As South Africa’s rooibos tea trade heats up, debate brews over how to give Indigenous experts a fair share https://t.co/QunW8XChjz
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) January 8, 2022
“The myth of the good war” from Robert Koehler #opinion https://t.co/yW4iHiA3YQ
— Tribune Content Agency (@TribuneAgency) January 6, 2022
My point here is that war is a collective enterprise. Multiply this incident by the size of the US military budget – virtually half the country’s discretionary spending, around a trillion dollars annually, all told. And the money is always there, ready and waiting for the security state to consume. The unending lie is that it keeps us safe. Imagine, once again, "women and children staggering out of the partly collapsed building, some missing limbs, some dragging the dead," and savor the safety you now have.*
"When we wage war, we dehumanize — then kill — a specific segment of humanity. In the process, we “fray” our own humanity . . . we become less human ourselves, and thus more in sync with the evil we claim to be obliterating" https://t.co/pBVgobtA7c
— Olaf Foss (@OlafFoss) January 6, 2022
We have two choices: to strive for power with one another or power over one another.“Peace journalism is when editors and reporters make choices — about what to report, and how to report it — that create opportunities for society at large to consider and to value nonviolent responses to conflict.”
—Robert Koehler*
The value of a prediction is in the act of making it, not the prediction itself. Contemplating what may happen encourages us to take responsibility for decisions we make in the present.*
It should be as familiar to us as communism was to the people of the Soviet Union. But the greatest success of this tremendously powerful ideology is its anonymity. And by heck, has it succeeded. https://t.co/oz0OmwjmIw
— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) December 29, 2021
The Christmas Truce of 1914 – Why There Is Still No Peace On Earth https://t.co/tB5Rg3zsxJ
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 28, 2021
/ by @DA_Stockman … for more: https://t.co/6SGoanjmQm*
"Chinese Aggression" Is Just China Responding To US Aggression
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) December 18, 2021
"One need only imagine what would happen if China began constructing a chain of long-range missile systems off a US coastline to understand who the actual aggressor is between these two powershttps://t.co/CmlmeGd49J
I quote a former American ambassador to China, Stapleton Roy, who told me, ‘Kishore, when Xi Jinping made an offer to demilitarize the South China Sea, America should have grabbed that offer and agreed to stop all our military activities in the South China Sea. That would have pushed the Chinese out.’ Of course, the Americans would be out too. But the South China Sea is much more important to China than it is to America. If America steps out, the Chinese military steps out. And that’s a win for America, right? Instead, the U.S. Navy responded by sending naval vessels. So Xi said, ‘Okay. You reject my offer. So be it.’*
China is not a military threat. The military threat is against China. China is ringed with US bases with nuclear armed missiles, right offshore, aimed at China. It’s China that’s under threat. Not the United States.*
