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ACTIVISM
They Are Not Numbers in Gaza and Photo Essay, Twin Cities Protests
As always, we as U.S. citizens, must ask first what is the role of the U.S.? The answer is that, along with political support, the U.S. has been providing the bombs, bullets, and fighter jets to Israel. The abhorrent killing of these youth – and all the other people in Gaza – are why we need to do what we can to force our government to end hostilities and free Palestine.
MEDIA
What Media? Alternatives to Mainstream Corporate Media and where to find them.
Alternative news sources and journalists to the Mainstream Corporate Media (MSM). A long list and where to find them, but not definitive.. Do your own exploring. There's a wealth of opinion and information with research, analysis, and fresh approaches by experienced journalists and commentators.
Caitlin Johnstone: The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine
Ukraine is a giant advertisement for weapons of mass slaughter, and the cost of that corporate ad is not money but human blood.
MILITARISM
Glenn Greenwald: Neocon Queen Victoria Nuland Ends Her Reign: Exposing a Catastrophic Career
Nuland’s status as both a singular force for war and destruction—and her status as one of the most vivid symbols of how bipartisan and insulated from elections is this warmongering ideology—makes her particularly worthy of examination, especially upon her glorious resignation, the final end to her bloodthirsty reign. Understanding her trajectory is vital to understanding how Washington really functions.
Two Ceasefires Now! Gaza and Ukraine
A CEASEFIRE NOW! is called for in two wars the U.S. government is deeply involved in, shipping weapons and providing financial support. Neither of these wars benefits the American people, whose tax money is supporting death and destruction and taking tax money away from needed help for the hungry, sick, and homeless.
VOICES
DN! “Free the Truth”: The Belmarsh Tribunal on Julian Assange & Defending Press Freedom
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?
Rise Up Times: Media For Justice And Peace, Looking At Gaza And More…Post Summary
GAZA: Hedges, Pilger, David Swanson, Johnstone, WAMM, more; MEDIA: Alternative, Taibbi, Censorship, Greenwald; ASSANGE: Belmarsh Tribunal, Lies of War; more ...
ECOLOGY
Gaza War Fuels Climate Crisis: “Massive” Carbon Emissions from Israeli Bombing
“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.”
‘Not Reduce. Not Abate’: UN Chief Calls for Total Fossil Fuel Phaseout at COP28, by Olivia Rosane
"Humanity's fate hangs in the balance," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres at second day of global climate conference. 'Not Reduce. Not Abate': UN Chief Calls for Total Fossil Fuel Phaseout at COP28 Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres delivers an address at the opening ceremony of the World More
ECONOMY
Chris Hedges Report: How Private Equity Conquered America
From healthcare to education, utilities, and more, massive firms like Blackstone and the Carlyle Group have acquired vast holdings across critical industries essential to the health and well-being of everyday people.
EQUAL RIGHTS
Chris Hedges: Exterminate All the Brutes
It is an attempt by Israel to erase not only a people, but the idea of Palestine. It is a carbon copy of the massive campaigns of racialized slaughter by other settler colonial projects who believed that indiscriminate and wholesale violence could make the aspirations of an oppressed people, whose land they stole, go away. And like other perpetrators of genocide, Israel intends to keep it hidden.
POLITICS
Chris Hedges: Fascism Comes to America
Eighty million eligible voters did not vote in the last presidential election, no doubt because they did not expect much to change in their lives whoever was in office. And they were probably right.
Caitlin Johnstone: Pay Attention To The Everyday Horrors
Pay Attention To The Everyday Horrors By CAITLIN JOHNSTONE Substack.com September 9, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Have you ever noticed how the criticisms that both mainstream US political factions make about their opposition tend to be cartoonish exaggerations and whole cloth More
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Oh, sacred world now wounded,
we pledge to make you free,
of hate, of war, and selfish cruelty,
and here in our small corner
we plant a tiny seed,
and it will grow to beauty
to shame the face of greed.
Pete Seeger
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