"The new year should offer the opportunity to rethink life, dignity, and a humane equality as they unfold in their fullest and always with others. The new year should be rooted in dreams that reject a vision of the future as simply a continuation of the present."
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) became international law entered into force on January 22, 2021.
The UN working group on arbitrary detention issued a statement saying that “the right of Mr. Assange to personal liberty should be restored”.
"The Bible has been used by systems of power to perpetuate all sorts of injustices and persecution since the Christian Church was institutionalized in the third century by Constantine, who was a brutal dictator,” says Hedges.
Julian Assange is charged under the Espionage Act. He is not a spy. He is a journalist. He provided information of public interest to the whole world, not a foreign adversary.
"it’s the same story as always, just like Glasgow. It’s those the voices in the street which can end this tragedy of the Assange torture and persecution, like everything else, like the civil rights movement, like the social democratic initiatives in the 1930s, the New Deal measures, like the antiwar movement, like the women’s movement, everything, always the same answer."
"When the ruling class peddles lies there is no cost for parroting them back to the public. The cost is paid by those who tell the truth."
Chorus: Standin’ on the corner, Singin’ the pipeline blues (2x) Trying to stop that pipeline, Whatta we got to lose?
Ho, ho, ho, ho
$778 BILLION Military Budget Approved (military madness); Hedges and Brown: Inverted Totalitarianism, Nature of Neoliberalism; Code Pink: Cost of War at Home; Nader: Corporate Crimes in Corporate State; COP26 Fails, and more…
What are the effects of the costs of war on the home front?
Incredible speech calling for action on climate change: "Or are we so blinded and hardened..."
