Biden’s Drone Wars, by Brian Terrell
“When you drop a bomb from a drone… you are going to cause more damage than you are going to cause good,” and “The more weapons we give, the more bombs we drop, that just… fuels the conflict.” General Michael Flynn
Eden Prairie MN: City Vote Threatens Fredrick-Miller Spring Water
"Riley Creek has experienced a noticeable decrease of fish and plant life according to water protector Friends of Fredrick-Miller Spring. The Spring’s generosity rushes down Purgatory Ridge and is arguably the last fast-flowing, easy access, good-tasting major spring water in the Mississippi watershed of southern Minnesota."
Cancel Culture: Chris Hedges with Dan Kovalik
Cancel culture individualist struggle is about white folks becoming less racist instead of working together for real social change.
Henry Giroux: The Plague of Historical Amnesia in the Age of Fascist Politics
"Historical amnesia also finds expression in the right-wing press and among media pundits such as Fox News commentators Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, whose addiction to lying exceeds the boundaries of reason and creates an echo chamber of misinformation that normalizes the unspeakable, if not the unthinkable."
Chris Hedges: The Unraveling of the American Empire
"There is not a single case since 1941 when the coups, political assassinations, election fraud, black propaganda, blackmail, kidnapping, brutal counter-insurgency campaigns, U.S. sanctioned massacres, torture in global black sites, proxy wars or military interventions carried out by the United States resulted in the establishment of a democratic government."
Noam Chomsky’s Theory of the Good Life, an interview by Ezra Klein
"In fact, anarchist society should be highly organized, but under popular control of a free informed community, which can interact without illegitimate forces controlling them."
Journalism under siege in Minnesota, by Mathew Ingram
"We are not worthier victims just because the fourth estate works to uphold democracy. It’s our job. And we’d do well to focus on those who don’t have the opportunity to write 800 words about their own importance afterward.”
Democracy Now! Decolonization or Extinction: Indigenous Red Deal Lays Out Plan to Save the Earth, Parts 1 and 2
The book offers a "people's program to prevent extinction," says Melanie Yazzie, assistant professor of Native American studies and American studies at the University of New Mexico and co-author of "The Red Deal." "The plan is really clear. The stakes are really clear," Yazzie says.
Code Pink: Closing US Military Bases Abroad
Why should the 800 US military bases abroad be closed? with Christine Ahn, David Vine and Robert Kajiwara
Democracy Now! Police Killed John Thompson’s Friend Philando Castile. Now He Is a Lawmaker Fighting Racist Policing
Rep. John Thompson from the Minnesota Legislature discusses bills re police accountability and barriers in the Republican state senate
Injuries from Less-Lethal Weapons during the George Floyd Protests in Minneapolis
"Although less-lethal weapons are designed as an alternative to lethal weapons, we found a substantial number of patients with serious injuries, including many injuries to the head, neck, and face."
This is Dakota Land, by Susu Jeffrey
"Rights to the whole of Dakota homelands in southern Minnesota were relinquished in a series of forced treaties, some 24-million acres. Treaty paper, T.P., toilet paper."
Violence Begets Violence: America’s Wars Come Home
"The notion that perpetual war will somehow bring long-lasting peace is a peculiarly American and often recurring form of doublespeak (saying one thing and meaning the opposite) that permeates the entire national surveillance empire..."
Feeding Hate With Video: A Former Alt-Right YouTuber Explains His Methods
"Over the more than two years he helped produce and publish videos for Robinson and others, Robertson learned how making clever edits and focusing on confrontation could help draw millions of views on YouTube and other services. He also learned how YouTube’s recommendation algorithm often nudged people toward extreme videos."
The Nuclear Question: Violence Begats Violence, by Alicia Sanders-Zakre and Dorothy VanSoest talks about “Nuclear Option””
"The cost of building and maintaining the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent, or GBSD, as it’s known, could swell to $264 billion over the coming decades, with much of the money going to military contractors, including Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics."
Is Russia truly our enemy? by Bruce Gagnon
"Capitalism's need to control and consume resources is what drives most of these current war mongering activities."
Calling Chauvin a “Bad Apple” Denies Systemic Nature of Racist Police Violence
"Prosecutors will likely try to isolate Chauvin as one of “a few bad apples.” That may be an effective prosecutorial strategy to convince jurors they should convict him. But this “rogue cop” characterization — also used after the 1991 Rodney King beating and the police killings of Michael Brown, Philando More
Diana Johnstone: The Imperialism of Foolery
"The real existing conflict in Syria today is not between Bachar al Assad and 65 exiled intellectuals. Proclaiming “support” for Westernized intellectual opponents of Assad is totally irrelevant to the existing situation. "
WATER IS LIFE: Sara Thomsen, Water Protectors, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
“We are the river, and the river is us. We have no choice but to stand up.” — LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Founder of Sacred Stone Camp, Cannonball, ND