The World Turned Upside Down

 “For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There…… Read more “Musings”

LISTEN: A Case Study Systems maintain themselves through the efforts of many moving parts that need not understand their roles in maintaining the system as a whole,…… Read more “How A System Of Power Defends Itself : A Case Study”

There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion,…… Read more “Rumi: Community Of The Spirit”

    LISTEN   NPR’s Noel King speaks with Eddie Glaude Jr. about his book Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.’ 

The Tight Rope is rich in creative, unfiltered dialogue on topics ranging from pop culture, art and music, to the contours of systemic racism, philosophy, the power…… Read more “The Tight Rope: Cornel West & Tricia Rose Talk to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)”

  Yes, the Civil War brought an end to the slave order of the South and the rule of the plantation oligarchs who embodied white supremacy. But…… Read more “Heather Cox Richardson : How the South Won the Civil War”

Source:John Pilger When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human…… Read more “Another Hiroshima is Coming…Unless We Stop It Now by John Pilger”

When We gaze Into a prism We shall discover The light that opens The door of our prison And we will infinitely see With a rainbow of…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Prism” by Silent Lotus”

WATCH: United States of Conspiracy Interesting doc of how trafficking in conspiracy theories went from the fringes of U.S. politics into the White House & into the…… Read more “United States of Conspiracy”

Source: TruthOut There are lessons to be learned regarding how history is reproduced in the present. First, there is the Trump administration’s caging of children on the…… Read more “The Ugly Terror of a Fascist Abyss Lurks in the Background of This Pandemic by Henry A. Giroux”

Watch: The Twelve   “The Twelve” tells the story of twelve spiritual Elders from around the globe who gather at the United Nations in New York to…… Read more “THE TWELVE”

Western “experts” are channeling the message of the biotech industry, heavily controlled by US-European seed and chemical giants Monsanto/Bayer, Syngenta and DuPont Pioneer. The message once again…… Read more “Seeds of Neo-Colonialism”

Source: TruthOut Donald Trump and his cohort of propagandists at Fox News would have us believe the major cities of the United States have been turned to…… Read more “Trump’s Reelection Strategy Involves Terrorizing Us With Secret Stormtroopers by William Rivers Pitt”

(Official video: I Just Wanna Live) Could you hear me? As I was being intruded On being perceived as an intruder My place of rest turning into…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “untitled” by anonymous”

Source: Brain Pickings Who can weigh the ballast of another’s woe, or another’s love? We live — with our woes and our loves, with our tremendous capacity…… Read more “Viktor Frankl on How Music, Nature & Our Love for Each Other Succor Our Survival & Give Meaning to Our Lives by Maria Popova”

  How old were you When you first saw The cops beat the weak And the young, and the poor   Who, as they say, will inherit…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: ” The Ghost of Sabato Rodia” by Elliot Sperber”

“You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make…… Read more “Musings”

Police take the knee. NASCAR and the U.S. Marine Corps ban the display of the Confederate flag. Nancy Pelosi uses a kente scarf as a political prop.…… Read more “Chris Hedges: Gaslighted by the Ruling Class”

  LISTEN: Chauncey DeVega & John Gartner Dr. John Gartner is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and former professor at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School. He is also…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Dr. John Gartner – Trump is Using the Pandemic as a Type of Biological Weapon Against the American People”

       LISTEN: Manifest Destiny   The Indians of the United States and Canada were exterminated. Let’s make that as clear as the Jewish holocaust & the African…… Read more “Invoking Manifest Destiny”

  Source: Foreign Policy in Focus The U.S. military command’s pushback against President Donald Trump’s attempt to use the military against people demanding racial justice has received…… Read more “The Racist Underpinnings of the American Way of War by Walden Bello”

Source: Brain Pickings “Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills,” Leo Tolstoy wrote to Mahatma Gandhi in the stirring correspondence that would unspool…… Read more “All Human Beings by Maria Popova”

What really stuck with me was when he said: Justice must be rescued by something much more deeper than justice, which is love. Love of truth, love…… Read more “Cornel West: Love Is a Form of Death”

Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, Rolling Stone and Salon. He has become one of…… Read more “A Cassandra Foretells An Election Nightmare”

    (This piece was written in 2016 but the truths & revelations are disturbingly illuminating)   The annus horribilis of 2016 is finally drawing to a…… Read more “The Collapse of Meaning in a Post-Truth World by Chi Luu”

This is Hell! · On surrogate divinity: Capitalism between you and God. Writer Eugene McCarraher explains how the logic of capitalism swallowed our lives, and calls of…… Read more “On Surrogate Divinity: Capitalism Between You and God”

“After I became president, I one day requested some members of my close protection to stroll with me in the city to have lunch at one of…… Read more “A Message for Our Restless Times”

KEEP AMERICA PURE WITH LIBERTY PAINTS. (Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, p. 196) What do white folk want? Rigid accountability for other people. License for “me” (the white view…… Read more “What White Folk Want by P.L. Thomas”

Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and peerless American author – considered one of the finest novelists the US has ever produced – had the demeanor…… Read more “Musings”

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes”