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#militarism — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #militarism, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Volkswagen workers demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk

    VW plant in Wolfsburg We are publishing below a statement by Volkswagen workers calling for the release of…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Volkswagen #imperialism #militarism #NATO #Russia #Ukraine #War
    europesays.com/germany/86953/

  2. Russians killing your kids. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?

    No point in feeding #breakfast to children, says retired Admiral #LordWest of Spithead. The Russkies will just march in and kill the kids.

    Better to give the cash to Alan and his chums to buy #wartoys. Says Alan.

    #ukpol #militarism #BombsNotBread #TheMadCountry #YCMTSU

  3. Today's = 1st 🎂 of article in International Affairs articulating #pacifist critique of reactions to Russian invasion of #Ukraine ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae275 #nonviolence #pacifism #war #Russia #militarism

    Summary: 1/ asks whether military path worse than coordinated mass
    #nonviolent civil disobedience 2/ exposes 2 ingrained assumptions (on efficacy of #violence, & violence in 'human nature') 3/ reflects on how war transforms agents of violence & entrenches 'warism'/militarism

  4. "Time and again though, our Pacific neighbours have told New Zealand that the imminent threat they face is from climate change, not from China. If Willis belonged to a serious government, she would be more inclined to be “sending billions of dollars offshore” to mitigate the effects of climate change, rather than in prepping for war with our main trading partner."

    #GordonCampbell, 2025

    scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2512/S00

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    #ClimateChange #militarism

  5. The Chris Hedges Report: Catastrophe in the Middle East
    consortiumnews.com/2024/10/01/
    “Israel is going all the way and doing anything possible to push Hezbollah to go for an all out war,“ Israeli journalist Gideon Levy says in this interview. By Chris Hedges Scheerpost It has become quite rare to hear any…
    #Politics #Commentary #HumanRights #Israel #Lebanon #Militarism #Palestine #Terrorism #AmiraHass #ChrisHedges #EthnicCleansing #FirstIntifada #GideonLevy #IsraelGaza2023War #IsraeliApartheid #IsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu #Oct.7 #PalestinianAuthority #TwoStateSolution #YitzhakRabin #Zionism

  6. @cjd
    In 1971, the US govt took the ideas of Keynes and ran with it. They a gave a big middle-finger to France, by giving them a bunch of paper rather than the gold to pay back the debts the French were owed for backing #militarism in #Vietnam.

    Since the mid-1970s the #productivityGains started going to those closest to the newly printed money, and not to a shortening work week.

    Who is benefitting from digging holes and filling them up again?

    #howVeryKeynesian #bitcoinFixesThis
    @berkes