This is getting ugly in a hurry. From Ilya Tsukanov at sputnikglobe.com: The Biden administration joined with the leaders of Germany, Nordic countries and the Baltic states on Thursday by lifting formal restrictions on the use of NATO long-range strike systems sent to Ukraine to target areas deep inside Russia. Sputnik asked a leading European defense commentator about […]
El abogado ambientalista y político estadounidense Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., uno de los candidatos demócratas a las presidenciales de 2024, condenó la supuesta autorización del mandatario de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, para que Kiev utilice armas estadounidenses con el fin de atacar territorio ruso desde la provincia de Járkov. “Otra escalada demencial por parte de […]
Hundreds of thousands participated in a peace march in Hungary’s capital, Budapest on Saturday, denouncing the EU’s policy of escalating tensions with Russia. The event culminated with a speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who accused Brussels of bringing Europe closer to a global conflict.
The gigantic“peace march,” brought supporters from all over Hungary and neighboring countries. They marched along the Danube River in Budapest from the city’s iconic Chain Bridge onto Margaret Island, waving flags and signs reading “No War.”
Many carried flags, chanted pacifist slogans, and held signs reading “No war” and “Give us peace, Lord.”
“Never before have so many people lined up for peace. We are the biggest peace corps, the largest peacekeeping force in Europe,” the prime minister said, as quoted by Reuters. “Europe must be prevented from rushing into war, into its own destruction.”
The contents of your fridge and dining table directly impacts the future of rare rainforest and ocean animals. That’s because industrial agriculture and aquaculture for commodities like meat, dairy, fish and palm oil is driving animals in the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet closer towards extinction.
However, reducing the biodiversity footprint of global food consumption requires more than just consumer intervention. It requires immediate and widespread action from government policy-makers and law-makers as well, writes Ecologist Dr Quentin Read of North Carolina State University for 360info
Why vote? Look at the person you are thinking of voting for, what makes them not look sound, or feel like any politician you’ve ever seen strutting and lying on our TV screens?
What makes them so excel in virtues you don’t have that you should hand your power and autonomy over to them?
Would you hand the contents of your home so easily over to a burglar, or your family without a murmur to a kidnapper? Of course not! That would be ridiculous, yet it’s the same principle they don’t want us to see in the carnival of election time.
The idea that we willingly handover all agency over our neighbourhoods, our welfare and our futures to professionals who excel in some of the worst human arts of manipulation, deceit, lies and corruption is the stuff of nightmares and dark graphic novels. That they want to have power in the first place should be clue enough.
For all the lies that pervade election times, perhaps the biggest is that the ballot box makes us equal, that Rishi with his million-pound swimming pool and the shop worker with a paddling pool have the same rights and responsibilities as each other. Except that what we give Starmer or Rishi is theirs to loot for the duration, while we wait for our right to place an X in five years-time on another piece of paper.
And how precious that X is made to feel given that you probably only have 10 of them to use in your lifetime. 10 moments of feeling equal is your lifetime ration of influence or participation.
In the process, its dull familiarity creates the attitude in most of us summed up as “I don’t believe in politics” or “what has politics got to do with me?” And that is exactly what they want us to feel. Distanced and docile.
However, always pushing back against this is our innate humanity and our struggle for a dignified existence. Our own lives are social, economic, and emotional all of which combine to make our existence deeply political.
We care massively about our friends, our loved ones, our neighbourhoods and environment, our welfare, and our futures.
On a day-to-day level we demonstrate this actively with our colleagues, communities, and the kinds of social family we consciously choose to construct.
We come together all the time in free, and yes, political association.
By Ekaterina Blinova – Sputnik – May 31, 2024 The West has misinterpreted Russia’s openness to dialogue on Ukraine as a sign of weakness and is now pushing the world to the edge of a disastrous all-out nuclear exchange, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter told Sputnik. US President Joe Biden has authorized […]