How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?
Editor’s note: When debating with people about how to create a society without war, the argument always comes up that “back in the stone age humans were also violent” or “back to nature doesn’t work”....
View ArticleAllegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons by Turkey
Editor’s note: The Rojava conflict, also known as the Rojava Revolution, is a political upheaval and military conflict taking place in northern Syria and Iraq known among Kurds as Western Kurdistan or...
View ArticleThe Non-Human Costs of War
Editor’s Note: Industrial civilization is not a path to lasting peace and prosperity. By undermining the foundations of life on this planet, industrial society is creating unimaginable wealth for a...
View ArticleThe Ukraine War: What Caused It and How to End It
Editor’s note: In the chess match that is imperial politics, entire nations and ecosystems are pawns that are bargained with and sacrificed. As war tears across Ukraine, we insist that neither the...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Why is There War in Ukraine?
Editor’s note: Proxy war and geopolitical jockeying are innate to superpower politics. The war in Ukraine is the direct result of NATO working to, in the words of Noam Chomsky, “control global energy...
View ArticleOrganizing vs. Mobilizing For Effective Social Change
We’ve covered Vince Emanuele’s work before, and this piece is a useful call to realistic organizing. Effective resistance will not emerge because we wish it to be so. It will only emerge as the result...
View ArticleWhales Will Save the World’s Climate—Unless the Military Destroys Them First
This article was produced by Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute. By Koohan Paik-Mander The U.S. military is famous for being the single largest consumer of petroleum...
View ArticleIndigenous mine opponents targeted in raids during state of siege in Guatemala
This story was first published in Mongabay. By Sandra Cuffe In the midst of a long conflict and recent protest over a nickel mine in El Estor, in eastern Guatemala, police have carried out more than 40...
View ArticleFuck Veteran’s Day: A Vet’s Lament
U.S. Marine Corps veteran Vince Emanuele offers the reader a systemic analysis of the culture of war, it’s purpose, and the destruction it leaves behind. by Vince Emanuele / Counterpunch “They wrote in...
View ArticleAgainst Imperialist War
Following the U.S. assassination of prominent Iranian General Qassem Soleimani last Friday, Iran has launched a missile strike against U.S. military bases in Iraq. It is unclear what will happen from...
View ArticleThe Woman Who Hunts Poachers
Photo credit: Kinessa Johnson and True Activist Editor’s Note: DGR does not endorse Kinessa Johnson or VETPAW, and views significant parts of their work as problematic (e.g. pervasive use of...
View ArticleThe Alarming Increase In Environmental Activist Murders
At least 4 environmental activists are murdered each week, these are only the reported and confirmed killings but even more likely disappear without being verified. Between 2002 and 2017, at minimum of...
View ArticleRainforest Guardian Murdered in Brazil
Image: Sarah Shenker, Survival International by Liam Campbell Paulo Paulino Guajajara, known as Kwahu, has been murdered by loggers in a part of the Amazon currently occupied by the Brazilian...
View ArticleToward the Formation of a Transnational Alliance of Working and Oppressed...
Editor’s note: We have never believed that the Deep Green Resistance strategy alone is sufficient to end empire. Our movement has one part to play in a much broader struggle. This call to action speaks...
View ArticleJust say no to fake action
Image credit: Lunae Parracho, Reuters by Elisabeth Robson Beginning tomorrow, Friday September 20, and going through September 27, there are a whole host of climate-related actions happening nationally...
View ArticleEnvironmental Protector Murdered in the Philippines
Image: PRO MIMAROPA by Liam Campbell Forest ranger Bienvinido “Toto” Veguilla, Jr. was murdered last week while attempting to stop illegal loggers from ransacking a section of forest in the...
View ArticleSecret Forest Society Plans to Kill Bolsonaro
Editor’s note: DGR is not affiliated with the Secret Forest Society (Sociedade Secreta Silvestre) and does not endorse their statements or actions. This article is only for informational purposes. Some...
View ArticleLessons from the Irish Republican Army’s Green Book
Editor’s note: this article contains extensive excerpts from the Irish Republican Army’s Green Book, one of their key training documents during their 20th-century struggle against British occupation....
View ArticleBook Excerpt: Blue Angels: The Naked Face of Empire
Editor’s note: We live in a world on the brink. As the climate crisis intensifies, racism and patriarchy rise and corporate control expands. What can be done? We Choose to Speak features a collection...
View ArticleAmnesia & Lack of Accountability Reign as Wall Street Celebrates...
by Lauren Smith When it comes to the ruling elite’s corporate plunder and crimes against humanity, the U.S. national memory’s short and no one, not even its political henchmen, assume blame or...
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