Opinion
Our scheduled talks are now taking shape. for Ireland, the UK, and the US.
You can check this document
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WsvxIHdZDk7sT4RyIyt5BUhBWQcxtld1lyKkSImoHGA/edit
Mr. Mahmoud Abbas presented an eloquent speech at the UNGA and got
applauded. Thanks to whoever is his speech writer. By contrast, war
criminal and genocide lord Netanyahu was almost a persona non grata at the
UN. Most delegates of countries chose not to attend or walked out as he
walked in (he had brought a few racist Zionists to attend as audience and
to cheer him). But these are side shows to an ongoing GENOCIDE. We live ina
world where only strength seems understood and the UN has become a hollow
chamber where politicians meet to state their positions and the US and
Its title is Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resist False Solutions to Climate Change, is now in its third edition and can be accessed—for free— online. It was put together by “an international coalition of organization and activists,” relates the “Hoodwinked Collaborative” that “was convened to produce and distribute the groundbreaking publication on false solutions to the climate crisis.”
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer. All things fall apart. The center cannot hold.” -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
As of May 2024, the United States has committed over $175 (borrowed) billion to escalating the proxy war against Russia, and, as in the case of the Iraq and Afghan wars, with little regard for accountability pertaining to tracking military hardware, equipment, funding, or fraud prevention.
One of the most grotesque moments in this bloody global Punch and Judy show preliminary to nuclear war, was the recent arrival of Vladimir Zelenskyy, former president of Ukraine, making a campaign stop at an ammunition factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where some of the three million 155mm artillery shells the US has given Ukraine are produced.
Is it possible to expand the stakes of this election beyond the nation’s two-party pseudo-democracy?
I have to write this. I have to express solidarity with all the other lost and torn voters out there, who are struggling with the question of the moment: Who should I vote for? Israel’s genocidal and expanding war – supported and abetted by both of the mainstream, “legitimate” candidates – has shattered the abstract simplicity of the voting process. Do we have no choice but to vote for ongoing murder?
Or can we vote from the depth of our souls?
If one is to visit the Mahal website, a pop-up reminder, reading ‘Apply online’, keeps appearing. It is as if the repeated beep is a reminder of the state of emergency, if not outright panic, in the Israeli military.
Mahal is one of several recruiting agencies that aim to entice mercenaries from all around the world to fight Israel’s dirty wars, in Gaza and on all fronts.
Backing Ray up is the amazing JOHN BRAKEY, whose pathbreaking work on digital imaging and election audits in Arizona has forever changed our history.
RUTH STRAUSS, LYNN FEINERMAN and TATANKA BRICCA raise major questions about the chaos about to throw the November election into limbo.
STEVE CARUSO fills us in on the completely warped dirty tricks being used to sabotage Ohio’s latest anti-gerrymandering referendum.
PROFESSOR MARCIELLE BRANDLER gives us some critical insights into the minds of young voters.
SANDY BOLZENIUS, based in Columbus, gives us some critical insights into the insanity now engulfing the Ohio town of Springfield.
MYLA RESON reminds us that the MAGA attack on immigration is designed to divert attention from Trump’s catastrophic failure in his debate.
Emmy-winning documentarian DAVID SALTMAN explains Brazilian attitudes toward race vs those in the US.
CAMILLA REES opens a great discussion on RFK, Jr., and the future of large-scale wind farming.
We’re then joined by BONNIE NIXON, sustainability director of the Ports of Long Beach/San Pedro, who is working to make then 100% net zero by 2030….or sooner!!!