A People’s Guide to the War Industry -3: Bribery and Propaganda
When war is your business, peace is your enemy, writes Christian Sorensen. Third in a five-part series on the military-industrial-congressional complex.
70% of Americans Say Arms Sales Make Us Less Safe. We’re the World’s Top Dealer. By William D. Hartung
"One area where President Biden could readily begin to fulfill his campaign pledge to reduce the harm to civilians from U.S. arms sales would be firearms exports."
Militarism Comes Home, by Kim DeFranco
"It’s been reported that the city of Minneapolis could have spent up to $1 million dollars or more on fortifying government buildings and police precincts."
People of conscience: Palestinians ask you to boycott Israel, by Omar Barghouti
"BDS has drastically redefined solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality, as an ethical obligation to end complicity, above everything else. In the face of flagrant oppression anywhere..."
1000 Grandmothers by Holly Near, sung by Emma’s Revolution for Abuelas Responden
Send in 1000 Grandmothers
What Cold War? A Truth Commission Clip
War. Who profits? (Who dies?)
Inside and Outside the Military Industrial Complex with Ann Wright
Ann Wright talks about discrimination against Asians and the new Cold War against Russia.
Henry Giroux: The Plague of Historical Amnesia in the Age of Fascist Politics
"Historical amnesia also finds expression in the right-wing press and among media pundits such as Fox News commentators Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, whose addiction to lying exceeds the boundaries of reason and creates an echo chamber of misinformation that normalizes the unspeakable, if not the unthinkable."
This is Dakota Land, by Susu Jeffrey
"Rights to the whole of Dakota homelands in southern Minnesota were relinquished in a series of forced treaties, some 24-million acres. Treaty paper, T.P., toilet paper."
Is Russia truly our enemy? by Bruce Gagnon
"Capitalism's need to control and consume resources is what drives most of these current war mongering activities."
Calling Chauvin a “Bad Apple” Denies Systemic Nature of Racist Police Violence
"Prosecutors will likely try to isolate Chauvin as one of “a few bad apples.” That may be an effective prosecutorial strategy to convince jurors they should convict him. But this “rogue cop” characterization — also used after the 1991 Rodney King beating and the police killings of Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and Breonna More