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The Leaking Republic: The Pentagon’s Take on Information Security
For years, US intelligence officials could hold their allies, notably the British, in contempt for leaking like sinking vessels and harbouring such espionage luminaries as the Cambridge Five. The whirligig of time has returned the favour with the latest leak from the US Department of Defense. They pose a question pregnant with relevance: Do Washington’s […]
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Fiscal Insanity: The Government Borrows $6 Billion a Day, and We’re Stuck with the Bill
We’re not living the American dream. We’re living a financial nightmare. The U.S. government is funding its existence with a credit card. The government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, and “we the taxpayers” are the ones being forced to foot the bill for the government’s […]
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The World Economic Forum
Those of us in this movement sometimes forget that for most people, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is a meeting in Davos where the rich and famous like to hang out once a year. They have no idea of what the WEF truly is about and what it has accomplished over the course of the […]
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In Chicago the Left Embraces the Democrats and Celebrates Brandon Johnson’s Victory
Brandon Johnson, a progressive black community activist, union organizer, and former teacher, won the Chicago mayoral election against Paul Vallas, the corporate Democrat opponent. Johnson’s victory expressed popular rejection of neoliberal privatization and respect for progressive unions, in particular the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). Johnson was outspent two to one, but not out-organized, winning 52-48%. […]
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Changing Society: Nature, Life, and Resistance in Culture Today
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, (Elective Affinities, Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809) What kind of culture do we want? What kind of culture do we need? Our culture reflects our fundamental ideologies and these ideologies are rooted in patriarchal religion and neoliberal politics in […]
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Escalating Save-the-People-and-Planet Tactics
Over the last couple of years there have been three books published, or about to be, which have dealt prominently with the question of whether violence against fossil fuel CEO’s and/or sabotage of fossil infrastructure is warranted. The case is made in all three that it might be given the absolute criminality of those CEO’s […]
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Can You Fight for Climate Justice Without Being Antiwar?
Can organizations sincerely say they are leading the climate justice fight without also being unapologetically antiwar? Short answer — no. Here’s why. We cannot end climate change without ending war. The United States military is the planet’s largest single emitter of greenhouse gasses and consumer of oil. The US military and its weapons, consistently deployed […]
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People Power: Focus and Unite
Distractions divide us and guarantee we’ll never talk about essential core challenges. The egregious, central obstacles to “promoting the general welfare” are never mentioned by the talking heads, the pundits or politicians, to whom we look for guidance and leadership. Distract and divide promises catastrophe, even to those who use it to further their sinister […]
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Finland’s NATO Move Leaves Others to Carry on the “Helsinki Spirit”
Finnish President receives Nobel Peace Prize in 2008. Photo Credit: Nobel Prize On April 4, 2023, Finland officially became the 31st member of the NATO military alliance. The 830-mile border between Finland and Russia is now by far the longest border between any NATO country and Russia, which otherwise borders only Norway, Latvia, Estonia, and […]
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Trump’s Neoconservatism and Falsehoods Against China
Donald Trump, whose numerous lies go over well with conservative Americans notwithstanding that lies are falsehoods (so Trump’s falsehoods are evidently not damaging his support among Republicans), appeared with Tucker Carson on April 12th, and the interview-clip opened: Iran gets together with Saudi Arabia through China, and I hear people say of China “we’ll never […]
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