Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Massacre of African Migrants by U.S.- Backed Moroccan Armed Forces
“All evidence suggests that U.S. militarism and training of police, and other repressive forces in Africa has only intensified death and destruction.”
Report on the anti-NATO protests in Madrid and US Summit of the Americas fails
The US/NATO is proposing a new alignment that will see it spread its aggression to Asia and around the world. According to information that can be found on the NATO web site, they will project Russia and China as their main enemies. This means that we will see further aggression against major military and nuclear powers that will put the entire world at risk.
How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision, by Sharon Lerner
“Whatever else this Court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change. Yet the Court today prevents congressionally authorized agency action to curb power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions. The Court appoints itself—instead of Congress or the expert agency—the decisionmaker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening.”
Patrick Lawrence: The Power of Images
Once again, it is down to the propagation of images. How dangerously they are wielded among our irresponsible media.
Militarization and Uvalde: The Context Media Coverage Omits
There’s a long tradition in the West wherein foreign policy is the preserve of an elite not answerable to any electorate. This has been the case in the U.S. since it first had a foreign policy to speak of, in the late 19th century.
In Overturning Roe, Radical Supreme Court Declares War on the 14th Amendment, by Jordan Smith
Alito’s opinion completely elides the significance of the 14th Amendment, which was explicitly designed to address the particular horrors of slavery, including the right of individuals to determine whether, with whom, and when to form a family. Demonstrators rally in front of the Supreme Court the day after justices overturned More
Chris Hedges: Fascists In Our Midst
"Fascists achieve power by creating parallel institutions – schools, universities, media platforms and paramilitary forces – and seizing the organs of internal security and the judiciary. They deform the law, including electoral law, to serve their ends. They are rarely in the majority."
The UK’s Decision to Extradite Assange Shows Why The US/UK’s Freedom Lectures Are a Farce
The U.S. was determined to do everything possible to drag Assange back to U.S. soil despite his not being a U.S. citizen and never having spent more than a few days on U.S. soil...
‘A Revolutionary Ruling, and Not Just for Abortion’: A Supreme Court Scholar Explains the Impact of Dobbs
"The ruling signals a massive change in how we read the Constitution, from a living reading to an original reading. The court has firmly rejected the theory of the living Constitution, which argues that the meaning of the document’s language changes as the beliefs and values of Americans change."
Rise Up Times Summary2, June 2022
Nader Taxes; Hedges: Guns, Jan. 6th Spectacle, Death; Greenwald: Disinfomation; Censored!!, Pipeline Blues; Defuse Nuclear War; Clean Energy; more...
Chris Hedges: The Triumph of Death
The rage of the betrayed is articulated by imbecilic demagogues vomited up from the social and political swamp. Corporations and the billionaire class will continue to exploit, but under a cruder and crueler authoritarianism. The social, political, economic, and environmental breakdown will accelerate.
Nader: Time for a Taxpayer Revolt Against Rich Corporate Welfarists
You’ve been required to subsidize these companies for them to make a profit and you get nothing in return – silent partners pouring money indirectly into big-name corporations. They misleadingly call these subsidies “incentives,” but they are really coerced entitlements.
Watch: “America’s Gun Fetish, ” with Chris Hedges
There are nearly 400 million guns in the U.S., some 120 guns for every 100 Americans. Half of the privately-owned guns are owned by 3 percent of the population.
The Pipeline Blues, shared for all to sing by The Stringbeans (Shut Down Line 3)
Chorus: Standin’ on the corner, Singin’ the pipeline blues (2x) Trying to stop that pipeline, Whatta we got to lose?
Defusing the Ever-Present Threat of Nuclear War, with a range of presenters calling for nuclear disarmament
THE ABSOLUTE IMPERATIVE OF PARTNERSHIP NOW. We have the need the opportunity to reduce carbon emissions as a global mobilization. But to do that we need some dialogue serious dialogue, we need partnership. We can't have this rhetoric, what I call a Manichaean rhetoric, that we're good and they're bad. We have to accept the world: It's not pretty and we all have flaws, and we can argue about who is worse or who is better but that's not the point. The point is we have to partner with China, with Russia, with India, with Brazil, with a lot of countries we have massive disagreements with, but whatever those disagreements are the climate continues to warm as it is. We're putting more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere every day, and it's going to last in many cases for hundreds of years. This is another disaster and we've got to mobilize. We can have more than a million people in Central Park again: We need people all over the world, and we need to wake people up to the problem substantively but with the absolute imperative of partnership now. Jerry Brown, Executive Chair of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Board” is Even More Pernicious Than it Seems
One problem which emerges with this censorship regime is the question of how “disinformation” is determined or, more aptly, who determines it? This new Disinformation Board is intended to place that immense power in the hands of the U.S. Security State, such that it can now place an official “disinformation” designation over any idea or view it wishes to discredit.
A Just Transition to Clean Energy in the Southwest and Mountain West
Making the shift to a clean energy economy, one that centers justice and strength, strengthens communities, is a fear that will take all of us. It will need a diversit of skill sets, ideas, approaches and people to make it happen.
Hedges: Society of Spectacle, January 6 Hearings
There was no acknowledgement by committee members that the “will of the people” has been subverted by the three branches of government to serve the dictates of the billionaire class. No one brought up the armies of lobbyists who are daily permitted to storm the Capitol to fund the legalized bribery of our elections and write the pro-corporate legislation that it passes. No one spoke about the loss of constitutional rights, including the right to privacy, because of wholesale government surveillance.
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CENSORED! ! !
"The past two weeks have seen blows against freedom of speech for independent news outlets and, indeed, for all Americans. I’m not being hyperbolic here. There are real threats to our freedom of speech against which we ought to mobilize....""Independent voices must be heard. Freedom of speech and press were among the basic tenets upon which this country was founded. We should all be willing to fight to keep those freedoms." John Kiriakou