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”Certified lunatics are shut up because of their proneness to violence when their pretensions are questioned; the uncertified variety are given the control of powerful armies, and can inflict death and disaster upon all sane men within their reach.” -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

“Show, by your actions, that you choose peace over war, freedom over oppression, voice over silence, service over self-interest, respect over advantage, courage over fear, cooperation over competition, action over passivity, diversity over uniformity, and justice over all.” -- Anthony J. Marsella, PhD

“It takes only one man to commit a crime but an entire community to conceal it” -- Krishnamurti

“We're not made by God to mass kill one another, and that's backed up by the Gospels. Lying and war are Quotablealways associated. Pay attention to war-makers when they try to defend their current war; if they’re moving their lips they're lying.” -- Phil Berrigan

"The poor tell us who we are; the prophets tell us who we could be,
So we hide the poor; and kill the prophets." -- Phil Berrigan

Though Israel’s past wars on Gaza have often been justified by Tel Aviv as a response to Palestinian rockets or, generally, as acts of self-defense, the truth is different. Historically, Israel’s relationship with Gaza has been defined by Tel Aviv’s need to create distractions from its own fractious politics, to flex its muscles against its regional enemies and to test its new weapons technology. 

The Feds Have Attacked Independent Campaigns; The Rabbi Celebrates the Earth

At GREEGREE #125 Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2016 Presidential candidate, schools us in how the Federal Elections Commission protects America’s duopoly.

Stein is being PERSONALLY sued by the FEC for an independent campaign dating to seven years ago.  It’s an astounding story of fascism in action with serious implications for grassroots campaigns going forward.

RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP and co-convenor JOEL SEGAL confirm the need to transform how we connect with grassroots donors and volunteers to challenge the duopoly’s unyielding power.

“We need publicly financed elections, period,” says Segal.  

With Stein’s terrible experience as background, the FEC must be changed to a non-partisan operation.  “It’s all about the oligarchy,” says Stein.

TATANKA BRICCA tells us about Exxon now pouring trillions of dollars into Swiss “non-profits” to hide their money while promoting fossil/nuclear fuels which destroy the Earth.

We then hear from CAROLINA AMPUDIA about the fight for progressive policies within the Florida Democratic Party.

Curse that First Amendment! What were the Founding Fathers thinking?

As Ron DeSantis has declared and legislated, the safety of Florida — and, yeah, the safety of the nation — isn’t a matter of gun control (or police control) but speech control, especially in public-school classrooms and libraries, where the innocent minds of our children are developing.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- A former wartime British spy in Afghanistan and Pakistan for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), also known as MI6, says he regrets disguising himself as a foreign correspondent but is proud of his espionage among mujahideen guerrillas during "the last act of the Great Game" in Central Asia.

After spying from early 1981 until the end of 1983 -- during British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's administration -- John Fullerton became a career foreign correspondent and editor for Britain's Reuters news agency for 20 years, based in Hong Kong, New Delhi, Beirut, Nicosia, Cairo, and London.

Mr. Fullerton's work as a spy among Afghan mujahideen guerrilla groups was to help "the U.K. discriminate between the effective and ineffective resistance leaders," he said in an interview.

"When I told SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) I planned to apply to Reuters, they made it abundantly clear they could have no further contact," said Mr. Fullerton, 74, now living in Glasgow, Scotland.

He retired from Reuters in 2003.

From the moment James Conlon lifts his baton and LA Opera Orchestra lets loose with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s peerless score, listeners are in for an almost four-hour treat as the James Gray-directed The Marriage of Figaro unspools onstage. Along with Mozart’s majestic, matchless music is a rollicking, often slyly subversive story upending sex and class conventions. While there’s much talk nowadays about gender roles and “binary” identities, Mozart and company did that and more way back in 1786 when this rambunctious opera premiered at Vienna.

We start GREEGREE #124 with the National Football League’s debacle as the SF 49ers lost FOUR (4) quarterbacks to injury, turning its 1/29 playoff game into an unwatchable disaster.  TATANKA BRICCA, JOHN STEINER, DENNIS BERNSTEIN, ELISSA MATROSS, MARY STONEWALL AND DOROTHY REIK all pile on with their comments.

We then go to JOHN BRAKEY who updates us on extremely important pro-democracy legislation now brewing in Arizona.

Reports from Florida are less optimistic, as WENDI LEDERMAN, CAROLINA AMPUDIA and JOE BONASIA update us on the march of DeSantis fascism through the Sunshine State.

PEASANT PROSECUTION IN PERU, NUKE MADNESS IN MI/CA/OH and GREAT NEW BREAKTHROUGHS IN RENEWABLES
 
In our second hour, we hear from LORENZO CANIZARES reporting on the horrifying fascist murders going on in Peru.

KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear reports on the corrupt licensing reversals being perpetrated by the nuclear industry at Palisades, Michigan and Diablo Canyon, California.