Redpoet
@redpoet.bsky.social
Activist since the 60s. Proudly fighting patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy, and all forms of bigotry. I am a big fan of Abdullah Ocalan, democratic confederalism, social ecology. Am amateur epidemiologist, emphasis in emerging infectious diseases.
When peacefully protesting, one doesn’t expect their eye to. E shattered or their arm blown off. Yet, these are among the many injuries inflicted on those peacefully protesting the construction of the pipeline at Standing Rock - nothing new really.
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Navajo Shot in the Eye at Standing Rock, Denied Justice: A Federal Court will Hear the Case
Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
When peacefully protesting, one doesn’t expect their eye to. E shattered or their arm blown off. Yet, these are among the many injuries inflicted on those peacefully protesting the construction of the pipeline at Standing Rock - nothing new really.
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/12/nava...
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/12/nava...
“The powerful never take one step toward tyranny they do not intend to follow with another.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
it seems simply reading this article, posting it, wearing the wrong t- shirt can put you in the crosshairs of the State
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
it seems simply reading this article, posting it, wearing the wrong t- shirt can put you in the crosshairs of the State
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
America’s New Enemies List: Trump’s NSPM-7 Turns Dissent Into Domestic Terrorism
President Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is Operation TIPS on steroids. After 9/11, President George W. Bush proposed a program recruiting ordinary workers — truck drivers,...
www.dailykos.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“The powerful never take one step toward tyranny they do not intend to follow with another.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
it seems simply reading this article, posting it, wearing the wrong t- shirt can put you in the crosshairs of the State
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
it seems simply reading this article, posting it, wearing the wrong t- shirt can put you in the crosshairs of the State
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
…what is happening to Afghan women is not “gender persecution.” That is too soft. What we’re witnessing is patriarchal counter-revolutionary terror or femigenocide.
"https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2025/12/why-gender-persecution-doesnt-capture-whats-happening-to-afghan-women/#
"https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2025/12/why-gender-persecution-doesnt-capture-whats-happening-to-afghan-women/#
Why ‘Gender Persecution’ Doesn’t Capture What’s Happening to Afghan Women
In recent years, several countries—including Croatia, Malta, and others—have recognized femicide as a distinct crime. The Italian government and parliament also took this step, acknowledging that kill...
www.jurist.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
…what is happening to Afghan women is not “gender persecution.” That is too soft. What we’re witnessing is patriarchal counter-revolutionary terror or femigenocide.
"https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2025/12/why-gender-persecution-doesnt-capture-whats-happening-to-afghan-women/#
"https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2025/12/why-gender-persecution-doesnt-capture-whats-happening-to-afghan-women/#
Every empire in collapse turns its deadliest rage toward the people who still remember how to live. And today, that means Indigenous land defenders — the last human barricade between the rapacity of capital and the survival of the planet itself.
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countercurrents.org/2025/12/indi...
Indigenous and Environmental Defenders Risk Their Lives as the Last Line Protecting the Planet | Countercurrents
Land and environmental defenders—Indigenous leaders, farmers, conservationists, and community activists—risk their lives opposing the destructive exploitation of natural resources.
countercurrents.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Every empire in collapse turns its deadliest rage toward the people who still remember how to live. And today, that means Indigenous land defenders — the last human barricade between the rapacity of capital and the survival of the planet itself.
countercurrents.org/2025/12/indi...
countercurrents.org/2025/12/indi...
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FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”
The Summers–Epstein emails are not just another look at two powerful men trading winks in a men’s club. They are a window into the deepest, oldest rot of the American empire: the intersection of white supremacy, patriarchy, and the colonial fear of Chinese women. www.sixthtone.com/news/1017926
The Summers-Epstein Emails’ ‘Yellow Peril’ Problem
Harvard professor Larry Summers has been widely criticized for his extensive correspondence with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But the denigrating way he views Asian women hasn’t gotten enough attenti...
www.sixthtone.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The Summers–Epstein emails are not just another look at two powerful men trading winks in a men’s club. They are a window into the deepest, oldest rot of the American empire: the intersection of white supremacy, patriarchy, and the colonial fear of Chinese women. www.sixthtone.com/news/1017926
In a world where power is misused, public morality has become slippery and dishonesty lurches sickeningly through public speech, animals can offer vital lessons for human ethics, political wisdom and social health.
www.noemamag.com/the-moral-au...
www.noemamag.com/the-moral-au...
The Moral Authority Of Animals | NOEMA
For millennia before we showed up on the scene, social animals — those living in societies and cooperating for survival — had been creating cultures imbued with ethics.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
In a world where power is misused, public morality has become slippery and dishonesty lurches sickeningly through public speech, animals can offer vital lessons for human ethics, political wisdom and social health.
www.noemamag.com/the-moral-au...
www.noemamag.com/the-moral-au...
Everything in our bodies, everything in our air, everything in our food and water, every cell we possess is co-produced by other forms of life. We are not separate from the biosphere — we are expressions of it. Yet, for some reason we think we are “all that.” critical-mass.net/2025/11/27/n...
NEW BOOK RELEASE.
November 28th 2025, is the release date for my new book entitled ‘Life on Earth’ (Past, Present and Future)’ initially in ebook form, later in paperback form. It is currently avai…
critical-mass.net
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Everything in our bodies, everything in our air, everything in our food and water, every cell we possess is co-produced by other forms of life. We are not separate from the biosphere — we are expressions of it. Yet, for some reason we think we are “all that.” critical-mass.net/2025/11/27/n...
And here we go again. Another round of manufactured panic, another “crisis” that—surprise—just happens to justify Washington’s long war on a sovereign people who refuse to kneel before Wall Street, Exxon, or the Pentagon. Its all enough to make Kissinger proud. countercurrents.org/2025/11/war-...
War on Venezuela Is A Lie | Countercurrents
In 2010, I wrote a book called War Is A Lie, with an updated edition in 2016. If I’m lucky and find time — and maybe if they ease up on the wars for a little while — I’ll get a new version out in 2026...
countercurrents.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
And here we go again. Another round of manufactured panic, another “crisis” that—surprise—just happens to justify Washington’s long war on a sovereign people who refuse to kneel before Wall Street, Exxon, or the Pentagon. Its all enough to make Kissinger proud. countercurrents.org/2025/11/war-...
“The planet is being murdered. We will not wait quietly while power destroys what remains of life.”
— EZLN communiqué, October 2023
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— EZLN communiqué, October 2023
links.org.au/declaration-...
Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
Statement from the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, from November 12-16.
links.org.au
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“The planet is being murdered. We will not wait quietly while power destroys what remains of life.”
— EZLN communiqué, October 2023
links.org.au/declaration-...
— EZLN communiqué, October 2023
links.org.au/declaration-...
Every time I see those before and after pictures of Gaza, I can’t even comprehend how anyone can be living there now and even beginning to think about rebuilding their homes and workplace atop the mountains of rubble and human remains.
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truthout.org/articles/ove...
Over 92 Percent of Homes in Gaza Are Rubble. How Do We Even Start Rebuilding?
To resurrect Gaza, the world must reckon with the genocide. Despite the ceasefire, Israel is blocking access to cement.
truthout.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Every time I see those before and after pictures of Gaza, I can’t even comprehend how anyone can be living there now and even beginning to think about rebuilding their homes and workplace atop the mountains of rubble and human remains.
truthout.org/articles/ove...
truthout.org/articles/ove...
“…On November 22 in Washington, D.C., Dropkick Murphys will stand on a stage at REMOVE THE REGIME. They’re coming because music reaches people speeches can’t...Because fascists don’t shake when you whisper — they shake when the streets roar…”
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www.closertotheedge.net/p/louder-tha...
LOUDER THAN FASCISM
DROPKICK MURPHYS ARE COMING TO WASHINGTON, D.C. ON 11/22.
www.closertotheedge.net
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“…On November 22 in Washington, D.C., Dropkick Murphys will stand on a stage at REMOVE THE REGIME. They’re coming because music reaches people speeches can’t...Because fascists don’t shake when you whisper — they shake when the streets roar…”
www.closertotheedge.net/p/louder-tha...
www.closertotheedge.net/p/louder-tha...
BAD BUNNY AND THE POLITICS OF JOYFUL RESISTANCE
So here’s to the kind of resistance that doesn’t just demand freedom, but insists on savoring it along the way. Put the article on. Turn the volume up. Let yourself smile. The struggle needs your joy as much as your rage.
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So here’s to the kind of resistance that doesn’t just demand freedom, but insists on savoring it along the way. Put the article on. Turn the volume up. Let yourself smile. The struggle needs your joy as much as your rage.
nacla.org/bad-bunny-an...
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
BAD BUNNY AND THE POLITICS OF JOYFUL RESISTANCE
So here’s to the kind of resistance that doesn’t just demand freedom, but insists on savoring it along the way. Put the article on. Turn the volume up. Let yourself smile. The struggle needs your joy as much as your rage.
nacla.org/bad-bunny-an...
So here’s to the kind of resistance that doesn’t just demand freedom, but insists on savoring it along the way. Put the article on. Turn the volume up. Let yourself smile. The struggle needs your joy as much as your rage.
nacla.org/bad-bunny-an...
The right screams “protect the children!” while tripping over each other to defend the very elites who partied on Epstein’s island, including Donald Trump - a man who boasted about walking in on teenage girls backstage at his beauty pageants. www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory
The connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The right screams “protect the children!” while tripping over each other to defend the very elites who partied on Epstein’s island, including Donald Trump - a man who boasted about walking in on teenage girls backstage at his beauty pageants. www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
“This is not only a crisis of violence but also a crisis of indifference,” wrote Reena Ghelani, CEO of Plan International in Al Jazeera. “Each day the world looks away.”
And the go-to excuse, that Americans lack leverage and influence over the slaughter, is utter BS.”
forward.com/opinion/7829...
And the go-to excuse, that Americans lack leverage and influence over the slaughter, is utter BS.”
forward.com/opinion/7829...
Why won't pro-Palestinian protesters turn their attention to Darfur?
The U.S. has leverage against the UAE, which is arming the militia behind the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Why aren't we using it?
forward.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
“This is not only a crisis of violence but also a crisis of indifference,” wrote Reena Ghelani, CEO of Plan International in Al Jazeera. “Each day the world looks away.”
And the go-to excuse, that Americans lack leverage and influence over the slaughter, is utter BS.”
forward.com/opinion/7829...
And the go-to excuse, that Americans lack leverage and influence over the slaughter, is utter BS.”
forward.com/opinion/7829...
If you want to see how global power works in 2025, look here: an entire people’s right to independence gets repackaged as an inconvenience to “stability.” The Sahrawi deserve freedom, not another UN-blessed end run around it.
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For 50 Years, Morocco Has Denied Western Sahara Freedom
Morocco has illegally occupied Western Sahara for half a century. From Henry Kissinger to Donald Trump, US government officials have worked tirelessly to help the Moroccan monarchy maintain its oppres...
jacobin.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
If you want to see how global power works in 2025, look here: an entire people’s right to independence gets repackaged as an inconvenience to “stability.” The Sahrawi deserve freedom, not another UN-blessed end run around it.
jacobin.com/2025/11/moro...
jacobin.com/2025/11/moro...
What we’re witnessing isn’t Christianity—it’s Christ-washing for empire. And that betrayal doesn’t just wound faith; it poisons politics, deepens cruelty, and helps keep the world as it is: unequal, violent, and spiritually hollow.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/john-fu...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/john-fu...
How the Christian Right Betrays Everything Jesus Ever Said
Author John Fugelsang explains how American conservatives have twisted Christianity into a tool of hatred and domination.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
What we’re witnessing isn’t Christianity—it’s Christ-washing for empire. And that betrayal doesn’t just wound faith; it poisons politics, deepens cruelty, and helps keep the world as it is: unequal, violent, and spiritually hollow.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/john-fu...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/john-fu...
We are long past the time for polite warnings. The alarm has been blaring for decades, and the ruling class keeps hitting the snooze button while the planet burns and the poor die. Climate change isn’t a “future threat” — it’s a massacre unfolding in real time.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
Driven by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is increasingly claiming
lives and harming people's health worldwide. Mean annual temperatures exceeded 1·5°C
above those of pre-industr...
www.thelancet.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
We are long past the time for polite warnings. The alarm has been blaring for decades, and the ruling class keeps hitting the snooze button while the planet burns and the poor die. Climate change isn’t a “future threat” — it’s a massacre unfolding in real time.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“Cheney’s the kind of man who looks at a burning village and sees a business opportunity.”
-Matt Taibbi, 2011
“Dick Cheney is the kind of man who gives monsters a bad name. If he smiled at me, I’d start counting my organs.”
-Hunter S. Thompson, 2004
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-Matt Taibbi, 2011
“Dick Cheney is the kind of man who gives monsters a bad name. If he smiled at me, I’d start counting my organs.”
-Hunter S. Thompson, 2004
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Dick Cheney’s Legacy Is One of Brutal Carnage
From censoring a report on CIA domestic surveillance to running cover for the Contra War to helping launch the war on terror, Dick Cheney dedicated his life to making sure the US national security sta...
jacobin.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
“Cheney’s the kind of man who looks at a burning village and sees a business opportunity.”
-Matt Taibbi, 2011
“Dick Cheney is the kind of man who gives monsters a bad name. If he smiled at me, I’d start counting my organs.”
-Hunter S. Thompson, 2004
jacobin.com/2025/11/chen...
-Matt Taibbi, 2011
“Dick Cheney is the kind of man who gives monsters a bad name. If he smiled at me, I’d start counting my organs.”
-Hunter S. Thompson, 2004
jacobin.com/2025/11/chen...
It seems like every day for the last couple of decades or so I have become more and more disgusting with the ADL…
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www.thehandbasket.co/p/zohran-mam...
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
It seems like every day for the last couple of decades or so I have become more and more disgusting with the ADL…
www.thehandbasket.co/p/zohran-mam...
www.thehandbasket.co/p/zohran-mam...
The future of our nation’s health will be built in every act of collective defiance. Because the only real cure for America’s sickness is to end what’s making it sick in the first place. And no dynastic millionaire is going to write that prescription. www.socialistalternative.org/2025/10/17/a...
America Is Sick—RFK Jr. Can’t Cure Us
RFK Jr., now US Secretary of Health and Human Services, has become a key figure in Trump’s domestic agenda and the face of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. He’s liked by much of Trump’s...
www.socialistalternative.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The future of our nation’s health will be built in every act of collective defiance. Because the only real cure for America’s sickness is to end what’s making it sick in the first place. And no dynastic millionaire is going to write that prescription. www.socialistalternative.org/2025/10/17/a...
Florida’s message to young people is clear: you can question anything except power. The same folks banning books and attacking teachers now want to lecture us on “freedom.” They’re not afraid of Marx — they’re afraid of kids who can read him.
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Florida revives McCarthyism with classroom guidelines on communism
Florida revives McCarthyism with classroom guidelines on communism
enewspaper.tampabay.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Florida’s message to young people is clear: you can question anything except power. The same folks banning books and attacking teachers now want to lecture us on “freedom.” They’re not afraid of Marx — they’re afraid of kids who can read him.
enewspaper.tampabay.com/infinity/art...
enewspaper.tampabay.com/infinity/art...
The fight against segregation in baseball was part of the same long war against American apartheid — a war waged not only by great names, but by ordinary people refusing to play by the rules of white power.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
The forgotten story of the US soldiers who integrated baseball before Jackie Robinson
Alongside a Jewish, anti-racist pitcher from Brooklyn, Leon Day and Willard Brown played in a remarkable team during a historic wartime tournament
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The fight against segregation in baseball was part of the same long war against American apartheid — a war waged not only by great names, but by ordinary people refusing to play by the rules of white power.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
“What is happening in El Fasher constitutes a true genocide based on ethnicity, met with international and regional indifference and a lack of response commensurate with the magnitude of the massacres being perpetrated against civilians.”
www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...
www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...
Mass atrocities in El Fasher, North Darfur – UN Security Council holds emergency session - Dabanga Radio TV Online
Reports of mass atrocities in and around the North Darfur capital El Fasher following the...
www.dabangasudan.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“What is happening in El Fasher constitutes a true genocide based on ethnicity, met with international and regional indifference and a lack of response commensurate with the magnitude of the massacres being perpetrated against civilians.”
www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...
www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...