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Hedges: No Way Out but War
Hedges: No Way Out but War Permanent war has cannibalized the country. It has created a social, political, and economic morass. Each new military debacle is another nail in the coffin of Pax Americana. Original Illustration by Mr. Fish — “No Guts No Glory” The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly […]
Veterans target US military’s outsized impact on the climate crisis
Veterans target US military’s outsized impact on the climate crisis With no mention of military emissions at COP26, a coalition is mobilizing to force the Pentagon to disclose and reduce its enormous carbon footprint. More than 100,000 people protested the United Nations Climate Change Convention, or COP26, in Glasgow last month, where they networked, forged […]
Want To Save The Environment? De-Fund The Pentagon.
Want To Save The Environment? De-Fund The Pentagon. Millions of people are uniting in demonstrations worldwide against our civilization’s ecocidal march toward extinction, which makes me so happy to see. It’s really encouraging to see so many young people burning with love for their planet and a hunger to reverse the damage that has been done to […]
US is a Classic Empire and Is Becoming a Repressive Police State at Home
US is a Classic Empire and Is Becoming a Repressive Police State at Home As I set out to fly home from the UK on Monday following a short film project in Cambridge, I found my boarding pass, which I had been blocked from obtaining online the night before, carrying a bold-faced SSSS stamp in […]
Doubling Down: The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not In Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.
Doubling Down: The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not In Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way. Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair “Capitalism, militarism and imperialism are disastrously intertwined with the fossil fuel economy….A globalized economy predicated on growth at any social or environmental costs, carbon dependent […]
The Interlocking Crises: War and Climate Chaos
The Interlocking Crises: War and Climate Chaos U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin Climate change is the apex crisis of all time and the US military is the prime crisis […]
Population Bomb or Bomb the Population?
Population Bomb or Bomb the Population? There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, […]
CN VIDEO—Jill Stein Talks to Consortium News: ‘We Are Being Robbed Blind by the War Profiteers’
CN VIDEO—Jill Stein Talks to Consortium News: ‘We Are Being Robbed Blind by the War Profiteers’ During the Women’s March on the Pentagon, Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2016 candidate for president, told Consortium News Video that war is robbing us blind. 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spoke to Consortium News Video during the […]
WaPo Urges Increased US Spending for Militarism and Warmaking
WaPo Urges Increased US Spending for Militarism and Warmaking What’s euphemistically called defense spending is all about funding America’s war machine – always active, never idle, inventing enemies to attack. None existed since imperial Japan formally surrendered in 1945. Yet America is permanently at war directly or indirectly – at home on streets in minority […]
Trump is Moving Toward War With Iran
Trump is Moving Toward War With Iran With his Iran speech U.S. President Trump has taken a huge step into uncharted territories. One that implies a 60-75% risk of leading to a US attack on Iran. Behind him stands the hardline militarists whom he has himself appointed. Secondly, neo-conservative individuals and think tanks who have […]
Why one US Marine renounced war after 9/11 [OPINION]
Why one US Marine renounced war after 9/11 The fires which began with the 9/11 attacks were never extinguished. They continue to burn fiercely from Afghanistan to Iraq to Syria to Yemen to North Africa, as the region and its regimes came unglued in the wake of George W. Bush’s ‘war on terror’. The 15th […]
Donald Trump Finally Comes Out of the Closet
Donald Trump Finally Comes Out of the Closet The firing of Steve Bannon is in my opinion the most significant event to happen during the Trump administration thus far. Moreover, it will have massive reverberations across the U.S. political spectrum for years and years to come. I wasn’t planning on writing today, but this news […]
The Race Against Time
The Race Against Time For decades, in discussing the ever-increasing hegemony of the world’s principal governments (US, EU, et al.), I’ve been asked repeatedly, “When will the governments understand that this obsession they have to become all-powerful is not in the interests of the people?” The answer to this question has also remained the same […]
The Increasingly Unhinged Russia Rhetoric Comes From a Long-Standing U.S. Playbook
The Increasingly Unhinged Russia Rhetoric Comes From a Long-Standing U.S. Playbook FOR ASPIRING JOURNALISTS, historians, or politically engaged citizens, there are few more productive uses of one’s time than randomly reading through the newsletters of I.F. Stone, the intrepid and independent journalist of the Cold War era who became, in my view, the nation’s first “blogger” even though […]
