(2021-09-14). Climate activists continue to challenge push for gas. greenleft.org.au Climate activists are continuing to demand the federal government and Labor opposition heed the climate science and pull back from their irresponsible gas-led recovery plan. Margaret Gleeson reports.
(2021-09-14). "Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire": Deepa Kumar on How Racism Fueled U.S. Wars Post-9/11. democracynow.org 
According to the Costs of War Project, the wars launched by the United States following 9/11 have killed an estimated 929,000 people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. The true death toll may never be known, but the vast majority of the victims have been Muslim. "Racism is baked into the security logic of the national security state in the U.S., as well as in terms of how it operates abroad," says Islamophobia scholar Deepa Kumar, a professor of media studies at Rutgers University. "The war on terror was sold to the American public using Orientalist and racist ideas that these societies a…
(2021-09-14). Milwaukee: Activists rally to say 'Hands off Afghanistan' on 20th anniversary of 9/11. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – A group of anti-war students and community members gathered in downtown Milwaukee in the early afternoon of September 11 to protest continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. Speakers acknowledged the significance of the withdrawal of U.S. troops, but pointed to history and actions taken since the evacuation of the U.S. embassy as a sign of things to come. | "It's a good thing that the U.S. has removed its forces, but we know that they're not going to allow the unimpeded expression of Afghan self-determination," said Ryan Hamann, speaking on behalf of Freedom Road Socialist Organization – Wisconsi…
(2021-09-14). Fairy Creek: Indigenous-Led Blockade of Old-Growth Logging Is Now Canada's Largest Civil Disobedience. democracynow.org 
Tension is rising between Canadian police and activists who have been staging a months-long anti-logging resistance in Vancouver Island's ancient forests. The protest has been underway for two years, led by environmental and First Nations activists, and is considered to be Canada's largest act of civil disobedience ever. Canadian authorities have arrested nearly 1,000 people at Fairy Creek in British Columbia, and the protests show no sign of slowing down. "We have a long history of asserting ourselves as coastal people, where our inherent right is not only based in our relationship to our communities but is base…
(2021-09-14). 9/11 Collapsed Towers… And Empire. dissidentvoice.org 
AFP 2021 / Seth McAllister The United States' 245-year history as a political entity has been one long trail of wars and more wars. It is estimated that nearly 95 percent of that historical span has seen the nation involved in either all-out wars, proxy conflicts, or other military subterfuges. But since the 9/11 terror …
(2021-09-13). Wall Street Money Takes on Big Oil. progressive.org Institutional investors are increasingly on the side of climate activists, but not totally for the sake of the planet.
(2021-09-13). 'We oppose welfare cuts, austerity, and a warmongering foreign policy'. peoplesdispatch.org Scandinavian countries are often hailed as model nations that ensure better living standards with their policies for social welfare and relatively lesser political violence. The countries are also often regarded as 'neutral' and not active in promoting imperialist policies in the global south. The reality is quite different. The region is currently undergoing a challenging period, with countries of the region dealing with austerity, the climate emergency and rise of hyper-nationalism. | In light of the recent developments in Afghanistan, as well as 20 years since the beginning of the 'Global War on Terror', movem…
(2021-09-13). Remembering Amiri Baraka and his poem 'Somebody Blew Up America'. therealnews.com 
Twenty years after 9/11, a chorus of activists, writers, and political prisoners remember Amiri Baraka's influential and controversial 2001 poem "Somebody Blew Up America." In this episode of Rattling the Bars, we hear from Baraka in his own words, as he speaks about America's legacy of oppression and the path toward freedom.
(2021-09-13). Record-breaking bloody hunt in Denmark's Faroe Islands slaughters almost 1,500 dolphins (GRAPHIC VIDEOS, PHOTOS). rt.com 
A record-breaking number of white-sided dolphins have been killed in the Faroe Islands, with nearly 1,500 specimens slaughtered during the gruesome hunt. The slaughter has invoked outrage from animal rights activists. | The hunt, known as the 'grindadráp', was held over the weekend with local whalers targeting a massive pod of white-sided dolphins. The Danish autonomous Faroe Islands remain the last territory in Europe allowed to hunt marine mammals, as the grindadráp is considered to be an example of traditional "aboriginal whaling." | During the grindadráp, dolphins are herded by motorbo…
(2021-09-13). On Contact: Inverted Totalitarianism. popularresistance.org In his books 'Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism' and 'Politics and Vision', a massive survey of Western political thought that his former student Cornel West calls "magisterial," Wolin lays bare the causes behind the decline of American empire and the rise of a new and terrifying configuration of corporate power he calls "inverted totalitarianism." Wolin throughout his scholarship charted the steady devolution of American democracy and in his last book, 'Democracy Incorporated', wrote: "One cannot point to any national institution[s] that can accurately be descr…
