From healthcare to education, utilities, and more, massive firms like Blackstone and the Carlyle Group have acquired vast holdings across critical industries essential to the health and well-being of everyday people.
Kathy Kelly Serenades War Profiteers https://youtu.be/cjzEgNXhiRY Nick Mottern on Merchants of Death, with David Swanson of World Beyond War on World Talk Radio This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Nick Mottern, long-time stand-out peace activist, reporter, researcher, speaker, and prop-creator. Nick is co-coordinator of Ban Killer Drones and organizer More
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.
"Broad in its scope yet concise, this is an important nonconformist interpretation of American history." Kirkus Reviews
"That tyranny exists only in Western adversaries but never in the West itself is treated as a permanent axiom of international affairs, as if Western democracies are divinely shielded from the temptations of genuine repression."
Big 5: How MIC controls politics, Connections: Militarism /Climate Chaos, Nader: Biden, Giroux: book ban, Greenwald: Neo-Cons; Bacevich: Very Long War Ukraine, Bell Hooks, and more...
Why, despite public opposition, do military budgets continue to rise and arms sales to authoritarian governments continue? Find some answers here.
"The self-censorship of the [mainstream corporate media] is overwhelming."
"And it’s not just the pandemic. Much worse than that are the attitudes of skepticism about global warming. So, one rather shocking fact that I learned recently is that during the Trump years, among Republicans, the belief that global warming is a serious problem — not even an urgent problem, just a serious problem — declined about 20%."
