Tag: culture
How white colonizers set us up for uncontrollable wildfires
"I want us to go humbly to the very people our culture tried to exterminate to listen to what they can teach us. "
Noam Chomsky: The future of organized human life is at risk...
“We have to make decisions now which will literally determine whether organized human life can survive in any decent form.”
Gaza is already unlivable: A response to Israel’s deadly airstrikes targeting...
Israel launched its heaviest airstrikes on the region since 2014, targeting scores of buildings, including the TV station Al-Aqsa TV. Israeli airstrikes also reportedly hit dozens of homes.
It’s time to go on the offensive against racism
That is the shift that can make possible, at long last, a decisive win against racism.
US ‘outrage’ over slaying of US residents depends on the nation...
One can only imagine the U.S. response had either incident been perpetrated by Russia, Cuba, China or Venezuela or any other perceived “enemy” of the U.S.
5 ways new movement leaders are effecting change
Today, new movements are working with more established organizations to capitalize on their wide-reaching networks.
Teenagers in space
Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Rambo, Red Dawn, and how a tale of American triumphalism was returned to the child’s world.
America’s bullies
In recent years America has become a culture of bullying – the wealthier over the poorer, CEOs over workers, those with privilege and pedigree over those without, the whiter over the browner and blacker, men over women.
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Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Addicted to war?
War Fever, Trump-Style.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.