March 2012
“In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are...”
– Noam Chomsky
“Who runs America today? The rich and the multinational corporations. Who runs...”
– Jeffrey Sachs,
Budgetary Deceit and America’s Decline
(via rockyanderson2012)
“Today’s gap between North and South—the rich developed societies and the rest of...”
– Hopes and Prospects, Noam Chomsky
US Drone Strikes Surged During Yemen Uprising →
A new study out from the UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) provides some of the clearest accounting yet of the United States’ covert war on terror in Yemen, including the use of drone strikes. It shows that seventy-five percent of US drone attacks there have taken place since May 2011 during the instability created by the uprising in Yemen.
Altogether, TBIJ finds 44 US attacks...
General Motors Decides Climate Change Is Real,... →
After getting called out by an environmental group, General Motors has pulled support from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit well-known for attacking the science behind global warming and climate change.
The automaker told the Heartland Institute last week that it won’t be making further donations, spokesman Greg Martin said. At a speech earlier this month, GM CEO Dan...
Minority and indigenous women in Kenya targeted... →
from Deep Green Resistance News Service
The Most Transparent Administration Ever™ →
The ACLU, yesterday, quoting New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal on the Obama administration’s refusal to confirm or deny even the existence of its CIA drone program in order to evade FOIA disclosure, even as it boasts about drone attacks in the media:
The Bush administration kept secrets largely for bad reasons: It covered up its torture memos, the kidnapping of innocent...
Studies link common pesticides to 50% decline in... →
from Deep Green Resistance News Service
Peat swamp forest set ablaze by palm oil... →
from Deep Green Resistance News Service
Tibetan Activist Sets Himself On Fire To Protest... →
from Earth First! Newswire
College Professor Grilled by the FBI about... →
from Earth First! Newswire
“Disobedience, then, in the sense in which we use it here, is an act of...”
– Erich Fromm, On Disobedience: Prophets and Priests
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A Message From a Republican Meteorologist on... →
climateadaptation:
This piece is worth reading in full:
””My climate epiphany wasn’t overnight, and it had nothing to do with Al Gore.”
I’m going to tell you something that my Republican friends are loath to admit out loud: climate change is real. I’m a moderate Republican, fiscally conservative; a fan of small government, accountability, self-empowerment and sound science. I am not a climate...
Mountain Justice Spring Break ends in protest at... →
from Earth First! Newswire
Italians shocked by self-immolation protests →
iwanttheairwaves:
Italians have been left shocked by two cases of men setting themselves on fire in the past two days in protest at their financial hardship.
A 58-year-old builder accused of tax evasion set himself alight in his car in Bologna on Wednesday.
Another builder, a 27-year-old Moroccan, set himself on fire outside the town hall in Verona on Thursday, saying that he had not been paid...
“I am full of joy to be a plaintiff in this particular case. Why? Because...”
– Cornel West,
NDAA press conference
“Ironically, as these attacks have grown, the scientific facts have become ever...”
– Michael Mann
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New study explains how river modification projects... →
from Deep Green Resistance News Service
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spread too thin
of-praxis:
many activists are concerned about taking on too many causes because they want to protect their own first or whatever, but its horrifying that the bigger problem here is—-
if you created a list of all the black, brown, and yellow bodies who are dead because of structural violence in the last month, you’d be spread too thin.
this is the horror of white america. the problem in...
