Rage Against the War Machine: Photos and Commentary
"[Sunday's] Rage Against the War Machine rally and march was an interesting experiment in creating a left-right alliance around the issue of war and militarism."
The Corporate Media Deference That Endangers Us All, by Caitlin Johnstone
"This didn’t just affect AP staff, it affected the whole world; we deserve to know what happened and who was responsible, and AP has no business obstructing that knowledge from us."
Ukraine and the Triumph of Militarism, by Caitlin Johnstone
What makes Tierney’s triumphant militarist smut so annoying isn’t how he’s wrong, it’s how he’s right. You can take issue all you like with his use of the word “left” to describe liberal supporters of capitalism and empire who just want the empire to be a bit less embarrassing and maybe forgive their student loans, but that’s the fault of the generations of psyops that have gone into sabotaging the left and destroying its memory, not Tierney’s.
The battle for Ukraine, with ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter
What Russia has maintained and what was pretty apparent was that this [Donbass] was a de facto NATO base inside Ukraine, which is technically not a member of NATO, so you're talking about de facto NATOization being the main factor in this war,,,I mean for Russia. This war was predicated by NATO's appetite for eastern expansion of the expansion eastward to include Ukraine..
VIDEO: Former top Pentagon advisor Col. Doug Macgregor on Russia-Ukraine war
Macgregor blasted the "uniparty" that drove the war from Washington and heaped criticism on NATO.
“Don’t you know there’s a war on?” by Patrick Lawrence
"The sooner we recognize these and many similar events as disparate dimensions of a concerted war waged against us, the better we will understand the air we breathe and the water we drink."
Climate change, the Amazon rainforest, Minnesota and global warming
"This wondrous planet, so full of mystery, is a paradise. All I want to do is give everything I have, my energy, my love, my labor — in gratitude for what we are given. " —Christi Belcourt, Native American Artist, about her featured art at the recent Minneapolis Institute of Arts exhibit of Native American Women’s art, Hearts of Our People.