Human rights
Across the West, People Are Dying in Greater Numbers. Nobody Wants To Learn Why
by The CNCL Team | Jul 19, 2023 | Human Society | 0
There’s only one plausible explanation for continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what research may uncover
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 MoreAs Trudeau Cracks Down, the Left Drives Protesters Into the Arms of the Right Once Again
by The CNCL Team | Feb 18, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Divide and rule, the cultivation of tribalism, is an insurance policy against successful dissent and the threat of revolution
Read MoreUniting in Love and Rage against Corporate Power
by cncladmin | Feb 16, 2022 | Human Society | 0
One problem that arises from a corrupted and ubiquitous corporate media is that if we are not directly involved in a particular campaign on issues like climate change, press freedom, anti-racism, bodily sovereignty, or anti-surveillance, we are manipulated by the corporate media to see people on another issue as marginal, misinformed, illogical, hypocritical, or simply nasty.
Read MoreWhy are Most People Cowards? Obedience and the Rise of Authoritarianism
by The CNCL Team | Feb 12, 2022 | Human Society | 0
“Authoritarianism in religion and science, let alone politics, is becoming increasingly accepted, not particularly because so many people explicitly believe in it but because they feel themselves individually powerless and anxious. So what else can one do…except follow the mass political leader…or follow the authority of customs, public opinion, and social expectations?
Read MoreCensorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship
by The CNCL Team | Jan 26, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Written by Caitlin Johnstone Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience...
Read MoreConsider The Possibility That This Is Already The Dystopia You Fear
by The CNCL Team | Jan 22, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Written by Caitlin Johnstone Consider the possibility that the Orwellian dystopia you fear is...
Read MoreThe Left’s Radical Shift to Giving Up Bodily and Cognitive Autonomy
by The CNCL Team | Jan 19, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The left needs to start insisting again on the critical importance of bodily and cognitive autonomy – and to stop shooting itself in the foot.
Read MoreSilicon Valley Should Not Restrict Public Discourse About Covid Measures Which Affect Everyone
by The CNCL Team | Jan 4, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Twitter has banned the account of controversial virologist Dr Robert Malone, who reportedly had half a million followers at the time of his removal. Malone is credited even by mainstream critics as having played a significant role in the development of the mRNA technology being used for Covid-19 vaccines today.
Read MoreThe Tipping Point (by Infinite Waters)
by The CNCL Team | Dec 24, 2021 | Human Society | 0
As the powers that be exert more and more effort to impose fear, social division, and soul-crushing narratives, Ralph Smart invites us to consider the ways our spirits can resist this oppression and turn to love instead. By keeping love steadfastly in the driver’s seat, we find a tipping point into a much more sustainable world drawing steadily nearer.
Read MoreDivide, Conquer; Unite, Heal
by Charles Eisenstein | Dec 23, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Whether deliberately or not, a situation has been engineered to dispose the public toward division. It is an old formula: Enemies are among us! The unclean put us all at risk! The heretics will bring the wrath of God upon us all! Let us recognize that ancient formula and how closely the dominant Covid narrative conforms to it.
Read MoreRelationship Between Vaccination and All-Cause Mortality for the 60+ Cohort in New Zealand
by The CNCL Team | Dec 21, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Now is the time to acknowledge the sacrifice of the Covid vaccine injured and make amends. This will involve asking a lot of searching questions within the MoH and the government. It will require a reexamination of cases and data. Certainty was forcefully expressed to the public when science dictated caution.
Read MoreThe Vaccine Moment (part three) Or: How to Think about Klaus Schwab
by The CNCL Team | Dec 21, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Written by Paul Kingsnorth / The Abbey of Misrule This is the third and final part of Paul...
Read MoreThe COVID Fear Response and Wider Psychology With Dr Paris Williams: The Plant a Seed Podcast EP 16
by The CNCL Team | Dec 20, 2021 | Human Society | 1
In this conversation, Dan and Jono have a conversation with Dr Paris Williams and dive deep into his thoughts about the Covid 19 response in New Zealand and how fear shapes our behavior and the way we think and perceive the world. It’s an authentic look at the government’s response and its effects on the people in NZ.
Read MoreA Path Will Rise to Meet Us
by Charles Eisenstein | Dec 18, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Written by Charles Eisenstein The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation...
Read MoreHave the Government & Ministry of Health Sought To Restrict Public Knowledge of Vaccine Risks?
by The CNCL Team | Dec 16, 2021 | Human Society | 0
The government has to face up to the lack of effectiveness and safety of the Pfizer vaccine. It has to come clean with the public. Historically drugs are pulled off the market after 50 associated deaths. In little NZ we are in the hundreds and counting.
Read MoreFauci As Darth Vader Of The COVID Wars
by The CNCL Team | Dec 10, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health should be front-page news in all the news media in the US. Instead, it has been met with the proverbial thundering silence.
Read MoreThe Vaccine Moment (Part Two): On Symbol and Story
by The CNCL Team | Dec 10, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Paul continues with his theme that the virus is ‘apocalyptic,’ in the sense that it was revealing things previously hidden. One of these things has been the fractured nature of our stories; and that in turn has revealed just how fragile many of our societies are.
Read MoreAustralian ‘National Treasure’ Cartoonist Michael Leunig Fired – Too Much Truth to Power?
by The CNCL Team | Dec 8, 2021 | Human Society | 0
A renowned Australian cartoonist has said he lost his prime spot in a Melbourne-based newspaper after he drew parallels between the Tiananmen Square protests and Covid-19 vaccine mandates in a new cartoon.
Read MorePaul Kingsnorth: Why I Changed Sides in the Vaccine Wars
by The CNCL Team | Dec 5, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Esteemed activist and ecologist Paul Kingsforth says that the crystallising moment arrived when he woke up to the news that the Austrian government had ‘interned an entire third of the population’. This move, he writes, sent a ‘chill down my spine’.
Read MoreCovid-19 Injectables: Have You Been Given Proper Informed Consent?
by The CNCL Team | Dec 3, 2021 | Personal | 0
ATTENTION: All providers and recipients of the Covid-19 injections. All individuals have certain inalienable rights: informed consent and bodily autonomy being two of them.
Read MoreElements of Refusal
by Charles Eisenstein | Nov 12, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Drug companies, regulators, public health agencies, doctors, and scientists have to stop patronizing us if we are ever to trust them. They have to stop manipulating us. They have to stop cheating and hiding, bullying and censoring, bribing and coercing the public. Then, if honest research shows us that the vaccines are necessary and safe, we will trust that research and happily comply. Until then, we will not merely “hesitate”; we will obstinately refuse to receive an injection pushed upon us by people we do not trust.
Read MoreThe Covid Vaccine Mandates: A Trauma-Informed Perspective
by Paris Williams | Nov 4, 2021 | Human Society | 33
The New Zealand’s response to the Covid crisis – their ‘no jab, no job’ policy – is tearing the fabric of our society, and could potentially cause more harm than the virus itself. Dr Paris Williams invites us to explore this crisis through a trauma-informed lens, suggesting that this can offer us a way out of this mess.
Read MoreThe America that Almost Was and Yet May Be
by Charles Eisenstein | Oct 27, 2021 | Human Society | 0
The assassination of president John F. Kennedy represented a turning away from a promising future for the United States – from the promise of a government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” to a sham government powered by the elite and self-interested industry. Is there any way this can be reversed?
Read MoreNetflix To Launch WikiLeaks Smear Job Three Days Before Assange Court Date
by The CNCL Team | Oct 15, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Netflix will begin streaming a brazen hatchet job on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for its American subscribers on October 24th, just three days prior to a significant court date in Assange’s fight against extradition from the UK to the United States on October 27th.
Read MoreThe Great New Normal Purge
by The CNCL Team | Oct 15, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Relentless official propaganda demonizing “the Unvaccinated” is being pumped out by the corporate and state media, government leaders, health officials, and shrieking fanatics on social media. “The Unvaccinated” are the new official “Untermenschen,” an underclass of subhuman “others” the New Normal masses are being conditioned to hate.
Read MoreWhy Is There No Debate about ‘Leaky’ Vaccines?
by The CNCL Team | Sep 20, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Regardless of our personal beliefs regarding the pros and cons of the Covid vaccines, one issue that affects all of us very much is the unprecedented suppression of dialogue on topics that do not line up with the official narrative, including from those with clear expertise on the topic.
Read MoreWarmongers Should Be Treated Like Serial Killers And Child Rapists
by The CNCL Team | Jul 21, 2021 | Human Society | 0
California Representative Ro Khanna announced on Monday that he’d just hung out with Iraq war architect Bill Kristol and had a wonderful exchange of ideas, fully discrediting the myth of the progressive Democrat with a single tweet.
Read MoreIsrael’s Big Lie: This Isn’t Self Defense — It’s a War Crime, Aided and Abetted by the U.S.
by The CNCL Team | May 17, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans and the talking heads on the media to describe the unrest inside Israel and the heaviest Israeli assault against the Palestinians since the 2014 attacks on Gaza are a lie.
Read MoreFifteen Thoughts on Palestine
by The CNCL Team | May 15, 2021 | Human Society | 0
#1 – You don’t get to drop an entire colony on top of an inhabited country, grind those inhabitants into the dirt for generations, and then claim self defense every time they retaliate. That’s not a thing.
Read MoreIrish MP Names the “Elephant in the Room” about Israel
by The CNCL Team | May 13, 2021 | Human Society | 0
We somehow find ourselves in this extraordinary situation in which it takes enormous courage to call out the last remaining openly apartheid, openly racist state on the Planet (Israel). This Irish MP demonstrates such courage, speaking truth to power and standing up for the equal rights of Palestinians and all people. Please watch and share!
Read MoreWe Are Living Through a Time of Fear – Not Just of the Virus, but of Each Other
by The CNCL Team | Mar 26, 2021 | Human Society | 0
We are now firmly in a time of fear – not only of the virus, but of each other. Fear destroys solidarity. Fear forces us to turn inwards to protect ourselves and our loved ones. Fear refuses to understand or identify with the concerns of others.
Read MoreScientific Publishing Is a Rip-Off. We Fund the Research – It Should Be Free
by The CNCL Team | Mar 25, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves.
Read MoreImmunity Passports: Does Social Solidarity Only Count When It Gets Us Back to the Pub?
by The CNCL Team | Mar 8, 2021 | Human Society | 0
If we really want a social consensus, if we really want the common good, if we really want everyone to trust in the collective, then we must decide to spurn the narrow, selfish, unaccountable elite that rules over us. We must decide, once and for all, to value the collective, the commons, the public good – not worship at the altar of profit and greed.
Read MoreChris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die
by The CNCL Team | Feb 28, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Cancel culture is not the road to reform. It is the road to tyranny.
Read MoreHow the Media Cracks Down on Critics of Israel
by The CNCL Team | Feb 12, 2021 | Human Society | 0
It is widely recognized that critics of Israel, no matter how well-founded the criticism, are routinely punished by both public and private institutions for their speech.
Read MoreHow Big Pharma & Psychiatry Gaslight Us: Interview with Bruce Levine
by The CNCL Team | Jan 5, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Clinical psychologist Dr Bruce Levine covers a wide range of topics related to deceit and corruption within the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry.
Read MoreThe Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn’t Justice
by The CNCL Team | Jan 5, 2021 | Human Society | 0
British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but not for the reasons she should have.
Read MoreWonder Woman Is a Hero Only the Military-Industrial Complex Could Create
by The CNCL Team | Dec 30, 2020 | Human Society | 0
In preparation for the release of the latest Wonder Woman installment, we revisit Jonathan Cook’s review of the original 2017 Wonder Woman, peeling back the layers of comic-book fun to reveal below the film’s disturbing and not-so-covert political and militaristic messages.
Read MoreThe Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
by The CNCL Team | Dec 30, 2020 | Human Society | 0
The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom.
Read MoreMeet The Wrong Type of Jew, The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know Exists
by The CNCL Team | Dec 6, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Jewish Socialist Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi has been suspended from the UK Labour Party, likely due to her status as a prominent Jew willing to challenge the human rights abuses perpetrated against Palestinians and others by Israel.
Read MoreObama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
by The CNCL Team | Dec 4, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Blogger/journalist Caitlin Johnstone provides us with her latest thoughts on the devastating distortions of the mainstream narratives.
Read MoreEyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange
by The CNCL Team | Oct 3, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Journalist John Pilger has spent the last three weeks watching Julian Assange’s extradition trial at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Arena Online’s editor, Timothy Erik Ström.
Read MoreMore Than 200 Environmental Activists and Land Defenders Murdered in 2019
by The CNCL Team | Aug 5, 2020 | Human Society | 0
At least 212 environmental campaigners and land defenders, 40 percent of them from indigenous communities, were killed last year as they sought to protect their territories from incursions by mining interests, agribusiness, timber companies, and oil and gas corporations.
Read MoreMay All Be Revealed
by The CNCL Team | Jun 26, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Written by Caitlin Johnstone “If wars can be started by lies then they can be stopped by truth.” ~...
Read MoreRevolution needs to create an Evolution
by Brad Dixon | Jun 25, 2020 | Human Society | 0
If the gap between those who have and those who do not grows to a breaking point, then revolt and revolution will take place. History has shown us that. Let’s all work together to evolve in a more peaceful manner.
Read MoreMaking Sense of the Downward Spiral: Daniel Schmachtenberger
by The CNCL Team | Jun 20, 2020 | Human Society | 0
America’s cities are ablaze with rioting after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This comes in the heightened tensions of the coronavirus crisis. How can we make sense of this spiral of polarisation, and are bad actors taking advantage of the situation? This is a conversation with evolutionary philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger hosted by Rebel Wisdoom.
Read More16 Essential Books About Environmental Justice, Racism and Activism [The Revelator]
by The CNCL Team | Jun 18, 2020 | Personal | 0
These books provide insight into the problems that plague people and the planet, while also offering solutions for a more just future.
Read MoreI Reckon We Can Win This Thing
by The CNCL Team | Jun 15, 2020 | Human Society | 0
All in all, I reckon we can win this thing. Not the anti-policing protests necessarily; I don’t quite know what will happen with those in the long run. I mean the whole thing. Winning it all. Actually getting out from underneath the elite and beginning to function as a healthy organism on this planet.
Read MoreWe Are Watching The Story Of America Crash Headlong Into The Reality Of America
by The CNCL Team | Jun 7, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. The U.S. empire is losing control of the narrative.
Read MoreMeat Is Not Essential. Why Are We Killing for It?
by The CNCL Team | May 13, 2020 | Earthlings | 0
For years, we have knowingly destroyed our planet for the sake of a protein preference. Now, we are sending humans to their deaths.
Read MoreHilarious Kim Jong Un Jokes, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
by The CNCL Team | Apr 27, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Blogger Caitlin Johnstone drops a series of humorous/painful truth bombs from her recent musings on U.S. Empire and more…
Read MoreCovid-19: The Rich, the Poor, the “Other”
by The CNCL Team | Apr 27, 2020 | Human Society | 0
The impact and consequences of the pandemic (for health and the economy) are much worse for the poorest sections of society and could devastate developing nations. It is making social inequality even more acute and while many communities are uniting, where a coordinated political response is called for, divisions predominate.
Read More1 Year Since Julian Assange’s Arrest: A Panel Discussion
by The CNCL Team | Apr 13, 2020 | Human Society | 0
A panel discussion marking one year since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was expelled from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and arrested by British police. Assange is fighting extradition to the United States where he faces 175 years in prison on the first-ever charges of espionage for publishing truthful information in the public interest.
Read MoreThe Real Conspiracy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
by The CNCL Team | Apr 13, 2020 | Human Society | 0
In a system where sociopaths are rewarded with wealth, and where wealth equals power, we naturally find ourselves ruled by sociopaths. They manipulate our faulty perceptions of objective reality to amass wealth and power, which they use to grab more.
Read MoreWill Covid-19 spur a Peoples’ Bailout for the World’s Poorest?
by The CNCL Team | Apr 9, 2020 | Human Society | 0
The question is whether Covid-19 will awaken us to the stark inequalities of our world, or does it simply represent a new cause of impoverishment for the vast swathes of humanity who have long been disregarded by the public’s conscience?
Read MoreUS Escalates Warmongering Against Venezuela Because Of… Drug Trafficking?
by The CNCL Team | Apr 3, 2020 | Human Society | 0
The Trump administration is sending Navy ships to patrol Venezuela, the latest escalation against the government targeted by an aggressive hybrid US regime change intervention.
Read MoreThe US Is Using Germ Warfare On Sanctioned Nations
by The CNCL Team | Mar 29, 2020 | Human Society | 0
In some very important ways the US government has clearly seen the coronavirus outbreak not as a dangerous humanitarian crisis, but as a strategic advantage to be weaponized against governments which refuse to bow to its empire-building agendas.
Read MoreOn the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View
by The CNCL Team | Mar 21, 2020 | Human Society | 0
The coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the globe, and is exposing inadequacies in health systems all over the world, especially the U.S.’s abysmal health infrastructure. Health workers on the ground continue to provide care during the pandemic despite the severe lack of resources and dangers to their personal health
Read MoreJoaquin Phoenix’s Inspiring Oscar Speech: Love and Compassion for All Beings…
by The CNCL Team | Feb 14, 2020 | Human Society | 0
On perhaps one of the biggest nights of his life, PETA’s 2019 Person of the Year, Joaquin Phoenix, wasn’t thinking about himself. As he accepted the Oscar for Best Actor on Sunday, February 9, he was thinking about what else he could do to help end speciesism.
Read MoreWhat Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us
by The CNCL Team | Feb 10, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Assange risks 175 years in prison for the publication of secret US government documents revealing U.S. war crimes and torture, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Guantanamo even though the publication of classified documents is not yet a crime in the United States. But if Assange is extradited and convicted, it will become one.
Read MoreU.S. ‘Democracy’ Once Again Showing Its True Colours
by The CNCL Team | Feb 6, 2020 | Human Society | 0
After a 2016 presidential primary race riddled with scandals, all of which worked against Bernie Sanders to the advantage of anointed establishment favorite Hillary Clinton, the 2020 Democratic presidential primary elections officially began with a massive scandal working against Bernie Sanders to the advantage of an establishment favorite.
Read MorePolitics as Usual Isn’t Working: It’s Time for a Revolution
by The CNCL Team | Feb 6, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Falling life expectancy. Rising economic inequality. Power concentrated in hands unelected elites. An environment poisoned by profits. For some, the crises present day America faces are existential. As such, the political response needs to be commensurate to the moment and nothing short of a root and branch political revolution. For others, this revolutionary impulse on the Right and Left spells disaster.
Read MoreAmerica: Land of Make-Believe
by The CNCL Team | Feb 6, 2020 | Human Society | 0
The embrace of collective self-delusion marks the death spasms of all civilizations. We are in the terminal stage.
Read MoreThe Primary Mechanism Of Your Oppression Is Not Hidden At All
by The CNCL Team | Feb 5, 2020 | Human Society | 0
The primary mechanism of our oppression and exploitation is happening right out in front of our faces.
Read MoreChris Hedges & Ray Saurez Discuss “A People’s History of the USA”
by The CNCL Team | Feb 5, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Chris Hedges discusses the importance of historian Howard Zinn for a fuller understanding of American history, with journalist Ray Suarez, author of ‘Truth has a Power of its Own: A Conversation about A People’s History with Howard Zinn.’
Read MoreThe Disaster of Utopian Engineering
by The CNCL Team | Jan 31, 2020 | Human Society | 0
The problem is that our utopian engineers in their giddy dismantling of an economic and democratic system, as well as their draining of state resources in the wars they prosecute overseas, have dynamited the tools that could save us. They have left us no option but to revolt and remove them from power.
Read MoreThe Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate
by The CNCL Team | Jan 24, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has been charged by the Bolsonaro government in Brazil with the same prosecutorial angle used by the US to target WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Read MoreGuantánamo’s Indelible Legacy: Or How This Became a Gitmo World
by The CNCL Team | Jan 24, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Here are eight ways in which the toxic policies of Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility have contaminated American institutions, as well as our laws and customs, in the years since 2002.
Read MoreMLK and the Ghost of an Untrue Dream
by The CNCL Team | Jan 24, 2020 | Human Society | 0
In his keynote address for the Civil Rights Movement’s March on Washington, DC in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. expressed his despair and disappointment that a century after emancipation, freedom still was not a lived reality in the United States of America
Read MoreHow Democracies Die
by The CNCL Team | Jan 14, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Democracy was not extinguished in 2016 when Trump was elected. It was slowly strangled to death by the Republican and Democratic parties on behalf of their corporate masters.
Read MoreSo The US Is Invading Iraq Again
by The CNCL Team | Jan 13, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Though It won’t be as exciting as last time. If the initial invasion of Iraq was a violent sexual assault by a stranger in a dark alley, this one is more like an abusive husband raping his wife and then making her cook him dinner. But it is just as much a violent violation of personal sovereignty in both instances.
Read MoreThe Issue Before Us is Death… (Sermon by Chris Hedges)
by The CNCL Team | Jan 13, 2020 | Human Society | 0
You don’t have to subscribe to any particular philosophy or religious belief to appreciate the truth and wisdom within this sermon given by Chris Hedges.
Read MoreChris Hedges: The Myth of the Glory of War
by The CNCL Team | Jan 6, 2020 | Human Society | 0
If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war.
Read MoreKill GDP to Help Save the Planet
by Robert Hunziker | Jan 6, 2020 | Human Society | 0
There’s a problem with America’s favorite statistic: GDP. It avoids pretty much everything that’s actually, truly, really good for society, including the importance of robust ecology. Still, it’s the biggest measure of what’s happening with the economy and used around the world, even though horribly flawed.
Read MoreThe Impeachment’s Moral Hypocrisy
by The CNCL Team | Dec 26, 2019 | Human Society | 0
If our political leaders truly want to restore the rule of law and uphold the constitution, then why didn’t they impeach Bush and Obama (and Trump for his ongoing complicity) for starting illegal wars, assassinating U.S. citizens without due process, carrying out illegal torture, mass spying on the U.S. citizens, and many other serious human rights abuses.
Read MoreHope Lies in the Streets
by The CNCL Team | Dec 20, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Hope lies in the streets. Millions of people in Hong Kong, India, Chile, France, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon understand. It is time to join them.
Read MoreThe Murders of Indigenous Activists in the Amazon Continue to Rise
by The CNCL Team | Dec 19, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Ten indigenous people have been murdered so far in Brazil in 2019, including seven tribal leaders — the highest number of indigenous leaders killed in two decades.
Read MoreIndigenous Bolivia Ready to go to War Against Fascism
by The CNCL Team | Dec 19, 2019 | Human Society | 0
3 weeks after a fascist coup and ousting of democratically elected president Evo Morales, a journalist visits Bolivia to learn about this crisis from the perspective of the indigenous people.
Read MoreReconciling Ecological Imperatives and the Right to Food at a Time of Bio-Ethical Crisis
by The CNCL Team | Dec 19, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Richard Falk discusses an extremely disturbing evolving situation by labeling it ‘the first bio-ethical crisis to confront humanity.’ It is bio-ethical in the primary sense that the challenges posed are fundamentally directed at the wellbeing and even survival of the species as a whole, and this crisis has an ethical character because knowledge and resources exist to overcome these challenges, and yet action is not being taken.
Read MoreGlenn Greenwald’s Exclusive Interview With Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Who Was Deposed in a Coup
by The CNCL Team | Dec 19, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Evo Morales, who served as president of Bolivia for 13 years and presided over extraordinary economic growth and a reduction of inequality praised even by his critics, announced that he was resigning the presidency under duress, with implicit threats from the Bolivian military and links to the U.S. strongly indicated.
Read MoreChris Hedges On The Rise & Fall of the U.S. Empire
by The CNCL Team | Dec 19, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Chris Hedges provides a compelling summary of the rise and imminent fall of the U.S. Empire, and its associated global corporate power and terrorizing of much of the world with illegal coups, sanctions, violence and war.
Read MoreThe Great American Shakedown
by The CNCL Team | Dec 17, 2019 | Human Society | 0
The U.S. Democratic Party and its liberal supporters are perplexed. They presented hours of evidence of an impeachable offense, and yet it has made no difference-public opinion is not moved. The liberal class and the Democratic Party leadership have failed to understand that they, along with the traditional Republican elites, have squandered their credibility. No one believes them. And no one should.
Read MoreI Never Saw a World So Fragmented!
by The CNCL Team | Dec 14, 2019 | Human Society | 0
It is amazing how easily, without resistance, the Western empire is managing to destroy “rebellious” countries that are standing in its way.
Read MoreCuba: the Tragic Beacon of Imperfect Possibility
by The CNCL Team | Dec 10, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Miki Kashtan celebrates all that this small island has managed in spite of enormous obstacles, with its determined, solidarity-bound, embattled, vibrant, alive, intent, imaginative, sensuous, friendly, committed population.
Read MoreWelcome to the Global Rebellion Against Neoliberalism
by The CNCL Team | Dec 10, 2019 | Human Society | 0
As distinct as the protests seem, the uprisings rocking Bolivia, Lebanon, and scores of other countries all share a common theme.
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