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Chris Hedges: The Nation’s Conscience and Caitlin Johnstone: Protest And Dissent Can Absolutely Push The Empire To Retreat On Gaza

The protest movements - which have spread around the globe - are not built around the single issue of the apartheid state in Israel or its genocide against Palestinians. They are built around the awareness that the old world order, the one of settler colonialism, western imperialism and militarism used by the countries in the Global North to dominate the Global South, must end.

UPDATE ON THE FLOTILLA: Food and Medical Supplies for Gaza STOPPED

Coleen Rowley: “I have to say how disappointed we are - and actually horrified - that such powerful, corrupt government forces can connive to prevent food, medicine, and humanitarian aid from reaching disease and famine-stricken Gaza. It’s evil!” Barry Riesch: “Stopping the boat shows that Israel is intimidated by us and that our own country cares more about supporting Israel’s illegal blockade and genocide than helping U.S. citizens deliver aid to Gaza. They can stop the flotilla today, but it will come back even stronger.”

The Legacy of War, by Mary Beaudoin

The years of U.S. war and occupation had taken an enormous toll on Iraq. The “constructive chaos” and “the birth pangs of a new Middle East” that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice so cavalierly proclaimed in 2006 was a nightmare for the people living there. Over a million Iraqis had been killed in the U.S. war and there were large numbers of widows, orphans, and wounded. Although international corporations were supplying oil to the world, the Iraqi people were struggling to survive in the broken country.

Antiwar activist faces repression in Germany, by Phil Wilayto and Nukewatch’s John LaForge faces 60 days in German prison.

Antiwar activist faces repression in Germany: Heinrich Bücker runs Berlin’s popular Coop Antiwar Cafe... (See John LaForge information below.) By Phil Wilayto Original to Rise Up Times December 28, 2022 June 22, 2022, was the 81st anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, and a prominent German antiwar activist took the occasion More

Peace Through All People “Peace, Salaam, Shalom” by Emma’s Revolution

Christmas and the holidays are traditionally a time invoke worldwide peace. This song, by Pat Humphries and Sandy Opatow of Emma's Revolution, is a universal wish for many people, many religions, as sung by people from around the world.

I’m Dreaming of a Green Christmas

May your gift be the earth, and may you honor its worth...

Martin Luther King: War is Obsolete, All Life is Connected

This excerpt of Martin Luther King speaking (in 1967) provides a wonderful example of how he was a systems thinker. Here he discusses the interconnected nature of reality, the foolishness of war and the interdependence that binds the human family together... “Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete... If we are More

This Atheist Begs You to Read the Pope’s New Book, by David Swanson

This book is a passionate warning that World War III is underway in scattered pieces and escalating, that nuclear catastrophe is almost inevitable if we do not change course.

The Poor People’s Campaign Pushes War Propaganda, by David Swanson

"This noble effort to put ending poverty on the same high plane with prolonging and escalating war, risking nuclear apocalypse, and destroying any chance of global cooperation on climate or homelessness or disease or hunger rings false."

30 Nonviolent Things Russia Could Have Done and 30 Nonviolent Things Ukraine Could Do, by David Swanson

Instead of hyped military spending: Fund educational programs across the world on the value of cultural diversity in friendships and communities, and the abysmal failures of racism, nationalism, and Nazism.

There Is Hope for Peace on Earth! The call went out and many nations throughout the world rose to answer, by Marie Braun

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) became international law entered into force on January 22, 2021.

76th Year Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration Events, Minneapolis/St. Paul

All are welcome to all Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance events in Minneapolis./St. Paul, August 5, 6, and 8

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