The World Turned Upside Down

LISTEN Ralph Nader is a world-renowned author, attorney, consumer advocate and activist, as well as five-time presidential candidate who has been fighting for the freedoms and rights…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Ralph Nader – “In the swing states, you have to vote for Joe Biden””

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone’s father or someone’s mother and they have a story.Take time to…… Read more “Musings”

Source: TomDispatch For some time now, I’ve wanted to send Donald Trump to Hell. I mean this literally, not as a figure of speech. I want him…… Read more “Sending Trump to Hell by Ariel Dorfman”

Source: Tikkun In Jewish liturgy we have a daily prayer (from Deuteronomy 11:13-21) that is the second paragraph of the Shema. We repeat this particular paragraph two…… Read more “We Have Built an Unethical World – Now We’re Reaping Environmental Disaster by Cat J. Zavis”

  An imaginary speech from an imaginary Senator in the Judiciary Committee hearing with Judge Barrett: “Mr. Chairman, I will ask no questions because there’s no point…… Read more “Musings: What If The US Congress Had The Courage To Speak Unvarnished Truth?”

Source: Caitlin Johnstone When you look at U.S. politics, it appears as though there are two mainstream political factions that very strongly disagree with one another. “Divided”…… Read more “US Politics Isn’t ‘Polarized’; It’s In Almost Universal Agreement by Caitlin Johnstone”

  From my chair the clouds drift by like ocean liners at sea. In front of them a tall tree barely sways, barren and seemingly still. When…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “As I Wait For Her To Awake” by Shane Adair”

Source: Tikkun Reality now resembles a dystopian world that could only be imagined as a harrowing work of fiction or biting political commentary. The works of George…… Read more “Dystopian Plagues, Pandemic Fears, and Fascist Politics in the Age of Trump by Henry A. Giroux”

Author, activist and dissident Chris Hedges spoke at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on October 16, 2020. In this talk he examines the cultural…… Read more “Chris Hedges : The Politics of Cultural Despair”

    My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longer I begin to feel a new tenderness toward you, very raw and unfamiliar,…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Crossroads” by Louise Glück”

Cory Booker felt the need to explain systemic racism in the justice system to Judge Barrett after she admits she hasn’t looked into it. Can you believe…… Read more “Sen. Booker Questions Amy Coney Barrett on Systemic Racism”

Living On The Edge Of The ‘Vanishing Middle Class’ Source: Epic Economist  “If you are making less than $3,000 a month, you have plenty of company, because…… Read more ““Goodbye Middle Class: Half Of All American Workers Made Less Than $34,248.45 Last Year” by Epic Economist”

For more details on the GOP’s plan to steal the 2020 elections, see this eye-opener –

LISTEN Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Cornel West – Reflections on Donald Trump, the Virus, and Questions of Karma and Justice”

The sun once glimpsed God’s true natureAnd has never been the same.Thus that radiant sphereConstantly pours its energyUpon this earthAs does He from behindThe veil.With a wonderful…… Read more “Poets Nook: “Why Aren’t We Screaming Drunks?” by Hafiz”

In Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen surveys the most significant Supreme Court rulings since the Nixon era and argues that only rarely has the Court in recent decades…… Read more “Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America”

  Source: Rebellion In America Despite the rising salience of “fake news” in the U.S., propaganda, misinformation, and conspiracy theories are hardly new phenomena. In the 1950s,…… Read more “The Case Against Social Media: Mass Misinformation in the Covid-19 Era by Anthony DiMaggio”

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.” — E. O. Wilson

Source: Brain Pickings What does love mean, exactly? We have applied to it our finest definitions; we have examined its psychology and outlined it in philosophical frameworks;…… Read more “How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing””

Chris Hedges, former Foreign Correspondent for the New York Times and currently host of On Contact, was part of the team of reporters at The New York…… Read more “An Evening With Chris Hedges”

Source: Foreign Policy in Focus The problem of America today is the problem of white men. Who lies at the intersection of guns, right-wing fanaticism, pandemic and…… Read more “The Problem of Surplus White Men by John Feffer”

Source: Channel 4 News (UK) Trump’s election campaign wanted to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016. The ‘Deterrence’ project can be revealed after Channel…… Read more “Revealed: Trump Campaign Strategy to Deter Millions of Black Americans From Voting in 2016”

The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature, the…… Read more “The Dying Planet Report 2020”

(Excerpted from Vandana Shiva’s book Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom ) In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a…… Read more “Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life by Dr. Vandana Shiva”

Source: Behind The Curtain In 1888, the year before he went insane, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the following in Twilight of the Idols: We have got rid of…… Read more “The End of Reality? by Edward Curtin”