Save the U.S. Postal Service! Reasons the Mail Must Get Through
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
The Role of Palestine in the US Elections, WAMM webinar in two parts
"Enormous amounts of money pour into various political campaigns around the U.S. with the apparent goal of influencing elections and manipulating governance throughout the nation." How is that affecting the 5th District in Minnesota, an epi center for recent activism arount the murder of George Floyd.
Without Mercy: Sanctions and Militarism in the Time of Pandemic
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s call for a global ceasefire: The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war. It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown….. Put aside mistrust and animosity. Silence the guns; stop the artillery; end the airstrikes. End the sickness of war and fight the disease that is ravaging More
America’s Problem With Policing Doesn’t Stop at the U.S. Border
"Trump has also made this war even more secretive, issuing an executive order to no longer require the release of annual summaries of U.S. drone strikes and casualties, even as the Navy has expanded its mysterious drone technology."
How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America’s Vanished Voters, by Greg Palast
But that left 534,510 — over half a million purged — for a reason identified only as “System Cancels.”
10 Reasons Why Defunding Police Should Lead to Defunding War
"Just as the U.S. was created by taking over the lands of Indigenous peoples by force, so America as an empire uses war to expand access to markets and resources"
JCPOA: The Deal That Wasn’t, by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
The Persian Gulf has been the lynchpin of US foreign policy. "To all intents and purposes," a former senior Defense Department official observed...
Danny Sjursen: Undercover Patriots Trump, Tulsa, and the Rise of Military Dissent
"Then there was the powerful visual statement of Marine Corps veteran Todd Winn, twice wounded in Iraq, who stood for hours outside the Utah state capitol in the sweltering heat in full dress uniform with the message 'I Can’t Breathe' taped over his mouth."
Dan Siegel: What Defunding the Police Can Look Like
"Our goal is a radical change in the allocation and exercise of power — communities empowered to take responsibility for their own safety and for the future of their youth."
Fourth of July Musings: The Curse of Exceptionalism and the Perils of Patriotism
"...empire-building has always been the path of this vocally republican nation. Like racism and slavery, empire evolved rather than ended."
Chomsky: We Must Not Let Masters of Capital Define the Post-COVID World
"Since January, Trump has escalated...threats to survival. He has continued his project of dismantling the arms control regime that has provided some protection against nuclear disaster."
Diana Johnstone talks about her new book, Circle in the Darkness
"[Johnstone] recounts in detail how the Western left betrayed its historical principles of social justice and peace and let itself be lured into approval of aggressive U.S.-NATO wars on the fallacious grounds of “human rights”.