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The Military-Industrial Complex Baldly Lies About Creating Jobs
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Wreckage of imperialism & neoliberalism with rapper, Lowkey
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In this week’s On Contact program, Chris Hedges talks to the rapper, Lowkey, about his artistic work and political activismwww.youtube.com/watch?v=GYYU_mWlLyYFrom Wikipedia: The first part of the song, "Your Move", uses various allusions to the game of chess — such as the phrases "move me onto any black square", "...
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From our present vantage point, it seems clear that, by 2019, the United States had passed a point of no return. In retrospect, this was the moment when indications of things gone fundamentally awry should have become unmistakable. Although at the time much remained hidden in shadows, the historic pivot now commonly referred to as the Great Reckoning had commenced.
Even today, it remains difficult to understand why, given mounting evidence of a grave crisis, passivity persisted for so long across most sectors of society. An epidemic of anomie affected a large swath of the population. Faced with a blizzard of troubling developments, large and small, Americans found it difficult to put things into anything approximating useful perspective. Few even bothered to try. Fewer succeeded. As with predictions of cataclysmic earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, a not-in-my-lifetime mood generally prevailed.
During what was then misleadingly known as the Age of Trump, the political classes dithered. While the antics of President Donald Trump provoked intense interest — the word “intense” hardly covers the attention paid to him — they also provided a convenient excuse for letting partisan bickering take precedence over actual governance or problem solving of any sort. Meanwhile, “thought leaders” (a term then commonly used to describe pontificating windbags) indulged themselves with various pet projects.
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America Has Passed a Point of No Return
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The Great Reckoning A Look Back from Mid-Century By Andrew J. Bacevich [Editorial note: This remnant of a manuscript, discovered in a vault near the
The Cheapest Way to Save the Planet Grows Like a Weed
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Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the cheapest and most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. So states a Guardian article, citin
Puerto Ricans Demonstrate How to Oust a Corrupt Leader
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The movement that forced Ricardo Rosselló to step down as governor of Puerto Rico is one of the largest in the island's history. It unified people across
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Warren Slams Wall Street ‘Vampires’ in New Economic PlanDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. (Michael Wyke / AP)
In the runup to the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has released her vision for tackling college debt, reducing the cost of child care and reforming immigration, but her latest plan involves the issue that first brought her to national prominence: Wall Street. In a post published Thursday on Medium, Warren calls for the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law separating commercial banks from their investment divisions, thereby preventing banks from using consumer deposits for risky investments. The law was partially repealed in 1999, which, as a 2015 NPR analysis explained, “opened the floodgates for giant mergers” and allowed commercial banks to engage in such previously banned activities as investments and insurance.
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Warren Slams Wall Street ‘Vampires’ in New Economic Plan
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Toronto Temp Workers Organize in City's Poorest Neighborhood
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Jane and Finch residents, who make up Toronto's poorest and most diverse neighborhood, are increasingly organizing to confront temp agencies that are exploiting themThe statement by Trump is appalling only in that most US residents pretend that their lifestyles are not dependent on the murder of other people who live in other countries. It becomes even more appalling when one realizes that most of those same US residents will eventually accept (if hey haven’t already) this price in blood. Many even revel in it. That’s where we are at this moment in history.
Donald Trump’s statement earlier this week that he could win the US war in Afghanistan but he doesn’t want to kill ten million Afghans was both revealing and appalling. Like so many other of Trump’s statements, his remark revealed the genocidal nature of US foreign policy. It is a policy that considers human lives as part of some greater equation that results in the supreme dominance of the US economic and military system. When Henry Kissinger was working for Richard Nixon, it was called realpolitik. In that instance, it meant the deaths of more than a million Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians and US citizens. Jimmy Carter and Zbignew Brzezinski shared Ronald Reagan’s view that the struggle against the Soviet Union rationalized the killing. George Bush the Elder and Bill Clinton saw it as a battle against a terrorist phenomenon. Baby George Bush and Barack Obama organized their mass murder as part of a global war on terror—the GWOT. The terror they were fighting was caused by the very foreign policy the GWOT is part of. Trump may not want to kill ten million Afghans, but he seems to be okay with killing them in smaller numbers like Obama was.
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Genocide from Kissinger to Trump
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Donald Trump’s statement earlier this week that he could win the US war in Afghanistan but he doesn’t want to kill ten million Afghans was both revealing anTug-of-war is an innocent sport and, if there’s no heat wave such as now in the USA and Europe, it can be fun for all the players. But in world politics it may be a dangerous game, especially if played like some old Vikings did – across a fiery pit awaiting the losers.
On the global scale, tug-of-war is currently played with drones and surveillance planes provocatively skirting the borders of Iran in the east and Venezuela in the west, with missile-bearing carriers closely standing by. (Perhaps now in the Far East as well?). Most often, behind them, rubbing their hands – though never soiling them with tug ropes or triggers – is a team of war-hungry politicians and armament kings. The seizure of oil tankers, first by the UK and then, obviously in reprisal, by Iran, makes them hopeful but most decent people fearful! This tug-of-war, however, is not really between countries. It is between that team, itching for confrontation, new bombing missions and new vassals, and all those working for peace. Which side will win out? Or can the thin rope tear?
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Tug-of-war is an innocent sport and, if there’s no heat wave such as now in the USA and Europe, it can be fun for all the players. But in world politics it ma
Hawaii's Mauna Kea Protectors Fight for 'Our Right to Exist'
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Thirteen thousand feet above the planet's surface, forces of the sacred and the secular are locked in an epic struggle. At stake are the rights of an indig6 Minutes Video News Program - Serious: bit.ly/2Mlm1cm
Airline Caterers Authorize Strike Action, Supported by Presidential Candidates
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Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Sherrod Brown, and Mayor Bill DeBlasio, among others, all came out to the DC National Airport to express their support for airline food workers, who intend to strike for higher wages and health care9 Minutes Video News Program - Serious: bit.ly/2ymVkf3
Study: Breaching “Carbon Threshold” Could Trigger Mass Extinction in Oceans
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MIT scientist Daniel Rotham explains that the earth's oceans may be at the 'precipice of excitation,' due to carbon in the oceans, which would unleash a mass extinction of lifeClose scrutinization of the daily lives of workers has always played an important role in enabling capitalists to squeeze greater profits from their workforce. The relentless surveillance of employees, whether it be on the factory floor or in the workers’ homes, was something that the anti-Semitic industrialist, Henry Ford, was proud to have honed to a fine managerial art. This history is well-established. In fact, the website of the Henry Ford Museum boasts that a central part of the Ford Motor Company’s much vaunted $5 per day profit-sharing plan, which was rolled out in 1914, was that Ford “opened up the most intimate and personal details of employee’s personal, family, and financial life to investigators from the [Ford] Sociological Department.”
History, however, demonstrates that surveillance (in this case of a paternalistic variety) ultimately failed in its objective to pacify the workforce. Ford workers responded by becoming better organised. This in turn led the Ford managers to create something called the Service Department – a body which effectively served as an anti-union paramilitary arm of the Ford Motor Company. Hence especially during the mighty upsurge of trade union militancy in the 1930s, highly developed forms of espionage and violence were systematically deployed by Ford’s private army against any workers who strived to democratise their workplaces and their lives. The battle between workers and bosses continues to this day.
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Combatting Surveillance Capitalism: An Orwellian Lesson in History from Ford to Google
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Close scrutinization of the daily lives of workers has always played an important role in enabling capitalists to squeeze greater profits from their workforce.By Any Other Name: American “Frustrationism”
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“C’mon, of course the President’s not racist, but he’s frustrated like so many Americans are.” -- Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) Well, I certainly do16 Minutes Comedy Video News: youtu.be/bCBYJZ6QbUIThere’s still nothing in our constitution that explicitly prohibits sex discrimination. John Oliver talks about how to fix that. Connect with Last Week Tonig...
In 2016, we learned that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton Campaign, even before the primary season began, conspired to sabotage the campaign of her leading opponent for the presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The conspiracy, that ranged from obtaining campaign debate questions in advance for Clinton and front-loading primaries in states where she could pile up an imposing lead to getting a complicit liberal media to count pledged but unelected and legally uncommitted “super delegates” as being already in Clinton’s delegate total (making the Sanders campaign appears quixotic) and also to plant ill-documented and speciously argued hit pieces in news media (including the NY Times and Washington Post) willing to support the effort.
Now, as Sanders’ campaign appears to be steadily gaining on the favored establishment candidates, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg, this corrupt effort to sabotage the Democrats’ most progressive and most electable candidate, Sanders, is starting up again.
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Corporate Media’s Trashing of Bernie Sanders Starts Anew
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In 2016, we learned that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton Campaign, even before the primary season began, conspired to sabotage the camThe sad reality is that these books never state plainly what most ails American workers. Firstly, not enough money (largely because massive productivity increases have been unhitched from wage increases). But also not enough meaningful work, not enough durable work, not enough programs of social uplift, and the consequent dependence on their corporate betters for their livelihood. They also often assign otherworldly agency to individuals without remotely representing structural inhibitors that often preclude people from achieving what they are incessantly being told they can achieve but for their own lack of motivation. In any event, these authors have little interest in system change, but rather better adapting workers to the existing system. Which is why they all spew senseless pop psychology solutions. This is nothing new. Sociologist Alex Carey revealed how numerous workplace studies in the 20th century all downplayed wages and salaries in their study of employee dissatisfaction. Capital knows what better wages do to profits, and it steers clear of the subject altogether.
If this is what Americans are being fed in the supposedly literate confines of the bookstore, it’s even worse when they flick on that necessary antidote to intellectualism, the television. There the promises they are fed are just as weightless and insubstantial as the spotlit tables of business literature. Like capitalists preaching corporate transformation, today’s democratic socialists preaching ‘radical change’ are offering nothing of the sort. It is worth looking at their promises through the lens of history and a more revolutionary perspective than the current candidates can muster.
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Vote Blue for Better Wage Slavery
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Democrats of all stripes continue to funnel workers into dead-end reformism Some night soon, after you’ve finished clanging your pots and pans in the
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The Real News Network produces independent, verifiable, fact-based journalism that engages ordinary people in solving the critical problems of our times.White foam, kitschy lights and embarrassing computer generated melodies. Year after year, the same crap. Not tired yet?
Christian families gather; they perform rituals, exchange gifts. All this is taking place under the crucifixion, which has been elevated to the reason, justification and excuse for the most intense, long-lasting and on-going slaughter of human beings in the history of mankind.
Hundreds of millions, all over the world, have died so that “the message of Jesus” could live. Millions are still dying now, so that Christian fundamentalists can manipulate, rule and plunder the world, unopposed.
Those neocons, the neo-colonialists, and Western exceptionalists/supremacists – are all comfortably seated in their saddles, as in the days of the Spanish Inquisition, or the insane reign of Calvin.
Aren’t all the mountain ranges of corpses and vast oceans of blood really enough?
The snow, real and chemical, is soaked in red – a deep-red color.
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Merry Christmas: Hundreds of Millions Crushed by the Cross
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White foam, kitschy lights and embarrassing computer generated melodies. Year after year, the same crap. Not tired yet? Christian families gather; they perfotruthout.org/articles/runaway-capitalism-is-crushing-american-workers/
Runaway Capitalism Is Crushing American Workers
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The nature of this new technology means this new economy, while tremendously convenient, is also highly impersonal and faceless.www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_illusion_of_freedom_20151227
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A Donald Trump campaign rally. In the 2016 presidential contest, a frustrated white working class has been receptive to anti-democracy messages. (Carwww.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=How-Mental-Conditioning-Ha-by-michael-payne-130711-625.html
How Mental Conditioning Has Created a Silent, Passive American Society
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Here's a message from your government: Congratulations to you the people of America for your acquiescence, passiveness, and continued silence; your submissive behavior has been exemplary, it shows that the true spirit of America is still alive and well. And, in closing, remember this; watch what you...Do you really want to know what the hell is going on or are you happy to just go around repeating the bullshit you get from the mainstream media? Get the real news. Use the links on this page: sungraffix.net/village-spirit.html
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Village Spirit offers links to progressive, independent news sites, articles, and activism. Their news and opinion is not censored by corporate or government interests.Seventeen years of war in the Middle East and what do we have to show for it? Iraq after our 2003 invasion and occupation is no longer a unified country. Its once modern infrastructure is largely destroyed, and the nation has fractured into warring enclaves. We have lost the war in Afghanistan. The Taliban is resurgent and has a presence in over 70 percent of the country. Libya is a failed state. Yemen after three years of relentless airstrikes and a blockade is enduring one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. The 500 “moderate” rebels we funded and armed in Syria at a cost of $500 million are in retreat after instigating a lawless reign of terror. The military adventurism has cost a staggering $5.6 trillion as our infrastructure crumbles, austerity guts basic services and half the population of the United States lives at or near poverty levels. The endless wars in the Middle East are the biggest strategic blunder in American history and herald the death of the empire.
Someone has to be blamed for debacles that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead, including at least 200,000 civilians, and millions driven from their homes. Someone has to be blamed for the proliferation of radical jihadist groups throughout the Middle East, the continued worldwide terrorist attacks, the wholesale destruction of cities and towns under relentless airstrikes and the abject failure of U.S. and U.S.-backed forces to stanch the insurgencies. You can be sure it won’t be the generals, the politicians such as George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the rabid neocons such as Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and John Bolton who sold us the wars, the Central Intelligence Agency, the arms contractors who profit from perpetual war or the celebrity pundits on the airwaves and in newspapers who serve as cheerleaders for the mayhem.
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A little more than a year ago, Chris Hedges interviewed the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations and wrote about the situation between the United StateThe New Crusade. The holy war to end all. I bet that if the US attacks Iran, the rest of the world will be offended. It could fuel the demise of America economically. The only way to kill the beast is to stop using its dollars. Russia and China are the new overwhelming force in the world. The war will be economic and the US is going to suffer dearly. There is no reason for the US to attack Iran and the recent events aimed at them are nothing but staged bullshit. The US has decimated most of the Middle East, but if they attack Iran for no good reason I believe the world will start turning their backs on the murderous beast in the West.
Take down the dollar and the beast will die... and many countries are already working towards that with China leading them on. Take away the money and its military will shrink. Try to turn on the world and take it and it will mean nuclear war. Assholes like the two pigs in the photo might go out with a bang. If not that, the environment is on the verge of going beyond control and will, without a doubt, kill most of the life on Earth. Those old school bastards have to go and if they remain too long --just a matter of a few years more-- there will be no stopping the end of an unsustainable civilization.
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In Washington on the weekend after the Fourth of July, Israel was praised and Iran was condemned in the strongest terms, with a bit of a call to arms thrown in to prepare the nation for an inevitable war. It might just seem like a normal work week in the nation’s capital, but this time …What if tomorrow nobody but the United States would use the US-dollar? We are not there yet. But graffities are all over the walls signaling that we are moving quite rapidly in that direction. And Trump knows it and his handlers know it – which is why the onslaught of financial crime – sanctions – trade wars – foreign assets and reserves confiscations, or outright theft – all in the name of “Make America Great Again”, is accelerating exponentially and with impunity. What is surprising is that the Anglo-Saxon hegemons do not seem to understand that all the threats, sanctions, trade barriers, are provoking the contrary to what should contribute to American Greatness. Economic sanctions, in whatever form, are effective only as long as the world uses the US dollar for trading and as reserve currency.
Once the world gets sick and tired of the grotesque dictate of Washington and the sanction schemes for those who do no longer want to go along with the oppressive rules of the US, they will be eager to jump on another boat, or boats – abandoning the dollar and valuing their own currencies. Meaning trading with each other in their own currencies – and that outside of the US banking system which so far even controls trading in local currencies, as long as funds have to be transferred from one nation to another via SWIFT.
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The World Is Dedollarizing - Global Research
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What if tomorrow nobody but the United States would use the US-dollar?
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Carbon dioxide emitted by Arctic fires in June and July, according to one expert, "is getting close to 2017 fossil fuel CO2 emissions of Belgium."
'Big Win' for Rhode Island in Court Battle to Make Polluters Pay for Consequences of Climate Crisis
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A federal judge delivered a blow to fossil fuel giants' strategy, remanding the case to state court
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Research argues that deadly Candida auris "may be the first example of a new fungal disease emerging from climate change."If people could wake up one morning and suddenly see what the ruling power establishment is doing to them every single day, there'd suddenly be vastly more outrage directed at the so-called "centrists", and a lot less focus on politically impotent fringe organization like white nationalists and Antifa. This is not to say that all fringe ideologies are harmless, just that none of them pose anywhere near the immediate existential threat that is posed by the current order.
There's an old joke: A duck swims past two fish and calls down, "Hey fellas! How's the water?" The fish look at each other for a minute and then one of them asks, "What the hell is water?"
People don't see the dangers of mainstream "centrism" for the same reason fish don't see water. In reality, the only reason such an ideology gets labeled "centrism" at all is because it has been normalized and made mainstream by generations of plutocratic media propaganda. The ideological group which supports the status quo omnicidal, ecocidal oppression machine by giving you a choice between two warmongering oligarchic parties in fake elections that never make any difference is nowhere near a politically moderate position by any stretch of the imagination.
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Mainstream “Centrists” Pose The Greatest Ideological Threat To Us All
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Ashton Kutcher, a stupid person who got famous playing the role of a stupid person, tweeted the following the other day: “Where has the middle gone? Middle class? Politicians who don’t need t…
Iowa Activist Takes 9/11 Truth to 17 Presidential Candidates, Several of Them Highly Receptive
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In the few weeks since Bucklin agreed to reach out to the candidates, he has achieved some truly remarkable results. So far he has spoken to 17 presidential candidates, two senatorial candidates, a congresswoman, and, Jill Biden, the wife of former U.S. vice president Joe Biden.
The Just World Fallacy: Why People Bash Assange And Defend Power
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Days of 100-Degree Heat Will Become Weeks as Climate Warms, U.S. Study Warns
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Even regions of the U.S. where extreme heat and humidity have been rare should expect significant increases in the number of hot days by mid-century.
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"The EPA is endangering the lives of children to protect pesticide industry profits."
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Climate activist praises "the most powerful words on the climate and ecological emergency I've ever heard."
Border Patrol Agent Calls Migrant Prison Camp a “Scene From a Zombie Apocalypse"
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While he didn’t embrace the term concentration camp, he didn’t dispute it either.
Giving "Upper Hand to Corporate Polluters," EPA Drops Surprise Inspections
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Criminal pollution enforcement under Trump's EPA is at record low levels.
Bernie Sanders Challenges Joe Biden to Stop Taking Money From Big Pharma
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Biden, who opposes Medicare for All, received donations from at least 15 top Big Pharma and health insurance executives.
Trump Plan to Roll Back Nuclear Inspections Raises Alarm
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After months of experts raising alarm over the nuclear power industry pressuring U.S. regulators to roll back safety policies, staffers at the federal agen
Trump's Reelection Could Spell the End of American Democracy
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It’s often said that if Trump is reelected, it’ll be the end of democracy in America. But how could Trump get reelected, and how could democracy get wiWatch as your government is being destroyed and ever more people choke and die on a toxic environment.
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10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Decimated the EPA in Just 1 Year
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On July 8, President Trump hosted a White House event to unabashedly tout his truly abysmal environmental record. The following day, coincidentally, marked
Why Are Billionaires Like Jeff Bezos So Obsessed With Space?
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The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing is this year, and it’s worth recalling the memo that then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson wrote to Pres
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Ralph Nader: The GOP Is a Profile in Cowardice
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In 1956, then-Sen. John F. Kennedy authored a best-selling book titled Profiles in Courage, in which he told the stories of senators in American history whOn top of this, we have killed about 2,000,000 people in the Middle East... Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Kuwait, etc... about half of those people were women and children... more children than women!!... and have killed many more in the following countries since the 1980's. We have not brought justice and democracy or freedom to any of these countries, but we have killed many people in them. Some of them we have supported and helped install ruthless dictators that tortured and killed thousands of innocent people in their countries. We might come back later and bomb the fuck out them and take out the dictator we installed. The point is that we have slaughtered millions of innocent people and have totally supported others, like Israel or the Western Ukraine to slaughter ever more thousands of innocent people. We are in the business of slaughtering countless multitudes of innocent people to feed the Military Industrial Complex their lives for money manufacturing the instruments of their death.
>Grenada 1983
>Lebanon 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
>Libya 1986
>El Salvador 1980s
>Nicaragua 1980s
>Iran 1987
>Panama 1989
>Iraq 1991 (Persian Gulf War) 576,000 children under the age of five using sanctions and starving them to death along with countless adults.
>Kuwait 1991
>Somalia 1993
>Bosnia 1994, 1995
>Sudan 1998
>Afghanistan 1998
>Yugoslavia 1999
>Yemen 2002
>Iraq 1991-2003 (US/UK on regular basis)
>Iraq 2003-2015
>Afghanistan 2001-2015
>Pakistan 2007-2015
>Somalia 2007-8, 2011
>Yemen 2009, 2011
>Libya 2011, 2015
>Syria 2014-2019
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Dead `Yemeni Kids? Murdering Children By the Millions For Money and Power Is An American Way of Life
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JAY JANSON—All the US invasions and bombings to bring about regime change since 1945, when the UN adopted the Nuremberg Principles of International Law into the UN Charter, were illegal, and some day, after the UN is reorganized under democratic principles, the USA and its partners will face mega ...TO: Thom Tillis, Richard Burr, Virginia Foxx... Congress Persons for North Carolina: You represent the US government, so I will address you as such. You may or may not have played a part in some of these issues… but you represent and maintain the system that has.
I am very angry about what you are trying to do to Julian Assange. You are treating him as though he is a criminal. YOU ARE THE CRIMINALS. HE IS A HERO. He exposed some of YOUR CRIMES, so you want to punish him. You want to make an example of Assange… “If you reveal GOVERNMENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTION, you will pay dearly.” The current state of affairs with the US government right now and every since Bill Clinton, or even Reagan, IS A CRIME… COUNTLESS CRIMES of every kind. Assange never revealed anything that jeopardized national security or that of any of your spies or military. While you were over there in the Middle East SLAUTERING INNOCENT PEOPLE BY THE MILLIONS, Private Manning was EXPOSING YOUR DISPECABLE, IMORAL, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY TO THE WORLD. YOU ARE THE TERRORIST-!!!
YOU ARE IMORAL, REPRENSIBLE TRAITORS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. YOU ARE A DEADLY ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY. You have MURDERED THOUSANDS OF YOUR OWN CITIZENS. I can play back the video of that crime anytime. You have murdered MILLIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE in other countries in the last 16 years. You have SLAUGHTERED WOMEN AND CHILFRED WITH IMPUNITY… more than a million of them in those 16 years, along with a million men. Maybe 1% or 2% were combatants and you could hardly blame them for defending themselves from the largest, most powerful terrorist in the world. You obviously crave more death and intend to attack more countries. YOU ARE A BLOODTHIRSTY, INSATIABLE, PSYCHOPATHIC, MASS MURDERER. AND… YOU HAVE BETRAYED EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN.!!.
Politically you are a fascist. It’s a whole new version of fascism obtained through propaganda and social engineering much more than brute force. That disgusting pig you have in the White House fancies himself a dictator while he plays out his ridiculous distractions and enriches himself. The banks and corporations rule this country and YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A SPINELESS WORM OF A PUPPET. Ninety percent of the people in this country are left to subsist on less than ten percent of the wealth they produce. The wealthiest people contribute nothing and are ESSENTIALLY JUST PARASITES… THEY HAVE NO VALUE AS CITIZENS AND THE DAY IS COMING WHEN THEIR MONEY IS WORTH NOTHING.!.
Your whole economic system is ultimately self defeating and is totally unsustainable. The promises of CAPITALISM AND THE AMERICAN DREAM ARE A COMPLETE LIE. A perpetually multiplying population also cannot be sustained. Under the current mode of operation, the only solution is forced poverty, homelessness, and death for an ever-growing percentage of the population.
Terrorists did not bring down the twin towers in New Your City. Some Arabs flew a couple of passenger jets into the buildings, but something else entirely brought those buildings down… and building 7, next to them. What’s that stuff, thermite? The only conspiracy theory is the RIDICULOUS STORY YOU TRIED TO PASS OFF AS AN EXPLINATION.!. There was no passenger jet at the Pentagon so what was that, a cruise missile or one launched from a fighter jet? There was an Arial War Game Going On in the Area. Oh… who got to keep all that gold and silver from building 6? Now you want a new war, a war with Iran. You have already created one of your false flag events for the occasion. We know Iran did not do that!
YOU ARE ESSENTIALLY THE AMERICAS’ WORST ENEMY. You have enabled the loss of millions of good jobs in this country. You replace them with poverty jobs. You have brought poverty to many millions of Americans. More than 60,000 manufacturing operations and countless thousands of jobs on top of those… replaced inside and outside the country by foreign workers who cheaper than Americans. The only people you represent in this country are the wealthiest 10% ...or less. You have more allegiance to money than any people at all. You are allowing ever more toxic pollution to saturate our environment. You will soon release the billions of gallons of methane from the Arctic and destroy us all with your greed. A DEADLY CERTAINTY THAT IS COMING SOON-!!! - !!! - !!! – AND IT WILL PRODUCE A SLOW AND MISERABLE DEATH FOR BILLIONS OF PEOPLE-!!! - !!! - !!! - - - You are doing nothing to make this country a good place to live. You do nothing to enhance the lives of American citizens. You do quite the opposite. And forget about democracy. That is long gone.
Speaking of democracy, name one country, out of all the countries you have decimated, that you have brought democracy to since WWII. You can’t do it can you? You have nothing to do with democracy. If anything, you go about destroying it… along with murdering countless innocent souls. You are out to steal their resources and you will carry out any and all manor of horror and crime against humanity to do it.
YOU ARE YOUR OWN WORST ENEMY. While you have been destroying our government and our economy… turning them into your personal profit machines, you have been leading the way in the destruction of our environment. Ultimately, you need this environment for your own survival. It is warming up quickly in the Arctic now. The methane release is steadily increasing. There is enough methane in the Arctic Ocean alone to kill off all the life on this planet ten times over and that is exactly what it is going to do. There is one-thousand-billion tons of it there. Plus, the permafrost is pumping out as much CO2 as we do now. Then there is livestock, power plants, and machines. We are all guilty, but it is your job to enable and lead the way to needed changes. You are failing and actually working towards our destruction instead. You are obviously doing it on purpose.
Do you need to get rid of most of the population of Earth as part of some insane plan? You know a population this size will never make it. Do extraterrestrials have you conned into it or were they a civilization that evolved here before we came along?? Or… are you just plain stupid? Well, you couldn’t be that stupid, but you could be blinded by greed and believe too much of your own BS. Whatever it is that is motivating you to promote, enable, and increase the use of fossil fuels does not matter. What you are doing is complete insanity. That methane is going to come out then it will keep getting hotter with no way to stop it.
All Assange and Manning did was expose a small fraction of your horrendous crimes against pretty much everything including yourself. Assange and Manning did what the good guys do, expose criminals. You want to give them life in prison. Betraying the public trust to the tune of trillions of dollars, murdering millions of innocent people, and leading a very real conspiracy to destroy all the life on the face of our planet… what are you supposed to get for that? It sounds like insanity to me. Psychopathy seems like a good place to start because you have lost your humanity and have no conscience. Your morals and ethics are perverted, and your actions are ultimately suicidal.
YOU ARE LEADING THE WAY TOWARDS THE DEATH OF THE WHOLE PLANET…… AND COUNTLESS DEATHS LEADING UP TO IT… MORE THAN SEVEN BILLION.
IT WILL KEEP GETTING HOTTER FOR A THOUSAND YEARS…. AT LEAST.
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The Arctic areas are heating up faster than the rest of the world. Alaska is part of that. The dangerous thing about that is all the carbon in the previously frozen soil and the incredible amounts of previously frozen methane in the Arctic Ocean... that is releasing at an ever increasing rate. There is enough of that stuff... the methane in particular... to kill all the life on this planet ten times over.
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Blog edited by Sam Carana, with news on climate change and warming in the Arctic due to snow and ice loss and methane releases from the seafloor.The unifying factor behind environmental decline, an extractive health care system, mind-numbing work for poverty wages, perpetual wars and increasingly intrusive and assertive commercial relations, is capitalism. Of course, the term is an abstraction, shorthand for a belief system used to explain and organize social relations. Its history is of brutality, pillage and genocide explained by its perpetrators as laying the ground for some imagined future civility.
The motivating factor behind its endurance and spread is the perpetual promise of a better tomorrow. If economic growth can only reach a certain level goes the logic, the social isolation, fractured relations, ruined landscape and brutality that is its product will all be proven worth it. In the half century since its newest incarnation, neoliberalism, was launched this certainty remains despite mounting evidence that it represents the greatest wrong turn in human history.
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The American Dream Drives a Tank Down Pennsylvania Ave.
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Andrew Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and James C. Calhoun are flying fighter planes over the Union’s celebration of itself this Fourth of July. Jeremiah Jackson and General Custer are going after the Indians they didn’t kill before. PT Barnum and the Amway company are celebrating that sucker born ever...29 Minutes Video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVhU48TYCWsYou can now watch the first 10 mins of Lee Camp’s new comedy special for FREE. Just go to LeeCampComedySpecial.com and click play. ~ We're being suppressed b...
June has set a record low of Arctic sea ice, while the extent of melting across the Greenland Ice Sheet this early in the summer has never been seen before.
Recently, temperatures in parts of Greenland soared to 40 degrees above normal, while open water (not covered by sea ice) is already being observed in places north of Alaska where it has seldom, if ever, been observed.
The current sea ice coverage in the Arctic is the lowest ever recorded for mid-June.
The Arctic, of which Greenland is a major part, is now changing at rates some Arctic scientists struggle to explain.
Though warming spells come and go each year, overall, the big picture across the melting landmass is clear: The Arctic is the fastest warming region of the world, an increase in background warming makes warm spells all the more extreme, and ice-clad Greenland is metaphorically in hot water.
"I’m losing the ability to communicate the magnitude [of change]," Jeremy Mathis, a longtime Arctic researcher and a current board director at the National Academies of Sciences told Mashable earlier this week. "I’m running out of adjectives to describe the scope of change we’re seeing."
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Scientists Are Stunned by How Rapidly Ice Is Melting in the Arctic
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One researcher offered a bleak prognosis: “We’re not going to stop this train wreck.”
Floridians Are Suing a Cop Fired for Planting Drugs in Their Vehicles
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Under Trump, Manufacturing Job Growth Slows to a Trickle
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The average hourly wage for manufacturing workers is, for the first time ever, slightly below the overall average.Let’s see how many boxes have been checked so far: Is the right to vote being dismantled? Check. Does one political party control virtually the entire government, including the highest court? Check. Are the concentration camps up and running? Check. Are there threats of violent retribution against those who speak out against all this? Check. Are many mainstream media outlets willing accomplices? Check.
What are we forgetting? Oh, right, a gaudy display of military might on the front lawn of the nation.
Multiple reports have confirmed the July Fourth celebration on the Mall in Washington D.C. will be transformed into an armed and armored outdoor fortress in the service of Donald Trump’s egg-fragile ego. According to CNN, this will include M1 Abrams tanks that will have to be brought in by train, because there are no battle tanks housed in the district. “We have the brand-new Sherman tanks,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Monday. M4 Sherman tanks have not been in service since the 1950s.
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Trump’s July Fourth Tank Display Is a Glaring Sign of Fascism
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It’s right there in front of our faces.
Trump Has Undeniably Failed to Reverse America’s Decline
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Make America Great Again? Don’t count on it. Donald Trump was partly voted into office by Americans who felt that the self-proclaimed greatest power on E
When Will Americans Realize We're Not the Good Guys?
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Headlined “U.S. Seeks Other Ways to Stop Iran Shy of War,” the article was tucked away on page A9 of a recent New York Times. Still, it caught my atLook, I was a military man—though not a part of special operations tribe—and worked closely with both Green Berets and SEALs, particularly while undertaking village stability operations (forming government-friendly village militias, essentially) in Kandahar, Afghanistan. As such, I was perhaps less surprised when the testimony of the SEALs and some Marines in the Gallagher trial not only seemed to implicate the chief in war crimes but inadvertently exposed a prevailing culture of poor discipline and indecency among the team—particularly a widespread proclivity to take “cool guy” photos with enemy or civilian corpses. The practice is gruesome, disturbing and highly common—and, though I never partook in that particular morbidity, I’m certain most Iraq and Afghan war combat vets would agree with me regarding its banality.
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Putting the Warriors on Terror on Trial
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Let’s Shut Down the Authoritarian Machine
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Roundup for Breakfast: Monsanto's Weed Killer Found in All Kids’ Cereals Sampled - Global Research
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First published in November 2018 A second round of tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group found the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer in every sample of popular oat-based cereal and other oat-based food marketed to children. These test results fly in the face of cl...
Trump EPA OKs ‘Emergency’ Use of Bee-killing Pesticide on 13.9 Million Acres - Global Research
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced so-called “emergency” approvals today to spray sulfoxaflor — an insecticide it considers “very highly toxic” to bees — on nearly 14 million acres of crops known to attract bees. The approval includes 2019 crops of cotton and sorghum in Alabam...
Trump Has a $259 Million Reason to Bomb Iran - Global Research
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On Thursday, the United States came perilously close to a military confrontation with Iran after it downed a U.S. drone that may or may not have entered the country’s air space. President Donald Trump reportedly ordered a retaliatory military strike on Iran but called it off, according to Trump’...
U.S. "Military Aid" to Al Qaeda, ISIS-Daesh - Global Research
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The total shipment is of the order of 994 tons of “humanitarian” R2P light weapons for the “Moderates” in Syria. (in a single shipment out of Romania) among numerous comparable shipments by sea as well as by air...
'A True Public Health Emergency': 70+ Medical Groups Sound Alarm on Climate Crisis
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Groups lay out action agenda to advance climate solutions and strengthen resiliency
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"Trump's desperate administration is destroying the established international mechanisms for maintaining world peace and security."
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"This is an emergency and it's past time that Tom Perez and the Democratic Party start being democratic."
Sweatshops Don't Just Exist Overseas -- They're Here in the US Too
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Yeni Dewi was paid $200 a month for 18-hour days with no bedroom or paid days off.
Walmart Got a $2.2 Billion Tax Cut. Now It's Laying Off Workers
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Walmart is one of many companies that shared a windfall from its GOP tax cut with shareholders while laying off workers.
The Government Is Working — for Corporations
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Trump’s spree of regulatory capture could only have happened with the full complicity of the Senate.
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"It's very likely that this phenomenon is affecting a much more extensive region."
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"This is an immoral and an illegal attack on clean air, clean energy, and the health of the public."
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The UN's commissioner on refugees called far-right anti-immigrant rhetoric "damaging" while pointing out that some of the least developed countries are most generous to asylum-seekers
Bolton and Pompeo Are Trying to Start Another Forever War
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Bolton and Pompeo’s quest for war with Iran has publicly put them at odds with President Trump.
Bringing Police Torture in Chicago to the Full Light of Day
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Flint Taylor's "The Torture Machine" is a personal history of the legal battle to expose Chicago's human rights abuses.
Police Held Family at Gunpoint After 4-Year-Old Took Doll
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Activists say this is just the latest incident from a police department plagued by violence and killings.
Trump’s Re-election Campaign Launches on a Loud Fascist Note
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Trump used his campaign launch day to brag about mass deportations and rile up hordes of white people in red hats.
The Earth May Have Already Passed a Critical Tipping Point
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Areas of the Canadian Arctic permafrost are thawing rapidly, 70 years ahead of when scientists previously believed, as the climate crisis continues to push
A Deadly Epidemic Is Hitting Trump Supporters the Hardest
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We hear a lot about suicide when celebrities like Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade die by their own hand. Otherwise, it seldom makes the headlines. That
American Inequality Creates the Fascism We Fight Against
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See if you can answer the following if / then statement without the help of a calculator, tape measure or quaaludes: If inequality, then instability. If in