Rise Up Times Summary, October 16, 2022
"Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as well as new international modes of politics to fight them." Henry Giroux
Matt Taibbi: Give War A Chance
God save us from people who dream big, without the brains to match.
Interview with legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg following his 89th arrest for resisting nuclear weapons, nuclear war and government secrecy
Still today, hardly any people know just how much falsehood was fed to them to justify what we did. By Dennis Bernstein Covert Action Magazine September 24, 2019 The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Livermore, California, designs new nuclear weapons and conducts plutonium research. [Credit: worldatlas.com] [Daniel Ellsberg, a consultant to the White House in 1961, drafted More
Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media
Marshall McLuhan: “World War III will be a guerrilla information war,” it says. “With no divisions between military and civilian participation.”
Ann Wright | A defense of WomenCross DMZ: When “human rights” hurts North Koreans
When "human rights" hurts North Koreans: A defense of WomenCross DMZ
Henry A. Giroux: The Militarization of Racism and Neoliberal Violence
"But I want to introduce a caveat. I think it is a mistake to simply focus on the militarization of the police and their racist actions in addressing the killing of Michael Brown. What we are witnessing in this brutal killing and mobilization of state violence is symptomatic of the neoliberal, racist, punishing state emerging More
Winona LaDuke: From Geronimo to Bin Laden
Time to revisit this book, especially if you have not seen information about it before. Related articles Women in the Environment: Winona LaDuke Visits Aquinas (thewmeacblog.org)
Gilbert Mercier> Global War Economy: The Empire of the US Military Industrial Complex
This permanent war business proposition is criminal in nature but absolutely fool proof in terms of maximum returns on the investment. Money is made when the weapons are manufactured. By Gilbert Mercier Aug 30, 2012 at 3:13 pm NEWS JUNKIE POST Arguably, since entering World War II, the United States of America’s economy has been a war More
Gilbert Mercier> Global War Economy: The Empire of the US Military Industrial Complex
This permanent war business proposition is criminal in nature but absolutely fool proof in terms of maximum returns on the investment. Money is made when the weapons are manufactured. By Gilbert Mercier Aug 30, 2012 at 3:13 pm NEWS JUNKIE POST Arguably, since entering World War II, the United States of America’s economy has been a war More
[Video] Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer on the Culture of War and National Security State
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/70658690] Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer speaking at Peacestock 2013 from Bill Sorem PLUS 1 week ago Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer is Associate Professor of Justice and Peace Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Jack is a graduate of St. Olaf College where he majored in Political Science. He did his theological training at Union Theological Seminary in New More