Author Archives: Rise Up Times
Nakba: A Remembrance, A Call to Action
Post-apartheid documents show that Israel offered to help apartheid South Africa develop nuclear weapons.
The Mass Media Is Poisoning Us With Hate, by Chris Hedges
The media model … mutes and destroys investigations into corporate systems of oppression and genuine dissent.
Honoring All Those Scarred by War
“They say: We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning. We were young, they say. We have died. Remember us.”
How can allies protect communities threatened with violence? by George Lakey
Violence is a hatchet when a surgeon’s knife is needed.
Democracy Now! Assange: Ellsberg, Scahill, Assange Lawyer weigh in on “grave threat to press freedom”
Assange faces up to 170 additional years in prison under the new charges—10 years for each count of violating the Espionage Act.
How to take on fascism without getting played, by George Lakey
The cause of rising fascism is the economic elite and its wish to take more and more of the country’s wealth for itself.
The world’s happiest people already have a Green New Deal, and they love it, by George Lakey
The Nordics [are] in the top tier of nations for equality because they adopted a radically different economic model…
Venezuela: Amnesty International in Service of Empire
Looking at the list of AI funders: all one has to do to see they are part of the system of psychological warfare that promotes U.S. imperialism.
Redacting Democracy: What You Can’t See Can Hurt You, by Karen J. Greenberg
Now You See It, Now You Don’t. Democracy itself can,…be redacted if the culture of blacking-out key information becomes Washington’s accepted paradigm.
The Espionage Axe: Donald Trump and the War Against a Free Press
Throughout its history, the Espionage Act has been used as a weapon to attack free speech and dissent.
The Warmakers Assault on Free Press: Manning, Assange, WikiLeaks and US War Crimes, a panel with Coleen Rowley, Mel Reeves, Sue Ann Martinson
The “warmakers,” the ruling elite who wish to control the world, including of course the USA, found the short video “Collateral Damage” taking its place in global politics.
New U.S. Nuclear Bombs Heading for Europe: What Can Stop Them?
It’s worth remarking that fires from even a very “limited” use of a small number of modern nuclear weapons would create so much soot and ash that the consequent collapse of agriculture could cause the famine death of two billion people. By Nukewatch staff Women Against Military Madness Newsletter Vol. 37 No. 2 Spring 2019 […]
Pick the forbidden fruit…Keep Space for Peace Visits Russia
It’s a weaving together rather than domination of one over the other. A lesson for all.
New Nuclear-Capable Bombers Coming Soon to a Location Near You
The new planes under development are capable of carrying an H bomb three times the size of the bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima during WWII
How to Dismantle the Absurd Profitability of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are more than just a terrifying threat to every living thing on earth. They’re also a terrific way to make money.
Chris Hedges: Police State, Fracking, Tyranny, Russiagate
The collapse of our democratic institutions began long before the arrival of Trump, who is capitalizing on the evisceration of the rule of law. TD ORIGINALSCHRIS HEDGES April/May 2019 Creeping Toward Tyranny by CHRIS HEDGES MAY 06, 2019 The collapse of our democratic institutions began long before the arrival of Trump, who is capitalizing on the evisceration […]
Chris Hedges: The Rot of American Journalism Runs Deep
…the ways in which Fox News has reshaped the industry in its own image, and how networks like MSNBC have come to tell viewers exactly what they want to hear.
Suicide Watch on Planet Earth: As the Flames Began to Rise, the Arsonists Appeared
Collusion — hell, yeah! Putting the Planet on a Suicide Watch
Eyewitness Venezuela: Chavism vs. Coup Attempts, by Sarah Martin
Bush, Obama, and Trump all imposed sanctions on Venezuela. Today the sanctions are considered worse than on Cuba or Iran with the noose tightening every day.
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