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
Our Current Political Crisis (in addition to Trump and Trumpism)
Republicans like to SAY they are “the party of Lincoln,” but they DO THEY OPPOSITE!
Republicans like to SAY they are “the party of Lincoln, but actually they DO THE OPPOSITE! Lincoln freed the slaves and fought the Civil War to end slavery, BUT: Republicans allow their party members to bring Confederate flags to Republican Party events. Republicans pass laws to prevent teaching school children about racial discrimination in U.S. history. Republicans have prevented immigrants from African nations. Republicans vigorously oppose efforts to reduce gun violence, even though Lincoln himself was murdered by a gun. If Republicans REALLY were “the party of Lincoln, they would STRONGLY SUPPORT: Black Pride Black Lives Matter Teaching […]
Mainstream media get their expert info from companies that profit by making military weapons
Here is an excellent video on how the media consults “experts” who have ties to major weapons manufacturers BAE, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin. See this: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-gentlemens-agreement-when-tv?s=r
We CAN’T abolish nuclear weapons until we MAKE THE PUBLIC FACE THE PROBLEM!
In 1962 James Baldwin wrote an essay for The New York Times titled, “As Much Truth As One Can Bear.” He wrote, “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” In 1962 Baldwin was writing about the U.S.’s extremely serious problem about pervasive and persistent racial injustice. Baldwin’s insight is still true, and it pertains also to nuclear weapons. Since 1945 nuclear weapons have been a persistent – but largely ignored – part of the status quo. Government propaganda fooled the American public into accepting nuclear weapons as an ongoing reality. […]
Big Money in Elections Corrupts Our Government
While this TV series – “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” – deals with a wide variety of issues related to peace, social justice, economics, the environment, and so forth, the June 2022 interview focuses on a strategically smart way to help us SOLVE ANY public policy problem you care about. This month’s interview shows how we could solve big problems if we would get Big Money out of politics! Huge amounts of money corrupt election campaigns. Huge amounts of money corrupt all levels of government – our nation, states, and local governments – and prevent them from solving problems. Certainly, an honest […]
Understand why people believe conspiracy theories
In recent years more and more people have been believing in conspiracy theories. These have perverted public discussions of issues, and these have perverted all levels of government in wacky and dangerous ways. These articles can help us understand this trend and why people believe conspiracy theories. Political scientist explains why so many people were susceptible to QAnon myths: https://www.alternet.org/2021/10/conspiracy-theory/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8074&recip_id=22838&list_id=2 The Fox News subscription service is pushing preposterous neo-Nazi conspiracies into the minds of American conservatives. This article reports that Fox Nation host Lara Logan says evolution is a hoax funded by the Jews: Fox Nation host Lara […]
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
Corruption in Congress: They own stocks in companies that profit from the wars they support.
Voters hate corruption. Congress keeps allowing itself to be corrupted in a few ways, including: – Allowing big businesses to donate to their campaigns and thereby pressure Congress members to do what their major donors have paid them to do – Owning, buying, and selling stock in businesses. Congress makes decisions that can enrich the companies that they own. Nowadays a big problem is the fact that some members of Congress own stocks in companies that make military weapons, so those members of Congress get even more rich by passing bigger and bigger military budgets — and supporting more wars […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The U.S. has been abusing Iran since 1941.
Since 1979 the U.S. government and mainstream news media have been demonizing Iran. This blog post provides information that they do not want you to know. THE BAD NEWS: This article summarizes U.S. meddling in Iran since 1941: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/americas-sordid-history-of-meddling-in-iran THE GOOD NEWS: Iran’s people nonviolently overthrew the U.S.’s heavily armed dictator in 1979. In 1953 Iran’s people democratically elected a new prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh. Until then, Britain and other Western powers had been reaping huge profits from the oil that belonged to the Iranian people. Big Oil’s rip-off left Iran’s people poor. Prime Minister Mossadegh took action […]
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 […]