#DeadlineGlasgow: Defund Climate Chaos Aug. 13 focus #StopLine3
List of demands put in place by November 1, 2021 when international Climate Chaos conference begins in Glasgow.
Chris Hedges Speaks on ‘American Sadism’
"What is taking place is not neglect. It is not ineptitude. It is not policy failure. It is social murder. It is murder because it is premeditated. It is murder because a conscious choice was made by the global ruling classes to extinguish life rather than protect it. It is murder because profit, despite the hard statistics, the growing climate disruptions, and the scientific modeling, is deemed more important than human survival."
A People’s Guide to the War Industry -4: The New BOSS
"Capitalists profit when they adeptly shift costs onto others (humans, other animals, the planet itself). This includes enforcing poor labor safety, crushing labor unions, and polluting the natural world. We, the people, see so much pollution and harm because that’s how the system is designed. Those are intentional byproducts of capitalism."
Chris Hedges: Decline of US Empire, Liberal Class Suicide and Fascism
Chris Hedges has for years argued that the Democratic Party sold its soul long ago and turned its back on the American people and that we Americans have been living through what he calls a “corporate coup d’etat in slow motion.”
Cornel West: We Must Fight the Commodification of Everybody and Everything
[Trump] is pushing the country toward genuine fascism: wholesale disregard of the law, the rule of big military, the rule of big money, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley. He is crushing workers, marginalizing women, scapegoating Mexicans, and Muslims, and Jews, and Black, brown, and indigenous people."
#Dump Trump (Again)
“Nothing [is] funny about the real world consequences of his racist hate speech.”
Matt Taibbi: Bailing Out the Bailout
"The Trump administration just bought this undead economy at retail prices and committed the Fed and the Treasury to sustaining it."
Ralph Nader: Who Will Go After Trump’s Corporate Socialism?
The original doctrine of socialism meant government ownership of the means of production—heavy industries, railroads, banks, and the like. Nobody in national politics today is suggesting such a takeover. As one quipster put it, “How can Washington take ownership of the banks when the banks own Washington?” Consumer rights advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph More
Chris Hedges: “The Rats Revolt” by Ralph Nader
It is only when the elites become afraid of us that there will be any hope of destroying corporate power. Politics, as Nader understands, is a game of fear.
When Washington Decides Democracy Is Dangerous: Stoking Opposition in Venezuela and Syria
The opposition “movements” in Venezuela and Syria have a great deal in common: both are seeking the demise of democratically-elected governments; both resort to violence and acts of terrorism; both are tools of U.S. and Western imperialism, and both are failing. A Venezuelan protester holds a poster that reads in Spanish “Against Imperialist aggression, respect More