The World Turned Upside Down

 

Source: Radical Scholarship Books, ideas, and knowledge are not inherently dangerous. Political control of education, books, ideas, and knowledge, however, is likely the end of individual freedom…… Read more “Republicans Seek Indoctrination by Dr. P.L. (Paul) Thomas”

Summary: After a year of war and carnage in Ukraine, the fighting continues, and there are no signs of it slowing down. In fact, military budgets have…… Read more “Ray McGovern: The Last Chance to Avoid World War III?”

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Source: Flip Board My mother, who was born and raised in New Orleans and moved to Los Angeles in 1955, never talked much about what it was…… Read more “Erin Aubry Kaplan: There Is Nowhere Safe When You’re Black”

This Is Hell! · Fear of Black Consciousness / Lewis Gordon Dr. Lewis Gordon, department head and professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, discusses his…… Read more “Lewis Gordon: Fear of Black Consciousness”

Source: ScheerPost Here in February 2023, during another Black History Month, we African Americans, to a large degree, are still searching for, living for, dying for, dreaming…… Read more “‘Freedom’ By Kevin Cooper”

  Source: Project Censored #1 Fossil Fuel Industry Subsidized at Rate of $11 Million per Minute #2 Wage Theft: US Businesses Suffer Few Consequences for Stealing Millions…… Read more “Top 25 stories of 2021-2022”

In 2020 and 2021, the wealthiest 1% of the world’s population sucked up nearly two-thirds of all new wealth – six times greater than the wealth made…… Read more “OXFAM: Richest 1% Took 2/3rds of Global Wealth Since 2020”

 

Source: ScheerPost Our political class does not govern. It entertains. It plays its assigned role in our fictitious democracy, howling with outrage to constituents and selling them out. The…… Read more “Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd”

Source: ErinAubreyKaplan We talk a lot these days about the possible end of American history — the aspirational, justice-for-all sort of history — but we are fooling…… Read more “Is This The End? by Erin Kaplan”

  ‘Just look at academia, that vast herd of sheep-like individualists.’ – René Girard (1923-2015) Have you noticed how, when crossing a busy road, you feel a…… Read more “The Herd in the Head by Costica Bradatan”

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”― Mark Twain

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Source: TriContinental The International Labour Organisation’s Global Wage Report 2022–23 tracks the horrendous collapse of real wages for billions of people around the planet. The gaping distance between the…… Read more “The Perils of Pious Neoliberalism in the Austerity State by Vijay Prashad”

   (Everything we wish for, everything we plan for, is but a house of cards to be blown into oblivion by the slightest gust of chance. Somehow,…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “TO A WREATH OF SNOW” by Emily Brontë”

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AUDIO BOOK: The Cross & The Lynching Tree by Dr. James H. Cone

Source: LA Progressive Two dogs walking. One of them says to the other: “I bark and I bark, but I never feel like I affect real change.”…… Read more “Robert Koehler: Dancing on the Edge of Hell”

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Source: CaitlinJohnstone Facts: There are Chinese people with real grievances against their government. The US empire’s propaganda machine will spin current protests in China to advance imperial…… Read more “Caitlin Johnstone: China Keeps Aggressively Surrounding Itself With US Bases: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix”

(Get the book this essay is excerpted from here) All through the 1980s and 1990s, professorial mountebanks like James Q. Wilson and Charles Murray grew plump from best…… Read more “Worth Re-Reading: An Orgy of Thieves by Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair (2013)”

  Source: Consortium News During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. The novel, populated with 400…… Read more “Chris Hedges: Reading Proust in War”

Source: Epitome Born as Chloe Ardelia Wofford, Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist famous for her rich use of language and unforgettable Black characters. From her…… Read more “TONI MORRISON – WORDS TO LIVE BY”

Source: Muck Rack Look at the chart above. The chart explains everything. It explains why Washington is so worried about China’s explosive growth. It explains why the…… Read more “The One Chart That Explains Everything by Mike Whitney”

/ Source: NYT Honestly, I never expected this episode of Kanye West drama to last as long as it has. I certainly didn’t expect myself to care…… Read more “The Self-Destruction of Ye by Charles Blow”

“The Election Madness…seizes the country every four years because we have all been brought up to believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that the…… Read more “Howard Zinn on Election Madness”