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Education is the foundation of political change. In this section we provide news and analyses of current events that you won’t likely read or hear in the corporate media. Our sources are from organizations and independent media outlets free of corporate and government propaganda. We strongly encourage you to share these articles by email and social media so that together we create an echo chamber that overcomes the influence of the oligarchy. You will find large social media sharing buttons on the left side of each article when you open the article to read.

3M Knew ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Its Firefighting Foams Were Toxic

January 18, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! 3M, Firefighters, Forever Chemicals, health, PFAS, pollution

For decades, 3M — a multibillion-dollar chemical company based in Minnesota — sold its firefighting foams as safe and biodegradable, while having knowledge that they contained toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), according to newly uncovered documents, reported The Guardian. Starting in the 1960s and continuing until 2003, 3M’s firefighting foams contained perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), two types of PFAS “forever chemicals.” The synthetic chemical compounds have been linked to a variety of health problems like thyroid disease, hormonal and fertility problems, high cholesterol and cancer.

How Fossil Fuel Sectors Create A Climate Denial Echo Chamber

January 18, 2025 Sharon Kelly, DeSmog. Educate! Big Oil, climate crisis, climate denial, Plastic Industry, Science Denial, Social Media

From 2008 to 2023, nine of the nation’s largest oil, agrichemical, and plastics trade groups and corporations posted thousands of tweets on the social media platform X, and their messaging on environmental issues was strikingly “obstructive” for climate policy and action, a study published today in the journal PLOS Climate concludes. The study found that all of the organizations, including the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), were mentioned by at least four of the other groups – helping to essentially create an echo chamber for similar messages.

All Wars End In Negotiations; So Will The War In Ukraine

January 17, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Europe, NATO, Peace Negotiations, Russia, Ukraine

Mark Rutte, the current secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), is not a poet. He, like other secretary generals of NATO, is a mediocre European politician who has been given the task of holding NATO’s reins for the United States (to be fair to Rutte, he has been the prime minister of the Netherlands for fourteen years, but mainly as a survivor rather than a leader). Yet, on 12 December 2024, Rutte gave a speech at the Concert Noble in Brussels (Belgium), a venue rebuilt in 1873 by Leopold II, the brigand king who looted the Congo as its sole owner from 1885 to 1908.

Joe Biden’s Terrible Legacy

January 17, 2025 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Biden administration, Genocide Joe, Imperialism, Joe Biden, Neoliberalism

On January 20, 2025, Joseph R. Biden will no longer be president of the United States. Unlike other one term presidents he was not defeated in a re-election effort. He was undone by the same wealthy donors who rigged the process to make him the Democratic Party’s nominee in 2020. Biden was already not up to the task of running in 2020 but his obvious state of debility had noticeably worsened by 2024. He could no longer rely on claims that he only had a stutter when there were so many strange outbursts, verbal miscues, handshakes with invisible people, and wandering off as a toddler would do.

The Ceasefire Charade

January 17, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Ceasefire, Donald Trump, Genocide, Israel, Joe Biden, Palestine

Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants — in this case the release of the Israeli hostages in Gaza — but Israel habitually fails to implement subsequent phases that would lead to a just and equitable peace. It eventually provokes the Palestinians with indiscriminate armed assaults to retaliate, defines a Palestinian response as a provocation and abrogates the ceasefire deal to reignite the slaughter. If this latest three-phase ceasefire deal is ratified — and there is no certainty that it will be by Israel — it will, I expect, be little more than a presidential inauguration bombing pause.

Stealing Credit For The Gaza Ceasefire

January 17, 2025 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Ceasefire, Donald Trump, Genocide Joe, Israel, Palestine

Biden at no time seriously sought any ceasefire. Instead he unceasingly facilitated Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in a 15-month crime spree, punctuated by pro forma attempts at “ceasefires,” which Biden allowed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sabotage every time. Biden’s “attempts” at “ceasefires” were actually electoral stunts to try to con voters, who were opposed to his genocidal policy, into thinking he was really concerned about thousands of innocent lives being systematically snuffed out with American bombs. He was also trying to make Americans believe he was earnestly attempting to stop the daily massacres.

Why The US Gets Violent Wake-Up Calls From Vets

January 17, 2025 Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon, Popular Resistance. Educate! PTSD, Terrorism, US military, Veterans

According to the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), “A U.S. military background is the single strongest individual-level predictor of whether a subject …in the PIRUS ( Profiles of Individual Radicalization In the United States) data is classified as a mass casualty offender.” A record of military service, START explains, is, in fact, an even more reliable predicator than mental health problems or a criminal history. Consider the long list of those who preceded Din Jabbar and Livelsberger down the same path. In 1995, Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh parked his Ryder truck, with a home-made bomb, outside the federal building in Oklahoma City.

The Gaza Ceasefire Will Not Cure The Wounds Of Genocide

January 16, 2025 Roaa Shamallakh, Mondoweiss. Educate! Ceasefire, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine

Now that a ceasefire has been agreed to in Gaza, the bombs will stop falling, and the world will breathe a sigh of relief. There will be celebrations of peace, even if temporary, nations will pat themselves on the back, and the media will move on to the next trending crisis. Yet, for those of us who survived, the war hasn’t ended—it has merely transformed. For us, the war began long before October 7, 2023, and continues in the ashes of what was once our home. The world’s ceasefire is a fabricated pause in our endless torment. The world seeks its own resolution, a quick fix to soothe the conscience, but for us, the ceasefire is just another fleeting moment in a long history of erasure.

A History Of Foreign Intrigue In Lebanon

January 16, 2025 As'ad AbuKhalil, Consortium News. Educate! History, Lebanon, Regime Change, Syria, US Imperialism

Finally, after two years and two months of a presidential vacuum, Lebanon has a new president. Western media coverage misses the essential point about the presidency of Lebanon: after the reforms of the Taif agreement in 1989, officially known as the National Reconciliation Accord, the Lebanese president lost his powers. A look back at the history shows that the Lebanese president is now largely a token ruler who does not actually rule. Before the Taif accords, which ended the 15-year Lebanese civil war, the Lebanese president was an absolutist who couldn’t be held accountable for his actions and ruled by decree.

How A Major Bank Cheated Its Customers Out Of $2 Billion

January 16, 2025 Judd Legum and Noel Sims, Popular Information. Educate! Banks, Capital One, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Fraud, Lawsuit

An explosive new lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) alleges that Capital One bank cheated its customers out of $2 billion. According to the lawsuit, Capital One deceived and abused its depositors, baiting them with promises of high interest rates before switching the terms and paying little interest. The CFPB claims that Capital One purposefully hid the truth about these accounts from customers and concealed the availability of a new product that paid much higher interest. In 2012, Capital One acquired ING Direct, an online bank known for its generous interest rates.

What Greenlanders Make Of Donald Trump’s Advances

January 16, 2025 Jedidajah Otte and Jem Bartholomew, The Guardian. Educate! Denmark, Donald Trump, France, Germany, Greenland, NATO, Self-Determination, United Kingdom (UK)

Greenland’s prime minister has called for unity and calm after Donald Trump reheated his global row with Nato allies on Tuesday, when the US president-elect said he was prepared to use tariffs or military force to seize control of Greenland. The comments led the Greenlandic prime minister, Múte Egede, to say: “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders.” The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, said on Thursday that the US seizure of Greenland is “not going to happen”, while Germany and France have warned Trump over annexation.

US Pet Now President Of Lebanon

January 15, 2025 Craig Murray, Consortium News. Educate! Ceasefire, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, US Interference

Last week I did two short video reports from outside the Lebanese Parliament — inside a military cordon that totally sealed off downtown Beirut — on the appointment of General Joseph Aoun, head of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as president of Lebanon. There is no other Western source giving any of this detail — not even that it is directly unconstitutional for a present or former head of the Armed Forces to become president in Lebanon. This report by William Christou is fascinating because it is a dark image mirror of my report. The facts are the same, but presented in a neoliberal rose-coloured light.

Sarah Adams And The Return Of The Iraq War Playbook

January 15, 2025 Robert Inlakesh, MintPress News. Educate! Iraq, Iraq War, Sarah Adams, US Foreign Policy, Wars and Militarism

A network of former intelligence operatives has woven itself into the fabric of right-wing alternative media, amplifying anti-Muslim scare narratives that appear aimed at countering a noted decline in conservative support for Israel since October 7, 2023. Central to this effort is Sarah Adams, a figure promoting conspiracies about a supposed Palestinian-linked Al-Qaeda plot against the West. On December 12, 2024, Adams appeared on the Shawn Ryan Show for a two-hour interview that quickly amassed over 2.5 million views on YouTube. Shorter excerpts have gained further traction across social media platforms.

Biden’s Legacy: Fundamentally Changing Nothing For Whistleblowers

January 15, 2025 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Educate! Espionage Act, FBI, Joe Biden, Transparency, Whistleblowers

When Joe Biden was vice president under President Barack Obama, he was part of an administration that waged an unprecedented war on leaks. President Biden may not have been as zealous as Obama, however, he periodically harnessed the very machinery that Obama and President Donald Trump wielded to enforce secrecy and silence whistleblowers. With the Espionage Act, the Obama Justice Department prosecuted more United States government employees and contractors who disclosed information to the press than all previous presidents combined.

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