American Fascism, by Todd E. Pierce
Be especially careful of those from the “Right” who promote Trumpism as non-interventionist “realism and restraint,” and as anti-NeoConservatives while they simultaneously celebrate and promote ultra-militarism..
Glenn Greenwald: Kamala Affirms Support For Biden’s Israel Policy; Abuses of Palestinian Prisoners
Vice President Harris, there's all of these crises that are brewing. What is your view on them? How would you handle these? Would you do anything different than what Joe Biden did? Would you do anything? Would you continue the same? Just basic questions that every single presidential candidate in my lifetime has repeatedly had to answer.
U.S. troops are losing a war with their deadliest enemy, writes Nick Turse
Out of 2,530 soldiers who died between 2014 and 2019 from causes ranging from car crashes to drug overdoses to cancer, 35 percent — 883 troops — took their own lives. Just 96 soldiers died in combat during those same six years.
Making a Killing: Weapons of War, by Brian Chval
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.
Chris Hedges: You Saved Julian Assange
This sustained pressure — during a London hearing in 2020, to my delight, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser of the Old Bailey court overseeing Julian’s case, complained about the noise protestors were making in the street outside — shines a continuous light on injustice and exposes the amorality of the ruling class.
Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism, by Joseph Stiglitz
Neoliberalism was predicated on the belief that unfettered markets are the most efficient means of achieving optimal outcomes. Yet even in the early days of neoliberalism’s ascendancy, economists had already established that unregulated markets are neither efficient nor stable, let alone conducive to generating a socially acceptable distribution of income.
Capitalism Can’t Overcome the Laws of Physics, by Pete Dolak
The infrastructure to build solar panels, windmills and all else will use large amounts of resources, including toxic “rare earth” minerals. Renewable energy, although vital if we are to have a future, isn’t a shortcut to reversing global warming.
Patrick Lawrence: Putin and Xi in Beijing: Steps into the 21st Century
It will be a long walk through the 21st century before Russia, China and the rest of the non–West arrive at the new world order these nations advocate. They will get there. Some important steps were taken in Beijing and Harbin this week. This is how history’s wheel turns.
War on the Planet: Imperialism, Environmental Destruction and the Climate Crisis
“Real safety comes from us having what we need. It comes from our communities having stable housing, good jobs, health care, connection ─ a cohesion with one another…." Vivian Huang, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Yes! Magazine (Winter 2022)
Glenn Greenwald: Dr. Jill Stein on Israel’s Crimes plus her WashU Protest Arrest
Jill Stein: "To me the problem is that the Zionist Community is trying to hide behind Judaism, and Zionism is not Judaism. To say that being against genocide is anti-Semitic is the biggest anti-Semitic slur of all because that essentially says that it's okay with Jews for genocide to happen."
End corporate rule to end wars and occupations, with Veterans for Peace and Move to Amend
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
We were lied into the Gaza genocide. Al Jazeera has shown us how, by Jonathan Cook
The establishment media has proved it is not to be trusted. For months it has credulously recited Israeli propaganda in support of a genocide.