The World Turned Upside Down

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”

Source: CounterPunch America radiates violence and mass shootings are only one register of this plague. The richest country in the world is armed, has one of the…… Read more “America Radiates Violence: Challenging the Politics of Isolated Incidents by Henry Giroux”

    I touch the beginning Animating animals and tree Gods Scratching out legends in cave walls The days pour down into nights as we watched We matched…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Holy Elixir” by Kate Tempest”

This documentary was inspired by the people who participated in the April ‘19 Climate Change and Consciousness conference held at the Findhorn Foundation, Scotland. It weaves a…… Read more “Inner Climate Change”

                                                     …… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Things That Never Die” by Charles Dickens”

..escaping the monarchical bubble of soul-death… Source: Truthout Racism enters Black bodies. Enduring racial discrimination lowers heart rate variability and increases heart rates. Racism is fight or…… Read more “White Monarchy Nearly Killed Meghan Markle. It Has Killed Countless Others by Eisa Nefertari Ulen”

Source: The Guardian In the week after the Dr Seuss estate announced it would cease publication of six of his titles due to racist tropes, some conservative…… Read more “Dr. Seuss “Cancelled”? There’s Nothing New About Cutting Racism From Children’s Books by Kelly Robinson”

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2EsndJ0SccC5kHZBPwDMDl?si=8GHvEnkfQeivRJZvJVzWNw Ch. 1: John Biewen: The lie that invented racism – TED – Air Date 11-1-20 To understand and eradicate racist thinking, start at the beginning. That’s…… Read more “Racism or Classism? Caste Explains that it is Both”

/    I used to play Coltrane’s album “A Love Supreme” many years ago especialy during times of hihjh stress and anxiety. This album, along with Miles…… Read more “Saint Coltrane: The Church Built On ‘A Love Supreme”

Western science has uncovered many mysteries regarding life, but it has little to say about death in any meaningful sense. In this enlightening clip, Rabbi YY Jacobson…… Read more “What Awaits Us After We Die?”

Tell me somethingwhat you think would happen ifeverytime they kill a black boythen we kill a copeverytime they kill a black manthen we kill a copyou think…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “poems about police violence” by June Jordan”

The Theory of Everything covers sensitive topics such as Evolution, Time, Space, Dimensions, Quantum Physics, Measurement Problem, Synthetic Universe, Digital Universe, Holographic Universe, Big Bang theory, Multi-universe…… Read more “Theory of Everything: God, Devils, Dimensions, Dragons, Illusion & Reality”

The visionary Black science-fiction writer Octavia Butler died 15 years ago on February 24, 2006, but her influence and readership has only continued to grow since then.…… Read more “Adrienne Maree Brown: Octavia Butler’s Visions of the Future Have Transformed Generation of Readers”

A Black church in a corn field, Manning, South Carolina, 1939.

Source: Brain Pickings One November night in the 1870s, legendary Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821–February 9, 1881) discovered the meaning of life in a dream…… Read more “The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream by Maria Popova”