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Winona LaDuke on Militarism and the Climate Crisis
Winona LaDuke, at a Line 3 protest in northern Minnesota, says a peacetime military should be fixing the planet. https://progressivehub.net/ Progressive Hub Subscribe to RiseUpTimes.org Support independent media. Please donate today and share articles widely.
CHRIS HEDGES | We Must PEACEFULLY Overthrow CORPORATE Fascism
‘”These people are going to kill us. And they are going to kill my children.”
Hedges: The Collective Suicide Machine and the Fall of Kabul
The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the American empire — and nobody will be held accountable.
A People’s Guide to the War Industry -3: Bribery and Propaganda
When war is your business, peace is your enemy, writes Christian Sorensen. Third in a five-part series on the military-industrial-congressional complex.
Ilhan, Antone and the Price of Inclusion, by Ricardo Levins Morales
“Inclusionists demand equal participation at all levels of the empire and its institutions while transformationists call for fundamental change.”
A View from the Ground: Twin Cities Activism, Before and After
“Mobolaji Olambiwonnu is correct when he says that most white people do not understand what it is like to be black in America. We do not have to live it. Intellectually we might understand. Emotionally it is still not exactly real to us.”
Empire, Militarization, and Popular Revolt in Africa
In what ways does militarization/militarism in the African context enable, extend and depend upon economic, military/’security’ relations with imperialist actors, most importantly the US and Israel? A video of a panel discussion organized by The People’s Forum. Includes academics and members of human rights organizations and the National Lawyers Guild. What are the new/old justifications […]
Building the Democratic Economy from Preston UK to Cleveland OH, The Laura Flanders Show
Alternative economy with community health and wealth building
Update on ALEC, Center for Media and Democracy
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). What corporations have quit ALEC? Is your legislator a member of ALEC? and more.
Freedom Rider: The Migrant Caravan and U.S. Policy, by Margaret Kimberley
A truly democratic United States would not destroy other countries and would do better by its own people. The migrant caravan and fear of it are proof of failure on both counts.
Buffy Sainte-Marie | The War Racket (music video)
“The War Racket” tell it like it is. powerful music, powerful visuals.
Media Owned By Warlords, Gov’t Owned By Big Money, Shock Doctrine
War profiteers and the media who hire them. Puerto Rico. Worker wages.
For the Love of Liberation: Let’s Stop Belittling Others and Start Organizing
While the criticisms of what liberalism has tolerated that led us up to now certainly ring true, the way these criticisms are levied is often counterproductive.
Kayaktivist Action at Pentagon (Video)
A flotilla of Kayaktivists launch a banner protest at the Pentagon. They are drawing attention to the worlds largest institutional consumer of petroleum, the worlds largest institutional polluter, and the U.S. largest consumer of money and natural resources. They advocate for the reallocation of budget for peaceful renewable investment. Part of the WorldBeyondWar.org conference on […]
Susu Jeffrey | An Exercise in Pretend Democracy: The Alberta Pipeline
Tar sands oil is the world’s dirtiest oil.
Evergreene Digest | A diatribe against the cultural decline in America also offers a way out A review of America at War with Itself by Henry A. Giroux
A diatribe against the cultural decline in America also offers a way out A review of America at War with Itself ~ Henry A. Giroux Related: Table of Contents, Foreword, and the First Chapter from America at War with Itself Related: Will Americans Submit to Despotism in an Urge to ‘Escape from Freedom’Shelley Walia, The […]
The Rage of Caliban: Identity Politics, the Travel Ban, and the Shifting Ideological Framework of the Resistance
Islamophobia is not the same thing as racism, just as fascism is not the same thing as Hate. Any effective resistance to Trump’s agenda will have to go much further than the official opposition rhetoric that invites us to conflate these things. By PETER GAFFNEY Counterpunch February 16, 2017 The travel ban was a […]
Greenpeace Protestors Climbed a Crane to Hang a ‘Resist’ Banner
Greenpeace hangs Resist banner above the White House.
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