Samuel Moyn’s Unprincipled Attack On Human Rights Giant Michael Ratner
Samuel Moyn’s vicious and unprincipled attack on Michael Ratner, one of the finest human rights attorneys of our time, was published in the New York Review of Books (NYRB) on September 1.
325 Organizations Propose Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard Of
Many of us have been screaming about it at the tops of our lungs for years and years, writing about it, making videos about it, organizing conferences on it. Yet it is ineluctably unknowable.
U.S. Media Obsessed With Smaller Two of Three Big Bills in Congress
The super unprecedentedly ginormous Building Back Better bill is widely advertised as costing $3.5 trillion – and I think we’d all love to hear just a few hundred more times how Senator Joe Manchin won’t stand for it, wouldn’t we? But that number is spread over 10 years.
U.S. Militarism’s Toxic Impact on Climate Policy
President Biden addressed the UN General on September 21 with a warning that the climate crisis is fast approaching a “point of no return,” and a promise that the United States would rally the world to action.
4,391+ Actions for a Better World: Campaign Nonviolence Action Week is bigger than ever
From Sept 18-26, tens of thousands of people are taking action for a culture of peace and active nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction.
Iraq Vet Disrupts George W. Bush Speech
Iraq War veteran and Empire Files producer Mike Prysner disrupted a speech by George W. Bush in Beverly Hills on Sept. 19, 2021.
