Rutgers University: Nuclear war would cause a global famine and kill billions, study finds
Robock said researchers already have more than enough information to know that a nuclear war of any size would obliterate global food systems, killing billions of people in the process.
5 things to know about the suspension of U.S.-China climate talks
. Will the United States and China still launch a climate working group? The short answer: Probably not.
Oklahoma Teacher Disciplined for Sharing Access to Banned Books Has Quit, by Chris Walker
Stitt claimed that the law would protect children from feeling “discomfort” over learning about discrimination and other acts of bigotry in the U.S. — a common talking point among far right officials and pundits,,,
Chomsky: Six Months Into War, Diplomatic Settlement in Ukraine Is Still Possible
“There must be an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine followed by a Russian troop withdrawal and agreement between Russia and Ukraine on future security arrangements. All wars end in a negotiation of some sort — so why not now?” - Jeremy Corbyn
Why are former CIA agents flocking to Facebook and Google
Former CIa and other national security agents are flocking to jobs with the social media as through algorithms and outright censorship they continue to block antiwar and peace and justice articles and websites.
War Propaganda About Ukraine Starting to Wear Thin, by Chay Bowes
The immeasurable human suffering that these wars have visited on the innocent populations seldom features. American complicity and responsibility for creating the very problems they now seek to “solve” is bizarrely entirely ignored in its client media.
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The Understated Effects of Nuclear War on the World, by Diego Ramos
“A full-out nuclear war between the United States and Russia could produce 150 million tonnes of soot. The globe-encircling pall would persist for years until the skies eventually cleared. - Alexandra Witze"
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This Atheist Begs You to Read the Pope’s New Book, by David Swanson
This book is a passionate warning that World War III is underway in scattered pieces and escalating, that nuclear catastrophe is almost inevitable if we do not change course.
Henry Giroux: The Nazification of American Education
Institutions of learning at all levels in the red states are becoming laboratories for what I [Giroux] term the Nazification of American education, replicating pedagogies of repression that were at work in Germany in the 1930s.
The Chris Hedges Podcast: Dissecting the Mythology of War, with Andrew Bacevich
Twenty years of America’s Global War on Terror produced little tangible success while exacting enormous harm. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States sustained tens of thousands of casualties, expended trillions of dollars, and inflicted massive suffering on the very populations that we sought to “liberate.” --Macmillan Publishers
Noam Chomsky: Is U.S. Censorship Worse Than Soviet Russia?
American thinker Noam Chomsky discusses the changes taking place in American culture and what to expect.
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Chris Hedges: The Dawn of the Apocalypse
"The profits from fossil fuels, and the lifestyle the burning of fossil fuels afforded to the privileged on the planet, overroad a rational response. The failure is homicidal."
Ralph Nader: Weaning the State Department Off War-making
Perhaps, the State Department can host a meeting with Veterans for Peace to remind itself of its original mission.
Where should the climate movement go next? A Burning Planet, by Thea Riofrancos
Despite the green rhetoric, only 6 percent of the fiscal stimulus packages implemented by the G20 nations in 2020 and 2021 have contributed to emissions reductions, even as oil company profits soared to record highs.
U.S. Cognitive Warfare: the Battle to Capture Our Minds, by Todd E. Pierce
Cognitive war is waged against the U.S. population to capture our minds and assimilate us thoroughly into a militaristic 'weltanschauung' or worldview.
17 Lawmakers Arrested Outside Supreme Court Amid Abortion Rights Protest, by Nina Golgowski
“There is no democracy if women do not have control over their own bodies and decisions about their own health, including reproductive care.”
Chris Hedges: War with Iran
The corpses of civilians, including children, piled up by Israel and Saudi Arabia, who do much of their killing in Gaza and Yemen with U.S. weapons, don’t come close to the hundreds of thousands of dead we have left behind in the two decades of warfare we have perpetrated in the Middle East.