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76th Year Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration Events, Minneapolis/St. Paul

All are welcome to all Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance events in Minneapolis./St. Paul, August 5, 6, and 8

#DeadlineGlasgow: Defund Climate Chaos Aug. 13 focus #StopLine3

List of demands put in place by November 1, 2021 when international Climate Chaos conference begins in Glasgow.

Edward Snowden and Julian Assange’s warning about the Security and Surveillance Industrial Complex

This video was released today (August 3, 2021) to show that journalists and whistleblowers warned us years ago about the recent revelation of the Pegasus spy software developed by the Israeli cyberweapons company NSO Group, which was found on the phones of journalists around the world, and that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

James Baldwin Was Right All Along, by Raoul Peck

"Why can’t we understand, as Baldwin did and demonstrated throughout his life, that racism is not a sickness, nor a virus, but rather the ugly child of an economic system that produces inequalities and injustice?"

Resisting Drone Terror: Behind the Scenes of Shut Down Creech!

This fall will mark the 12th year CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace and allies have gathered at Creech Air Force Base for weeklong, nonviolent actions to resist the U.S. drone assassination program! About Shut Down Creech! Shut Down Creech! is a national mobilization of nonviolent resistance to shut down killer drone More

Meet the Censored: Hitler, by Matt Taibbi

"Asking computer programs to sort out the subtleties of different types of speech — differences between commentary and advocacy, criticism and incitement, reporting and participation — has proven a disaster."

CHRIS HEDGES | We Must PEACEFULLY Overthrow CORPORATE Fascism

'"These people are going to kill us. And they are going to kill my children."

Hedges: The Collective Suicide Machine and the Fall of Kabul

The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the American empire — and nobody will be held accountable.

Facebook’s disinformation problem is harder than it looks, by Matthew Ingram

"finding the right line between disinformation control, public-health awareness, and outright censorship is not an easy task."

Hedges: The Price of Conscience

"...by criminalizing those within the system who seek to inform the public is ominous for our democracy. It is effectively extinguishing all investigations into the inner workings of power."

Why Drop the Charges Against All 646 Arrestees in Minneapolis Post-election Demonstration on I94

Whether in war abroad or war at home, human rights in this day and age so often do not apply, especially for people of color.

DN! “All We Can Save”: As Climate Disasters Wreck Our Planet, Women Leaders Are Key to Solving the Crisis

"We should care because this is the planet that we have to live on, right? Like, we can’t actually all leave the planet. And it is interesting that you opened this segment by talking about the balance of coverage. We are simply not seeing very much climate coverage at all in the mainstream media."

DN! Just Out of Jail, Winona LaDuke Decries Militarized Crackdown on Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline Protests

"About a month ago, the Minnesota DNR, which is probably the most corrupt agency in the state of Minnesota, allocated 5 billion gallons of water to Enbridge in the middle of a drought. They knew about..."

“Don’t you know there’s a war on?” by Patrick Lawrence

"The sooner we recognize these and many similar events as disparate dimensions of a concerted war waged against us, the better we will understand the air we breathe and the water we drink."

Our New Postracial Myth, by Ibram X. Kendi

"Just as you can recognize an impoverished country by its widespread poverty, you can recognize a racist country by its widespread racial inequity."

Moral Intelligence or Nuclear War, by Robert C. Koehler

"To declare that nuclear weapons can only "legally" be used in retaliation for a nuclear strike hardly leaves me feeling safe. Are we left with a world continually at war with itself, with our best hope being that all future wars will be waged legally and politely?"

Henry Giroux: Pedagogy, Power, and Moral Witnessing in Dangerous Times

"Economic inequality is the bedrock of neoliberalism." "In an age when it seems to me all problems are seen as individual problems and there is no understanding of how to basically conceptualize the social, That has to be one of the most powerful ideologies for domination that has come along for 400 years..."

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