Wow! What great satire of the conspiracy theorists!
This article deserves being read all the way to the end: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/14/the-lunacy-is-getting-more-intense-how-birds-arent-real-took-on-the-conspiracy-theorists
Examples of Parallax Views
Ukraine: While U.S. politicians, media and NATO push for war, people need to understand this context
Regarding the current Ukraine crisis, nearly all U.S. politicians and news media are aggressively promoting the narrowly nationalistic U.S.-centric foreign policy grounded in arrogance and hubris that refuses to understand other nations’ needs and concerns and refuses to understand the context in which the crisis emerged. The U.S. has done this over and over again in recent decades. This led to disastrous wars in Vietnam, Central America, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and other countries. Now our politicians and mainstream media are pushing the U.S. into war with Russia. This could end in a nuclear war that kills billions of people and […]
Nonviolent National Defense — A Practical Way to Be More Secure
The May 2022 episode of “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series provides powerful information and inspiration to significantly improve the U.S.’s “national security” by – ironically — de-militarizing our “national defense.” Instead of military violence, we could defend our nation better through carefully planned strategies of nonviolent resistance. Besides eliminating the danger of nuclear war, a nonviolent national defense would also provide better security without all of the downsides that violent militarism causes. During this hour Glen Anderson: Encourages us to think open-mindedly, boldly and creatively Explains how nonviolent national defense could actually work effectively Shares examples of nonviolent resistance used […]
Workshop #1 (Sunday April 24) — Links to readings for today’s workshop
Each 2-hour workshop in this 6-part series (“Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing”) includes a lot of substantive information, inspiration, and practical usefulness. Each workshop is supplemented with some of the best resources I have gathered (and many that I have written) in the past 50 years. Unlike school “homework” assignments that are mandatory, these are not mandatory, but I do enthusiastically encourage each participant to read these because they flesh out the substance of each workshop. You will probably want to save some of these for later use, because they are that practical. Workshop #1 is titled, “The Power and Practicality of […]
Progressives must “lean into” the “culture wars,” not run away from them
What should progressives be doing about our nation’s polarization about “culture wars”? This article was posted to an online source on November 5, 2021, and it is still relevant now and in months (and years) to come. AMANDA MARCOTTE Democrats Can Win the Culture Wars — But They Have to Take On the Fight Early and Often Liberals are already winning the culture wars, which is why the right is so mad. Why won’t Democrats lean into it? Tuesday’s election, which was shockingly bad for Democrats even in an off-year, was a pandemic election. Sure, at first glance, it […]
Watch video recording of “Holding Israel Accountable: Remembering Rachel Corrie”
You can watch the March 16, 2022, event mentioned below at this link here on YouTube! On March 16, 2003, an Israeli military bulldozer ran over my friend Rachel Corrie, a young woman from Olympia, with whom I had worked on several peace-and-justice issues. She was in Rafah, Gaza, nonviolently protecting a Palestinian family’s home from being bulldozed down in order to ethnically cleanse the area in order to make room for Israeli settlers to expand their occupation of Palestinian lands. Her family and friends created the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice (www.rachelcorriefoundation.org), and this Olympia-based organization has […]
Nonviolent National Defense Would Be Better in Every Way!
For decades I have been researching the exciting possibilities for converting to a NONVIOLENT national defense. Now I have written an article explaining WHY it would be better than a military defense and HOW it could actually work. See the article here: Nonviolent National Defense Would Be Better in Every Way
How YOU can make more progress on issues YOU care about
We are always the underdogs in working for the issues we care about. These FREE online workshops really can strengthen our skills and strategies so we can make truly significant progress on ALL of the issues you care about! Nonviolent grassroots organizing has been proven to be effective, but people – even experienced activists – could make much more progress by strengthening our skills. This series of workshops (“Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing”) really can help! ALL OF US — new people, experienced organizers, and everybody in between — can STRENGTHEN OUR SKILLS and add resources to our “toolboxes” so we can […]
Sign up now for FREE online workshops: Strengthen your skills for ABOLISHING NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
We are always the underdogs in working for peace, but these FREE online workshops really can strengthen our skills and strategies so we can make truly significant progress toward abolishing nuclear weapons! Nonviolent grassroots organizing has been proven to be effective, but people – even experienced activists – could make much more progress by strengthening our skills. This series of workshops (“Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing”) really can help! ALL OF US — new people, experienced organizers, and everybody in between — can STRENGTHEN OUR SKILLS and add resources to our “toolboxes” so we can make more progress in working on whatever […]
Are you alarmed at Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons? The U.S. has been threatening exactly that for decades!
American politicians, mainstream media, and most Americans are alarmed that Putin — during his illegal war in Ukraine — has said he might launch nuclear weapons. The world should be EQUALLY ALARMED that the U.S. has been threatening to launch nuclear weapons since the 1940s (and we actually did drop atomic bombs on two civilian cities in Japan in August 1945. For decades the U.S. has maintained a “first-strike” policy – the willingness and intention to start a nuclear war. Since the late 1960s the U.S. has been designing and building nuclear weapons NOT to retaliate against an attack, but […]
“Economic Justice and a Strong Social Safety Net”
In case I did not post this TV interview before, here it is now: “Economic Justice and a Strong Social Safety Net” The August 2020 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series helps us understand some of the realities of people who experience poverty. Three guests with first-hand experience explore problems and solutions. We provide insights about poverty and welfare from the 1930s to today. We replace the myths and misunderstandings with valid information and smart insights. We discuss larger economic and political contexts and nitty-gritty realities in local welfare offices. We affirm the need for “welfare rights” and […]
Trump needs to be President again in order to provide legal protection from accountability
I don’t think I ever posted this to my blog until now. I wrote this blog post while Trump was President and people were pushing to impeach him and drive him out of office, so the headline I had prepared for this blog post was this: If Trump were to leave office, he’d face many prosecutions and prison sentences. EXPECT HIS COUP & CHAOS to escalate! Now much of this blog post is still relevant a few years after I had written it: For years now, many psychologists and psychologists have exposed Trump’s extreme mental disabilities, including his narcissism […]
Stop hypocrisy! Condemn Russia’s war and ALSO the U.S.’s MANY wars that are even worse!
Certainly the civilized world is right in condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine. It is illegal under international law. It is cruel, murderous, destructive and oppressive. So also are the wars the U.S. has conducted in Vietnam, Central America, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and many other nations. The U.S. wars are even worse because we actually did invade massively, conduct massive bombings, overthrow governments, install puppet governments, and oppress the populations in many ways. Russia’s war on Ukraine is scarcely one month old. The U.S. started its war in Vietnam in the early 1950s (helping France reclaim its colony after World War […]
URGENT! REJECT the calls for a “no-fly zone”!!! It would lead to NUCLEAR WAR!!!
Many politicians and news media people are calling for a “no-fly zone” over Ukraine. This would obligate the U.S. to shoot down Russian military planes. This would be AN ACT OF WAR!!! RUSSIA WOULD CERTAINLY RETALIATE! Both nations have thousands of nuclear weapons! This would almost certainly ESCALATE INTO A NUCLEAR WAR that would KILL BILLIONS OF PEOPLE and DESTROY HUMAN CIVILIZATION!!! We must CONVINCE the American people — and the news media — and the politicians to REJECT any thought of a “no-fly zone”!!! Here are a few articles about this: Veterans for Peace Warns Biden That […]
Legal Rights for Nature: See these videos and articles
The concept of recognizing legal rights for nature is growing worldwide. Here are some recent resources: My January 2022 TV interview makes a solid case that is easy to understand. You may watch the TV interview video and/or read the thorough summary I typed up with links to additional information. Here is the link: https://parallaxperspectives.org/lets-recognize-legal-rights-for-nature The progressive populist Jim Hightower wrote this article recently: https://hightowerlowdown.org/article/give-nature-a-seat-at-the-governing-table-rights-of-nature/ Panama made good progress on this recently: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25022022/panama-rights-of-nature/?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=e4567a0b00-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-e4567a0b00-329402989 A brief introduction to this video says this: “Western views and the legal system tend to view nature as property, and as a […]