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A People’s Vaccine Against a Mutating Virus and Neoliberal Rule

by Nicolas J. S. Davies Photo credit: UNICEF Teachers and students were able to return to school in Lao Cai, Viet Nam, in May 2020 A recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID pandemic in the United States are at their lowest level since it began. Only half of Americans are either “very worried” (15%) or “somewhat worried” (35%) about the virus, while the other half are “not very worried” (30%) or “not worried at all” (20%). But the news from around the world [...]

By |2021-07-01T23:56:44-05:00July 1st, 2021|Activism, Biden, China, COVID-19, Economy, National Security, Nicolas Davies, Politics, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Is a Network of Major Donors Neutralizing Activism in The Peace Movement?

Peace-Washing: Is a Network of Major Donors Neutralizing Activism in The Peace Movement? With Democrats in Power (for now), Powerful Funders May Be Trying To Tame or Silence Progressive Peace Activists By Dave Lindorff Peace-washing: Is a network of major donors neutralizing activism in the peace movement? Salon - June 2, 2021 During the four years of the Trump administration, resistance and even revolutionary talk were in the air as organizations with names like The Resistance and Our Revolution brought together liberals, Democrats of all stripes and Sandernistas, all opposed to President Donald Trump and to Trumpism in [...]

By |2021-06-02T23:31:56-05:00June 2nd, 2021|Capitalism, Dave Lindorff, Donald Trump, Economy, Historical, Movements, National Security, Nuclear Power, Peace, Politics, Protests and Rallies, War|0 Comments
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The Emperor’s New Rules

The Emperor’s New Rules by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The world is reeling in horror at the latest Israeli massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza. Much of the world is also shocked by the role of the United States in this crisis, as it keeps providing Israel with weapons to kill Palestinian civilians, in violation of U.S. and international law, and has repeatedly blocked action by the UN Security Council to impose a ceasefire or hold Israel accountable for its [...]

By |2021-05-29T23:36:42-05:00May 29th, 2021|Biden, Medea Benjamin, National Security, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Politics, Security and Insecurity, United States, War|0 Comments
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Calling on the Squad to Downsize Biden’s Military & Nuclear Budget

Squad & Co: Unite as a Bloc to Downsize Biden’s Military Budget   Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd    Photo credit: ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons)   Imagine this scenario:   A month before the vote on the federal budget, progressives in Congress declared, “We’ve studied President Biden’s proposed $753 billion military budget, an increase of $13 billion from Trump’s already inflated budget, and we can’t, in good conscience, support this.”   Now that would be a show stopper, particularly if they added, “So we [...]

By |2021-05-04T23:20:03-05:00May 4th, 2021|Activism, Afghanistan, Biden, Medea Benjamin, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, War|0 Comments
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The Intellectual Property on Covid-19 Should Be Shared as Rapidly and Widely as Possible

The Intellectual Property on Covid-19 Should Be Shared as Rapidly and Widely as Possible byJeffrey D. Sachs https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/29/intellectual-property-covid-19-should-be-shared-rapidly-and-widely-possible [Excerpt] Published on Thursday, April 29, 2021 by Project Syndicate Intellectual Property must serve the global good, rather than humanity serving the interests of a few private companies. And in the case of Covid-19, the global good is not in doubt: rapid worldwide immunization, in order to save lives, prevent the emergence of new variants, and end the pandemic. The governments of South Africa, India, and dozens of other [...]

By |2021-04-30T18:36:29-05:00April 30th, 2021|Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, COVID-19, Economy, Health, India, National Security, News, Solidarity|0 Comments
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The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Empire

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies In 2004, journalist Ron Susskind quoted a Bush White House advisor, reportedly Karl Rove, as boasting, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.” He dismissed Susskind’s assumption that public policy must be rooted in “the reality-based community.” “We’re history’s actors,” the advisor told him, “…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” Sixteen years later, the U.S. wars and war crimes launched by the Bush administration have [...]

By |2021-02-03T13:08:41-05:00February 3rd, 2021|Afghanistan, Biden, California, Donald Trump, Economy, Historical, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Medea Benjamin, Movements, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Peace and War, Russia, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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Murder Incorporated: Book Three-Perfecting Tyranny

MURDER INCORPORATED: Empire/Genocide/Manifest Destiny Book Three: Perfecting Tyranny by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, Foreword by Angela Davis Prison Radio, San Francisco CA, 2020, 420 pp., $20, ISBN  978-7346489-1-1 (softcover) also available as hardcover and e-book (softcover $25 including shipping from Prison Radio, PO Box 411074, SF CA 94141, https://prisonradio.org Reviewed by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA-People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The culminating third volume in the history of US empire and the resistance to it by political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and film-maker Stephen Vittoria is "passionately [...]

By |2021-01-30T04:19:01-05:00January 30th, 2021|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Book Reviews, Books, Democracy, Historical, Independent Journalism, Indigenous, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, National Security, Peace and War, Politics, Reviews, Security and Insecurity, Socialism, Solidarity, United States, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Don’t Let Them Use “Domestic Terrorism” to Criminalize Our People Again

Senator Biden speaks at the signing of the 1994 Biden Crime Bill as Attorney General Janet Reno, President Bill Clinton, and local law enforcement officials look on. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) By Shakeer Rahman, Pete White, and Hamid Khan Joe Biden returning to power in this moment is ominous. As Democrats retake the presidency, Trump devotees have shown they can supplement their harm toward Black and brown people with violent defiance of the political system. Across the mainstream partisan spectrum, their actions are begrudgingly referred to as “domestic [...]

By |2021-01-30T04:17:20-05:00January 30th, 2021|Activism, Biden, Commentary, Gentrification/Displacement, Hamid Khan, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Movements, National Security, Police, Politics, Solidarity, Surveillance|0 Comments
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Venezuela in the Cross-Hairs of the US Empire

Biden Continues Trump Policies Towards Venezuela https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15100  Excerpts: New Secretary of State Antony Blinken told members of the US Senate that recently inaugurated President Biden will continue to recognize Venezuelan self-proclaimed “Interim President” Juan Guaido as that country’s legitimate leader. Blinken also claimed the Biden administration would look to use unilateral sanctions “more effectively” in its efforts to oust the Maduro government. Former White House Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams told the Miami Herald he expected “no major changes” after meeting incoming foreign policy officials, while [...]

By |2021-01-30T04:11:27-05:00January 30th, 2021|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Donald Trump, Elections, Indigenous, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Socialism, Solidarity, Venezuela, Voting|0 Comments
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Eisenhower’s Warning on Military-Industrial Complex More Apt than Ever

Eisenhower's Ghost Haunts Biden's Foreign Policy Team By Nicolas J. S. Davies   In his first words as President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, Antony  Blinken said, “we have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence.” Many around the world will welcome this promise of humility from the new administration, and Americans should too.   Biden's foreign policy team will also need a special kind of confidence to confront the most serious challenge they face. That will not be a threat from a hostile foreign country, but the controlling and [...]

By |2020-12-02T14:07:19-05:00December 2nd, 2020|Biden, Big Business, Commentary, Constitution, COVID-19, Economy, Haiti, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Movements, National Security, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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October 2020 So Cal Community Calendar

URGENT UPDATE: Supreme Court lets Trump end Census early The US Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling and has allowed Trump to end census data collection on October 15!! Be sure to complete the 2020 census form for your household IMMEDIATELY.  GO TO: HTTPS://census2020.govorCALL:for English 1-844-330-2020for Spanish 1-844-468-2020for Haitian Kreyol 1-844-477-2020.Help is available in other languages. See:https://2020census.gov/en/languages.html  Apportionment of many legislative and Congressional seats, and allocation of federal program funding rely on the figures from the decennial census (every 10 years by Constitutional mandate). Trump has [...]

By |2020-10-15T03:54:13-05:00October 1st, 2020|Activism, Ads, Africa, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Banks, Black Lives Matter, California, Commentary, COVID-19, Democracy, Disability issues, Elections, Gentrification/Displacement, Health, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Independent Journalism, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace Vigils, Poetry Corner, Police Brutality, Politics|0 Comments
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Free Press in the Dock: Assange Railroad Nears Terminal

This court case is like the 'Pentagon Papers' on steroids.  And yet: Only five people (including Craig Murray) are being allowed into the public gallery at the Old Bailey. The mainstream media are suppressing details of the case and the court proceedings. The magistrate in charge is acting like a CIA agent - railroading Assange to be extradited. You will not get a clearer report of the court proceedings than in Craig Murray's online blog. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/case  from which this report is excerpted: It is hard to believe, [...]

By |2020-10-03T18:17:12-05:00October 1st, 2020|Democracy, Europe, Free Speech, Fund Drives, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Iraq, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, People, Politics, Prisons, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, Surveillance, Veterans, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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