Twitter Files & the Death of Russiagate: Matt Taibbi, Chris Hedges, John Kiriakou
Matt Taibbi joins CN Live! to discuss the implications of his Twitter Files revelations, including his latest on Hamilton 68 and its fatal blow to the Russiagate narrative. With Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou. Watch the replay. Twitter Files & the Death of Russiagate Consortium News February 1, 2023 Joe Lauria writes: More
War Profiteers Oversee Pentagon Spending, by Eli Clifton
The appointment to the commission of individuals with deep ties to the contracting and weapons sectors is also consistent with campaign contributions to the chairs of both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
Cop City Goes National, by George Chidi
THE SHOOTING OF Tortuguita, a nonbinary person who went by that sole name, shocked activists, who say Tortuguita had been a vocal proponent of nonviolence.
What Are You Drinking? by Susu Jeffrey
If you don’t live in Flint, Michigan or Jackson, Mississippi, you may want to ask where your potable (drinkable) water comes from and how it’s delivered. People in the Twin Cities drink out of the Mississippi River. The City of Minneapolis distributes 57 million gallons of water daily to its More
Ukraine – RAND Study Sees Risks In Prolonged War
"The neocons, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, State Secretary Anthony Blinken and his deputy Victoria Nuland, who together wage their war against Russia, have Joe Biden's ears and can control the information he gets."
Medea Benjamin: 10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined
To free up billions of Pentagon dollars for investing in critical environmental projects and to eliminate the environmental havoc of war, movements for a livable, peaceful planet need to put “ending war” at the top of the “must do” list.
It Comes Down to Political Practice, It Comes Down to Weapons, by Richard Moser
War Policy is a Domestic Policy: Much of the pro-NATO left has taken this stand to protect its domestic electoral project. If sending weapons is wrong, their political heroes who repeatedly voted without debate for more weapons are also terribly wrong.
Rise Up Times, Media for Justice and Peace, January Summary (2)
Glencore is Criminal/Polymet, Identity Politics, Rowley: Free Leonard Peltier, The Poets Have It!,
DN! “Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)”
"I think we should also be building a different kind of world that doesn’t structurally run on racism and other kinds of oppression and capitalism. And the construction of constructive view is the point of building that world. That world would have a much different energy system. It would produce things in a different way."
Atlanta Police Kill Forest Defender at Protest Encampment Near Proposed “Cop City” Training Center
In an audio statement sent to Democracy Now, activists have released the name of the victim of the "COP City" shooting: Long-time activist Manuel Tehran, who went by the name Tortugita, was shot and murdered on January 18, 2023 by police.
Take it from me, Minnesota: Steer clear of Glencore, by Eric Ini
"What I can’t help but ask is, why on earth would Glencore be allowed to do business here in Minnesota? Especially when thousands of acres of wetlands and billions of gallons of fresh clean water are on the line?"
FBI’s opposition to releasing Leonard Peltier driven by vendetta, says ex-agent, by Nina Lakhani
“Retribution seems to have emerged as the primary if not sole reason for continuing what looks from the outside to have become an emotion-driven ‘FBI Family’ vendetta,” said Rowley in the letter sent to the US president in December and shared exclusively with the Guardian.
Poetic Nonviolent Victory Over War, by Brad Wolf
If we take our humanity seriously, our response to the warmakers must be rebellion. Peaceful and poetic, forceful and unrelenting. We need to raise the human condition as they seek to degrade it. The Merchants of Death cannot defeat a movement that speaks the language of poetry.
Chris Hedges: Why Americans can’t debate politics anymore
Six corporations control what's often referred to as the Legacy Media but there are still just a handful of corporations that control digital media as well, so we're looking at about maybe 10 or so corporations that control all of the media that people use, I think that's a really important factor when we talk about this because increasingly people of all age groups say they get their "news" from these digital outlets... [From transcript]
One Peculiar Form of American Madness, by William J. Astore
"This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
Reimagining King’s Vision: The Fierce Urgency of Now
From Ukraine to Uvalde we see the crises of which Rev. Dr. King warned, militarism, materialism, racism and the prospect of spiritual death. This webinar will address how we may better work for peace.
This Business of Burning Human Beings, by David Swanson
MLK Day should be a day for courage, for independence, for nonpartisanship, and for nonviolent action for the complete ending and abolishing of participation in any war.
‘You Couldn’t Make It Up’: Head of UAE Oil Company Appointed Chair of UN Climate Summit, by Julia Conley
If al-Jaber remains as the head of ADNOC and leads the conference, said Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network International, "it will be tantamount to a full-scale capture of the U.N. climate talks by a petrostate national oil company and its associated fossil fuel lobbyists."
Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd
Governance exists. But it is not seen. It is certainly not democratic. It is done by the armies of lobbyists and corporate executives, from the fossil fuel industry, the arms industry, the pharmaceutical industry and Wall Street. Governance happens in secret.
Rise Up Times, Media for Justice and Peace, January 2023
Giroux: Neoliberal fascism, cruelty, violence; Antiwar Activists to be jailed in Germany; Taibbi: Twitter Files, a Big Deal, Jacobin; Nuclear fusion energy, Greenwald: FBI/Big Tech; House Speaker concessions to Christian extremists; more