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DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://burn.capital/@DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss</span></a></span> "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." - <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeOrwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeOrwell</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OrwellQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OrwellQuotes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DystopianTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DystopianTimes</span></a> - The collective West decided to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/censor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censor</span></a> the entire internet instead of not doing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a></p><p>Ricky Hale and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cemedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cemedia</span></a></span> <br>Jul 30, 2025</p><p>Excerpt: "Since the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> came into effect, we've seen an awful lot of political censorship and nothing in the way of saving children. Children's lives have not been improved by this bill, but all of us have seen loss of privacy and loss of information we should be allowed to access in a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSociety</span></a>.</p><p>"There is a petition on the Parliament UK website to repeal the Online Safety Act that I have attempted to sign three times. I still have not received the verification email, meaning my signature has not been counted. I suspect this is deliberate and that many more than the official 427,000 people have attempted to sign.</p><p>"The government has already responded to the petition by dismissing everyone's concerns and refusing to debate this in parliament. The whole point of parliamentary petitions is to trigger parliamentary debates, but the government is no longer pretending to listen to what we want.</p><p>"The level of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/overreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>overreach</span></a> in the Online Safety Act is off the chart. Section 179 bans people from saying something false that could cause 'non-trivial psychological harm', potentially banning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humour</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>satire</span></a>. It could also ban any speech that counters a government narrative and is therefore deemed false.</p><p>"If your government decides there is no genocide and you say there is, there is nothing stopping them deeming this misinformation and banning you.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MinistryOfTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MinistryOfTruth</span></a> now gets to decide which online content is factual or harmful and that will always be a political decision. There is no impartial way of doing this, and aside from anything else, people in a free society are allowed to say what they want. No one needs to be protected from speech."</p><p><a href="https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/no-government-has-the-right-to-censor" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">councilestatemedia.uk/p/no-gov</span><span class="invisible">ernment-has-the-right-to-censor</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaHumanitarianCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaHumanitarianCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DoublePlusUngood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoublePlusUngood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PalestineAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalestineAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>"Stolen" from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@rbreich" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rbreich</span></a></span> because he didn't use alt text... Oh well...</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@10tothe22" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>10tothe22</span></a></span> Hey there. I don't mind you sharing a graphic I dug up from my archives, but could you at least copy the alt text I put in there? TY! Also, the quote is from a movie, not Orwell.</p><p>Alt Text: An image of a metallic surface, with the letters I R A, and another spot where there is half a Q and half an N. Is the war between us an IRAN? Or us and IRAQ?<br>There is a quote below the image (misattributed to George Orwell):<br>"The war is not meant to be won<br>it is meant to be continuous."<br>- George Orwell</p><p>Original post:<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/113771386333904298" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/</span><span class="invisible">113771386333904298</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWars</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IranWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IranWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Doublethink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Doublethink</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/1984Movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1984Movie</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JudgementDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JudgementDay</span></a> for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MerchantsofDeath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MerchantsofDeath</span></a></p><p>Our tribunal, seeking to hold the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarProfiteers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarProfiteers</span></a> to account, represents the yearning of millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet. </p><p>Nick Mottern<br>Jan 12, 2025</p><p>"On January 15, 2025, five days before the inauguration of a U.S. president who threatens to rain down hell on the Palestinian people, and more war to the world, the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will release its final report on how <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LockheedMartin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LockheedMartin</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boeing</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RTX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RTX</span></a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Raytheon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Raytheon</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drone</span></a>-maker <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeneralAtomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneralAtomics</span></a> have delivered hell to millions across the globe since 9/11.</p><p>"The Tribunal’s 35 evidentiary episodes explain how these four defendant corporations have been essential enablers of the U.S. colonial campaign of murder, extortion and thievery since 9/11, epitomized in the horrific crescendo of violence that is already being rained down on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> people. This grossly illegal war campaign—without equal in U.S. history in its geographic scope and length—is largely dependent on the products of the tribunal’s four defendant corporations.</p><p>"The tribunal episodes explain how the U.S. campaign since 9/11 flows directly from the post-World War II decisions by U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. businessmen and their congressional allies to try to pick up the reins of colonial control around the world that were being dropped by war-ruined European nations.</p><p>"The U.S. leaders were, of course, acting from their racist cultural and business roots, extending back deep into slavery and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> against the first inhabitants of the continent, atrocities on which the U.S. was founded. They set us on the bloody path on which we find ourselves today.</p><p>"For these industrialists and their political enablers, siding with liberation movements anywhere in the world meant less <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/profits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profits</span></a> for U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a>. Thus, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColonialLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialLiberation</span></a> must be officially described as a 'communist' threat to be dealt with through direct and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProxyKilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProxyKilling</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>torture</span></a>, and terror.</p><p>"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11.</p><p>"A permanent military industry was needed to enable this mafia-style scheme of international exploitation. Tribunal video episodes describe ways in which the U.S. public has been manipulated to support this military industrial system, to their great economic, spiritual and intellectual disadvantage as the U.S. economy and the wealth of its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchs</span></a>, like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>, has become more and more dependent on war and intimidation.</p><p>"After World War I, even the Senate and Congress condemned gross war profiteering. Challenges to weapon manufacturers profiteering continued during World War II, though greatly diminished by war propaganda. Congressional support for weapons makers surged in the post-World War II years, so much so that 'defense' stocks have become sacred elements of college and university endowment funds, pension funds and private portfolios.</p><p>"The immensity of this dependency on war stocks breached the surface of public awareness in the spring of 2024 as students in support of Palestinian life and liberation demanded that their schools disclose and divest their stock in weapons makers.</p><p>"Students at Smith College occupied the school’s administration building for 14 days, calling on an institution that had divested from apartheid South Africa-connected stock to drop its holdings in L3 Harris and other war stock. The school’s board of trustees refused, calling the school’s holdings ”negligible”. Then in the fall, Smith administrators, and their colleagues nationwide moved, deplorably, to suppress students’ free speech.</p><p>"Wealth-driven weapons makers who must be protected by the so-called educators, and are revered in the business world, are the successors to those weapons makers in early 20th Century war-grieving America, who were often depicted as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/overconsumptive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>overconsumptive</span></a>, sleezy, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoneyGrubbing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoneyGrubbing</span></a> vultures, feeding on the corpses and misery of the war dead and afflicted.</p><p>"Now, we have reached a point in which James Taiclet, the president, chair and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the largest weapons maker in the world, whose F-35s, F-16s and Hellfire missiles have been slaughtering Palestinians wholesale, can be a valued member of the board of directors of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassGeneralBrigham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassGeneralBrigham</span></a>, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts, serving 2.6 million patients a year.</p><p>"Intervening in this surging, greed-driven, incredibly lethal mess, the Tribunal rapporteurs and an international panel of 10 jurors, offer 13 recommendations for action by the public and by government officials to pull the profit out from under war and to provide reparations for the vast harm visited on millions of people by the Merchants of Death and the U.S. government since 9/11.</p><p>"More specifically, we tribunal coordinators want to work with prosecutors around the world to bring the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CEOs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CEOs</span></a> of the defendant corporations to justice for having enabled, since the October 2001 invasion of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Afghanistan</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a>, crimes against humanity and genocide.</p><p>"We want to work with student and other movements to end private and public investment in weapons production.</p><p>"We must note that in our investigation, we repeatedly called on the defendant corporations to respond, in one instance getting arrested in the process. The four defendant corporations ignored us. We repeatedly asked members of Congress to answer our questions about their involvement with weapons makers. They ignored us.</p><p>"The work of the Tribunal was made possible by the volunteer and the extremely low paid work of more than 40 people—students, filmmakers, artists, journalists, and others who joined us at various times over nearly three years to complete our video evidentiary episodes and report.</p><p>"Those involved represent millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression, everywhere, so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.</p><p>"In this, we hope that the Tribunal recommendations will be among the guide stars that will help us chart our course, shining above the hurricane of greed and viciousness now ravaging the U.S and the world.</p><p>"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11, of those calling to the world from their graves, from their hospital beds, from their poverty and dislocation and their relentless battles against racism in their places of refuge.</p><p>"Note: You may register [at the link below] for the January 15, 2025, (9 a.m. Eastern time), tribunal report release press conference. The 35 evidentiary video episodes appear on the Rumble platform and can be easily accessed at MerchantsofDeath.org, as can our Tribunal Study Guide and our podcast – Merchants of Death Radio.</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/merchants-of-death-tribunal" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/opinion/merch</span><span class="invisible">ants-of-death-tribunal</span></a></p><p>To register:<br><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/events/press-conference-tribunal?clear_id=true" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/events/press</span><span class="invisible">-conference-tribunal?clear_id=true</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarCriminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarCriminals</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Podcast</span></a>] <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawAndDisorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawAndDisorder</span></a>, September 9, 2024</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/September11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>September11</span></a>, 2001: Lessons Learned And Overlooked</p><p>"It has been 23 years ago this week since the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring more than 6,000. On that day, the United States had a choice: The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeWBush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeWBush</span></a> administration could have treated the attacks as a violation of US and international law, launched a criminal investigation, and brought the perpetrators to justice in accordance with the rule of law. Instead, President Bush waged <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWars</span></a> against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Afghanistan</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a>, pushed through Congress the USA <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PatriotAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PatriotAct</span></a>, opened the notorious detention center at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GuantanamoBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GuantanamoBay</span></a> which remain to this day, rounded up Muslims and South Asians for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndefiniteDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndefiniteDetention</span></a>, initiated a wave of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLiberties</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> violations, and committed wholesale torture against detainees and others.</p><p>"To assess the legacy of 9/11 and the lessons learned and the lessons overlooked, we’ve invited someone who was at the center of Bush’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a>. John Kiriakou is a journalist, former CIA counterterrorism officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News.</p><p>"In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program, telling ABC News that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CIA</span></a> tortured prisoners, that torture was official U.S. government policy, and that the policy had been approved by President George W. Bush. He knew what he was talking about. In 2002, he was responsible for the capture in Pakistan of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbuZubaydah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuZubaydah</span></a>, then believed to be the third-ranking official in al-Qaeda.</p><p>"He became the sixth <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/whistleblower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whistleblower</span></a> indicted by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> administration under the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EspionageAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EspionageAct</span></a> of 1917 — a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his revelations.</p><p>"In 2012, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RalphNader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RalphNader</span></a> family honored <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kiriakou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kiriakou</span></a> with the Joe A. Callaway Award for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivicCourage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivicCourage</span></a>, an award given to individuals who 'advance truth and justice despite the personal risk it creates.' He won the PEN Center USA’s prestigious First Amendment Award in 2015, the first Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest in 2016, and also in 2016 the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, given by retired CIA, FBI, and NSA officers."</p><p>Listen:<br><a href="https://lawanddisorder.org/category/criminalizing-dissent/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lawanddisorder.org/category/cr</span><span class="invisible">iminalizing-dissent/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CIASponsoredTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CIASponsoredTerror</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtraordinaryRendition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtraordinaryRendition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BushAdministraiton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BushAdministraiton</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsViolation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsViolation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TargetingMuslims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TargetingMuslims</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Torture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarResister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarResister</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Whistleblowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whistleblowers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLiberties</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLibertiesRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLibertiesRadio</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>My favorite track from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheCUre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheCUre</span></a>'s new album, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SongsOfALostWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SongsOfALostWorld</span></a> -- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Warsong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Warsong</span></a>. </p><p>"Oh, it's misery the way we fight<br>For bitter ends we tear the night in two<br>I want your death, you want my life<br>We tell each other lies to hide the truth<br>And we hate ourselves for everything we do</p><p>Is shame wounded pride, vengeful angel burning deep inside<br>Poison in our blood and pain, broken dreams, mournful hopes<br>For all we might have been, all misunderstood</p><p>But no way out of this<br>No way for us to find a way to peace<br>We never found before<br>However we regret<br>All we will ever know<br>Is bitter ends<br>For we are born to war..."</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1-1TqQOcWQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Z1-1TqQOcW</span><span class="invisible">Q</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a></p>
Alice Marshall<p>NATO Announces Nuclear Drills as Nobel Goes to Atomic Weapon Abolitionists<br>Disarmament advocate Beatrice Fihn stressed that the exercise is practice for "wiping out hundreds of thousands of civilians" with weapons that would also "flatten cities and poison survivors." </p><p><a href="https://dmv.community/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/nato-nuclear-exercises" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/nato-nuc</span><span class="invisible">lear-exercises</span></a></p>
Alice Marshall<p><a href="https://dmv.community/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a> </p><p>Joe <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> Chose This Catastrophic Path Every Step of the Way<br>What’s happening in the Middle East was enabled by a president with ideological priors, aides who failed to push back, and a cheerleading media establishment. </p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/186695/joe-biden-chose-gaza-catastrophic-path" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/186695</span><span class="invisible">/joe-biden-chose-gaza-catastrophic-path</span></a></p>
Alice Marshall<p><a href="https://dmv.community/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a> </p><p>October 8, 2023:<br>For years, <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netanyahu</span></a> propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces<br>The premier’s policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from </p><p><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">timesofisrael.com/for-years-ne</span><span class="invisible">tanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/</span></a></p>
Alice Marshall<p><a href="https://dmv.community/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a> </p><p>The US Army Is Testing Killer Robot Dogs With AI-Powered Rifles in the Middle East<br>Well, that's terrifying. </p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/army-robot-dogs-guns-middle-east" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/the-byte/army-rob</span><span class="invisible">ot-dogs-guns-middle-east</span></a></p>
at home in my head<p>Borrowed from someone else... Not original content.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/weapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weapons</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/peacetalks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peacetalks</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ceasefire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ceasefire</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/endlesswar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endlesswar</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>realTuckFrumper</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeoConservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeoConservatives</span></a> like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netanyahu</span></a> believe they can bomb their enemies into submission without repercussions. It's like the old joke:</p><p>"The beatings will continue until moral improves." 🤦‍♂️</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lebanon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hezbollah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hezbollah</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a></p>
Shell Sheddy<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BiBiFailed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BiBiFailed</span></a> and is <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/unfittolead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unfittolead</span></a>; <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/neoFascistNetanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neoFascistNetanyahu</span></a> pushes <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/endlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endlessWar</span></a> to continue his <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ReignOfTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReignOfTerror</span></a> <br>NOW--he esculates; w/no <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HostageReturn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HostageReturn</span></a> and NO <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ceasefire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ceasefire</span></a> &amp; sabotaging the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/2StateSolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2StateSolution</span></a> <br> "Netanyahu: The powerless and absent king" here: <a href="https://l.smartnews.com/p-Gdmqc/PRpAtR" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">l.smartnews.com/p-Gdmqc/PRpAtR</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <br>To read it on the web, tap here: <a href="https://l.smartnews.com/AtHwV/PRpAtR" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">l.smartnews.com/AtHwV/PRpAtR</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Radio Free Arabia<p>Former US Army Ranger Greg Stoker talks about how decades of imperialism turned so many service members &amp; veterans like him against the war machine.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Draft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Draft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MilitaryDraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryDraft</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/fExWVaBz8hQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/fExWVaBz8hQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>More photos from today's rally, as Jill Stein of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenParty</span></a> talks truth about how much the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USBudget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USBudget</span></a> is spent on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a>, while many in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> (and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a>) are homeless and hungry.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CeasefireNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CeasefireNow</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineGreenParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineGreenParty</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenParty</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaSolidarity</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalitionForPalestineMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoalitionForPalestineMaine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineVoicesForPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineVoicesForPeace</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PaxChristiMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaxChristiMaine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeaceActionMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeaceActionMaine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>‘Biden’s Vietnam’: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Progressive</span></a> lawmakers warn not to repeat campus protest history</p><p>Students protesting for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> liberation have also referenced the legacy of student resistance and state crackdowns at inflection points throughout American history. </p><p>By Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing<br>05/04/2024 04:12 PM EDT </p><p>"Progressive lawmakers this week compared recent police crackdowns on student anti-war demonstrations to the deadly response to anti-Vietnam War campus protests over 50 years ago, warning the Biden administration not to repeat history.</p><p>"In a social media post Saturday, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) marked the 54th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, when the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four students and injured nine others at an anti-Vietnam War protest. In her post, she compared the historic tragedy to the recent wave of police crackdowns on campuses across the country.</p><p>"'On the 54th anniversary of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KentStateMassacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KentStateMassacre</span></a>, students across our country are being brutalized for standing up to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a>,' Bush wrote. “Our country must learn to actually uphold the rights of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> &amp; assembly upon which it was founded.”</p><p>"In a similar post, Rep. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IlhanOmar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IlhanOmar</span></a> (D-Minn.) wrote: “54 years ago, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students at Kent State. Students have a right to speak out, organize, and protest systemic wrongs. We can’t silence those expressing dissent, no matter how uncomfortable their protests may be to those in power.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/04/bidens-vietnam-campus-protest-israel-hamas-00156154" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/news/2024/05/04/b</span><span class="invisible">idens-vietnam-campus-protest-israel-hamas-00156154</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CeasefireNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CeasefireNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaSolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaSolidarity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a></p>
Alice Marshall<p><a href="https://dmv.community/tags/CultureOfCorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CultureOfCorruption</span></a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a> </p><p>The Great Unknown About The U.S. Weapons Deluge In Ukraine<br>The military isn’t properly tracking what happens to the billions’ worth of weapons being sent to Ukraine, even though the country has a history of illicit arms diversions. </p><p><a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-great-unknown-about-the-u-s-weapons-deluge-in-ukraine/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">levernews.com/the-great-unknow</span><span class="invisible">n-about-the-u-s-weapons-deluge-in-ukraine/</span></a></p>
Shell Sheddy<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/2State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2State</span></a> solution-- a Sovereign Palestine and Sovereign Israel is needed....<br>(w/o <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RightWingNetanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightWingNetanyahu</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TerroristHamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TerroristHamas</span></a> --who push <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/endlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endlessWar</span></a> to continue their <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ReignsOfTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReignsOfTerror</span></a> )</p>
Tim Moore<p>The US has spent $8,000,000,000,000 on wars since 2000. Just imagine if our government has spent that amount to increase the well being of our citizens and the health of the planet, instead of death.<br>How "non-stop wars" grew the U.S. debt<br><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/gDAxC7MwgGA?si=GgUqwULZus_6lK1S" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/shorts/gDAxC7MwgGA</span><span class="invisible">?si=GgUqwULZus_6lK1S</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/militaryspending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>militaryspending</span></a> <br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/endlesswar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endlesswar</span></a> <br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/EndTheDuopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndTheDuopoly</span></a></p>