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Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Massacre of African Migrants by U.S.- Backed Moroccan Armed Forces

“All evidence suggests that U.S. militarism and training of police, and other repressive forces in Africa has only intensified death and destruction.”

Report on the anti-NATO protests in Madrid and US Summit of the Americas fails

The US/NATO is proposing a new alignment that will see it spread its aggression to Asia and around the world. According to information that can be found on the NATO web site, they will project Russia and China as their main enemies. This means that we will see further aggression against major military and nuclear powers that will put the entire world at risk.

In Overturning Roe, Radical Supreme Court Declares War on the 14th Amendment, by Jordan Smith

Report on the anti-NATO protests in Madrid and US Summit of the Americas fails

Patrick Lawrence: The Power of Images

Once again, it is down to the propagation of images. How dangerously they are wielded among our irresponsible media.

MILITARISM

307, 2022

Militarization and Uvalde: The Context Media Coverage Omits

There’s a long tradition in the West wherein foreign policy is the preserve of an elite not answerable to any electorate. This has been the case in the U.S. since it first had a foreign policy to speak of, in the late 19th century.

Watch: “America’s Gun Fetish, ” with Chris Hedges

There are nearly 400 million guns in the U.S., some 120 guns for every 100 Americans. Half of the privately-owned guns are owned by 3 percent of the population.

How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision, by Sharon Lerner

“Whatever else this Court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change. Yet the Court today prevents congressionally authorized agency action to curb power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions. The Court appoints itself—instead of Congress or the expert agency—the decisionmaker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening.”

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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