Category Current Issues
As Cost of Climate Crisis Grows, Climate Movement Escalates
“We cannot be radical enough in dealing with the issues that face us at the moment. The question is: what is practically possible? How can we take the electorate with us in dealing with these things?” in testimony to British lawmakers this week, famed scientist and environmental advocate Sir David Attenborough said,
War, Memory and Gettysburg, by Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges illustrates the horrors of war through the eyes of his ancestors who fought at Gettysburg. Lest we forget what war is really like for the soldiers and civilians, it once ravaged our country and took our young men in a senseless war that should never have been fought, not because the cause was […]
Building the Democratic Economy from Preston UK to Cleveland OH, The Laura Flanders Show
Alternative economy with community health and wealth building
Abolish Migrant Child Jails Now, by Amy Goodman and Dennis Moynihan
“They were sick. They were coughing. They had runny noses. They were filthy dirty. They immediately started to describe the level of hunger that they were experiencing.”
U.S. company making $750 per day, per child to keep immigrant children in ‘prison-like’ conditions
At $750 per day, the children could be staying at the Four Seasons hotel.
Who makes the most money on nuclear weapons? 28 companies building nuclear weapons
A report with full profiles of 28 companies connected to the production of nuclear weapons. Most are located in the U.S.
In the Absence of Trust: The Iran Nuclear Deal, History and in the Trump Administration
On May 8, 2018, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal. Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, had this to say about the development: None of us ever trusted the United States. This deal was not based in trust. It was based on […]
War Propaganda and the US-NATO “War of Terror” Against Syria and Its People, by Mark Taliano
Washington-led NATO has always sought to destroy Syria as a functioning state. In order to achieve this goal, its air campaign and its terrorists have continuously targeted infrastructure. Schools, hospitals, and their employees have been targeted for either for destruction or for repurposing to suit terrorist requirements. The terrorists have always sought to impose their will […]
Did the Left Betray Israel and Zionism? Robert Sheer Interviews Susie Linfield
RS: The governments that all attacked Israel [in the Six-Day War}…they all made peace with Israel. The only people that didn’t make peace were the Palestinians, and the Palestinians were actually occupied by these Arab governments.
Nakba: A Remembrance, A Call to Action
Post-apartheid documents show that Israel offered to help apartheid South Africa develop nuclear weapons.
Honoring All Those Scarred by War
“They say: We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning. We were young, they say. We have died. Remember us.”
How can allies protect communities threatened with violence? by George Lakey
Violence is a hatchet when a surgeon’s knife is needed.
New U.S. Nuclear Bombs Heading for Europe: What Can Stop Them?
It’s worth remarking that fires from even a very “limited” use of a small number of modern nuclear weapons would create so much soot and ash that the consequent collapse of agriculture could cause the famine death of two billion people. By Nukewatch staff Women Against Military Madness Newsletter Vol. 37 No. 2 Spring 2019 […]
Chris Hedges: Police State, Fracking, Tyranny, Russiagate
The collapse of our democratic institutions began long before the arrival of Trump, who is capitalizing on the evisceration of the rule of law. TD ORIGINALSCHRIS HEDGES April/May 2019 Creeping Toward Tyranny by CHRIS HEDGES MAY 06, 2019 The collapse of our democratic institutions began long before the arrival of Trump, who is capitalizing on the evisceration […]
SAVE OUR VA! Veterans say NO to Privatization
SAVE OUR VA! Veterans say NO to Privatization Call or Write Your Congressional Senators and Representatives NOW Proposed new regulations for veterans’ healthcare on Capitol Hill could lead to a total dismantling and privatization of the VA healthcare system that our veterans want and need! ____________________ We need you to write or pick up the […]
Ft. Snelling BDOTE? Odious Retaliation
Using “history,” military or otherwise, to “unify” a people, isn’t “history,” it’s propaganda, in the fascist tradition.
No War on Venezuela; MPAC on Syria
Troops Home Now – Out of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and Off the Borders!
Assange Arrested: Call for protests and phone calls; also links to articles
The prosecution of Julian Assange is an attack on Freedom of the Press in the 21st Century. WikiLeaks is democratizing journalism, redistributing power and increasing transparency. Publishing the truth is not a crime.
I’m a Child of Immigrants. And I Have a Plan to Fix Immigration. By Sonia Nazario, and End Project Streamline
Neither Democrats nor Republicans will like [the plan].. But it would be humane, it would adhere to the rule of law, and it would work.
Chris Hedges: Only the Struggle Matters
The Black Bloc in France, as in the United States, is a gift to the security and surveillance apparatus.
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