Assange Wins! Highlights of the Day
Stella (Assange's wife): Thank you. I want to be very clear today marks a turning point. We went into court and we sat and heard the United States fumbling through their arguments trying to paint lipstick on a pig; they are pigs, Well, the judges were not convinced [Applause]. Everyone can see what's going on here. The United States case is offensive; it offends our Democratic principles; it offends our right to know. It is an attack on journalists everywhere, people everywhere. [Applause]
Patrick Lawrence: Putin and Xi in Beijing: Steps into the 21st Century
It will be a long walk through the 21st century before Russia, China and the rest of the non–West arrive at the new world order these nations advocate. They will get there. Some important steps were taken in Beijing and Harbin this week. This is how history’s wheel turns.
Student Protests and the Rise of U.S. Authoritarianism, by Thad Baltimore
At the heart of student protest demands is the divestiture of university finances from companies profiting from Israel’s illegal occupation in Palestine. This points to one reason university presidents are resistant to student demands — the corporatization of universities.
Rejecting the Facade: Unveiling the Ecological Toll of War and Genocide,
At the heart of this destructive cycle lies a perverse economic incentive, where war becomes a lucrative business at the expense of both people and the planet.
Patrick Lawrence: University—An Attack on Intelligence
Will someone explain why we hear daily about all this antisemitism but cannot see anything of it more than the odd, unalarming case—the everyday here-and-there variety? Someone, anyone?
Chris Hedges: Sermon for Gaza
This sublime madness is the essential quality for a life of resistance. It is the acceptance that when you stand with the oppressed you will be treated like the oppressed. It is the acceptance that, although empirically all that we struggled to achieve during our lifetime may be worse, our struggle validates itself.
Chris Hedges: The Nation’s Conscience and Caitlin Johnstone: Protest And Dissent Can Absolutely Push The Empire To Retreat On Gaza
The protest movements - which have spread around the globe - are not built around the single issue of the apartheid state in Israel or its genocide against Palestinians. They are built around the awareness that the old world order, the one of settler colonialism, western imperialism and militarism used by the countries in the Global North to dominate the Global South, must end.
War on the Planet: Imperialism, Environmental Destruction and the Climate Crisis
“Real safety comes from us having what we need. It comes from our communities having stable housing, good jobs, health care, connection ─ a cohesion with one another…." Vivian Huang, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Yes! Magazine (Winter 2022)
Campus Crackdown: 300+ Arrested in Police Raids on Columbia & CCNY to Clear Gaza Encampments
"And the university has done nothing to protect pro-Palestine voices and has been really cracking down on anyone who is standing up for Palestinian rights. And this really just shows how Columbia University is using similar tactics that the apartheid state of Israel is using to crack down on Palestinians in occupied Palestine."
Glenn Greenwald: Dr. Jill Stein on Israel’s Crimes plus her WashU Protest Arrest
Jill Stein: "To me the problem is that the Zionist Community is trying to hide behind Judaism, and Zionism is not Judaism. To say that being against genocide is anti-Semitic is the biggest anti-Semitic slur of all because that essentially says that it's okay with Jews for genocide to happen."
UPDATE ON THE FLOTILLA: Food and Medical Supplies for Gaza STOPPED
Coleen Rowley: “I have to say how disappointed we are - and actually horrified - that such powerful, corrupt government forces can connive to prevent food, medicine, and humanitarian aid from reaching disease and famine-stricken Gaza. It’s evil!” Barry Riesch: “Stopping the boat shows that Israel is intimidated by us and that our own country cares more about supporting Israel’s illegal blockade and genocide than helping U.S. citizens deliver aid to Gaza. They can stop the flotilla today, but it will come back even stronger.”
A Life on Our Planet: David Attenborough (video)
David Attenborough's take on a simple solution to ease if not halt the climate crisis. If only those who have control of the political system would listen instead of being involved in petty politics and pushing more and more fossil fuel sources and use. And of course all that money that is going to the military that could be used to stop the wars, save the earth and in the process most likely the human race and all creation.
End corporate rule to end wars and occupations, with Veterans for Peace and Move to Amend
We won't stop oil until we stop the military. We won't stop the military's dominance of our entire government and economy until we have passed Move to Amend’s Amendment. -Timothy Havl
Billionaires are pillaging America. How do we fight back? | The Chris Hedges Report
This latest attack on the rights of workers is the culmination of a decades-long assault on the working class in the US, which has been caught between an economic system hemorrhaging jobs and a political system that refuses to address their problems.
We were lied into the Gaza genocide. Al Jazeera has shown us how, by Jonathan Cook
The establishment media has proved it is not to be trusted. For months it has credulously recited Israeli propaganda in support of a genocide.
Climate Change: Why Internationalism?
Excellent presentations by Shemona Moreno of Seattle re building solidarity with global movements; Marc Rosenthal from Wisconsin with a focus on pipeines (Enbridge) and cross-border solidarity, May action will include Minneapolis; Ferron Pedro describes the Stop EACOP campaign (East African Oil Pipeline) a pipeline that will cross central Africa (massive crude oil through the heart of Africa, 54 million tons of carbon per year) proposed by France Total (a corporation) and China National Offshore Corporation; EACOP insurers are located in the U.S. Also outdated coal power plants in So. Africa; Daniel Hunter presents 350 international history.
Judaism and Zionism, by Sue Ann Martinson
Israel has taken the position that it is innocent of any wrongdoing even though at minimum since Nakba in 1948 they have perpetrated an apartheid neo-fascist state...with use of...tactics borrowed from their previous oppressors in Nazi Germany. And now they have adopted GENOCIDE, as they systematically bomb and destroy Gaza.
Modernizing Nuclear War, by Joel Weisberg
Modern nuclear warheads, which the new delivery systems will be hosting, release far more energy than did the original bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
WAMM Newsletter Shorts / Updated 5/7/24: Nuclear Waste Threatens Mississippi, UNAC: Colonization/Imperialism, and Scared of the Bear?
Urgent action needed. Xcel Energy has applied to run its old Monticello nuclear reactor in Minnesota until 2050, when it would be 80 years old. / Why would Russians use a nuclear bomb when they already have demonstrated the capability to shoot down satellites with non-nuclear interceptors? / UNAC Conference: Colonization/Imperialism, held April 5-7, 2024
Glenn Greenwald: Matt Taibbi on How “Free Speech” Turned Into a “Far Right” Slogan
Is Big Tech independent? How and why the mainstream corporate media (MSM) is establishment and what that means.