Patrick Lawrence: This Week in Fake News / Artless Dodgers
“Mearsheimer: According to the established view in Western countries, this war was provoked by the imperialist ambitions of Vladimir Putin…. But there is no solid argument to support this thesis. On the other hand, there is no lack of evidence that what started this war was the West’s desire to make Ukraine a bulwark on the Russian border. Russia perceived this as an existential threat, which therefore had to be eliminated.
James O’Keefe Doesn’t Care About Free Speech, by Ben Burgis
The consequence for controversial speech ordinary people often do have to worry about is getting fired from their jobs. Most Americans have “at-will” employment arrangements at nonunionized workplaces where the boss can fire them at any time with little recourse or due process.
Corporate Media Must Stop Making Ads For Fossil Fuel Companies
Even now, when scientists say we’ve done irreversible damage to our planet, corporate and legacy news outlets won’t give up the fossil fuel dollars. Corporate Media Must Stop Making Ads For Fossil Fuel Companies Alex Kotch, Maria Bustillos, Amy Westervelt The Lever Opt Out July 6, 2022 Who’s to blame More
Hedges: NATO — The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet
The U.S. military, following its fiascos in the Middle East, has shifted its focus from fighting terrorism and asymmetrical warfare to confronting China and Russia. *** At no time, including the Cuban missile crisis, have we stood closer to the precipice of nuclear war.
Matt Taibbi: The New Kremlinology: Reading the New York Times
With censorship soaring and real reporting all but taboo, the major dailies have just one important function left: being a political signaling system The New Kremlinology: Reading the New York Times by Matt Taibbi Substack July 12, 2022 The New York Times has declared the President’s age acceptable for discussion. More
Save the First Amendment!: Free Julian Assange! by Mike Madden
Update: On June 17, the British court ordered the extradition to the United States of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, who exposed war crimes. Assange is an Australian citizen. Take action.
Rise Up Times Post Summary 1, July 2022
Migrant Massacre, NATO protests, Americas Summit, Koch/Supreme Ct, Images/Power, Guns/Media, Roe/14th Amendment, Hedges/Fascists, Assange, more... Forward DONATE TODAY Media for Justice and Peace Thank You! to All Who Read and Support Rise Up Times! New Posts for July 6, 2022 PLEASE SHARE TOP STORIES Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Massacre of African More
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.