The motive behind neoliberalism is perpetuation of ruling class power and American international power, and the mechanics are fourfold: capture competitor nations in an American-dominated system, exploit the markets of weaker nations, ensure net flows of wealth from peripheral nations to sustain US consumption, and lock peripheral nations into debt and dependency as leverage to …
Category: War
Feb 24 2019
REGIME CHANGE AGAIN
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/22/this_is_not_humanitarian_aid_a?fbclid=IwAR1cVTvxyr8JVc5O1eMfka0Ru3qU4s649kka8qP3xElVLaRBKFL9Z-yOxi8 Commentary by Dianne Foster: So, we have to confront this supposedly humanitarian aid, which is not humanitarian aid. It’s just direct intervention in order to have regime change, which has been the purpose of the Trump government from the very beginning. And we know what regime change has meant in other places. We know …
Jul 20 2018
WORKING LOCALLY
Can we do this in Whatcom County? Well, we already are but we are siloed into our own working/affinity groups. Can we all come together into a cooperative group? I am calling it, for now, The Community Development Cooperative. The Public Market on Cornwall has space where we could come together and begin this work, …
Dec 03 2016
EUGENE DEBS 1917
Tim Robbins reading what got Eugene Debs into prison for 10 years. Tim Robbins performs Eugene V. Debs Canton, Ohio speech June 1918 Tim Robbins performed this excerpt of Eugene V. Debs' 1918 speech at a May 2009 performance at the 92Y in New York City, as part of a celebration of the …
Nov 22 2015
GLOBAL CLIMATE MARCH FOR PARIS
FRIENDS! It is time to bring back the days when Bellingham streets were full of people marching for the good of the planet and the people on the planet. THIS IS THAT TIME AGAIN! JOIN US this coming SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 at 10:00 in MARITIME PARK for a march through town to the SALISH SANCTUARY …
Sep 27 2015
STOP OLYMPIC FLYOVERS
TAKE ACTION AT THE WEB SITE POSTED BELOW Petitions with 120,000 signatures opposing the US Navy request to develop electromagnetic warfare in sites around the forests on the Olympic Peninsula were recently delivered to the Forest Service. This would mean periodic unannounced closures of portions of Olympic National Forest for war games, testing and training. Up to 118 …
Jun 29 2015
WHO SUFFERS?
So many people are harmed by war. We don’t seem to have learned that lesson yet. Literally millions of innocent people are harmed by displacement, starvation to name a few outcomes of war. It is also true that our soldiers who serve in our military are wounded by actions taken in war. No amount …
Jul 22 2014
WE ARE ALL ONE
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