How to Stop the Climate Crisis in Six Months, by Extinction Rebellion UK
"This video gives you the key elements of success which people are adapting as they step into their responsibilities to force political change. Nothing is more important. We can not longer afford to lose."
Understanding the Line 3 Aquifer Breach and Spills
Throughout the construction of Line 3, Enbridge has acted irresponsibly and illegally, created disasters, and covered them up.
“People vs. Fossil Fuels’’: Winona LaDuke and Mass Protests Call on Biden to Stop Line 3 Pipeline
It’s so tragic that, on the one hand, the Biden administration is like, ’We’re going to have Indigenous Peoples’ Day, but we’re still going to smash you in northern Minnesota and smash the rest of the country.’”
Winona LaDuke: Line 3 opponents can savor this defeat
"Uncertainty about Line 3 caused by Indigenous people and water protectors encouraged massive divestment from the tar sands by non-Canadian investors. Everybody from Shell Oil to the Koch brothers bailed out. Last month, my alma mater, Harvard University, began divestment of fossil fuels. Harvard wouldn't even divest from South Africa, those stubborn old dudes. This is, well, monumental."
Coleen Rowley: What are the Prospects for Peace?
"The U.S. always portrays itself as the greatest force on the planet for peace, justice, human rights, racial equality, etc. Polls tell us that most other nations actually regard the U.S. as the greatest threat to stability. What in your view is the truth here?"
Hedges: The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State
"The six-month sentence was the maximum the judge was allowed to impose; she ruled that his house arrest cannot be counted as part of his detention. From start to finish, this has been a burlesque. It is emblematic of a court system that has been turned over to lackies of corporate power, who use the veneer of jurisprudence, decorum, and civility to make a mockery of the rule of law."
Norman Solomon: Stop Calling the Military Budget a ‘Defense’ Budget
As Orwell wrote in a 1946 essay, political language “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
Harry Potter and the Secret of COP26, by David Swanson
“Merlin’s pants!”
DN! “Humane”: Yale Historian Samuel Moyn on “How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War”
"...when Biden gave his two speeches the other week defending the pullout from Afghanistan, he made utterly clear that while giving up on failed counterinsurgency, he is turning to, and maybe will intensify himself, the real fruit of 9/11, which is kind of endless counterterror, no matter what the constraints of international law say, unless they require the drones to strike or the special forces to visit with care for the victims."
Hedges, America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy, with Richard Wolff
Capitalism produces economic inequality: it's a political system
The Kabul Strike: Drone Whistleblowers React
While the media and decision makers are reckoning with the Kabul strike the voices of drone whistleblowers have been conspicuously absent from these national discussions.
People vs. Fossil Fuels: Demand a Fossil Free Future
From October 11 to 15, thousands of people will take action at the White House, participate in civil disobedience, and demand that President Biden choose a side: People vs. Fossil Fuels. Join us! https://youtu.be/XBPMYukbnpw JOIN US in Washington, D.C. To Demand a Fossil Free Future From October 11 to 15, More
Hedges and Giroux: The Age of Manufactured Ignorance
"The Red Scare, Giroux warns, is alive and well in America."
Chris Hedges: Undercurrents of American Fascism, with Gabriel Rockhill
"Is this a moment of rising fascism in American society? And is prefigured by the attempt by the ruling elites in the 1930s to carry out a fascist coup with the breakdown of capitalism? Is this where we are headed?"
How Corporations Won the War on Terror, by William Hartung
"To put such a figure in perspective, the $75 billion in Pentagon contracts awarded to Lockheed Martin that year was significantly more than one and one-half times the entire 2020 budget for the State Department and the Agency for International Development, which together totaled $44 billion."
MINNESOTA CLIMATE WEEK September 20 – 26, 2021, STOP LINE 3
Call Gov. Tim Walz at 651-201-3400 Stop Line 3!
US reliance on defence contractors led to mission failures: Study, Costs of War
"The stunning Taliban victory last month in Afghanistan is drawing attention now to even graver consequences: the extent to which the US reliance on contractors may have heightened the difficulties of the Afghan security forces."
Matt Taibbi: Responding to “On the Media” on Free Speech: FIRE’s “So to Speak” Podcast
Last month, On the Media, a popular radio program from New York City’s WNYC, aired an episode that questioned free speech values and challenged so-called “free speech absolutism.” On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by Matt Taibbi, Nadine Strossen, and Amna Khalid, who provide direct responses to many of the free speech critiques made in On the Media’s program
DN! Forced Entry: NSO Group Spies Secretly Seized Control of Apple Devices by Exploiting Flaw in Code
“This is … the most important crisis around global civil society right now.” Over 1.65 billion Apple products in use around the globe have been vulnerable to the spyware since at least March.
The Messy Truth About Carbon Footprints
"So by all means, skip that next beef burger, or take a pass on that cheap flight to Cancún. But then ask yourself how you can magnify the impact of what you do."