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Sorting Through the Lies About Venezuela and US Military Presence in Latin America and the Caribbean
Sorting Through the Lies About Venezuela (Portside) There is every reason to be concerned about the threat to Venezuela, given U.S. government hostility to any who seek to become independent of the U.S. or to direct economic activity to benefit local people rather than maximizing corporate profits. U.S. military presence in Latin America & the […]
Goodbye to the Dollar, by Chris Hedges
For the majority of Americans, the 2020s will likely be remembered as a demoralizing decade of rising prices, stagnant wages, and fading international competitiveness.
State of the Media: How Congress Can Fix the Crisis
What can Congress do about the FCC rulings and the mainstream corporate media.
The Truth About NATO, Redacted Tonight by Lee Camp
“Organized mass human murder is not better or nicer when it has a NATO banner next to it.”
Nuclear Threat Grows as US Prepares to Withdraw From INF Treaty, by Jon Letman
“I think it’s very clear now that … the nuclear problem is coming back with a vengeance.”
Wellerstein pointed out that, owing in part to a decades-old aura of secrecy surrounding nuclear weapons, many people have a sense they aren’t well-informed on nuclear issues, with some Americans admitting they deliberately avoid nuclear weapons-related news.
Democracy in Exile, an interview of Henry Giroux by Joy LaClaire
Where is our democracy?
What is being liberal?
What is neoliberalism?
What is the difference?
And is it important? YES!
Confronting the Culture of Death, by Chris Hedges
When we pit ourselves against the culture of death—and this means performing acts of civil disobedience and noncompliance, it means becoming an outlaw in the eyes of the corporate state—then suffering, and even death, does not have the last word.
Report from the First International Conference Against US/NATO Military Bases, by WAMM
US military domination worldwide. Is it necessary? Negative effects on countries with US bases.
The ‘Private Governments’ That Subjugate U.S. Workers, by Chris Hedges
American workers have never achieved the array of rights won by workers in other industrialized countries.
VA to shift billions of dollars to private care for veterans
Critics, which include nearly all of the major veterans’ organizations, say that paying for care in the private sector would starve the 153-year-old veterans’ health care system, causing many hospitals to close.
Exposing the Corporate Bribery Network, on Sheer Intelligence
RS: Adam Smith in “The Wealth of Nations” talked about, you know, the invisible hand; that no one should be able to control the action. But the multinational corporations, and they are dominant now—they want a hand. They want it controlled.
DM: They have an invisible hand through bribes. There isn’t a free market that we think, there isn’t free and fair competition. In fact, it’s all—I don’t want to say it’s all rigged, but it’s greatly rigged through bribes.
Seeds of Rebellion, Seeds of Transformation, Part II
By Sue Ann Martinson Rise Up Times January 3, 2019 Part II: Unity in Diversity, Community, Language, and a Sea Change Further thoughts on Unity and Diversity John Dear’s essay on “Unity and Diversity in the Land of Nonviolence” referenced in Part I was published in the journal Oneing in an issue with the theme of “Unity […]
Seeds of Rebellion, Seeds of Transformation, Part I
What does Moral Revival mean? It can be confusing if misinterpreted.
American Anomie, by Chris Hedges
The left, like most critics of Trump, personalizes our decay. It focuses myopically on Trump, who is the symptom, not the disease.
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, A World That Is the Property of the 1%
Wall Street, Banks, and Angry Citizens: The Inequality Gap on a Planet Growing More Extreme
Neoliberalism’s Dark Path to Fascism, by Chris Hedges
Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism.
Green New Deal Advocates Should Address Militarism, by Medea Benjamin – Alice Slater
Where is the call for the New Peace Deal that would free up hundreds of billions from the overblown military budget to invest in green infrastructure? Environmentalists need to contest the Pentagon’s staggering global footprint. The US military is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels and the largest source of greenhouse gasses, contributing about 5 percent of global warming emissions.
Freedom Rider: The Legacy of 1918, by Margaret Kimberley
Donald Trump is a racist boor, but the European leaders he snubbed are unreconstructed imperialists whose nations have enslaved and slaughtered tens of millions. “They relinquished colonies in Africa and Asia but kept them dependent through a variety of means.” Margaret Kimberley Black Agenda Report November 14, 2018 Donald Trump’s boorishness and stupidity always ruffle feathers […]
The Audacity of Struggle, by Ron Jacobs
Millions are shocked until they are no longer shocked because the commonplace nature of these and other human rights abuses desensitizes them to the brutal nature of these acts and the system that requires them.
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