The World Turned Upside Down

NPR Interview: LISTEN My top Thom Bell produced/arranged cuts that will stand the test of time: https://eddierockerzmusic.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/the-genius-of-thom-bell/

I am The One your God who created you with love and joy from the fountain of eternal light. All sentient beings are of value and importance…… Read more “Ten Commandments for the Future by Rabbi Leah Novick”

   Source: HenryGiroux The toxic thrust of white supremacy runs through American culture like an electric current. Jim Crow is back without apology suffocating American society in…… Read more “Against Apartheid Pedagogy in the Age of White Supremacy by Henry Giroux”

Fake news can sway elections, tank economies and sow discord in everyday life. Data scientist Sinan Aral demystifies how and why it spreads so quickly — citing…… Read more “Sinan Aral: How We Can Protect Truth in the Age of Misinformation”

  This powerful documentary offers an unflinching and moving portrait of a people largely abandoned by the outside world, struggling to endure. It presents a chilling visual…… Read more “Killing Gaza”

Source: Academy of Ideas Throughout this insightful clip, I couldn’t help but think of  the MAGAts, crazed Zionists & loopy evangelicals as well as the authoritarian blowhards…… Read more “The Mass Psychosis and the Demons of Dostoevsky”

  Source: Thom Hartmann As we’re struggling to recover from Trump’s half-million unnecessary Covid deaths here in America, fighting to get a clear picture of how extensive…… Read more “Blowing Up the Billionaires’ Con That’s Strangling America by Thom Hartmann”

Source: Academy of Ideas “The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if…… Read more “The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?”

Source: FiveThirtyEight White identity is a potent force in American politics with wide-ranging consequences that are increasingly difficult to ignore. Former President Trump came to power, after…… Read more “How The Politics Of White Liberals And White Conservatives Are Shaped By Whiteness by Hakeem Jefferson and Koji Takahashi”

The crisis of leadership in the white community is remarkable—and terrifying—because there is, in fact, no white community. This may seem an enormous statement—and it is. I’m…… Read more “On Being White & Other Lies by James Baldwin (1984)”

Source: InTheseTimes American capitalism is premised on many lies. None is more pernicious than the lie that it’s possible to deserve great wealth. This lie is the…… Read more “The Real “Big Lie” Is That Billionaires Are Tolerable by Hamilton Nolan”

Source: Boston Review According to the right, a specter is haunting the United States: the specter of critical race theory (CRT). On the eve of losing the presidency, Donald…… Read more “The War on Critical Race Theory by David Theo Goldberg”

Source: The Atlantic When David Dorado Romo was a boy growing up in El Paso, Texas, his great-aunt Adela told him about the day the U.S. Border…… Read more “America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses by Caitlin Dickerson”

Source: Counterpunch After World War II, the Nazis who helped Hitler rise to power and murder millions of people, including at least 6 million Jews, were put…… Read more “The Nazification of the Republican Party by Loretta J. Ross”

 What has really changed since this interview or since the first human cargo ripped from Africa stepped on this blood-soaked, stolen land?? The uncivilized are still at…… Read more “Musings”

Art by Mr. Fish Source: ScheerPost The two million deaths that have resulted from the ruling elite’s mishandling of the global pandemic will be dwarfed by what…… Read more “Chris Hedges: The Age of Social Murder”

For decades, South Africa was under apartheid: a series of laws that divided people by race. Then, in the 1990s, those laws were dismantled. But many of…… Read more “Why South Africa Is Still So Segregated”

LISTEN   This podcast takes a look at the insurrection and police violence through the lens of White Supremacy and the rise of the likes of Tucker…… Read more “Reflection on Insurrection (Police, White Supremacy and their Champions)”

  Jimmy, there is too much to think about you, and too much to feel. The difficulty is your life refuses summation – it always did -…… Read more “Great Speeches: “On James Baldwin” by Toni Morrison (1988)”

  MAPPING POLICE VIOLENCE ACROSS THE US in 2021 (321 dead so far in 2021)

 Source: ScheerPost America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. With the exception of…… Read more “Chris Hedges: The Unraveling of the American Empire”

Amazon’s Warehouse Life Alec MacGillis writes about Amazon’s growing impact on American life in his new book, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America. He notes that…… Read more “Amazon Warehouse Life And The Pitfalls Of ‘One-Click America’”

Source: AEON No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or…… Read more “The Empty Brain by Robert Epstein”

Invisible Blackness is a podcast that documents the development and evolution of racism in America. This series analyses the Black consciousness of America with new historical parallels…… Read more “Invisible Blackness w/ Adrian Younge featuring Nelson George”

  Mr Fish Interview Political cartoons have helped us make sense of the world in which we live since they first appeared in the 18th century–though some,…… Read more “Mr. Fish: The Political Cartoon Is Dead: Long Live the Cartoonist!”

Source: ScheerPost Robert Aaron Long, 21, charged with murdering eight victims, six of whom were Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, told police that he carried…… Read more “Chris Hedges: The Evil Within Us”