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Tag Archives: Violence
Saturday Matinee: The Murder of Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton, founder of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was assassinated by a special unit of the Chicago Police Department on December 4th, 1969 as he lay face down in bed. He was 21 years … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, FBI, Film, History, Saturday Matinee, State Crime, Video
Tagged Black Panther Party, Cointelpro, Documentary, FBI, Fred Hampton, Howard Alk, police, State Crime, Violence
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Nonviolence or Nonexistence? The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
By Robert J. Burrowes Fifty years ago, on 4 April 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The night before he died, King gave another of his many evocative speeches; this one at the packed Mason Temple in … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Art, Corporate Welfare, culture, Environment, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Bolivia, Bruce Gagnon, Eddy Kalisa Nyarwaya Jr., Ella Polyakova, Gaëlle Smedts, General Dynamics, Ghandi, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, John Seed, Martin Luther King Jr., Movimient Humanista, Nonviolence, Poetry Against Arms, Rainforest Information Centre, Russia, Rwanda Institute for Conflict Transformation and Peace Building, society, Soldiers’ Mothers of Saint-Petersburg, Violence, war, war profiteers
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Enough Is Enough: If You Really Want to Save Lives, Take Aim at Government Violence
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “It is often the case that police shootings, incidents where law enforcement officers pull the trigger on civilians, are left out of the conversation on gun violence. But a police officer shooting … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Militarization, military spending, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged culture, Culture of Violence, Government, Gun Control, IRS, Militarization, Military, police, police shootings, police state, Police Violence, racism, State Crime, state violence, Systemic Violence, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Government, Violence
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The Fear Driving US Nuclear Strategy
By Robert J. Burrowes The United States Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ (NPR) on 2 February, updating the last one issued in 2010 during the previous administration. See ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’. The Executive Summary … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, Militarization, news, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged arms race, china, Distraction, fear, General H. R. McMaster, Jim Mattis, John Kelly, North Korea, Nuclear Posture Review, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, psychology, Russia, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Foreign Policy, Violence, war
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Why Fear and Self-hatred Destroy Human Sharing and Solidarity
By Robert J. Burrowes As our world spirals deeper into an abyss from which it is becoming increasingly difficult to extricate ourselves, some very prominent activists have lamented the lack of human solidarity in the face of the ongoing genocide … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, elites, Inequality, Militarization, military spending, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Burma, economic inequality, elites, Emotions, fear, greed, Hatred, military spending, Philosophy, psychology, Rohingya, Self-hatred, Selfishness, Sharing, society, Solidarity, Suffering, Violence, Wealth Gap
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‘Violence Against Women: Why the UN Secretary-General Got it Wrong’
By Robert J. Burrowes In his remarks on the recent International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – see ‘Violence Against Women is Fundamentally About Power’ – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres inadvertantly demonstrated why well-meaning efforts being … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Behavioral Psychology, Childhood Development, culture, Deep Listening, Domestic Violence, Emotions, Flame Tree Project, Non-Violence, psychology, Punishment, society, Sociology, Violence
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Killing the Biosphere to Fast-track Human Extinction
By Robert J. Burrowes Several years ago in Cameroon, a country in West Africa, a Western Black Rhinoceros was killed. It was the last of its kind on Earth. Hence, the Western Black Rhinoceros, the largest subspecies of rhinoceros which … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Geoengineering, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime
Tagged 6th Extinction, Bees, Biosphere, Chemtrails, civilization, Climate Change, Corporations, Democracy, Earth, Economics, environment, Environmental Collapse, Extinction, Fukushima, geoengineering, Global Elite, Glyphosate, Herbicides, Methane, Monsanto, Non-Violence, pollution, Roundup, Violence
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Live Free or Die: The Psychology of Rebellion & Dissent
By Gary ‘Z’ McGee Source: Waking Times “I rebel—therefore we exist.” ~Albert Camus, The Rebel Dissent is a tricky subject. The need to rebel against atrocity is deeply ingrained in the human condition. Even if most of us don’t act … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Revolution, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Albert Camus, culture, dissent, Freedom, Liberty, Morality, Philosophy, Rebellion, society, The Rebel, Violence
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