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11,000 Scientists Declare a Climate Emergency, Ecowatch
The letter was written by dozens of scientists and endorsed by thousands more from 153 countries. It differs from past scientific communications about the climate crisis in that it does not speak in uncertainties and it lays out actual policy recommendations,
Death by Oligarchy, by Chris Hedges
“When a society falls into the death grip of an oligarchic class, the result is always catastrophic.”
Sierra Club Takes a Commendable Turn on Population, Climate Change, and Inequality
The Sierra Club deserves credit for coming around to a progressive stance on population, immigration, and minorities.
Deconsructed Special: The Noam Chomsky Interview, podcast and full transcript
Noam Chomsky: The current moment is the most grim moment in human history and the wrecking ball in the White House just doesn’t give a damn. He’s having fun. He’s serving his rich constituency. So what the hell, let’s destroy the world.
Chomsky: Trump’s Actions on Syria Reflect the Foreign Policy of a Con Man
Trump is an effective con man who has a good sense of what animates his voting base. …that withdrawing a few hundred troops would appeal to the sector of the population that resonates to his message that America is foolishly expending its blood and treasure to help “unworthy” people…
Revolts Against the Neoliberal World Order, by Flowers and Zeese
The uprising includes trade unions and student, feminist, and environmentalist groups. They are calling for a reversal of neoliberal capitalism and a new government.
Major Media Bury Groundbreaking Studies of Pentagon’s Massive Carbon Bootprint
US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet
Legalized Political Corruption Is So Much Bigger Than Trump: A Journey in 7 Charts
The separation of governmental powers into three branches has become a fiction nullified by a veritable corporate coup d’état.
The Age of Radical Evil, by Chris Hedges
Who are those who would sacrifice us on the altar of global capitalism? How did they amass the power to deny us a voice?
Minnesota Waters Need You: Stop PolyMet
We celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Minnesota and across the country. We remember the past and protect the future.
Common Dreams: Corporate capitalism, worker rights, with Chris Hedges, Bernie Sanders, and more…
Chris Hedge s “Time to Rebel,” Bernie Sanders plan to get corporate money out of politics, corporate hegemony, worker rights and wages and more… Time to Rebel by Chris HedgesThe corporate forces that have seized control of our political and economic systems will, unchecked, drive us into extinction for profit. All we have left is […]
Masters of the Universe: Thoughts on Civil Disobedience, Protest, and Revolution
…systemic change, a democratic renewal, naming it radical democracy—a form of democratic socialism—as an end to authoritarianism and American-style fascism and oppression…
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: If We Want a Future, Green New Deal Is Key
Only about 25 percent of Republicans (36 percent of the more savvy millennials) recognize that humans are responsible for global warming. Shocking figures.
Henry Giroux on His Latest Book — The Terror of the Unforeseen — and How Neoliberal Capitalism Sets the Stage for Fascism
Money drives politics. We all know that now. But the other side of this is that it’s not just an economic system, it’s also an ideological system. [Neoliberalism] operates off the assumption that the market can solve all problems — not simply in the economy, but in all of social life — so it becomes a template and a model for all social relations.
The Last Act of the Human Comedy, by Chris Hedges
Resistance grounded in action is its own raison d’être. It is catharsis. It brings us into a community with others who are coping with the darkness by naming it but refusing to submit to it.
Corporate Media get the stories wrong on the Amazon fires
Corporate media addressing modern day crises like the Amazon fires will never do them anything approaching justice.
Are Sanders and Warren Throwing a Lifeline to the Military-Industrial Complex? by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
Among the frontrunners in the Democratic Party presidential primary, Senators Warren and Sanders not only have the most progressive domestic agenda, but also the most anti-war, pro-diplomacy foreign policy agenda. By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Direct to Rise Up Times from the authors. August 26, 2019 The sharpest distinction between them is […]
Under the Shield: U.S. Nuclear Missiles in Europe
U.S. missiles in Europe and worldwide: costs, nuclear weapons race, what the withdrawal from the INF Treaty means
U.S. Military Budget, Its Components, Challenges, and Growth, by Kimberly Amadeo
Why Military Spending Is More Than You Think It Is
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