Source – yesmagazine.org – “…Genocide and federal assimilationist policies had cut the “tree of life” off at the base…When the Indians of All Tribes seized Alcatraz on November 20, 1969, the tree had once again begun to grow. Fifty years later, the sprouts that first germinated on Alcatraz Island have matured into a broad canopy…
Source – patrickmurfin.blogspot.com – “….Unlike other well-known anti-war figures of the Vietnam era, Philip knew war—and injustice—first hand…He witnessed the stark horror of war first hand as an artilleryman in the Battle of the Bulge and…as a Second Lieutenant in the infantry. He was the recipient of combat decorations…After the war…Philip decided to enter the…
Source – economicnoise.com – “…Donald Trump is many things to many people. His supporters believe him to be a savior of the American system and way of life. His opponents see him as a threat, Both views are correct. From the beginning, I viewed Mr. Trump as a wrecking ball…I sense that war was declared…
Source – rcinet.ca – “…The sale of Rupert’s Land, the largest real estate transaction in Canadian history, dwarfing Russia’s sale of Alaska to the United States two years earlier, put the Métis on a collision course with the federal government in Ottawa, which rushed to establish control over its new territories. This collision course resulted…
Source – academyofideas.com – “…In our day freedom in many areas of life is dwindling, and governments across the world are rallying people to sacrifice personal freedoms for the promise of future harmony and security. If such a trend continues, Camus had some prescient advice for those who refuse to walk this line, but rather…
Source – greenpeace.org – “…In the 1970s, we needed a new narrative to expose the deceits of the status quo narrative. The industrial and financial elite claimed that they “created wealth” while in fact they were destroying the real wealth of productive ecosystems and healthy communities. Human life depends on nature. Industrialism faces very real…
Source – ronfinley.com – …”Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA — in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where “the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys” Drive-Thrus and Drive-Bys “South Central…
Source – thesaker.is – “…Why do you live in the United States and not in Russia, Iran or some other country“? I always get that question from US Americans who mistake my hostility to the AngloZionist Empire for a hostility to the United States… it would never cross the mind of a Swiss person to…
Source – strictlyzappa.wordpress.com – “…The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and…
Source – washingtonsblog.com – “…One reason Smedley Butler is lost to history is that the corporate media and historians have made great efforts to erase and obscure the story of the Wall Street Plot. I suspect that another reason is that Butler opposed war prior to the holiest of holy wars in U.S. culture, World…
Source – greenmedinfo.com – “…Big pharmaceutical companies are the most evil companies on earth who are commoditizing our children. Who are giving our children a tsunami of chronic disease and then making the money to try to tell us “well we’re going to get rid of infectious diseases like chicken pox and measles, but we’re…
Source – thenation.com – “… He argued that the junta wasn’t pursuing two separate, easily compartmentalized projects—one a visionary experiment in economic transformation, the other a grisly system of torture and terror. There was, in fact, only one project, in which terror was the central tool of the free-market transformation. “Repression for the majorities and…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…As I often report, the vast majority of people are brainwashed by the propaganda that serves the ruling interests. They are too weak both mentally and emotionally to handle anything that is not the established view. It simply scares them and they run away…Of all the endangered species, Truth is the…
Source – dallasobserver.com – “…The current tour will be promoting last year’s Soulrocker album, which sends its message of unity and hope through songs like “We Are All Earthlings,” “Still Standing” and “Good to Be Alive Today…Songs, believes Franti, can offer examples of how to get through adversity and find new ways of being. “And…
Source – nationandstate.com – “…McAfee – who is on the lam from the IRS – asks a few rhetorical questions: “Immediately people jump on their soapboxes…first its gun control…then immigration…then race issues…this was racially motivated, psychologically motivated…before we even know what happened we are jumping on our soapboxes.”…more important questions – is what is wrong…
Source – nbcnews.com – “…Osvaldo Salas first met Castro in 1955 while the Communist leader was fundraising in New York City. In 1957, a 16-year-old Roberto Salas published a photo in Life magazine of the Statue of Liberty draped in a Cuban Flag. That photo became an iconic image. In 1959, Roberto and his father…
Source -veteranstoday.com – “..His campaigns, first that year as an independent and then as a Reform Party candidate in 1996, were the most successful bids for the presidency by a third-party candidate in United States history. Some argued that it was his success—he won 19 percent of the vote in 1992—that caused the political apparatus…
Source – arabamerica.com – “…Well it’s sort of phony patriotism. They say they love their country, but their letting big corporations and government abuses run our country to the ground without doing anything about it. Half of them don’t even vote. Half of the people don’t vote in congressional elections, ⅔ don’t vote they stay…
Source – suspiciousdeaths.blogspot.com – “…The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly colored, and it’s very…
Source – original.antiwar.com – “…When Justin was 14 years old, he wrote an article on Objectivism, Ayn Rand’s philosophy, for a local New York newspaper. Rand’s lawyer, Henry Holzer, responded by sending him a “cease and desist” letter. Not long after, Justin went to a lecture at the Nathaniel Branden Institute and stood in line…
Source – thedailybell.com – “… These are self-evident truths made explicit in the Declaration of Independence that we celebrate today. 1. It is your right, and DUTY to ABOLISH a government that no longer represents you. The entire point of governments is to protect your life, liberty, and property and whenever any Form of Government…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…The basic frame of 21st century economics contrasts sharply with that of the 20th century economics it must now displace. The new frame is far more complex and nuanced. Yet most people can readily grasp it because it is logical, consistent with foundational ethical principles, and reflects the reality that most…
Source – freedomoutpost.com – ‘… More than 70% of food in America is processed and almost two-thirds of the food available comes from only 4% of the farms. This means that a very high percentage of the food consumed in America was somehow provided by a corporation whose main goal is profit, not nutrition” How…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…Youth today are so aware of what other youth are doing that these movements build off of one another—the students fighting gun violence and [racism] and so much more. They’re having these conversations about the world that they want to live in and that they believe that they’re entitled to as…
Source – hopedance.org – ‘…Hellyer demonstrates that God is alive, well and everywhere, and that humanity’s choice is between the Dark and the Light. To follow the Light means giving up atomic weapons, replacing the oil economy with clean zero-point energy developed by Americans in the 1960s, having governments create 34 percent of all new…
Source – newyorker.com – “…Carlin laments that the United States has “turned into a nation of rats and squealers,” who, to his immense disgust, have come to venerate, trust, and co-operate with the police. “You don’t help the police,” he says. “They’re not on your side.” In a riff that explains why he has always…
Source – telesurenglish.net – “…The painting reveals two sides of Kahlo’s politics. On one hand, it denotes her allegiance to the international communist movement and, in the moment she created the work, its Trotskyite faction. On the other, her devotion to Mexicanidad and Mexican nationalism is elucidated through the work’s allusions to ex-voto panels and…
Source – voicesofmontereybay.org – “…In March of 1988, Mae put an end to the radio broadcasts after receiving a death threat by telephone…the 1988 call scared her enough that she called it quits. “I pushed my luck for 17 years on the air,” she told listeners on her final broadcast. Seven months later, Mae died…
Source – theburningplatform.com – “…The main theme throughout Rules for Radicals and Alinsky’s work was empowerment of the poor.[5] Alinsky used symbol construction and nonviolent conflict to create a structured organization with a clearly defined goal that could take direct action against a common enemy” Who Was Saul Alinsky? Many of the tactics of the…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…North Americans and Europeans have to wake up, soon. Even in Nazi Germany, there were soldiers who were so disgusted with Hitler, that they wanted to send him to the dogs. Today, in the West, there is not one powerful political party which believes that 500 years of Western colonialist plunder…
Source – thenation.com – “…The Tiananmen Movement remains a taboo topic in China, banned from academic and popular realms. Even the actual number of the dead and wounded remains unknown. In the immediate aftermath, after mass arrests and purges throughout the country, the CCP constructed a narrative portraying the Tiananmen Movement as a Western conspiracy…
Source – greenpeace.org – “…Rees emphasizes that capitalist economics reinforces our short-term, selfish instincts by presuming endless growth on a finite planet. Many ecological economists have pointed out that such growth is a biophysical and thermodynamic impossibility…The youth movements, exemplified now by Extinction Rebellion, Greta Thunberg, and others, offer the potential for a deep change…
