Noam Chomsky: The War in Ukraine Has Entered a New Phase
Not in the distant background is a more fundamental matter, which cannot be put aside. Unless the great powers find ways to accommodate to confront the most important threats that have arisen in human history — environmental destruction and nuclear war — nothing else will matter. And time is short.
Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us, by Sue Ann Martinson
It’s time to acknowledge how the failure to connect the dots between U.S. imperialism and the growing climate crisis threatens all life on this planet in more ways than one. ‘A Just Transition to a Regenerative Economy’ must end wars, military culture, and the violence of militarized forces and police in our communities and across the world. [Sha Merirei Ongelungel / Indigenous Peoples’ Network] Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us (Repost) By Sue Ann Martinson ScheerPost July 14, 2022 byEDITOR Editor’s Note: Sections of this article originally appeared in the Summer 2022 issue of the Women Against Military Madness newsletter. More
The Chris Hedges Report: Julian Assange’s Father on Looming Extradition and Imperative of Mass Resistance
A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice.
Chris Hedges: Strike, Strike, Strike
At what point does a beleaguered population living near or below the poverty line rise in protest? This, if history is any guide, is unknown. But that the tinder is there is now undeniable, even to the ruling class.
Who drives Washington’s wars of aggression and outrageous military spending?
To be fair, the Nuland-Kagan mom-and-pop shop is really only a microcosm of how the Military-Industrial Complex has worked for decades: think-tank analysts generate the reasons for military spending, the government bureaucrats implement the necessary war policies, and the military contractors make lots of money before kicking back some to the think tanks — so the bloody but profitable cycle can spin again.
Media for Justice and Peace: New Posts for August/September, 2022
There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not lead single-issue lives. - Audre Lorde
Chris Hedges: Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
The point of social hierarchy and aristocracy is to sustain a class system that makes the rest of us feel inferior. Those at the top of the social hierarchy hand out tokens for loyal service, including the Order of the British Empire (OBE). The monarchy is the bedrock of hereditary rule and inherited wealth.
THE GREAT LOOP VOYAGE for a Nuclear-Free World! Golden Rule Sails Again
Sailing for a nuclear-free world, and starting in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, the Golden Rule Peace Boat will make a 11,000 mile, 15-month Great Loop Voyage down the Mississippi, up the Atlantic coast and into the Great Lakes. See the Twin Cities schedule below.
Ukraine and the Triumph of Militarism, by Caitlin Johnstone
What makes Tierney’s triumphant militarist smut so annoying isn’t how he’s wrong, it’s how he’s right. You can take issue all you like with his use of the word “left” to describe liberal supporters of capitalism and empire who just want the empire to be a bit less embarrassing and maybe forgive their student loans, but that’s the fault of the generations of psyops that have gone into sabotaging the left and destroying its memory, not Tierney’s.
Hedges: Why the media censors truth about Ukraine
Throughout the Ukraine war, Western news outlets have mindlessly parroted the opinions of a ruling elite and overseen a public discourse that is often unhinged from the real world.
Martin Luther King: War is Obsolete, All Life is Connected
This excerpt of Martin Luther King speaking (in 1967) provides a wonderful example of how he was a systems thinker. Here he discusses the interconnected nature of reality, the foolishness of war and the interdependence that binds the human family together... “Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete... If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. https://youtu.be/QN8ej4k2ilc No individual can live alone; no nation can live alone, and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in this world... and we must More
Veterans Arrested at Protest Condemning US Military’s Role in Climate Crisis. by Jake Johnson
"The money needed to avoid the worst results of climate change, as well as many other social issues that lack adequate funding, is the wasteful and bloated military budget," Joshua Farris, a U.S. Army veteran, said Wednesday.