Chris Hedges: “Fire Weather”: Big Oil’s Climate Conflagration

The destruction of vast forests sold to timber companies and the scraping away of the topsoil have left behind poisoned wastelands. This industrial operation, perhaps the largest such project in the world, is rapidly accelerating the release of the carbon emissions that will, if left unchecked, soon render the planet uninhabitable for humans and most other species.   

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.

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.

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.

Colorado-based Water Protector Faces Trial, Shares Wisdom: A Line 3 Tale

Enbridge’s pipelines have leaked many times. The Line 3 oil spill in 1991 at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, remains the largest inland oil spill in US history. What’s more, the deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions associated with Line 3 — and the other numerous projects like it — are centrally implicated in intensifying climate change. Then there’s the impact of industrial encroachment on Indigenous communities — particularly women, who experience violence at twice the rate of other American women, in most cases at the hands of non-Indigenous men.

Media for Justice and Peace, Rise Up Times Summary, July 2023

Media for Justice and Peace New Posts for July 2023 Share     Tweet     Forward      PLEASE SHARE WIDELY DONATE TODAY Lake St. and 11th Ave. Minneapolis MN   Photo: Rise Up Times FEATURED Fragmentary Connections: A Meditation on War, Peace, Community, and Climate REFLECTIONS ON WHERE WE HAVE BEEN AND WHERE WE ARE More

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