“The planet-warming emissions generated during the first two months of the war in Gaza were greater than the annual carbon footprint of more than 20 of the world's most climate-vulnerable nations.”
Is the FREE PRESS the "enemy of the people'? Or is PRESS FREEDOM, how the public is informed and an absolute necessity in a democracy and any form of government that is not authoritarian where all those who live under that government have an equal voice and a say?
In this case, there is a need to get beyond the language of moral condemnation, which overrides what it might mean to both provide security for Israelis and liberation and freedom for Palestinians.
Ukraine is a giant advertisement for weapons of mass slaughter, and the cost of that corporate ad is not money but human blood.
“We clearly have deep concerns about Mr Assange's case,” said the congressman. "People should understand that the charges against him are part of an alarming Global Trend, a sharp increase in attacks against the freedom of the press that is happening in countries around the world including our own."
Lauren Boebert make the term "American fascism" easy to ridicule and dismiss, but Sharlet implores us to take these Christian fascists seriously as an existential threat to what is left of our anemic democracy.
“This is the result of decades of work that we’ve put into this movement, and I think some of it is connected to the [George Floyd protests of 2020]. There was so much racial, social justice, anti-war building in that moment."
Henry Giroux "...essential read on the cult of violence and the occupation of Gaza--this is the long view missing from the mainstream and liberal press."
Israel's 17-year blockade of Gaza and its crucial significance to understanding the events of the past two weeks discussed.
Mr. Fish / ScheerPost / October 10, 2023 Dwayne Booth (Mr. Fish) Dwayne Booth has been a freelance writer and cartoonist for twenty-five years, publishing under both his real name and the pen name of Mr. Fish with the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, the Village Voice, the Atlantic, The Nation, Vanity Fair, More
The collective retribution against innocents is a familiar tactic employed by colonial rulers....Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always the occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades piles of corpses for higher piles of corpses.
The U.S. wages a war against African people in Niger as it seeks to continue military and economic domination of that nation and the rest of the continent. In Haiti, an impending occupation uses African and Caribbean nations as a cover for U.S. imperialism. The U.S. Africa Command, AFRICOM, is replicated in Atlanta, Georgia with “Cop City,” an effort to impose militarized policing with the help of a compromised Black misleadership class,
