US Admits to Pushing Ukraine Into a Fight It Can’t Win
by The CNCL Team | Jul 31, 2023 | Human Society | 0
A US “windfall” in Ukraine comes at an unfathomable cost.
Read MoreWe’re Taught About Liberal And Conservative Bias In Media, But Not US Empire Bias
by The CNCL Team | Jul 31, 2023 | Human Society | 0
One of the biggest problems with the urgent push for “media literacy” we’ve been seeing in the west these last few years is that everyone’s being taught about liberal bias and conservative bias in media, but they’re not being taught about US empire bias.
Read MoreThe Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism
by The CNCL Team | Jun 19, 2023 | Human Society | 0
Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime.
Read MoreAnother Act of Terror. How the Media Do PR for Biden and Zelensky
by The CNCL Team | Jun 15, 2023 | Human Society | 0
Coverage of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and Nord Stream pipelines shows a western media willing to prioritise anti-Russian propaganda over facts.
Read MoreSafety Third
by Charles Eisenstein | Apr 21, 2023 | Personal | 0
Safety-obsession deadens the spirit. It wraps a constriction band around life. It is always a little dangerous to probe one’s boundaries. It is always a bit dangerous to venture into the unknown. “Safety first” shrinks the horizons of possibility.
Read MoreHow BBC Coverage Is Enabling Israeli State Violence at Al-Aqsa
by The CNCL Team | Apr 9, 2023 | Human Society | 0
Once again, the British state broadcaster is using a bogus ‘neutrality’ to trick its audience into siding with Israeli state oppression.
Read MoreIt’s Not Just the Settlers – or Israel – Responsible for the Torching of Huwwara
by The CNCL Team | Mar 10, 2023 | Human Society | 0
Endless indulgence from Israel’s supporters in the West has cleared a path to a fascist government intent on ‘wiping out’ Palestinian communities
Read MoreCaitlin Johnstone: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
by The CNCL Team | Mar 10, 2023 | Human Society | 0
Caitlin Johnstone contemplates the war in Ukraine, corporate media, the U.S. empire and more.
Read MoreWoke Imperialism
by The CNCL Team | Mar 10, 2023 | Human Society | 0
Woke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the oppressed, is another tool in the arsenal of the imperial state.
Read MoreThere Has Never In History Been A Greater Need For A Large Anti-War Movement
by The CNCL Team | Mar 3, 2023 | Human Society | 0
❖Things are escalating more and more rapidly between the US-centralized power structure and the few remaining nations with the will and the means to stand against its demands for total obedience, namely China, Russia, and Iran.
Read MoreWhen the Cause is Everything
by Charles Eisenstein | Mar 3, 2023 | Human Society | 0
The government and people of El Salvador are in an impossible situation not of their own making. Therefore, to argue, as I see right and left doing, about whether this is a good policy is a diversion from the real originating issues.
Read MoreWhat is the Next Story?
by Charles Eisenstein | Jan 10, 2023 | Human Society | 0
We are sensing a metamorphosis of these basic myths that create the world – a transition from an old to a new story. Many are well familiar with this idea, but I’d like to clarify exactly what I think these old and new stories may be.
Read MoreBlocking Roads Isn’t Crazy – It’s Our Last Hope That Sanity Will Prevail
by The CNCL Team | Nov 9, 2022 | Human Society | 0
A lack of public concern in the West at dealing with the impending climate catastrophe isn’t accidental. It’s been engineered.
Read MorePandemic Amnesty, Yes—And Here is the Price
by Charles Eisenstein | Nov 4, 2022 | Human Society | 0
A recent article in The Atlantic, “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty,” has been making waves in the Covid dissident community. But how can an amnesty be supported without accountability and clear steps taken to ensure this doesn’t happen again.
Read MoreA Lost Small Town: Running Errands in the Wake of Emotional Violence, USA
by The CNCL Team | Nov 2, 2022 | Personal | 0
An emotional massacre has taken place in these little towns. And now we are expected to act as if — this never happened at all.
Read MoreFeminine Power
by Charles Eisenstein | Nov 1, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The province of matriarchy is what. The province of patriarchy is how. What shall we do, that is in service to life, love, and beauty? How shall we do it? These questions merge and flow into each other. What becomes how, how becomes what. Such is the conjugation of matriarchy and patriarchy.
Read MoreWorld’s Premier Marine Ecosystem at Risk
by Robert Hunziker | Oct 31, 2022 | Earth | 0
The Southern Ocean is 10% of the world’s oceans. Yet, it is arguably the most significant ecosystem of the planet for marine sea life as well as regulation of CO2 and ocean heat, serving as a buffer to climate change and thereby benefiting the entire globe. It is the final frontier of life support for Earth.
Read MoreStop Worrying and Love the Bomb
by The CNCL Team | Oct 31, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The longer the proxy war in Ukraine continues, the closer we come to a direct confrontation with Russia. Once that happens, the Dr. Strangeloves running the show will reach for the nukes.
Read MoreThe Official Narrative On Ukraine
by The CNCL Team | Oct 31, 2022 | Human Society | 0
If you dispute any part of the official Ukraine narrative, you are an evil monster, and a disinformation agent. Because Vladimir Putin is the same as Adolf Hitler, you are also the same as Neville Chamberlain, and are guilty of the cardinal sin of supporting appeasement.
Read MoreHow the Left Became Cheerleaders for US Imperialism
by The CNCL Team | Oct 28, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Figureheads like the Guardian’s George Monbiot have wrecked the left’s ability to think critically, encouraging an analysis of power politics more suited to the playground.
Read MoreThe Puppets and the Puppet Masters
by The CNCL Team | Oct 9, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation.
Read MoreNew Zealand’s PM Wants More Online Censorship For The War In Ukraine
by The CNCL Team | Sep 30, 2022 | Human Society | 0
New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern continued her crusade for the expansion of internet censorship during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, this time using the war in Ukraine.
Read MoreSilencing the Lambs. How Propaganda Works.
by The CNCL Team | Sep 16, 2022 | Human Society | 0
In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.
Read MoreKiss the Amazon Goodbye?
by Robert Hunziker | Sep 12, 2022 | Earth | 0
As devastating as Trump was for the environment, President Jair Bolsonaro has one-upped Trump. He’s single-handedly destroying the world’s largest rainforest. It may be the single most important ecosystem for the survival of Homo sapiens.
Read MoreMonarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
by The CNCL Team | Sep 12, 2022 | Human Society | 0
No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy.
Read More‘Genocide of His People Is Complete’: Last Member of Isolated Brazilian Tribe Found Dead
by The CNCL Team | Aug 30, 2022 | Human Society | 0
“For this was indeed a genocide—the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth,” said one Indigenous rights campaigner.
Read MoreIs There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?
by Robert Hunziker | Aug 25, 2022 | Earth | 0
The short answer: No, not even close!
Read MoreCultivate A Habit Of Small Acts Of Sedition
by The CNCL Team | Aug 25, 2022 | Personal | 0
Written by Caitlin Johnstone It is not easy being someone who cares about the world and opposes...
Read MoreBehind Rolling Stone’s Hatchet Job on a Psychiatrist Critical of Neoliberal Capitalism
by The CNCL Team | Aug 20, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Welcome to the Twilight Zone of the political landscape of psychiatry, where faux-left liberals are clueless that they have unwittingly become right-wingers, where shameless right-wingers exploit anything in an attempt to hold on to their AR-15s, and where anti-authoritarian left critical thinkers know that if they are not careful—or even if they are—they will find themselves being used politically in a repulsive way.
Read MorePsychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit
by The CNCL Team | Aug 20, 2022 | Human Society | 0
A class-action suit would serve society well. It would put teeth into the legal obligation for doctors to provide “informed consent,” and for a medical discipline to provide society with information that met this standard too.
Read MoreCapitalism Meets Scientism: A Too Convenient Marriage?
by The CNCL Team | Aug 19, 2022 | Human Society | 0
We badly need policy reform to change the approach that led to the vast exaggeration of the pandemic by public health officials, elected officials, and our media.
Read MoreWe Are Not the First Civilization to Collapse, But We Will Probably Be the Last
by The CNCL Team | Aug 19, 2022 | Human Society | 0
As industrial empires became global, their increase in size meant an increase in complexity. Ironically, this complexity makes us more vulnerable to catastrophic collapse, not less.
Read MoreInverting the Energy Paradigm
by Charles Eisenstein | Aug 16, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0
Charles takes an unusual approach to considering energy policy, one that applies equally to one’s personal energy as an embodied being of flesh.
Read MorePandemania, Part 5
by Charles Eisenstein | Aug 9, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Safety mania and death phobia are signs of a disconnection from purpose and passion. If you have nothing more important than your own life, then preserving life is left as the only purpose.
Read MoreWhen the Just Go To Prison
by The CNCL Team | Jul 31, 2022 | Human Society | 0
When those who expose the crimes of the state are criminalized and sent to prison, tyranny is inevitable.
Read MoreBreakdown of the Marine Food Web
by Robert Hunziker | Jul 30, 2022 | Earthlings | 0
For the first time, a significant loss at the base of the marine food web has been detected. The Scottish research vessel Capepod reported the findings in equatorial waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Read MoreThe Dawn of the Apocalypse
by The CNCL Team | Jul 26, 2022 | Human Society | 0
We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction.
Read MorePandemania, Part 4
by Charles Eisenstein | Jul 26, 2022 | Human Society | 0
How to become incorrigible…
Read MorePandemania, Part 3
by Charles Eisenstein | Jul 26, 2022 | Human Society | 0
On lies and systemic deceit…
Read MorePandemania, Part 2
by Charles Eisenstein | Jul 26, 2022 | Human Society | 0
More on abuse, division, and the promise of coherency
Read MorePandemania, Part 1
by Charles Eisenstein | Jul 26, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The social illness I speak of is not Covid per se, but our response to it. I will call the illness pandemania—a social, psychological, and political derangement that caused much more harm than the disease itself, and continues to do so.
Read MoreA People’s History of COVID-19
by The CNCL Team | Jul 26, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Listen to The Science! Here is what The Science said…
Read MoreGreenland Threatens
by Robert Hunziker | Jul 20, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0
Greenland is sending signals to coastal metropolises around the world that it’s never too early to start building seawalls. These are not mixed signals from the big ice island. Rather, they are straightforward signals indicative of rapid breakdown of average ice thickness of 5,000 feet sooner than ever thought possible.
Read MoreWill Egypt Drain the World’s Second Largest Wetlands?
by Robert Hunziker | Jul 17, 2022 | Earth | 0
Sudd is Africa’s largest freshwater wetland at roughly 3,500 square miles in an otherwise dry region of South Sudan. It’s under threat by a megaproject named Jonglei Canal that has the potential to devastate this ecological gem.
Read MoreWar with Iran
by The CNCL Team | Jul 16, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel, responsible for military fiascos, hundreds of thousands of deaths and innumerable war crimes in the Middle East, are now plotting to attack Iran.
Read MoreNATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet
by cncladmin | Jul 11, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The massive expansion of NATO, not only in Eastern and Central Europe but the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, presages endless war and a potential nuclear holocaust.
Read MoreChomsky & the United Nations Warn of Collapse
by The CNCL Team | Jul 10, 2022 | Earth | 0
It’s entirely possible that doomsayers of the world, though widely ridiculed, could be on target about the prospects for global societal collapse. But, of course, when? According to a recent Noam Chomsky interview, it’s an ongoing grind that will end with a thud.
Read MoreImperial Narrative Control Has Five Distinct Elements
by The CNCL Team | Jun 26, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The powerful will keep creating the world’s worst problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people don’t use their superior numbers to stop the powerful because the powerful are continuously manipulating people’s understanding of what’s going on.
Read MoreThe Triumph of Death
by The CNCL Team | Jun 20, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.
Read MoreTranshumanism and the Metaverse
by Charles Eisenstein | Jun 19, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The promoters of the transhumanist Metaverse describe it as not only good, but inevitable. It may seem so, given that it is an extension of an age-old trend. But hopefully by making its underlying myths and assumptions visible, we can exercise a conscious choice in embracing or refusing it.
Read MoreBuckle Up! The Arctic’s Sizzling
by Robert Hunziker | Jun 18, 2022 | Earth | 0
The Arctic is turning into a dream come true for doomsayers. It’s heating way too fast! Nostradamus is dancing in the street.
Read MoreAssange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet
by The CNCL Team | Jun 18, 2022 | Human Society | 0
British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere in the world, who reports inconvenient truths about the US empire.
Read MoreForget Liberating Ukraine – We First Need To Liberate Our Minds
by The CNCL Team | Jun 11, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Because we in the West are the strongest tribe on the planet, we are also the most deluded, the most propagandized, and the most dangerous.
Read MoreHedges: America’s Gun Fetish
by The CNCL Team | Jun 9, 2022 | Human Society | 0
There will be no gun control, not only because of the gun lobby and a corrupt political class, but because for many white Americans the idea of the gun is the only power they have left.
Read MoreRussia-Ukraine War: George Bush’s Admission of His Crimes in Iraq Was No ‘Gaffe’
by The CNCL Team | May 27, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The former president’s confusion over the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine should lead to western soul-searching, not mirth.
Read MoreIndia – Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People Die
by Robert Hunziker | May 26, 2022 | Earth | 0
Death by humid heat in India equates to the tolling of bells, slowly, repeatedly, as black pennants flutter along the distant horizon. Another one has died and another, and one more, and another and another, as the monotonous tolling becomes an atrocious irritation.
Read MoreThey’re Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not Disinformation
by The CNCL Team | May 24, 2022 | Human Society | 0
We are not being protected by a compassionate alliance of corporations and governments who only want us to know the truth, we are being manipulated and oppressed by an oligarchic empire that wants us to believe lies. That’s why they’re locking up Assange, that’s why they’re censoring the internet, that’s why they’re filling our minds with propaganda, and that’s why we can’t let them win.
Read MoreThe Biomass Peril
by Robert Hunziker | May 24, 2022 | Earth | 0
By all appearances, woody biomass is an unstoppable behemoth initiated by the EU, which is now scrambling, as it tries to undo a monster of its own creation.
Read MoreCompartmentalization: UFOs and Social Paralysis
by Charles Eisenstein | May 16, 2022 | Human Society | 0
We will not resume our progress until we reunite our splintered society and psyche. Once we do, we may perhaps see the folly of the project to attain paradise through technological and social control, and we will turn our united energies toward an entirely different project.
Read MoreIsrael’s PR Problem, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
by The CNCL Team | May 15, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Israel’s mounting PR crisis boils down to the fact that its violence and oppression isn’t happening in some far off land as in the case with US wars, it’s happening right at home surrounded by video cameras and enforced by police and soldiers who are not adept PR spinmeisters.
Read MoreThe US Could’ve Prevented This War Just By Protecting Kyiv From Nazis
by The CNCL Team | May 9, 2022 | Human Society | 0
This entire war could have been avoided if the US had simply pledged military protection for Zelensky against the far right extremists who were threatening to lynch him if he enacted the peacemaking policies he was elected to enact.
Read MoreThe Persecution of Julian Assange
by The CNCL Team | May 7, 2022 | Human Society | 0
According to UN torture expert, the UK and US have colluded to publicly destroy the WikiLeaks founder – and deter others from exposing their crimes.
Read MoreAn Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
by The CNCL Team | May 7, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Read MoreThe Good World
by Charles Eisenstein | May 1, 2022 | Personal | 0
Charles offers a contemplation on generosity, goodness and gratitude.
Read MoreJapan’s Toxic Dumping Faces Growing Protests
by Robert Hunziker | May 1, 2022 | Earth | 0
The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean, starting in the spring of 2023, is facing increasing pressure to back off, especially in light of the facts that not only is it illegal but also morally reprehensible as well as a despicable disregard for the lifeblood of the ocean.
Read MoreOh God It’s Going To Get SO Much Worse
by The CNCL Team | May 1, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. By taking our control of information out of our hands without asking our permission and determining for us that we are to be a propaganda-based civilization for the foreseeable future, they have stolen something sacred from us. Something they had no right to take.
Read MoreElon Musk Isn’t a Threat to Society’s Health. All Billionaires Are
by The CNCL Team | May 1, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The mega-rich buy up media outlets precisely because a lie is more likely to fly than the truth – including the lie that they are invaluable.
Read MoreThe Collapse of Industrial Farming
by Robert Hunziker | Apr 28, 2022 | Earth | 0
The most upending event of the past 10,000 years is the advent of engineered food as fermentation farms displace factory farms. “We are on the Cusp of the Fastest, Deepest, Most Consequential Disruption of Agriculture in History.”
Read MoreClimate Change is Killing Trees
by Robert Hunziker | Apr 20, 2022 | Earthlings | 0
Just once in our planet’s long history, nearly all of the trees died – during the Permian-Triassic 252 million years ago, and event known as “the Great Dying.” It appears that such an event may be re-appearing. Throughout the world, trees are dying en masse.
Read MoreThey Actually Admitted They’re Lying To You! [News + Comedy with Lee Camp]
by The CNCL Team | Apr 14, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The Biden Administration and others have broken from the past and literally admitted they are “manipulating” or inventing various aspects of the war in Ukraine.
Read MoreScientists Hit the Streets
by Robert Hunziker | Apr 12, 2022 | Earth | 0
A revolutionary slogan by climate scientists “1.5C is Dead – Climate Revolution Now!” emblazoned the streets of the world on April 6th spawned by the Sixth Assessment Report, Mitigation of Climate Change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released April 4th.
Read MoreThe Pimps of War
by The CNCL Team | Apr 12, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.
Read MoreThe Great Barrier Reef on Life Support
by Robert Hunziker | Apr 10, 2022 | Earthlings | 0
Recent news of another (the 6th) bleaching event at the Great Barrier Reef is but one more example in a long list of recent climate-related events that depict a scenario that can only be described as triple-alarm climate emergencies, as ecosystems breakdown across the world.
Read MoreThe Truth About IPCC Reports
by Robert Hunziker | Apr 10, 2022 | Earth | 0
At the center of the issue, the IPCC does not expose the full extent of existential risk, which happens to be such an unthinkable event so hard to accept that nobody believes it will ever really truly happen.
Read MoreWhen You Lie It’s Misinformation, When They Lie It’s Cool: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
by The CNCL Team | Apr 10, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Can’t believe we’ve been watching people lose their social media accounts for posting “misinformation” this whole time only for US officials to come right out and admit that they’ve been running an active disinformation campaign where they knowingly circulate lies about Russia.
Read MoreLiberals Are Adopting an Old Soviet Tactic: Painting Opponents as Mentally Ill
by The CNCL Team | Apr 8, 2022 | Earth | 0
The pathologization of dissent is not going away. It will intensify as neoliberalism faces crisis after crisis and social polarization grows. Those who claim to be liberals defending democracy will soon be only too ready to snuff it out.
Read MoreAntarctica on Edge
by Robert Hunziker | Mar 29, 2022 | Earth | 0
East Antarctica, often times referred to as “the final frontier of global warming,” is making headlines once again.
Read MoreReinventing Progress: How to Move Beyond Technocracy
by Charles Eisenstein | Mar 20, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The techno-scientific ambition for perfect knowledge and control is like trying to reach the horizon by running. It is like trying to build a tower all the way to the sky. No matter how fast and far you run, the horizon is no closer. No matter how high you build, the sky is no nearer.
Read MoreHedges: Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
by The CNCL Team | Mar 20, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives during the Cold War and dominates our lives now.
Read MoreSocial Media Giants Allow Hate Speech Against Russia but Silence Israel’s Critics
by The CNCL Team | Mar 20, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Silicon Valley’s decision to allow anti-Russia threats reveals it as little more than a propaganda arm of the West
Read MoreMethane Acceleration Sets Record
by Robert Hunziker | Mar 20, 2022 | Earth | 0
That current level of 1,900 ppb of atmoshperic methane is triple the pre-industrial level of 700 ppb. Furthermore, it is suddenly mysteriously accelerating over just the past 13 years. In turn, this exceptional acceleration could hasten global warming considerably. Of even more concern, the acceleration appears to be regenerating on its own accord sans human influence.
Read MoreDangerously Awash in Chemicals
by Robert Hunziker | Mar 15, 2022 | Earth | 0
Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
Read MoreTwice in a Century: Russia Faces a War of Annihilation
by The CNCL Team | Mar 15, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The United States is in the early phases of a war of annihilation against Russia the aim of which is the total destruction of the economy, the culture, the population and the nation.
Read MoreTwitter Allows Death Threats Against Russians in New Ukraine War Policy
by The CNCL Team | Mar 14, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Twitter updated its terms of service to allow users to call for the deaths of Russian politicians and soldiers, due to the war in Ukraine. This comes soon after US Senator Lindsey Graham called for assassinating President Vladimir Putin, and Facebook greenlighted support for Ukrainian Nazis.
Read MoreChris Hedges: Worthy and Unworthy Victims
by The CNCL Team | Mar 11, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Rulers divide the world into worthy and unworthy victims, those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those whose suffering is minimized, dismissed, or ignored. The terror we and our allies carry out against Iraqi, Palestinian, Syrian, Libyan, Somali and Yemeni civilians is part of the regrettable cost of war.
Read MoreFormer UN Inspector Scott Ritter on What The Hell Is Happening in the Ukraine
by The CNCL Team | Mar 11, 2022 | Human Society | 0
UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter provides a concise summary of the geopolitics leading to the current Russia-Ukraine war.
Read MoreLet’s Re-Learn The Word ‘Detente’: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
by The CNCL Team | Mar 11, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Western powers insisted that they were trying to prevent this war while doing everything possible to ensure that it happened. Now they say they are trying to end this war while doing everything possible to ensure it continues.
Read MoreThe West’s Hands in Ukraine are as Bloody as Putin’s
by The CNCL Team | Mar 11, 2022 | Human Society | 0
If it succeeds, the West’s war machine will continue trundling over the bodies of the poor and marginalized as it drives us ever faster towards ecological collapse.
Read MoreRussia-Ukraine: Western Media Are Acting As Cheerleaders for War
by The CNCL Team | Mar 5, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Right now, we need voices from Russia to understand what Putin thinks and wants, not what the BBC’s “chief international correspondents” think he wants. We need information sources ready to quickly challenge both western and Russian “fake news”. And most of all we need to stop with our racist view of the world, in which we are always the Good Guys and they are always the Bad Guys, and in which our suffering matters and the suffering of others doesn’t.
Read MoreSpotify Purges Dissident Voices In Latest Censorship Escalation
by The CNCL Team | Mar 4, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Censorship escalates dramatically in the West. Anti-war political dissident Lee Camp tweeted Wednesday. “Let it be known – you can do anti-women, anti-trans or racist content on Spotify but you can’t be anti-war. That’s not allowed.”
Read MoreHas U.S. Imperial Striving Destroyed Our Chances for a Peaceful Multipolar World?
by The CNCL Team | Mar 3, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The U.S. government and ‘western’ media claim that the World condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That is however far from reality. It is only true if you believe that ‘the world’ solely exists of the 5-eye spying cooperation (U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand), the European Union, Switzerland, Japan and Singapore.
Read MoreDefending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship
by The CNCL Team | Mar 3, 2022 | Human Society | 0
You’d think a society devoted to truth and freedom, the kind of society western powers purport to be trying to defend in Ukraine, would not require a Ministry of Truth to protect us from “disinformation” about a government long targeted by the US-centralized empire, or from trying to seek out alternative perspectives beyond the homogeneous blanket of authorized mainstream narratives.
Read MoreWhat Came Unstuck in New Zealand? Lessons for the World
by The CNCL Team | Mar 2, 2022 | Human Society | 0
In 2020 it was hard to imagine the sorry consequences of Jacinda Ardern’s quaint faith in vaccination as a stand alone solution, but they are all too evident now.
Read MoreThe Single Most Important Question In The World Right Now
by The CNCL Team | Mar 1, 2022 | Human Society | 0
There is one question today that is more important than any other question that could possibly be asked, and it’s this: “Is what the US and its allies are trying to accomplish in Ukraine worth continually risking nuclear armageddon for?”
Read MoreRussell Brand Offers Food for Thought on the Ukraine Crisis
by cncladmin | Mar 1, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Russia has invaded Ukraine – according to the much of the MSM and certain politicians it’s as simple as Putin being the new Hitler. But is it that simple? What role did our own governments play? And are we headed towards WW3?
Read MoreThe Field of Peace
by Charles Eisenstein | Mar 1, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Until we dismantle the empire and terminate the Military-industrial complex, something like Ukraine will recur again and again, whether instigated (as is usual) by the US imperial hegemon or by the adversaries it generates from its us-versus-them worldview. Can’t we write another plot for the human drama?
Read MoreRussia-Ukraine: A Different Invasion, the West’s Same ‘Madman’ Script
by The CNCL Team | Mar 1, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Simple-minded media propaganda – like the claim Russia’s Putin is deranged – is precisely what brought us to the crisis over Ukraine.
Read MoreUS Gov’t Knew NATO Expansion to Ukraine Would Force Russia To Intervene
by The CNCL Team | Mar 1, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Former US Ambassador to Russia William J. Burns, who is now CIA director, admitted in a classified 2008 embassy cable that NATO expansion to Ukraine crosses Moscow’s security “redlines” and “could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene.”
Read MoreHedges: Chronicle of a War Foretold
by cncladmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Human Society | 0
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among diplomats and political leaders at the time that any attempt to expand NATO was foolish, an unwarranted provocation against Russia that would obliterate the ties and bonds that happily emerged at the end of the Cold War.
Read MoreFactory Farms Destroy Ecosystems
by Robert Hunziker | Feb 26, 2022 | Earthlings | 0
Factory farms are the Grim Reapers of civilization, inhumanely penning up and slaughtering cows, pigs, and chickens by the tens of millions, as well as unintentionally, but effectively, poisoning, maiming and/or killing birds, insects, amphibians, mammals, and crucial life-supporting ecosystems that are key to human life. And, it’s legal.
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- US Admits to Pushing Ukraine Into a Fight It Can’t WinBy The CNCL TeamA US "windfall" in Ukraine comes at an unfathomable cost. […]
- We’re Taught About Liberal And Conservative Bias In Media, But Not US Empire BiasBy The CNCL TeamOne of the biggest problems with the urgent push for “media literacy” we’ve been seeing in the west these last few years is that everyone’s being taught about liberal bias and conservative bias in media, but they’re not being taught about US empire bias. […]
- Across the West, People Are Dying in Greater Numbers. Nobody Wants To Learn WhyBy The CNCL TeamThere's only one plausible explanation for continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what research may uncover […]
- The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of JournalismBy The CNCL TeamJulian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime. […]
- Another Act of Terror. How the Media Do PR for Biden and ZelenskyBy The CNCL TeamCoverage of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and Nord Stream pipelines shows a western media willing to prioritise anti-Russian propaganda over facts. […]
- Safety ThirdBy Charles EisensteinSafety-obsession deadens the spirit. It wraps a constriction band around life. It is always a little dangerous to probe one’s boundaries. It is always a bit dangerous to venture into the unknown. “Safety first” shrinks the horizons of possibility. […]
- How BBC Coverage Is Enabling Israeli State Violence at Al-AqsaBy The CNCL TeamOnce again, the British state broadcaster is using a bogus ‘neutrality’ to trick its audience into siding with Israeli state oppression. […]
- It’s Not Just the Settlers – or Israel – Responsible for the Torching of HuwwaraBy The CNCL TeamEndless indulgence from Israel’s supporters in the West has cleared a path to a fascist government intent on ‘wiping out’ Palestinian communities […]
- Caitlin Johnstone: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative MatrixBy The CNCL TeamCaitlin Johnstone contemplates the war in Ukraine, corporate media, the U.S. empire and more. […]
- Woke ImperialismBy The CNCL TeamWoke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the oppressed, is another tool in the arsenal of the imperial state. […]