Tag Archives: WWII

How to take on fascism without getting played, by George Lakey

May 22, 2019 · by · in capitalist system, Economy, Trump presidency · 1 Comment

The cause of rising fascism is the economic elite and its wish to take more and more of the country’s wealth for itself.

Christopher Simpson on “The Science of Coercion”

June 18, 2018 · by · in manufacturing consent, Militarism, psychological warfare, U.S. Foreign Policy

Government-funded psychological warfare programs underwrote the academic triumph of preconceptions about communication that persist today in communication studies, advertising research, and in counterinsurgency operations.

Jeffrey D. Sachs: The Waste of War

July 24, 2014 · by · in Ground All Drones, International Relations, Militarism, Military Madness

Rather than solving a single underlying problem, the chaos is growing, threatening an ever-widening war. Is this the result of too many governments shooting first, and thinking after? By JEFFREY D. SACHS  NationofChange.org  PROJECT SYNDICATE / OP-ED  Published: Tuesday 22 July 2014 Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the […]

▶ Dick Gaughan – Think Again, from A Different Kind of Love Song

May 11, 2014 · by · in Militarism, Music, Peacemaking, U.S. Foreign Policy

Sunday Song, Bruce Gagnon’s Organizing Notes  May 11, 2014 Published on Dec 29, 2012 Dick Gaughan – Think Again, from the album A Different Kind Of Love Song.       Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook!  Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our […]