Auschwitz Survivors Don’t Want Their Past to Be Their Grandchildren’s Future
Many, such as 91-year-old Elza Baker, warned that, “There are signs to look out for, if you don’t watch out one day you wake up and it’s too late.”
Empire, Militarization, and Popular Revolt in Africa
In what ways does militarization/militarism in the African context enable, extend and depend upon economic, military/’security’ relations with imperialist actors, most importantly the US and Israel? A video of a panel discussion organized by The People's Forum. Includes academics and members of human rights organizations and the National Lawyers Guild. https://youtu.be/aPE9v4O5qPk What are the More
Will California steal 553,000 votes from Bernie Sanders?
"Particularly at risk of losing their vote are 18 to 24-year olds and LatinX voters, groups that strongly favor “Tio Bernie.” A quarter of independent voters are LatinX."
Chris Hedges, Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget
"The Democratic Party elites will use any mechanism, no matter how nefarious and undemocratic, to prevent Sanders from obtaining the nomination."
Neoliberalism Has Radicalized a Whole Generation, by Conor Lynch
"Neoliberalism is the opposite of solidarity."
The US military is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels
Since 2001, the US military emitted over 1.2 billion metric tons of greenshouse gases into the atmosphere. 400 million metric tons of that figure is directly related to the wars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmolNG0fnMA&feature=youtu.be Costs of War Project report: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p... +++ Truth is not fake news. Justice is not fake news. We don’t have to tell you More
Flight 752 Out of Tehran
"It seems reasonable to speculate that in the early hours of January 8 a calamitous incident was contrived to happen."
Chris Hedges: America: Land of Make-Believe
"The rhetoric we use to describe ourselves is so disconnected from reality that it has induced collective schizophrenia. America, as it is discussed in public forums by politicians, academics and the media, is a fantasy, a Disneyfied world of make-believe.
Ilhan Omar Has a Plan to Revolutionize U.S. Foreign Policy
"They would also have to reckon with the humanitarian impact of sanctions, which Congress largely ignores at this point, and it has led to some of the world’s worst humanitarian crises as we’re seeing in Venezuela, and North Korea, and Iran."
Chris Hedges: The New Rules of the Game
"Should Bernie Sanders manage to evade the snares, traps and minefields laid for him by the Democratic Party elites, should he miraculously become the party’s nominee, the game of least worst will radically change."
Defender Europe 20: US to practice invasion of Europe, by Kate Hudson
"Defender Europe 20, NATO’s biggest wargames for over 25 years, is getting under way this month. 20,000 US troops are participating in the US’s largest deployment to Europe in over quarter of a century."
Flowers and Zeese: Mistrial Is Another Blow to US Coup in Venezuela; Our Work Continues
Venezuela Continues to Resist US Regime Change as a mistrial is declared for Venezuelan Embassy protectors. However, Trump prosecutors are considering a second attempt at prosecution.