“An Apocalyptic Point of No Return.” Matthew Hoh’s Remarks at the UNSC Briefing on Ukraine
NEVER AGAIN! Apartheid, Genocide, Environmental Destruction of War and NEVER NUCLEAR WAR!
Here’s Why U.S. Elites Support Israel No Matter What
Israel has received 30% of all US foreign aid. Since World War II they get about $4 billion every year and have received almost 300 billion since 1945. When you adjust for inflation which is enough money to end world hunger.
DN!: As the U.N. Warns “The Era of Global Boiling Has Arrived,” Biden Resists Declaring a Climate Emergency
We’re talking about think tanks, publications and the like. And it was convened by the Heritage Foundation, which is, I think, in the climate world, very well known for promoting climate denial for decades, and for even longer promoting this sort of anti-regulatory stance. So, these groups came together in an attempt, essentially, to advise whoever the next president is,...
Ben Norton: Debt ceiling hypocrisy: U.S. boosts military budget while restricting food stamps for poor
The Debt ceiling bill reflects the bipartisan consensus in Washington: cut social spending to further enrich military contractors. -Stephen Semler
The U.S. War on China: Panda Huggers and Panda Sluggers, by K. J. Noh
"Unless we do something about it, President Biden’s doctrine toward China will likely be a continuation of the noxious U.S. arc of history, ideology, and planning."
China, Total Information Warfare: Sinophobia, by K. J. Noh
"While China demonstrates the possibility of multi-polarity, or the sharing of power, the U.S. is committed to unipolarity: its domination of world power at any cost."
FBI’s opposition to releasing Leonard Peltier driven by vendetta, says ex-agent, by Nina Lakhani
“Retribution seems to have emerged as the primary if not sole reason for continuing what looks from the outside to have become an emotion-driven ‘FBI Family’ vendetta,” said Rowley in the letter sent to the US president in December and shared exclusively with the Guardian.
DN! U.S. Faith Leaders Call for Xmas Truce in Ukraine as Zelensky Visits D.C. Seeking More Arms & Money
DMITRY PESKOV: [translated] The supply of weapons continues, and the range of supplied weapons is expanding. All of this, of course, leads to an aggravation of the conflict. This does not bode well for Ukraine.
Chris Hedges: The Politicians Who Destroyed Our Democracy Want Us to Vote for Them to Save It
These establishment politicians and their appointed judges promulgated laws that permitted the top 1 percent to loot $54 trillion from the bottom 90 percent, from 1975 to 2022, at a rate of $2.5 trillion a year, according to a study by the RAND corporation. The fertile ground of our political, economic, cultural and social wreckage spawned an array of neo-fascists, con artists, racists, criminals, charlatans, conspiracy theorists, right-wing militias and demagogues that will soon take power.
War as Presentation, by Patrick Lawrence
Now we have the Ukraine case, and we need not bother with “ample reason.” It is open-and-shut evident at this point that we witness two wars as the Armed Forces of Ukraine face off with the Russian military. There is the presented war, the meta-war, you might say, and there is the waged war, the war taking place on the ground, nothing meta about it.
On the International Day of Peace September 21st, The U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination Reaffirmed Its Commitment to the Weapon of War
For the Biden administration, a commitment to peace is a poor substitute for the benefits of securing another $13 billion in aid for Ukraine contained in legislation meant to fund the U.S. government. Moving money from the public coffers to the pockets of the defense companies that pay the bills for both parties is always seen as good bipartisan policy.
Chris Hedges: Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War
Rampant, unchecked militarism, as historian Arnold Toynbee notes, “has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations.”