The return on jobs is paltry at best, while sectors that create far more jobs relative to the money spent, such as education, green energy, health care, and infrastructure – sectors that could actually serve to create a better future – are grossly underfunded.
We won't stop oil until we stop the military. We won't stop the military's dominance of our entire government and economy until we have passed Move to Amend’s Amendment. -Timothy Havl
The Solution: A Just Peace that offers one democratic, secular state that offers justice and equality for all its citizens...regardless of religion, ethnicity, or any identity marker.
APARTHEID By Susu Jeffrey / Original to Rise Up Times / December 2, 2023 Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning apartness, literally apart-hood. It is pronounced apart-tate. Apart-tate rhymes with hate. Apartheid is a word from the European colonial period when the Dutch East India Company established a trading post in 1652 in the Cape of More
Not another nickel not another dime, no more $$$ for Israel’s war crimes.
We render you, corporations obsessed with war profiteering, accountable; answerable! -- Cornel West, Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal Member
When the United States faced the need to end Jim Crow, it was not a need to surrender to its enemies, but to integrate them, to become a nation that included more people on equal terms all as fellow people, neighbors, friends, companions. This was unthinkable to those who insisted on a white nation. In Israel it is unthinkable to those who insist on a Jewish nation.
Lauren Boebert make the term "American fascism" easy to ridicule and dismiss, but Sharlet implores us to take these Christian fascists seriously as an existential threat to what is left of our anemic democracy.
Eighty million eligible voters did not vote in the last presidential election, no doubt because they did not expect much to change in their lives whoever was in office. And they were probably right.
The idea that there is a connection between the wars cheered by The New York Times and its comrades and the liberal establishment, and the quality of life of ordinary Americans of the kind rarely seen by the paper's editors is not only ignored but rendered taboo.
Threats to international peace and security - Security Council, 9364th meeting. Max Blumenthal: Threats to International Peace and Security, Talk at UN Security Council https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddc1ix_9MII A gift to Rise Up Times of any amount makes it possible to continue to bring you thoughtful analyses and reflections on current issues as well as events, stories, and opportunities More
Before fascism can fully seize power in a nation, it must first be accepted by the people as a “patriotic” system of governance, representing the will of the majority of the nation. This is why fascists always scapegoat minorities first — delighting the privileged caste — before they acquire enough power to subjugate the entire nation itself.
