DN! Chomsky Blasts the “Torture” of Julian Assange and Biden’s Provocative Acts Against China
"it’s the same story as always, just like Glasgow. It’s those the voices in the street which can end this tragedy of the Assange torture and persecution, like everything else, like the civil rights movement, like the social democratic initiatives in the 1930s, the New Deal measures, like the antiwar movement, like the women’s movement, everything, always the same answer."
Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
"When the ruling class peddles lies there is no cost for parroting them back to the public. The cost is paid by those who tell the truth."
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?
Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hedges on NSA Leaks, Assange and Protecting a Free Internet
FREE ASSANGE, PRESS FREEDOM, MEDIA FREEDOM INTERNET,
A Holiday Wish 2021, by Garbonzo and Chickpea
Ho, ho, ho, ho
What to Know About the Civilian Casualty Files, By Michael Levenson
"When the wars intensified, the authority to approve strikes was pushed further down the chain of command, even as an overwhelming majority of strikes were carried out in the heat of war, and not planned far in advance."
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Know This, Trump’s Attempted Coup on Jan. 6 Was Just Practice
"What's left to trust and rely upon? Unorganized people organizing. What else!"
Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange
"If [Assange is] found guilty it will effectively criminalize the investigative work of all journalists and publishers, anywhere in the world and of any nationality, who possess classified documents to shine a light on the inner workings of power. This mortal assault on the press will have been orchestrated, we must not forget, by a Democratic administration. It will set a legal precedent that will delight other totalitarian regimes and autocrats who, emboldened by the United States,.."
Glenn Greenwald: What Are the Major Media Sources of Fake News and Disinformation?
Two minutes of outright lies.
Chris Hedges: American Satyricon
"The Epstein case is important because, however much is being covered up, it is a window into the scourge of male violence that explodes in decayed cultures, fueled by widening income disparities, the collapse of the social contract and the grotesque entitlement that comes with celebrity, political power, and wealth."
Rise Up Times Post Summary
$778 BILLION Military Budget Approved (military madness); Hedges and Brown: Inverted Totalitarianism, Nature of Neoliberalism; Code Pink: Cost of War at Home; Nader: Corporate Crimes in Corporate State; COP26 Fails, and more…
Chris Hedges: UK High Court Overturns Assange Win
The court,did not accept that this was a politically motivated case or address the ramifications for all who publish classified material.
House Approves $778 Billion Military Budget
“What possible justification is there for throwing $768 billion at the Pentagon..."
Ralph Nader: Critical Exposés Everywhere as the Corporate State Worsens
Take a look at 65 recent searing books about corporate violence and malfeasance, crushing influence over our electoral and political systems, and expanding immunities from law enforcement and public accountability.
Chris Hedges: Sheldon Wolin on Inverted Totalitarianism, with Wendy Brown
[Wolin] argued that America’s system of inverted totalitarianism is different from classical forms of totalitarianism. It finds its expression in the faceless anonymity of the corporate state.
Code Pink: The Cost of War at Home, with United for Peace and Justice
What are the effects of the costs of war on the home front?
End U.S. support for Israeli Apartheid? Session 2
Consortium News June 5, 2021 Julian Assange’s father John Shipton begins a month-long, 17-city U.S. tour in Miami as his son languishes in Belmarsh Prison in Lon- don awaiting a U.S. appeal against the denial of his extradition.
Ilhan Omar is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!
Ordinarily I do not post articles with direct solicitations for do- nations on Rise Up Times, even though they often contain good information. Nor do I consider myself a dyed-in-the-wool Demo-
Diana Johnstone: Washington’s Green branches in Europe
The German Green Party has a chance to join a ruling coal it ion in September ’s election, after turning its back on its roots, to root for Washington. By Diana Johnstone in Paris Special to Consortium News May 3, 2021 Pervasive American influence has caused drastically deteriorating relation between More