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China, 2049

Michael Klare TomDispatch
A Climate Disaster Zone, Not a Military Superpower

No "Fixing This Industry "

Mike Ferner Peace and Planet News
The conditions inherent in our system of industrially producing milk, meat and eggs, creates the conditions wherein humans do things they never thought they would or could do to other sentient creatures.

China, 2049 A Climate Disaster Zone, Not a Military Superpower

Michael Klare TomDispatch
By 2049, the Chinese military will be so busy coping with a burning, flooding, churning world of climate change — threatening the country’s very survival — that it will possess scant capacity, no less the will, to launch a war with the United States

There’s No Good Way to End a Corrupt War

Garret Virchick Organizing Upgrade
Unlike wars that were fought against western imperialism in the 1950s,‘60s, and‘70s in places like Algeria, Kenya, Vietnam, and South Africa, the Taliban will not be taking over as liberators. Taliban rule in the past proved to be a brutal patriarchy

Will Investing in Community Groups Keep Immigrants Out of Detention?

Angelika Albaladejo Capital & Main
Biden’s administration and the Democrat-led Congress are funneling the lion’s share of taxpayer money for “alternatives to detention” into an existing for-profit surveillance program — while spending little on community services.

Healthy Group Accountability: Learning How to Learn

Michael Strom and Joshua Kahn Russell Organizing Upgrade
They ultimately decided that achieving the group’s purpose (meeting the needs of their base), required them to hold each other with both compassion and rigor. Accountability was actually a requirement on the path to power and transformation.
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