The US war machine is the world's biggest single source of institutional carbon emissions.

See — https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/10/pentagon-climate-change-neta-crawford-book/

The military-industrial complex is closely allied with the fossil fuel industry in their immensely profitable fight to continue with 💵 Business As Usual 💵 for as long as possible.

See — https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-military-presence-around-the-world-interactive

Our bloated US imperialism budget is eagerly supported by the leaders of both parties, urged on by free-spending lobbyists. This would be comically embarrassing if it wasn’t so tragic. 🤦‍♂️

#USA #Politics #War #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Award-winning #singer-#songwriter #RufusWainwright blasts ‘#ferocious’ #targeting of #trans #community — ‘It’s like a #war now’ — and the #renewed “#battle” for #gay #rights.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Music #Allies #Representation #Culture #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/rufus-wainwright-singer-gay-trans-rights-right-wing-backlash/

Rufus Wainwright blasts ‘ferocious’ targeting of trans community: ‘It’s like a war now’

Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has spoken out about the renewed "battle" for gay and trans rights amid a rising tide of anti-LGBTQ laws.

^{Asyia Iftikhar (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)}

Analyst Michael Cruikshank noted that the front line is visible even from space.

This is a green part that has become overgrown with vegetation, because they stopped cultivating the fields and doing agriculture there. The photo also shows what happened to the Kakhovka Reservoir.
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey

Zoom to see more details of picture

Ein #fundstuck aus dem #mastodon #fediverse vom antiautoritären Treffen in St-Immier letzte Woche @anarchy2023

Thanks a lot @RadicalGraffiti for sharing 😍

Passt auch schön zu meiner "Make #punk Not #war" #punkrock #lyrik #lesung dort am letzten #samstag. War schön 😀

Vielen Dank an alle, die da waren!

Russians get away from it all ... with a holiday to a warzone

#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/22/russian-holidaymakers-crimea-despite-ukraine-war/

Russians get away from it all ... with a holiday to a warzone

Ukrainian drone attacks do little to put off Russian tourists eager for a summer getaway, as bookings remain unaffected by conflict

^{The Telegraph}

«There Are Very Few Good Films About War. “20 Days in Mariupol” is an Exception»

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/there-are-very-few-good-films-about

There's something in Chris Hedges' writings that feels very honest, and exactly this, honesty, is what is needed to uncover the infinite hypocrisies of Western world (I say world because sometimes that's what it may seem: a fantasy world isolated from reality, fantasy lived by most of Westerners, a fantasy quite well designed and shoveled into our brains by powerful media and marketing agencies).
Now please pay good attention to what he brings this time.

#ChrisHedges #War

Violet Jessop survived the RMS Olympic after it crashed in 1911; and she survived the sinking of RMS Titanic a year later. During WWI, she was a nurse on the hospital ship HMHS Britannic when it hit a naval mine. She helped patients evacuate before abandoning ship herself.

#titanic #histmed #histsci #DYK #WWI #war #nurses

This video is from 2014 when sanctions were first imposed on Russia for annexing Crimea and waging a war in Donbas.

Russians live in a very distorted reality. It will be an enormous problem in the future. This video shows it well.
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey

Long read. Get a cofee:

The Darkness Ahead: Where The Ukraine War Is Headed

by professor John Mearsheimer

#russia
#ukraine
#war
#west
#politics
#threats

https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-darkness-ahead-where-the-ukraine

The Darkness Ahead: Where The Ukraine War Is Headed

This paper examines the likely trajectory of the Ukraine war moving forward. I will address two main questions. First, is a meaningful peace agreement possible? My answer is no.

^{John J. Mearsheimer (John’s Substack)}

According to many history books, today is one of the most fateful days in history. The problem with simplistic histories of wars is that the events (choices & actions) that follow so-called fateful events, are seen as inevitable rather than as actual choices and actions. All of the belligerents of WWI could have made different choices in how they responded to these events. They didn't want to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand
#war #WWI #history #fate

This image is illegal in Russia. Let's make it popular on #mastodon

#fuckputin #russia #Design #Ukraine #putin #war #fuckwar

BREAKING NEWS!

US to reveal intelligence that Russia destroyed the Dnieper river dam!

Putin must be put on trial for his war crimes against humanity!
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #Kherson #Kyiv #Lviv #Mariupol #Donbas #Kharkiv #Kherson

"15 Reasons Why Mass Media Employees Act Like Propagandists" – Caitlin Johnstone

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/06/04/15-reasons-why-mass-media-employees-act-like-propagandists/

«So, as you can see, the news media are subject to pressures from every conceivable angle on every relevant level which push them toward functioning not as reporters, but as propagandists. This is why the employees of the western mass media act like PR agents for the western empire and its component parts: because that’s exactly what they are.»
These self a denominated journalists will, of course, deny any malpractice or conflict of interests. But the article does a meticulous job of describing the multiple pressures that people in these media, from bottom to up, receive.

#CaitlinJohnstone #Jornalism #Propaganda #War #Empire #Imperialism

Tanques por riñones: un negocio redondo en Ucrania

#trafico #organos #war #guerra #otan
#telegram

Ottoman Helmets : 16th-Century

#history #art #War #design #Islam #Turkey #culture

RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA!

Russian state-owned Rossiya-1 TV channel showed the video of a building in Uman, destroyed by the Russian rocket as a video of Ukraine shelling "DPR".

The world of George Orwell's 1984 in real life.
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany

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Aus Gründen!

" #War #Pigs "

Black Sabbath ~ War Pigs

Album: Paranoid Song: "War Pigs" ~ LYRICS ~ "War Pigs" Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of death's construction In the fields the bodies burning As the war machine keeps t…

^{Gabrielle Marie | Invidious}

Content warning: collapse, end of fossil fuels, war, geopolitics Reveal/hide

Please watch this video, talking about the end of oil-based economy (and also debt-with-interest-based economy).
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CTGCDtoPrqY (that's an Invidious instance proxy for youtube).
Also please notice the part about the leak from RAND Corporation, in which they set the US policy of collapsing Europe (if you need proof that this is the actual intention and which is currently being implemented, just see what "happened" to Nord Stream 2).
That the US is still regarded as an ally in Europe by many people is sad. And I'm talking about the US government and de facto powers, not the average US citizen (so I'm not saying "US people are bad", like I wouldn't say "Russians are bad" or "Ukrainians are bad". The governments and other de facto powers that these countries have, though, are anything but compassive or empathic, and more close to psychopathic in nature).

#Collapse #PeakOil #Oilocene #EnergyCrisis #War #WW3 #WWIII

Tim Clarke End of the Oilecene

From the Beyond the Edge seminar in Llanfyllin, Powys in September 2022. In this presentation, Tim Clarke looks at the impact of depleting oil production on the economies of the western states.

^{Tim Watkins | Invidious}