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Ukraine – RAND Study Sees Risks In Prolonged War
"The neocons, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, State Secretary Anthony Blinken and his deputy Victoria Nuland, who together wage their war against Russia, have Joe Biden's ears and can control the information he gets."
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Atlanta Police Kill Forest Defender at Protest Encampment Near Proposed “Cop City” Training Center
In an audio statement sent to Democracy Now, activists have released the name of the victim of the "COP City" shooting: Long-time activist Manuel Tehran, who went by the name Tortugita, was shot and murdered on January 18, 2023 by police.
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ACTIVISM
Cop City Goes National, by George Chidi
THE SHOOTING OF Tortuguita, a nonbinary person who went by that sole name, shocked activists, who say Tortuguita had been a vocal proponent of nonviolence.
MEDIA
Chris Hedges: Why Americans can’t debate politics anymore
Six corporations control what's often referred to as the Legacy Media but there are still just a handful of corporations that control digital media as well, so we're looking at about maybe 10 or so corporations that control all of the media that people use, I think that's a really important factor when we talk about this because increasingly people of all age groups say they get their "news" from these digital outlets... [From transcript]
Why the Twitter files are in fact a big deal; Capsule Summaries and Key Revelations
On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
MILITARISM
It Comes Down to Political Practice, It Comes Down to Weapons, by Richard Moser
War Policy is a Domestic Policy: Much of the pro-NATO left has taken this stand to protect its domestic electoral project. If sending weapons is wrong, their political heroes who repeatedly voted without debate for more weapons are also terribly wrong.
Poetic Nonviolent Victory Over War, by Brad Wolf
If we take our humanity seriously, our response to the warmakers must be rebellion. Peaceful and poetic, forceful and unrelenting. We need to raise the human condition as they seek to degrade it. The Merchants of Death cannot defeat a movement that speaks the language of poetry.
VOICES
Medea Benjamin: 10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined
To free up billions of Pentagon dollars for investing in critical environmental projects and to eliminate the environmental havoc of war, movements for a livable, peaceful planet need to put “ending war” at the top of the “must do” list.
ECOLOGY
What Are You Drinking? by Susu Jeffrey
If you don’t live in Flint, Michigan or Jackson, Mississippi, you may want to ask where your potable (drinkable) water comes from and how it’s delivered. People in the Twin Cities drink out of the Mississippi River. The City of Minneapolis distributes 57 million gallons of water daily to its More
ECONOMY
Paying for an Overheating Earth: Whose Planet Are We On? by Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox
What’s needed, says Oxfam, an organization focused on alleviating global poverty, is “a fair and automatic mechanism for financial support — rooted in the principle that those who have contributed most to the climate crisis pay for the damage it causes in countries least responsible and hardest hit.”
EQUAL RIGHTS
DN! “Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)”
"I think we should also be building a different kind of world that doesn’t structurally run on racism and other kinds of oppression and capitalism. And the construction of constructive view is the point of building that world. That world would have a much different energy system. It would produce things in a different way."
POLITICS
Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd
Governance exists. But it is not seen. It is certainly not democratic. It is done by the armies of lobbyists and corporate executives, from the fossil fuel industry, the arms industry, the pharmaceutical industry and Wall Street. Governance happens in secret.
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