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‘Set It All On Fire’: The Answer to Planetary Chaos is Closer Than You Think

Alison Banville — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:01:00 +0000

First published in New Dawn magazine: ‘Strange days indeed’ sang John Lennon, and one can only ‘imagine’ what a man at the forefront of creating positive planetary change in his day would have made of where we are now? Because these are indeed extraordinary times in which the very foundations of everything we collectively believed to be ‘how things are’ […]

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In Defense of Cory Morningstar & “Manufacturing for Consent”

Hiroyuki Hamada — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:27:05 +0000

Good investigative journalism doesn’t only reveal hidden mechanisms of our time; it also exposes those who refuse to confront the mechanisms. Remember when the late Bruce Dixon courageously and cogently called Bernie Sanders “a sheep dog candidate”? Remember when Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley and others truly stood with Syrian people in opposing the western intervention? I do. Those who […]

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Who is the biggest climate change villain?

Jonathan Cook — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:22:55 +0000

The radical climate scientists, the ones whose forecasts have been most accurate and have risked professional marginalisation and possible career damage to explain what is really going on, should be the ones who are now championed by liberal media like the Guardian. But they continue to languish largely unheard because their message grates with advertisers and would damage corporate profits.

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Defend the ZAD – A Call For International Solidarity

en.squat.net — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:08:13 +0000

For over 50 years, farmers and locals have resisted the building of a new airport for the French city of Nantes (which by the way already has one). Now in these rich fields, forests and wetlands, which multinational Vinci want to cover in concrete, an experiment in reinventing everyday life in struggle is blossoming. Radicals from around the world, […]

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We Must Understand Corporate Power to Fight It

Chris Hedges — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:42:31 +0000

We have little time left. Climate change, even if we halt all carbon emissions today, will still bring rising temperatures, havoc, instability and systems collapse to much of the planet.

Let us hope we never have to make the stark choice, as most of the ghetto fighters did, about how we will die. If we fail to act, however, this choice will one day define our future, as it defined theirs.

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The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview.

Naomi Klein — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 18:31:14 +0000

Clinton is uniquely unsuited to the epic task of confronting the fossil-fuel companies that profit from climate change.

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The Government’s Attack on Ethical Boycotts Is an Attack on Democracy

Andrew Smith — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 13:41:29 +0000

The British government’s latest initiative, which could ban local councils, public bodies and student unions across England from boycotting or disinvesting in unethical companies, flies in the face of its rhetoric in support for devolution and local decision-making. On Wed, 17th Feb, Cabinet Secretary Matthew Hancock formally announced the government’s intention to ban local councils across England and Wales from pursuing […]

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Rebranding The Conquistadors As Social Justice Warriors – The Guardian, Corporate Sponsorship And ‘Branded Content’

David Cromwell — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:06:32 +0000

From the moment Jeremy Corbyn stood as prospective Labour leader, the Guardian has waged a relentless campaign to destroy this rare shoot of progressive hope. The paper has backed away from the truth about state and corporate power fuelling yet more catastrophic climate change. It has failed to fully and consistently expose the corporate basis to the climate denial campaign and the corporate capture of the 'mainstream' media in facilitating this. These are salient horrors, but the list could go on...

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Isn’t Britain ‘great’?

Mark Curtis — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 23:59:58 +0000

Historian Mark Curtis cites some of the actions of successive British governments, barely mentioned by the corporate media, which go someway to understanding what makes Britain 'great'.

Supporting the bombing of Yemen.
Arming Israel.
Occupying the Chagos Islands.
Supporting US aggression.
Arming Colombia.
Maintaining the global network of tax havens.

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10 Things They Won’t Tell You About The Flint Water Tragedy. But I Will

Michael Moore — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 18:11:43 +0000

News of the poisoned water crisis in Flint has reached a wide audience around the world. The basics are now known: the Republican governor, Rick Snyder, nullified the free elections in Flint, deposed the mayor and city council, then appointed his own man to run the city. To save money, they decided to unhook the people of Flint from their fresh water drinking source, Lake Huron, and instead, make the public drink from the toxic Flint River.

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