Joel Weisberg / Women Against Military Madness Newsletter /
Vol. 42, No. 2
Recently, a U.S. representative stated More
Rejecting the Facade: Unveiling the Ecological Toll of War and Genocide
At the heart of this destructive cycle lies a perverse economic incentive, where war becomes a lucrative business at the expense of both people and the planet.
VOICES
War on the Planet: An Exploration of the Local, National, and Worldwide Connections Between Imperialism, Militarism, Environmental Destruction, and Climate Chaos
“Climate justice, will come from affirming the rights of political, economic, and cultural self-determination for all peoples.”
Assange Wins! Highlights of the Day
Stella (Assange's wife): Thank you. I want to be very clear today marks a turning point. We went into court and we sat and heard the United States fumbling through their arguments trying to paint lipstick on a pig; they are pigs, Well, the judges were not convinced [Applause]. Everyone can see what's going on here. The United States case is offensive; it offends our Democratic principles; it offends our right to know. It is an attack on journalists everywhere, people everywhere. [Applause]
ECOLOGY
WILPF on WATER: UN Rapporteur, Indigenous Women of RISE, San Francisco Bay,
Military money could be used for human needs in this country and for the protection of the environment and the ecology and water for all people and living creatures.
Rejecting the Facade: Unveiling the Ecological Toll of War and Genocide
At the heart of this destructive cycle lies a perverse economic incentive, where war becomes a lucrative business at the expense of both people and the planet.
ECONOMY
Billionaires are pillaging America. How do we fight back? | The Chris Hedges Report
This latest attack on the rights of workers is the culmination of a decades-long assault on the working class in the US, which has been caught between an economic system hemorrhaging jobs and a political system that refuses to address their problems.
EQUAL RIGHTS
Greg Palast: If We Don’t Expose it, this old Klan Scam Will Pick Your President, by Thom Hartmann
A note from Greg Palast: The Trump plan for 2024 is taken from the KKK plan of 1946, when the Klan incorporated itself in Georgia as “Vigilantes Inc.” specifically to eliminate every Black citizen from the voter rolls. And now, a new Vigilantes Inc. operation is back — for Trump. The exact same plan as the KKK 1940’s scheme — now powered by billionaires’ loot.
POLITICS
To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Responses to the debate
Trump, 78, has been on the political stage for eight years marked by chaos, corruption, and incivility. Why go back to that?
We Can Safeguard Democracy Without Giving in to Fear and More Policing
Resourcing and pursuing alternate pathways to dialogue and holding space for conflict nonviolently is crucial for safeguarding democracy and fostering community safety.
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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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