“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.
Clare Daly and Jeffrey Sachs, Why Provoke Russia? How It Happened and Why
We are on the verge now of a new world's order. U.S hegemony has had its day. The present juncture is a sign not of their strengths but of their weakness, and the countries which represent the majority of the world's population have had enough; they're not prepared to More
The Power of Personal Courage in an Era of Mass Censorship – Craig Murray, Former UK Ambassador
The military-industrial complex: The way that Perpetual Wars overseas and territorial acquisition overseas benefits are only for the ruling and Military classes and the arms industry and does not benefit the ordinary working class at all...
A Future Generation Shows Up Ahead of Schedule, by Stan Cox
Yes, the planet’s economy is indeed greening relatively rapidly in terms of the growth of renewable energy sources and their ever more striking affordability. Still, nothing is happening fast enough in a world that seems to be breaking heat records weekly. In truth, I just don’t want life to be an eternal weather horror show for my grandkids and that’s why I find today’s piece by TomDispatch regular Stan Cox encouraging. It’s good to know that the young aren’t going to take what their elders have done to them sitting down (so to speak). Tom Englehardt
Caitlin Johnstone: Pay Attention To The Everyday Horrors
Pay Attention To The Everyday Horrors By CAITLIN JOHNSTONE Substack.com September 9, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Have you ever noticed how the criticisms that both mainstream US political factions make about their opposition tend to be cartoonish exaggerations and whole cloth More
Patrick Lawrence: Bad Faith and Blank Checks
All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his new book, Journalists and Their Shadows. Bad Faith and Blank Checks By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News ScheerPost September 6, 2023 byEDITOR An embedded civilian journalist taking photographs More
Ousting U.S. Nuclear Weapons from Europe, John LaForge and Marion Küpker
The U.S. stations about 100 nuclear gravity bombs called B61s at bases in Italy, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Turkey, where foreign pilots flying foreign fighter jets train to attack Russia with them.
The New York Times is Burning Peace Activist Jodie Evans at the Stake
Evans joins host Robert Scheer on this episode of Scheer Intelligence to discuss what Scheer called “one of the most vicious articles I've ever read in a mainstream publication.”
Leave No One Behind: Repatriating Deported Veterans
VFP Chapter 182 Resource and Information Center Office in Tijuana, BC, Mex., providing access to pro-bono legal counsel, case management, and other support services to help veterans rebuild their lives in deportation and obtain their VA Benefits they qualify for in exile.
Rise Up Times, Media for Justice and Peace, Summary of Posts
Seymour Hersh, Summer of the Hawks; , Henry Giroux: Memory Work, Racism; Caitlin Johnstone: CIA ; Biden: Climate Crisis; A Line 3 Tale; Chile Constitution; Asia Pacific & NATO Expansion, China, So. Korea; Ukraine: Corruption, Zelensky
Chris Hedges: Our Collective Trauma is the Road to Tyranny
The key is community. Not virtual communities. But communities where we can reconnect and see in our wounds the wounds of others.
Caitlin Johnstone: Access Journalism at Its Most Pernicious
New York Times editors changed a recent headline from “As Ukraine’s Fight Falters, It Gets Even Harder to Talk About Negotiations” to “As Ukraine’s Fight Grinds On, Talk of Negotiations Becomes Nearly Taboo”, apparently for no other reason than because “grinds on” advances the information interests of the US empire better than “falters”.
“Staggerlee wonders” by James Baldwin
And, anyway, none of this changes the reality, which is, for example, that I do not want my son to die in Guantanamo, or anywhere else, for that matter, serving the Stars and Stripes. (I've seen some stars. I got some stripes.) Neither (incidentally) has anyone discussed the Bomb with the niggers:
How Different Our Work Would Be in a Democracy
VFP members, like so many others in the struggle for peace and justice, are always on the defensive because corporations wield governing power and we are always reacting to them — fighting another specific weapons system, another invasion, another human rights violation. How Different Our Work Would Be in More
Rising Danger of War in Asia Pacific: U.S. v. China and North Korea?
National Security Strategy: Now 60% of U.S. Naval ships are in the Pacific
Henry Giroux: Memory Work and the Making of White Working-Class and Racial Identities
If we are going to take democracy seriously, it is time for social movements, parents, unions, intellectuals, and alternative media to address individually and collectively the growing racism and class inequality head on as part of a new post-Civil Rights struggle.
Climate Crisis − Veterans Respond!
In a time of both wars/militarism and the climate crisis, VFP CCMP members and our allies are educating the public and taking action, on the street and online. Veterans For Peace has a unique and often much-appreciated perspective on these existential threats - we have presented over 120 slideshows and taken direct action in DC and NYC.
Another Day, Another CIA Press Release Disguised As News, BY Caitlin Johnstone
One of the craziest things happening in our world today is how westerners are being trained to overlook the massive amounts of western propaganda they’re inundated with day in and day out and focus instead on “Russian propaganda”, which has no meaningful existence in the west
Seymour Hersh: Summer of the Hawks
The corruption so often “talked about in Niger is not about petty bribes by government officials, but about an entire structure—developed during French colonial rule—that prevents Niger from establishing sovereignty over its raw materials and over its development,”
You Can’t Project Power When the World Knows You are Weak, Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III
We can see the demise of the U.S. Empire happening in real time. According to Alexander Mercouris, host of The Duran, “the great period of danger in any international system is when the overarching empire declines, when it starts to lose control.