The Belmarsh Tribunal, Free Assange, hosted by Democracy Now!
What is at stake: To all people of conscience an exhortation to act: "We will not be silent." Expert witnesses from the U.S. and Europe speak to what amounts to the "framing" of Julian Assange, how his case progressed as Trump filed the indictments, then to the hearings, and to how all of this will affect free speech if Assange is extradited and found guilty in a U.S. court for publishing the truth about American drones' "collateral damage" in the murder of civilians. Mike Pompeo characterized WikiLeaks (a publisher!) as an "enemy espionage organization" for the release of condemning CIA data. And the global rise of fascism begins with targeting and discrediting journalists. Freedom of the press and the right of people to know what their government is doing as well as the rights of journalists and their publishers of all viewpoints to publish the truth is threatened, but Biden foolishly pushes forward to extradite Assange instead of freeing him, although journalist and human rights organizations as well as heads of state worldwide have spoken up for Assange, press freedom, and the people's right to the truth.
Chris Hedges: The Death of Israel
This is not a war against Hamas. It is a war against the Palestinians. The objective is to kill or remove 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza.
Caitlin Johnstone: The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine
Ukraine is a giant advertisement for weapons of mass slaughter, and the cost of that corporate ad is not money but human blood.
The Lies of War Can Be Ended by Truth, by Amy Blumenshine
While the perpetrators of those war crimes were never charged, Assange, the publisher of the documentation revealing them, faces a possible U.S. prison sentence of 175 years in what will effectively be solitary confinement. Free Speech, Free Julian Assange!
Caitlin Johnstone: A giant empire attacking nations who have the temerity to insist on their own national sovereignty and The demolition of Gaza is not necessary.
Hamas is incapable of producing recruitment materials more effective than the footage Israel itself is creating by incinerating Palestinian families in full view of the entire world.
WAMM Newsletter: Stop the Genocide! Free Palestine!
Stop the Genocide! Free Palestine! Women Against Military Madness Vol. 41 No. 5 Winter 2023 This is the cry heard around the world in response to massacre in Gaza and killing throughout Palestine/Israel. People everywhere have poured into the streets, outraged to know a defenseless population is trapped under More
WAMM Photo Essay: Free Palestine Worldwide
People rallied in cities and towns around the world to protest the genocide of Gaza and to demand a free Palestine. Women Against Military Madness Vol. 41 No. 5 Winter 2023 Cape Town, South Africa Geneva, Switzerland London, England Los Angeles, CA (USA) Paris, France Seoul, South Korea Colombo, More
The Most Censored Stories of the Year, Rising Up with Andy Lee Roth
The Most Censored Stories of the Year BY SONALI KOLHATKAR YES Magazine December 8, 2023 Each year, Project Censored publishes its annual survey of independent journalism, State of the Free Press, consisting of stories that corporate news media failed to cover or badly misrepresented. Project Censored, whose mission is to “expose and oppose news censorship More
‘Not Reduce. Not Abate’: UN Chief Calls for Total Fossil Fuel Phaseout at COP28, by Olivia Rosane
"Humanity's fate hangs in the balance," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres at second day of global climate conference. 'Not Reduce. Not Abate': UN Chief Calls for Total Fossil Fuel Phaseout at COP28 Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres delivers an address at the opening ceremony of the World More
APARTHEID, by Susu Jeffrey
APARTHEID By Susu Jeffrey / Original to Rise Up Times / December 2, 2023 Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning apartness, literally apart-hood. It is pronounced apart-tate. Apart-tate rhymes with hate. Apartheid is a word from the European colonial period when the Dutch East India Company established a trading post in More
Divest Now! Hold the Minnesota Bureau of Investment Accountable
Not another nickel not another dime, no more $$$ for Israel’s war crimes.
Fwd: Pipeline Pledge of Resistance: Line 5 Reports and Winter Art Builds – seasnun@gmail.com – Gmail
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DN! UAE Oil CEO Sultan Al Jaber Uses His Role as U.N. Climate Summit President to Push Fossil Fuel Deals
The new revelations “call into question the integrity of COP28,” Stockton says. Democracy Now! will broadcast from COP28 in Dubai next week.
Massie, the Squad JOIN FORCES To DEMAND Biden Drop Charges Against Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
“We clearly have deep concerns about Mr Assange's case,” said the congressman. "People should understand that the charges against him are part of an alarming Global Trend, a sharp increase in attacks against the freedom of the press that is happening in countries around the world including our own."
The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, Opening Session, and more…
We render you, corporations obsessed with war profiteering, accountable; answerable! -- Cornel West, Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal Member
David Swanson: There Is No Right Side in War
When the United States faced the need to end Jim Crow, it was not a need to surrender to its enemies, but to integrate them, to become a nation that included more people on equal terms all as fellow people, neighbors, friends, companions. This was unthinkable to those who insisted on a white nation. In Israel it is unthinkable to those who insist on a Jewish nation.
John Pilger: We are Spartacus
From Washington and London, the virulence has no limit. Israel, the colonial anachronism and unleashed attack dog, is armed to the teeth and granted historical impunity so that ‘we’ the West ensure the blood and tears never dry in Palestine.
The Trump movement is turning America fascist w/Jeff Sharlet | The Chris Hedges Report
Lauren Boebert make the term "American fascism" easy to ridicule and dismiss, but Sharlet implores us to take these Christian fascists seriously as an existential threat to what is left of our anemic democracy.
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States
The Occupation of the American Mind" has been repeatedly attacked and misrepresented by right-wing pressure groups and outright ignored by virtually all mainstream media outlets and North American film festivals. Editor's Note: A version of "The Occupation of the American Mind" will be shown on a large screen More
Matt Taibbi: Dao Prize Acceptance Speech and Interview with Glenn Greenwald
Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger and I win the inaugural Dao Prize for excellence in investigative journalism, for the Twitter Files reports. Dao Prize Acceptance Speech MATT TAIBBI / Racket News / November 2, 2023 I was a little nervous in Washington last night, so my speech didn’t come out More