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A Future Generation Shows Up Ahead of Schedule, by Stan Cox

Yes, the planet’s economy is indeed greening relatively rapidly in terms of the growth of renewable energy sources and their ever more striking affordability. Still, nothing is happening fast enough in a world that seems to be breaking heat records weekly. In truth, I just don’t want life to be an eternal weather horror show for my grandkids and that’s why I find today’s piece by TomDispatch regular Stan Cox encouraging. It’s good to know that the young aren’t going to take what their elders have done to them sitting down (so to speak). Tom Englehardt

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Leave No One Behind: Repatriating Deported Veterans

VFP Chapter 182 Resource and Information Center Office in Tijuana, BC, Mex., providing access to pro-bono legal counsel, case management, and other support services to help veterans rebuild their lives in deportation and obtain their VA Benefits they qualify for in exile.

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“Staggerlee wonders” by James Baldwin

And, anyway, none of this changes the reality, which is, for example, that I do not want my son to die in Guantanamo, or anywhere else, for that matter, serving the Stars and Stripes. (I've seen some stars. I got some stripes.) Neither (incidentally) has anyone discussed the Bomb with the niggers:

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How Different Our Work Would Be in a Democracy

VFP members, like so many others in the struggle for peace and justice, are always on the defensive because corporations wield governing power and we are always reacting to them — fighting another specific weapons system, another invasion, another human rights violation. How Different Our Work Would Be in a Democracy Presenters: Mike Ferner, More

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New Files Reveal MKUltra’s Terrifying Reach: Ethnic Bioweapons, Mind Control and Disturbing Experiments

“BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION FOR POLITICAL ENDS” ”The darkness of MKULTRA lingers still, calling for urgent answers and transparency.

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The Black Radical Tradition that Modernized America, Mourning Mutulu Shakur

Shakur’s generation of radical Black activists represents the sun around which the modern American state orbits, or to say it more plainly, the late 20th century’s most democratizing social movements were in collusion with Black militancy.

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Police tried to stop a copwatcher from filming them, this is what happened when he pushed back

PUT THAT PHONE DOWN OR YOU'RE GOING TO JAIL!!! What does police accountability have to do with railworkers' sick leave and the East Palestine OH train wreck that is poisoning the air of thousands.

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Police Social Media Monitoring Chills Activism, The Story of a Stop Line 3 Pipeline Activist

Documents released by The Intercept show the uncomfortably close coordination between Enbridge — which has spent millions of dollars that have gone to Minnesota public safety agencies — and local police departments targeting protestors.

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Henry Giroux: The Nazification of American Education

An unimagined catastrophe characterizes how American education is being shaped by far-right Republican Party.

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Henry Giroux: The U.S. Is Descending Into a Crisis of Overt Fascism. There’s Still a Way Out.

What we are witnessing in the United States is not merely a threat to democracy, but a modernized and dangerous expression of right-wing extremism that is a prelude to a full-blown version of fascist politics. One crucial starting point for mass resistance is articulated by Paul Morrow, who, referencing Hannah Arendt, argues that authoritarian societies do “everything possible to uncouple beliefs from action, conviction from action.”

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Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism and the Roots of Fascism, interview by Chris Hedges, Part 2

"Seymour Melman and others have written about the permanent War Economy and the economic and social consequences. Unchecked militarism is often cited by historians such as Arnold Toynbee as the principal reason for the collapse of Empires. Is this where we are and if we are, what does collapse look like…?" (Edited Transcript from YouTube)

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Rise Up Times Summary, October 16, 2022

"Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as well as new international modes of politics to fight them." Henry Giroux

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