Minnesota regulators OK rare fund to decommission new Enbridge pipeline
Under the deal, Enbridge will pay more than $61 million a year into the trust fund until Oct. 1, 2041. That's 20 years after the pipeline started operating. The company estimated decommissioning the new pipeline will cost $1.25 billion.
10 Biggest Oil Companies, by Nathan Reiff
Rising public concern about climate change and measures to reduce the use of carbon-based fuels have yet to fully impact the industry. Two of these oil and gas giants—Exxon and Shell—also fall into the category of being some of the most profitable companies in the world.
Rise Up Times, Media for Justice and Peace, September/October Summary
Share Tweet Forward DONATE TODAY Media for Justice and Peace New Posts for September/October, 2023 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY Rise Up Times: Articles of substance you won’t find in the mainstream corporate media Art by Cartoonist Mr. Fish Chris Hedges Report: Israel’s Long War on Gaza with Norman Finkelstein Mass More
Chris Hedges: Exterminate All the Brutes
It is an attempt by Israel to erase not only a people, but the idea of Palestine. It is a carbon copy of the massive campaigns of racialized slaughter by other settler colonial projects who believed that indiscriminate and wholesale violence could make the aspirations of an oppressed people, whose land they stole, go away. And like other perpetrators of genocide, Israel intends to keep it hidden.
The Censorship Hydra, by Matt Taibbi
The Censorship Hydra (Or Amy Klobuchar Sucks) By Matt Taibbi Substack October 26, 2023 Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) If you read this morning’s Racket article about Senator Amy Klobuchar’s letter to Jeff Bezos asking for “proactive measures” to suppress sites like Substack or Rumble, you probably gathered I’m in a mood. I’ve had More
We Are Witnessing the Largest U.S. Anti-War Protests in 20 Years
“This is the result of decades of work that we’ve put into this movement, and I think some of it is connected to the [George Floyd protests of 2020]. There was so much racial, social justice, anti-war building in that moment."
Rights Lawyers Release Analysis of U.S. Complicity in Israel’s Unfolding Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza
According to the International Court of Justice, “a State’s obligation to prevent [genocide], and the corresponding duty to act, arise at the instant that the State learns of, or should normally have learned of, the existence of a serious risk that genocide will be committed.
Vengeful Pathologies: Adam Shatz on the war in Gaza
Henry Giroux "...essential read on the cult of violence and the occupation of Gaza--this is the long view missing from the mainstream and liberal press."
Rumble faces consequences for refusing UK’s demand to ban Russell Brand, by Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald addresses more attempts to control independent voices on the internet that are not part of the closed propaganda system, this time on Rumble. https://youtu.be/CzIDVjduO5E?si=cfQef8ihMb99rSz6 Editor's note: Such attempts were made in England before when the poet William Blake was charged with sedition in 1803 for saying More
Chris Hedges Report: Israel’s Long War on Gaza with Norman Finkelstein
Israel's 17-year blockade of Gaza and its crucial significance to understanding the events of the past two weeks discussed.
Mass Protests Have Failed To Bring About Social Change. It’s Time for a New Strategy
Occupy Wall Street gets a lot done and does plant the seeds for something good that grows out of it later, kind of precisely because it does not become a mass protest movement, because it doesn’t actually shut down Manhattan in the way that Tahrir shut down Egypt.
Chris Hedges: Fascism Comes to America
Eighty million eligible voters did not vote in the last presidential election, no doubt because they did not expect much to change in their lives whoever was in office. And they were probably right.
Mr. Fish: Bare Bones
Mr. Fish / ScheerPost / October 10, 2023 Dwayne Booth (Mr. Fish) Dwayne Booth has been a freelance writer and cartoonist for twenty-five years, publishing under both his real name and the pen name of Mr. Fish with the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, the Village Voice, the More
Chris Hedges: Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them
The collective retribution against innocents is a familiar tactic employed by colonial rulers....Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always the occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades piles of corpses for higher piles of corpses.
From Niger to Haiti to Cop City, Defeat the War Against African People!
The U.S. wages a war against African people in Niger as it seeks to continue military and economic domination of that nation and the rest of the continent. In Haiti, an impending occupation uses African and Caribbean nations as a cover for U.S. imperialism. The U.S. Africa Command, AFRICOM, is replicated in Atlanta, Georgia with “Cop City,” an effort to impose militarized policing with the help of a compromised Black misleadership class,
Nick Mottern on Merchants of Death, with Kathy Kelly & David Swanson of World Beyond War
Kathy Kelly Serenades War Profiteers https://youtu.be/cjzEgNXhiRY Nick Mottern on Merchants of Death, with David Swanson of World Beyond War on World Talk Radio This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Nick Mottern, long-time stand-out peace activist, reporter, researcher, speaker, and prop-creator. Nick is co-coordinator of More
About the Climate Crisis: Democracy Now, Caitlin Johnstone, Helena Cobban
Amy Goodman and Dennis Moynihan, interviews by Amy Goodman, an article in her newsletter by Caitlin Johnstone, and Helena Cobban has an extensive analysis of the polls in relation to age group demographics and he climate crisis.
Jeffrey Sachs: NATO Expansion & Ukraine’s Destruction
From Ukraine’s independence in 1991 until the U.S.-backed overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government in 2014, Russia didn’t show any interest in taking Ukrainian territory.
Chris Hedges: Corporations Run the World, with Matt Kennard
Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's book, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy," looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact development on their own terms.
“I’m Not a Criminal…Enbridge Is”: Charges Tossed Against Winona LaDuke & Others for Pipeline Action
So it was about, you know, our religious freedom, our freedom of assembly, our constitutional rights, but also recognizing our treaty rights, which is what we have been saying. These are our territories, and we have a right and responsibility to protect them.