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Hezbollah ‘Biggest Winner’ Of Lebanese Collapse

February 13, 2020 By Alison Tahaizian Meuse,  Asiatimes.com , , ,
The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah will be the “biggest winner” of the country’s impending economic collapse, Lebanon’s former interior minister Raya al-Hassan warned this week in a wide-ranging interview with the Asia Times. “Do you know who will be the biggest winners? Hezbollah. Because they’d be able to survive an economic collapse much more than anybody else,” said Hassan, speaking from the offices of the Western and Gulf-aligned Future Movement in downtown Beirut.

A Radical Call To Action

February 6, 2020 By Robert Hunziker,  Counterpunch.org , ,
A radical call to action has never been more vital than today, as the abomination of capitalism known as neoliberalism tears apart society from stem to stern, continuing the grand experiment that originated under the watchful eyes and vision of aristocratic plantation-owners like Washington and Jefferson as wealthy patriots.

UNAC 2020 Conference Aims To Unite The Antiwar Movement!

January 28, 2020 By Scott Williams, Workers.org ,
With protesters marching in hundreds of cities around the world against the U.S. empire’s war plans against Iran and Iraq, including millions in Baghdad, the need for a unified anti-imperialist movement in the U.S. has grown. Central to organizing of hundreds of demonstrations against U.S. wars, sanctions and occupations has been the United National Antiwar Coalition. One of the largest progressive alliances in the U.S., UNAC works with hundreds of organizations across the country. 

How Generation Z Is Leading The Climate Movement

January 16, 2020 Nick Engelfried, Wagingnonviolence.org , ,
For the first decade and a half of her life, Jamie Margolin was like any other U.S. teen living in the suburbs. She went to school, made friends and got involved in sports. Yet all the while, beneath the surface, lurked the fear of a looming climate catastrophe — one that she felt powerless to stop. For a while, Margolin was able to keep this fear at bay. Her focus on school and athletics certainly helped. Then came election night 2016, when the protective wall she had built around herself finally began to crumble.

It’s Time To Rebuild The Anti-War Movement

January 11, 2020 By Tatiana Cozzarelli and Madeleine Freeman, Leftvoice.org , ,
The US’s assassination of Qasem Soleimani last week is a clear demonstration that the US has no intentions of ever pulling out of the Middle East. If we wish to avoid further conflict in the region, we must build an anti-war movement as strong and determined as the one that helped end the Vietnam War. As bourgeois politicians and news outlets quibble over the logistics of a new war in the Middle East, people in the United States are taking to the streets to say “no.” These protesters understand that another war in the Middle East does not mean stability in the region...

Repression, Eviction And Dispossession In New Democracy’s Greece

January 10, 2020 Staff, Roarmag.org , ,
The latest attack on the squatting movement in Greece is the preamble for a massive operation of housing dispossession by the right-wing government. Dimitris Indares was still in his pyjamas when the police knocked on his door in the neighborhood of Koukaki, in Athens, in the early hours of Wednesday, December 18. Not long after that, he was lying down on the floor of his home’s terrace, with a Special Operations policeman’s boot on his head.

Sheep-Dogging On Steroids: The New Democratic Party Anti-War Activists

January 9, 2020 By Ajamu Baraka, Blackagendareport.com , ,
In the cynical spectacle that is called politics in the United States, the latest insult to the intelligence of the people is the Democrats who are posturing as anti-war champions in reaction to the Trump Administration’s assassination of Qassem Soleimani and the possibility of further attacks on Iran.  We are supposed to buy that the Democrats are concerned about war with Iran. The same Democrats who opposed de-escalation with North Korea; who blocked any attempt to remove U.S. occupation forces from South Korea...

US Anti-War Protesters Demonstrate Following US, Iran Strikes In Iraq

January 9, 2020 Morgan Artyukhina, Sputniknews.com , , ,
A day after Iran fired dozens of missiles at US forces in Iraq in retaliation for the assassination of a top Iranian general, US antiwar protesters took to the streets to demand the Trump administration leave Iraq and cease provoking Iran. The protests follow massive anti-war demonstrations over the weekend. Antiwar protesters demonstrated across the US Wednesday against further conflict with Iran and violations of Iraqi sovereignty. Protesters from anti-war groups Code Pink, Popular Resistance and the ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)...

The Climate Decade: A Global Crisis Unveiled, A Global Movement Unleashed

January 1, 2020 Erika Spanger-Siegfried, Blog.ucsusa.org , ,
Some decades, like the 1860s for the Civil War and the 1960s for the Civil Rights Movement, are seismic and stand out in history for generations. The 2010s weren’t like that (though politically it’s been one long mixed-martial arts cage fight) but in this decade, amidst the stampede of everyday life, climate changes, sometimes subtle or invisible, have locked down their profoundly consequential influence on our future–with us, until recently, scarcely noticing.

The Last Line Of Defense: 20 Activist Groups That Are Making A Big Difference

December 30, 2019 By Jeffrey St. Clair, Counterpunch.org , ,
Are you frustrated with The Resistance©, still fronting for the failures of Hillary Clinton while thousands of kids whose families fled the killing regimes in central America that she enabled are being held in concentration camps? You’re not alone. Here at CounterPunch we get lots of calls from readers this time of year asking: where are the good groups? Where can I send a year-end check and know that the money will be well spent, not recycled into a fat executive salary or an annoying direct mail campaign?

How A Rising Anti-Mining Movement Is Challenging Portugal’s ‘White Gold’ Rush

December 30, 2019 Marina Martinez, Wagingnonviolence.org , ,
The global transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles — technologies that are currently powered by lithium-ion batteries — is creating a high demand for lithium, popularly known as white gold, among other minerals. In Portugal, where some of the largest reserves of lithium in Europe are located, the government recently launched a strategy to increase mining and supply of the mineral for this emerging market. However, residents and organizations throughout the country are questioning the impacts of that large-scale mining plan and who will really benefit from it.

2019’s Front Line & Censored Stories

December 27, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com , ,
From Iran to Venezuela to the forests of Southern Illinois to the borderlands. It’s been a full year of Acting Out! Here’s to many more.

Now The People Speak: International Congress Of Social Communicators

December 18, 2019 Danny Shaw, Coha.org ,
From December 2 through 5, 1,700 international and local journalists and media activists gathered in Venezuela to network and brainstorm on how to break the domination of the corporate media narrative.[1] The International Congress of Social Communicators (named in this text as “the Congress”) was an initiative of the Foro de São Paulo, which since 1990 has sought to build the unity of different left-wing movements and parties. The author was one of five delegates representing the United States and the broad social movements fighting against corporate control of the production and distribution of information.

Letter From Chile: Build Stronger Movements, Scale Up Best Practices, Gain Political Power Now

December 18, 2019 Ronnie Cummins, Organicconsumers.org , ,
Defying the machinations of discredited President Sebastian Pinera—who abruptly cancelled the Global Climate Summit in Santiago, Chile in reaction to the nationwide grassroots uprising that erupted here on October 18—an intrepid band of North and South American farmers, food activists and climate campaigners, under the banner of Regeneration International, came together in the Chilean capital of Santiago to share experiences and ideas, and to develop a common strategy for reversing global warming and resolving the other burning issues that are pressing down on us.

Indigenous Bolivia Ready To Go To War Against Fascism

December 16, 2019 Andre Vltchek, Informationclearinghouse.info , , ,
December 12, 20D19 "Information Clearing House" - Bolivia, December 2019, three weeks after the fascist coup. It is devilishly cold. My comrade’s car is carefully navigating through the deep mud tracks. Enormous snow-covered mountain peaks are clearly visible in the distance. The Bolivian Altiplano; beloved, yet always somehow hostile, silent, impenetrable. So many times, in the past I came close to death here. In Peru as well as in Bolivia. More often in Peru. Now, what I do is totally mad. Being a supporter of President Evo Morales from the beginning until this very moment, I am not supposed to be here; in Bolivia, in the Altiplano. But I am, because these mud huts on the left and right, are so familiar and so dear to me.
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