Margaret Flowers: The Solutions are Obvious, but it will take a Revolution to win them
"This is our moment. This is the time to make demands that the government take action to address the people’s needs.,,,It is up to us to bring the crisis to members of Congress and demand immediate action."
EFF Fireside Chat: Section 230 and Free Speech
What to do to protect free speech on the internet.
Chris Hedges: The Collective Suicide of the Liberal Class
"...the liberals do what they always do, chatter endlessly about political and moral positions they refuse to make any sacrifices to achieve."
Noam Chomsky: Our Stark, Cruel Dilemma
Address the reality of the world in which you are trying to make a change managed in the best way possible. e.g., National Highway Administration: No regulations on automobile emissions via Trump. Egregious approach of deniers when careful constructive solutions must be demanded by large actions to demand change.
STRATCOM: The Most Dangerous Organization in the World
The Peace Report: Fighting One Empire at a Time
The Middle East Will Soon Be Under Water: A Talk with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
Arguing against the misplaced fear of economic disaster and unemployment arising from the transition to a green economy, they show how this bogus concern encourages climate denialism.
Matt Taibbi: For What Are America’s Wealthy Thankful? A Worsening Culture War
"...both politicians and the bigger media organizations...keep playing up these tensions as click-generating theater, not caring about the consequences of wishing actual sectarian battle into existence."
Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
"Never mind that both ruling parties are silent about the massive interference in our elections by Israel, which uses its lobbying groups to lavishly fund political candidates in both parties and flies members of Congress and their families to Israel for junkets at seaside resorts. Israel’s intrusion in our political process, including when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress in 2015, without informing then President Barack Obama, to attack the president’s Iran nuclear deal, dwarfs that of any other country, including Russia."
A View from the Ground: Why Drop the Charges Against ALL I94 Arrestees in Minneapolis Post-Election Demonstration?
To go forward with this charade of justice is absurd.
GOP Trail of Tears: Giving Thanks to Indigenous Voters
"If it were up to White folk, Trump would have walked away with Arizona, but Indigenous precincts in Navajo Nation lands reported a 60% to 90% vote for Biden-Harris."
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
“The Green New Deal is the only approach to climate stabilization also capable of reversing rising inequality and defeating global neoliberalism and ascendant neofascism.”
Saying Her Name: Breonna Taylor
Officers not charged with death of Breonna Taylor. Local and nationwide protests. By Emma Sron November 5, 2020 This article originally appeared in the print version of Women Against Military Madness Newsletter Vol 38, No 5, 2020. On Wednesday, September 23, a Kentucky grand jury indicted Louisville police officer Brett More
On Contact: Hedges and Street on the Strength of Right-Wing Populism
"Despite losing, Donald Trump has solidified support from an angry, disposed working class that cuts across racial lines."
Support the Philippine Human Rights Act
"On July 3, Philippine President Duterte signed the Anti-Terrorism Act—a law that Amnesty International has called “yet another setback for human rights.” The law appears to be a pretext to target perceived political opponents."
Protest at General Mills: “No to U.S. Dough for the Occupation of Palestine!”
“Israel, the Occupying Power, has systemically and unlawfully appropriated Palestinian public and privately owned land, exploiting Palestinian natural resources, while forcing the transfer of and creating coercive environments [sic] to forcibly displace the protected Palestinian population.*
Polly Mann: U.S. Paying for War and the Israeli Military
"And what about this? The United States gives Israel $3.8 billion every year. More of it used to go to economic development, but now the majority of it goes for the Israeli military."
The global nuclear bargain, by Paul R. Pillar
"The late political scientist Kenneth Waltz argued that nuclear weapons can generally be a good thing because fear of the cataclysmic consequences of a war breaking out can make resort to war less likely. But that always has been a minority view."
Q and A with Margaret Kimberley, “Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents”
Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents presents 45 essays, one for each presidency, that analyze the history of Black people as they attempt to navigate a political system which is inherently hostile to their existence. Margaret Kimberley WAMM Newsletter November 5, 2020 This article originally appeared in the print version More
Edwin Starr: WAR
You'll say, "War" I'll say, "Huh, yeah" You'll say, "What is it good for?" I'll say, "Absolutely" You'll say, "Nothing"