“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” – George Orwell, “1984”

“Follow your destiny, Water your plants, Love your roses. The rest is shadow Of unknown trees.

Dump’s….er…I mean, Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh pushes the Supreme Court towards defending a far-right corporate state according to world-renowned intellectual Henry A. Giroux, the author of the recently published ‘American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism’ Also check here for more info on this nominee: Brett Kavanaugh

100 kids with 100 toys in a big room. Shrieks of joy. Kids running everywhere. Playing, laughing, squeals of delight. Everyone has a toy, everyone is having fun. What if those 100 kids represent all the people of the United States and those 100 toys represent all the wealth and all the income of our country?

The last year has been a reality check for the white nationalist movement in the US after riding high through its infiltration of the Trumpian Republicans. Nonetheless, the movement is regrouping and even attempting to reach out to international allies.

In 1970, when black students occupied the dean’s office at Harvard Divinity School to protest against the absence of African-American scholars on the school’s faculty, the white administration was forced to respond and interview black candidates. It asked James Cone, the greatest theologian of his generation, to come to Cambridge, Mass., for a meeting. But the…

Let this sink in….let’s water our compassion & enrich our understanding of life while we still have air to breathe. This is the only way we can save this dark world….& ourselves.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. In that kind of relationship you have enough love, strength and awakening in order…

  2Pacalypse Now, 2PAC’s debut album blew my mind back in ’91. Lyrically, I had never heard anything as powerful as this in Rap music at that time. Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest & Naughty By Nature dropped gems, but 2PAC stood out for me. That album highlighted the many social & cultural conflicts stewing…

   In Conversation Richard  Painter was White House chief ethics counsel under George W. Bush and is a frequent political commentator and analyst on CNN, MSNBC and other news networks. He is also a professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota and the author of several books including “Getting the Government America Deserves.”

“8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance” was originally published in 2011, then republished on several Internet sites, and has become one of my most viewed articles. The eight reasons include: student-loan debt; various pacifying effects of standard schooling; the psychopathologizing and medicating of noncompliance; surveillance; television; and fundamentalist…

Read Frederick Douglass’ What To The Slave Is The 4th Of July? “Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?” Frederick Douglass asked a packed hall of fellow Americans in Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852, a full 10 years before Lincoln would sign an executive order freeing enslaved persons in southern…

Law Professor Robert Tsai traces the harsh White nativist logic of President Trump’s immigration policies back to a multi-decade project of the right, to build an ideology around cultural nationalism, to push fear around racial demographics to the forefront of politics, and to capture power on an exclusionary, defensive agenda. Robert wrote the Boston Review…

    Three monster climatic events are currently shaping up to collide. It’ll be like an asteroid collision. In that regard, this article, in two parts, explores real, already happening, indisputable climate change that is starting to take down ecosystems throughout the biosphere. It’s happening now.

Our “corporate coup d’état in slow motion,” as the writer John Ralston Saul calls it, has opened a Pandora’s box of evils that is transforming America into a failed state. The “unholy trinity of corruption, impunity and violence,” he said, can no longer be checked. The ruling elites abjectly serve corporate power to exploit and impoverish the…

This message is as relevant today as it was then & even further back when scientists,most notably, Albert Einstein, warned us about the destructive potential of these weapons.   Resist the darkness.

Incidents of violence and discrimination against Muslim Americans are on the rise. Inflamed by fears, misinformation and bald-faced prejudice, anti-Islamic organizations have tripled their membership just in the past three years. How did this disturbing trend begin, where is it going and how do we stop it? This film examines the source of hatred against Muslims,…

Writer Thomas Frank explores the collapsing political landscape of late-stage America – from the surging populism that put the right back in power, to the easily-erased half measures of a Democratic president and party that could have stopped it – and explains why the Trump chapter in American history is going to be at least…

George Carlin would be proud…

Right now, across the country, our two major political parties are gearing up for a once-a-decade war whose winner will control Congress for the next ten years, and possibly more. There will be battles in every state, and each will be kept carefully hidden from the prying eyes of average voters who only become more…

We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling truth

American citizens have a problem telling the difference between facts and opinion. That’s the finding of a recent survey carried out by the respected Pew organization. It was found that only a quarter of the people polled were able to correctly distinguish between a factual statement and an opinion claim. In other words, the majority…

  “Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to poop on the board and strut around as if it won.” ~ Author Unknown “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can…

                                                            Ezra Klein Podcast  California is a large state on the west coast of the United States that is home to one of the world’s most…

Many  moons ago, I visited this little bookstore in Washington DC & stumbled on a thin  little book entitled, “The Gospel of Thomas”. I was not aware at that time that there were books beyond Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. After years of meditative experiences since high school and my own research into the nature…

In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out four conflict configurations that are paid little attention by conflict theorists. In this article, I would like to discuss a fifth conflict configuration that is effectively ignored by conflict theorists (and virtually everyone else). This conflict is undoubtedly the most fundamental conflict in…

  Ralph Nader & Chris Hedges discuss American Mythology in this very illuminating segment of On Contact. These two scholars never disappoint. They are both indefatigable & courageous critics of this corrupt, anti-democratic American empire & have, for obvious reasons, been shut out from the mainstream outlets. Truth-telling is dangerous & as Orwell once noted,…

The number and size of oceanic dead zones is increasing.

Leaders are routinely confronted with philosophical dilemmas. Here’s a classic one for our Trumptopian times: If you make enemies out of your friends and friends out of your enemies, where does that leave you? What does winning (or losing) really look like? Is a world in which walls of every sort encircle America’s borders a…

. Kabir Helminski is a Shaikh of the Mevlevi Order of Sufis, which traces its inspiration to Jelaluddin Rumi. He now focuses on Sufi music, writing, teaching, and developing a program of spiritual education with an international team of scholars. You can tell the quality of someone’s heart by voice & presence sometimes. You can definitely…

We should be very grateful to Francesco Duina for his new book, Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country. He begins with the following dilemma. The poor in the United States are in many ways worse off than in other wealthy countries, but they are more patriotic than are the poor in those other…