By Chris graham

The reaction of Aboriginal people - the target of the racism, as if I even needed to point that out - has been pretty inspired. But before we get to that, in case you missed it… a couple from Mildura, ‘Rob and Karen’ were filmed over the weekend confronting a local Aboriginal man, Robby Wirramanda Knight ( Read more... )

By Leonard Peltier

The year of 2019 is coming to a close and with it, comes the day most Americans set aside as a day for Thanksgiving. As I let my mind wander beyond the steel bars and concrete walls, I try to imagine what the people who live outside the prison gates are doing, and what they are thinking. Do they ever think of the Indigenous ( Read more... )

This is a good primer on the collection of people and far-right fascists behind Mesa, Camacho and the coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia.

By Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton

Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. ( Read more... )

By Chris Hedges

This is, better expressed, somewhat the way I can't help thinking. This is all Chris Hedges work. Please follow the link at the end to give him the clicks, and to see all the links.

Friday’s climate strike by students across the globe will have no more impact than the mass mobilizations by women following the election of Donald ( Read more... )

• USDA is dropping regulations on slaughter house line speed, allowing the meat-packing/slaughtering industry to self-regulate. If you've read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", you KNOW this means an increase in food-borne illness from pork. And probably an increase in the amount of literal faeces as well as bacteria on meat that survives all the way ( Read more... )

• Trump administration rolls back landmark water protections
  "The Trump administration on Thursday announced the repeal of one of the Obama era's most sweeping environmental rules - a set of pollution protections for small streams and wetlands that had riled up opposition from coal miners, home developers, farmers and oil and gas drillers ( Read more... )

By S. Brian Wilson

Long, but worth reading.

Viet Nam - Epiphany for the USA

There was a moment in Viet Nam when I questioned whether everything I had been taught about “America” was one big fabricated lie - a huge pretend. It was April 1969, and I had just experienced witnessing the aftermath of a series of bombings of supposed military targets ( Read more... )