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The Myth of Far-Left Extremism: How Common-Sense Ethics Are Framed as Radical
The Myth of Far-Left Extremism: How Common-Sense Ethics Are Framed as Radical
The real extremists are the corporate and political elites who wear $5,000 suits and calmly explain why war, profit and greed are good on the evening news.
Tim Hjersted
The Tyranny of the Majority Myth: How Elites Tricked Us Into Fearing Democracy
The Tyranny of the Majority Myth: How Elites Tricked Us Into Fearing Democracy
Heard that old saying "democracy is the tyranny of the majority? It was propaganda invented by elites.
Tim Hjersted
The Tragedy of Weaponized Hurricane Conspiracy Theories
The Tragedy of Weaponized Hurricane Conspiracy Theories
The tragedy of the theory that the U.S. government is manipulating hurricanes is that it redirects anti-establishment energy back towards support for the status quo.
Tim Hjersted
Division by Design: How Enemy Images Are Used in Polarizing Societies
Division by Design: How Enemy Images Are Used in Polarizing Societies
A brief primer on "enemy images" and how power structures deploy them to rally support for military and political agendas.
Tim Hjersted
Should Progressives Abandon Harris? Not If Getting an Arms Embargo Is Our Goal.
Should Progressives Abandon Harris? Not If Getting an Arms Embargo Is Our Goal.
Do the Democrats deserve to be abandoned for their complicity in supporting genocide? Absolutely. Is this a wise strategy, if getting a ceasefire and arms embargo is our goal? History and Trump suggests no. It will make the task far more difficult for our movements.
Tim Hjersted
Will There Ever Be a Criminal Trial for the People Wilfully Destroying Life on Earth?
Will There Ever Be a Criminal Trial for the People Wilfully Destroying Life on Earth?
Fossil fuel executives have funded a massive, 50-year-long campaign to lie to the American people, cloud the science, and buy off Republican politicians. Untold millions will die and suffer as a result, but will their ever be one iota of accountability?
Thom Hartmann
Palestinian Nonviolence Relies on Global Non-Silence
Palestinian Nonviolence Relies on Global Non-Silence
This article from May, 2010 should haunt the world. - Spread Knowledge
Yousef Munayyer
20 Principles I Wish Were More Popular on the Left
20 Principles I Wish Were More Popular on the Left
It would really warm my heart if these concepts were more popular in the left:
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative (SA) party have, for nearly a decade, waged one of the most effective battles against the citys moneyed elites. She and the SA have adopted a series of unorthodox methods to fight the ruling oligarchs and...
Chris Hedges
The Cautious Case for Harris
The Cautious Case for Harris
A Kamala Harris presidency will not fundamentally change the neo-liberal status quo, but what wins can we get?
Vincent Pagliaccio
Biden's Cruel and Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC
Biden's Cruel and Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC
"It was a journey into an alternative universe of political guile from a president who just six days earlier had approved sending $20 billion worth of more weapons to Israel. Yet the Biden delegates in the convention hall responded with a crescendo of roaring admiration."
Norman Solomon
Market Fundamentalism Is Incompatible with Democracy and Leading Us Towards Fascism
Market Fundamentalism Is Incompatible with Democracy and Leading Us Towards Fascism
We need a human rights movement that challenges the orthodoxy of market capitalism, writes Peter Joseph.
Peter Joseph
The Top 250 Transition Documentaries Inspiring a Thriving Future
The Top 250 Transition Documentaries Inspiring a Thriving Future
A better world is possible. These documentaries light the way by showing examples of people rejecting despair, fighting against the status quo, creating alternatives and living a more beautiful world into being.
Films For Action
Right to Housing and Its Relation to Democracy
Right to Housing and Its Relation to Democracy
Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.~Matthew Desmond[1]The issue of housing is of fundamental importance that has a direct connection, among other basic rights, to democratic participation. Despite that (or because...
Yavor Tarinski
The Last Thing This Country Needed
The Last Thing This Country Needed
Yesterday's assassination attempt on Donald Trump points to a profound sickness in American political life, whose threats don't discriminate by party or ideology.
Branko Marcetic
You Saved Julian Assange
You Saved Julian Assange
After 14 years of persecution, Julian Assange will go free. We must honor the hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who made this happen.
Chris Hedges
Nero’s Guests
Nero’s Guests
I gave this talk in Blackburn, England during a campaign event for my friend Craig Murray who is running for parliament. Like George Galloway, who was recently elected to parliament, Craigs central campaign issue is the genocide in Gaza. He calls for a permanent ceasefire...
Chris Hedges
Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them
Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them
We think these things that are happening across college campuses are a sideshow. No, they are the show. If we lose the intellectual debate, you will not be able to deploy any army in the West, ever. - CEO Alex Karp
Caitlin Johnstone
Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter
Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter
Last week, Variety reported that more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazers The Zone of Interest Oscar speech. The angry letter is a tight script for a real-life drama of defending Israel as...
Norman Solomon
Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence
Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence
Aaron Bushnells self-immolation was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist.
Chris Hedges
“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza
“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza
On Sunday, February 25, we received an email from a person who signed himself Aaron Bushnell.
Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective
Tribute to Aaron Bushnell by Iraq Veteran Mike Prysner
Tribute to Aaron Bushnell by Iraq Veteran Mike Prysner
The US military is presented as an institution that does protecting; defending; saving. But fundamentally, it is an institution of killing. Of mass killing. Throughout our countrys entire history there have been service members who could not grapple with that fact; who were...
Mike Prysner
Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity
Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity
The future of this experiment is on the line as much of its civilian infrastructure has been destroyed since October.
Martin Winiecki
Unitarian Universalism: The Seven Principles
Unitarian Universalism: The Seven Principles
Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote seven Principles, which we holdas strong values and moral guides. We live out these Principles within aliving tradition of wisdom and spirituality, drawn fromsourcesas diverse as science, poetry, scripture, and personal...
Unitarian Universalist Association
From Citizens of Nations to Citizens of Cities
From Citizens of Nations to Citizens of Cities
[C]itizens today no longer even approximate the high and eminently human standard of citizenship that was established in the Hellenic worlda meaning that must be recovered, as well as the personal and social training, or paideia, for producing citizens.~Murray...
Yavor Tarinski
The Needs of the Management Class Shaped Racial Pseudoscience
The Needs of the Management Class Shaped Racial Pseudoscience
As we enter Black History Month, it is important to understand how management race science was developed to divide and conquer the workforce as it struggled against long odds to form labor unions.
Les Leopold
Friends Don't Let Friends Destroy Themselves
Friends Don't Let Friends Destroy Themselves
In September 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, people gathered by the thousands across the country of Iran in spontaneous demonstrations and candlelight vigils to show support for America in its hour of grief. At one football match in Tehran, sixty thousand...
Charles Eisenstein
Building a Beloved Community in a Time of War
Building a Beloved Community in a Time of War
Sermon for MLK Day from All Souls UU Kansas City
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
To Defend Israel as 'Moral Society,' Knesset Member Backs South Africa's ICJ Genocide Case
To Defend Israel as 'Moral Society,' Knesset Member Backs South Africa's ICJ Genocide Case
"This is the true patriotismno revenge wars and calls for extermination, no unnecessary bloodshed, and no sacrifice of kidnapped citizens and soldiers in false wars," said KM Ofer Cassif
Jon Queally
14 Free Videos To Counter US Media's Dehumanization Of Palestinians
14 Free Videos To Counter US Media's Dehumanization Of Palestinians
Over the past two-plus decades, the Media Education Foundation has produced and distributed documentary films, and organized a series of high-profile events and talks, to counter U.S. media narratives that have dehumanized the Palestinian people.
Media Education Foundation
The Death of Israel
The Death of Israel
Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaignin Gazaand theWest Bank. But by the time Israel achieves its decimation of Gaza, it will have signed its own death sentence.
Chris Hedges
Let Israel Vote; Let Gaza Vote
Let Israel Vote; Let Gaza Vote
In the Bibles first semi-mythic story of what we now call the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Abraham dies decades after he has endangered the lives of his two sons, Ishmael and Isaac. His two sons come together to mourn and bury their dangerous father. As a result, Isaac goes...
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
This Is a War on Children, and 'Safe Zones' Are Death Traps: UNICEF
This Is a War on Children, and 'Safe Zones' Are Death Traps: UNICEF
Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is safe. Hundreds were killed, almost all of them innocent noncombatants, and including a worrisome number of children. Although Israel tried to pull the stunt of issuing a...
Juan Cole
Phase One of Israel’s Genocidal Campaign on Gaza has Ended. Phase Two has Begun.
Phase One of Israel’s Genocidal Campaign on Gaza has Ended. Phase Two has Begun.
It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction.
Chris Hedges
The Hamas Attack and Israel's War in Gaza
The Hamas Attack and Israel's War in Gaza
Like many other people in Israel and across the world, my first reaction to the attack on October 7 was of shock and horror. But that initial reaction was accompanied by rage, not only at the appalling massacre perpetrated by Hamas on women and children, the elderly and the...
Omer Bartov
War Is Always Justified
War Is Always Justified
I just heard someone say, One war crime does not justify another. My reflex as a peace advocate is to agree with that statement, but something gives me pause. It starts with a grammatical issue but it doesnt end there.
Charles Eisenstein
Wisdom from The Elders: An Open Letter to President Biden on Israel and Palestine
Wisdom from The Elders: An Open Letter to President Biden on Israel and Palestine
On 16 November 2023, The Elders delivered an open letter to the President of the United States, Joe Biden, on Israel and Palestine.
The Elders
What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"
What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"
Pro-war Israel supporters today are invoking the same logic Bin Laden used to justify the 9/11 attacks. This theory, which justifies the war crime of collective punishment, is morally bankrupt no matter who promotes it.
Tim Hjersted
To Save US Democracy, Tax the Rich at 90%
To Save US Democracy, Tax the Rich at 90%
Wealthy people in America screamed and yelled when FDR said he would do it, claiming a hike from 25% to 90% would crash the economy, but instead that top tax rate kicked off the first middle class to encompass more than half a nations population in world history.
Thom Hartmann
When Will We Learn That Violence Doesn't Lead to Security?
When Will We Learn That Violence Doesn't Lead to Security?
For the past month, Israeli bombardment of Gaza has been presented to the world as if it hasnt already happened repeatedly (five times to be exact) since Gaza was put under brutal siege in 2007. We will teach them a lesson that they will never forget is a popular slogan by...
Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Patriarchy and the Patriarchal Woman
Patriarchy and the Patriarchal Woman
Despite the popular notion that only men can be patriarchal, the truth is that women can be patriarchal as well. In our society, patriarchy is internalized. It lives inside of us, in the psyche of both men and women.
Tiziana Dellarovere
To My Liberal Friends Who Support Israel's War: This Is Not What Defense Looks Like
To My Liberal Friends Who Support Israel's War: This Is Not What Defense Looks Like
According to a December poll,76% of Democrats and 61% of Americans support a permanent ceasefire. That still leaves 24% of Democrats who support Israel's war on Gaza.
Tim Hjersted
Israel Hit Gaza Strip With the Equivalent of Two Nuclear Bombs
Israel Hit Gaza Strip With the Equivalent of Two Nuclear Bombs
Geneva- Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip since the start of its large-scale war on 7 October, equivalent to two nuclear bombs, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a press release issued today.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Our Job Is to Speak Out Against the War Crimes of Our Own Government and Its Allies
Our Job Is to Speak Out Against the War Crimes of Our Own Government and Its Allies
Some people say our calls to#CeaseFireNowshould be directed towards Hamas rather than Israel. But theres a good reason for focusing on Israel, which Ill pose with a question: which cri
Tim Hjersted
A Plan for Peace in Gaza
A Plan for Peace in Gaza
The reforms that could allow the PLO to lead and the Palestinian Authority to govern
Salam Fayyad
The Button
The Button
A short play.
Josh Liveright
Hamas — Israel’s Useful Enemy
Hamas — Israel’s Useful Enemy
Despite its intention of creating a Palestinian state, Hamas has arguably provided Israel with ammunition necessary to further its strategic goals since the fundamentalist groups conception with support from Israel.
Max Jones
Israel is Not only Decimating Gaza with Airstrikes, It's Employing the Oldest & Cruelest Weapon of War: Starvation
Israel is Not only Decimating Gaza with Airstrikes, It's Employing the Oldest & Cruelest Weapon of War: Starvation
Israels message, on the eve of a ground invasion, is clear. Leave Gaza or Die.
Chris Hedges
Israel’s Culture of Deceit
Israel’s Culture of Deceit
Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.
Chris Hedges
Identity Politics and the Professional-Managerial Class
Identity Politics and the Professional-Managerial Class
"Raising the standard of living for the working class by increasing the minimum wage, creating stronger worker protections and job security, funding education and job training, making housing affordable, and socializing healthcare would benefit the entire working class, which...
Rhyd Wildermuth
The World Has Lost Its Humanity: UNRWA Warns of Unprecedented Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza
The World Has Lost Its Humanity: UNRWA Warns of Unprecedented Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza
"The attack and the taking of hostages are a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. But the answer to killing civilians cannot be to kill more civilians. Imposing a siege and bombarding civilian infrastructure in a densely populated area will not bring peace...
Philippe Lazzarini
Washington and European Governments are Cheerleading Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza
Washington and European Governments are Cheerleading Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza
The failure to intervene to halt the carnage threatens to ignite violence throughout the region.
Chris Hedges
Hamas Speaks the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them
Hamas Speaks the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them
The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the...
Chris Hedges
Break the Endless Cycle of Violence
Break the Endless Cycle of Violence
A few thoughts on a Sunday morning.
Josh Liveright
What You Are Seeing in Gaza Is Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
What You Are Seeing in Gaza Is Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
Seventy-five years of global inaction and Israeli impunity have led to this moment in which one of the most vulnerable populations on earth is pummeled by one of the worlds strongest military powers on a genocidal warpath.
Yumna Patel
Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine
Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine
"Amid all this insanity, we are deeply moved by and thankful for all Israelis and Palestinians who remain committed to nonviolence, even now that another violent chapter is opened. True courage lies in breaking the cycle of trauma, in refusing revenge, in loving in spite of...
Sabine Lichtenfels, A’ida al-Shibli, Uri Ayalon & Martin Winiecki
Murder and Hostage-Taking Will Not Bring Peace or Justice, and Neither Will Apartheid
Murder and Hostage-Taking Will Not Bring Peace or Justice, and Neither Will Apartheid
The one change will be that hardliners on all sides will have gained supportwith no lessons learnedthus sowing the seeds for another round of violence.
Dr. James J. Zogby
If Israel Reacts to Its 9/11 Like the Americans Responded to Theirs, Innocent Civilians Will Pay the Heaviest Price
If Israel Reacts to Its 9/11 Like the Americans Responded to Theirs, Innocent Civilians Will Pay the Heaviest Price
The US achieved nothing in the Middle East, but millions of civilians paid the price the same will be true now
Paul Rogers
Fascism in the Holy Land: A Revised Jewish Understanding of the State of Israel
Fascism in the Holy Land: A Revised Jewish Understanding of the State of Israel
"While Israel has had a right-wing government for much of the last 25 years, the government that took power in late 2022 has become a fascist government with little respect for the history and judicial processes of a democratic society."
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Realists of a Larger Reality: The introduction to Here Be Monsters: How To Fight Capitalism Instead of Each Other
Realists of a Larger Reality: The introduction to Here Be Monsters: How To Fight Capitalism Instead of Each Other
"Not everything that looks like liberation actually is, nor is every political idea which claims to help people actually helpful. Sometimes, we can dream up things which become nightmares. Sometimes, the left is actually out of touch with reality, with larger reality...
Rhyd Wildermuth