“We need to act together as citizens to be that vital check on the military industrial congressional complex, which is why I think there are so many forces in our society today that are actually trying to keep us… asleep and isolated from the real impact of war,” Astore says.

February 5th, 2023|Featured, International Relations, Military Madness, U.S. Foreign Policy

We need to get all our leaders around the table and force them to say: “No more war!”. That would be the point where dialogue can start.

February 4th, 2023|Featured, Human Rights, International Relations, Military Madness

In January of 2023, the 34-foot wooden sailboat the Golden Rule, a project of Veterans for Peace, traveled Havana to express friendship and solidarity with the Cuban people.  The Golden Rule calls for “lifting the decades-old U.S. blockade of Cuba, reminding people how close the world came to nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 and making parallel connections to the U.S.-Russian standoff in Ukraine today.”

February 6th, 2023|Activism, corporate empire

Glenn Greenwald: Who’s REALLY Fighting Big Tech?

We’re going to try and do our best to examine what is actually a challenging and an interesting question: faced with a very small group of corporate giants who have used anti-competitive practices to make themselves virtually unchallengeable and inescapable, how can one shrewdly subvert their power without sacrificing one’s integrity, or, worse, cynically exploiting the sincere anger of the public toward Big Tech for one’s own personal aggrandizement?

February 3rd, 2023|Media, Press Freedom, Social Media

War is a climate killer, by Angelika Claußen

More arms means more damage to the climate, not greater security.

February 3rd, 2023|Economy, International Economy, International Relations

Matt Taibbi joins CN Live! to discuss the implications of his Twitter Files revelations, including his latest on Hamilton 68 and its fatal blow to the Russiagate narrative. With Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou. Watch the replay. Twitter Files & the Death of Russiagate Consortium News  February 1, 2023 Joe Lauria writes: https://youtu.be/kEymiIyDJx0 In the latest installment of the blockbuster Twitter Files, reporter Matt Taibbi has revealed that probably the most important source behind the maniacal media output on the Russiagate was based on a lie. the replay. Hundreds of articles and television segments in the major U.S. Media, which kept the Russiagate More

February 2nd, 2023|capitalist system, Featured

The appointment to the commission of individuals with deep ties to the contracting and weapons sectors is also consistent with campaign contributions to the chairs of both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.

February 2nd, 2023|capitalist system, Congress, Militarism

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.

January 29th, 2023|Activism, Military Madness, nonviolent action

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 three million residents plus businesses and citizens in seven suburbs. What Are You Drinking? By Susu Jeffrey Original to Rise Up Times  January 28, 2023 Photo: Minnesota Historical Society After the Civil War the U.S. military developed an Industrial water campus for Fort Snelling including the reservoir, Spring House, Pump

January 28th, 2023|Ecology, Food and Water, Green Economy, Health, Water

“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.”

January 27th, 2023|Biden administration, Militarism, war/military

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.

January 25th, 2023|Voices

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.

January 24th, 2023|Congress, corporate globalization, Militarism, U.S. Foreign Policy, war/military

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.”

January 21st, 2023|Politics

Glencore is Criminal/Polymet, Identity Politics, Rowley: Free Leonard Peltier, The Poets Have It!,

January 23rd, 2023|Featured

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