(2024-06-04). Palestine Action Hit Two Barclays Branches. popularresistance.org On Monday 3 June Palestine Action upped the ante over genocide-enabling Barclays — by targetting two locations of the Israel-complicit bank. Overnight, Palestine Action activists targeted the Bradford and Bolton branches of Barclays, investors in Israel's largest weapons firm — Elbit Systems. Barclays Bank holds over £1bn in shares and provides over £3bn in loans and underwriting to nine companies whose weapons, components, and military technology are being used by Israel in its genocidal attacks on Palestinians. This includes General Dynamics, which produces the gun systems that arm the f…
(2024-06-04). Twenty Years Of Building An Economic Alternative To Capitalism In The US. popularresistance.org The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives recently turned twenty years old. Clearing the FOG speaks with Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, a professor and author of "Collective Courage: A History of African-American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice," and a charter member of the USFWC, about the work to create a national cooperative organization and the rise of the cooperative economy in the United States. She spoke about the role that cooperatives have played in advancing social and economic justice, the benefits of cooperatives not only to the individual but also more broadly to their communities, and the his…
(2024-06-04). The Military-Industrial Complex Is Killing Us All. popularresistance.org We need to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs shred flesh. Bombs shatter bones. Bombs dismember. Bombs cause brains, lungs, and other organs to shake so violently they bleed, rupture, and cease functioning. Bombs injure. Bombs kill. Bombs destroy. | Bombs also make people rich. | When a bomb explodes, someone profits. And when someone profits, bombs claim more unseen victims. Every dollar spent on a bomb is a dollar not spent saving a life from a preventable death, a dollar not spent curing cancer, a dollar not spent educating children. That's why, so long ago, retired five-star general and President Dwight D…
(2024-06-04). Pro-Palestine Campaign Challenges Lockheed Martin With All-Day Picket. popularresistance.org Littleton, CO — On Wednesday, May 29, the Denver Anti-War Action (DAWA) continued their pro Palestine actions against weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin with another all-day picket at the corporation's Colorado headquarters. | Around 50 protesters engaged in direct action throughout the day, forcing Lockheed employees to take fact sheets that laid out their location's specific role in the ongoing genocide in Palestine, attached with explicit imagery of carpet bombing and the brutal effects of white phosphorus. | The fliers pointed out the connections between Lockheed Martin and Israel, included graphic im…
(2024-06-04). Campaign launches against shipping giant Maersk over genocidal weapons trade. peoplesdispatch.org On June 3, the Palestinian Youth Movement announced a new global campaign targeting Maersk, one of the largest shipping companies in the world, a vital piece in the flow of weapons from the United States to Israel. | PYM, a transnational Palestinian diaspora formation, has led mass mobilizations in several countries, especially in North America, challenging the US and Canada's unconditional support for Israeli genocide in Gaza. The organization now seeks to take on the logistics industry shipping arms that transports the weapons that are used to carry out the genocide. | "Maersk ships transport weapons and weapon…
(2024-06-04). Frustration In The Air: Boeing Delays Hang Over Aviation Meet. latintimes.com Headline projections of nearly five billion passengers and close to $1 trillion in revenues this year, both records, were reasons for celebration at the IATA annual general meeting in Dubai.
(2024-06-04). The military-industrial complex is killing us all. nationofchange.org Bombs injure. Bombs kill. Bombs destroy. Bombs also make people rich.
(2024-06-04). Australian Labor government ramps up anti-immigrant measures. wsws.org "Foreigners" are being blamed for the deteriorating social conditions being produced by capitalism's economic and cost-of-living crisis and the channelling of billions of dollars into military spending.
(2024-06-04). The military-industrial complex is killing us all. mronline.org 
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By David Vine and Theresa (Isa) Arriola / TomDispatch We need to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs shred flesh. Bombs shatter bones. Bombs dismember. Bombs cause brains, lungs, and other organs to shake so violently they bleed, rupture, and cease functioning. Bombs injure. Bombs kill. Bombs destroy. Bombs also make people rich. …
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PASADENA, Calif. — A Noise Within's spot-on, sparkling mounting of George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance, set in 1909 Surrey, England, is a dazzling delight to behold. The flawlessly delivered, witty Shavian wordplay cuts more sharply than swordplay, proving once again that the proverbial pen is mightier than the sword. The comedy explores a wide range of …
The University of Queensland committed to disclosing financial and research partnerships with weapons manufactures in return for the UQ Gaza solidarity camp shutting down. Sam Morris reports.
