Source: TomDispatch Who knew that Martians, inside monstrous tripodal machines taller than many buildings, actually ululated, that they made eerily haunting “ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla” sounds? Well,…… Read more “Welcome to the Martians! by Tom Engelhardt”

Shortly before Virginia’s gubernatorial election on November 2, the Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin, circulated an ad in which a white woman calls for Virginia public schools to…… Read more “GOP’s Banning of Books and Attack on Teachers Expose the Party’s Rising Fascism by Henry Giroux”

    It happened three months before the lynching of Isadora Moreley in Selma, Alabama, and two months before the lynching of Sidney Randolph near Rockville, Maryland.…… Read more “Worth Re-Reading: The American Nightmare by Ibram X. Kendi (Atlantic – 6/1/2020)”

   “Most People Don’t Pay Attention to What’s Going On” Speaking to Salon’s Chauncy de Vega about how the United States is mired in a crisis of…… Read more “On Mass Political Inattention by Paul Street”

Source: The Marginalian  From her stirring poetry to her timeless wisdom on love, loss, and creativity, beloved poet and feminist Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929–March 27, 2012) endures…… Read more “How Relationships Refine Our Truths: Adrienne Rich on the Dignity of Love by Maria Popova”

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This is Hell! · Brutality, capitalism, revenge / Max Haiven This is a very interesting interview with writer Max Haiven who speaks about his book “Revenge Capitalism:…… Read more “Max Haiven: Brutality, Capitalism, Revenge”

“Trump World” is not a joke, if it ever really was. That’s no longer the term exclusively applied to Donald Trump’s orbit by media observers or political…… Read more “‘Trump World’ is No Joke — and It Wants to Devour American Democracy by Chauncey Devega”

There is something out in the dark that wants to correct us. Each time I think “this,” it answers “that.” Answers hard, in the heart-grammar’s strictness. If…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Against Certainty” by Jane Hirshfield”

The Lie That Underpins All Injustices Facing Black Americans

  “The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is,” Kurt Vonnegut…… Read more “Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety”

Source: ScheerPost My wife and I have spent sixty years fighting for social justice in America and trying to be good citizens, me as a civil-rights lawyer…… Read more “Why I’m Leaving America by Guy Saperstein”

Two of my Top 10 public intellectuals have a fascinating discussion here in this episode of On Contact w/ Chris Hedges. According to Giroux, education has increasingly…… Read more “Henry Giroux: The Age of Manufactured Ignorance”

  Lee Camp exposes Bill Gates and the hidden side of his capitalist projects. The corporate media spend hours honoring his benevolent philanthropy but rich men never…… Read more “Lee Camp: The Dirty Truth About Bill Gates”

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(Use extra virgin olive oil & stay healthy! Throwing out all of my vegetable oil right now!!)

      If you live in the United States, odds are you’ve encountered the distinctly American “conservative christian.” It seems that these people, despite their fierce…… Read more “How Conservatives Co-Opted Christianity”

Can you see the Absurdity of our World? Can you Imagine another Society? Act now, join us! Find your local group near you here: https://rebellion.global World Map…… Read more “Can You See It?”

   Source: Salon We are in the midst of an ignorance outbreak. QAnon’s account of global politics, despite being both irrational and implausible, has enraptured thousands. Specious…… Read more “Andy Norman: “We Face a Scourge of Mind Parasites””

White America has declared over & over again via its mores, values & norms that in spite of becoming a hegemon on the backs of the African…… Read more “Black Americans Resettling in Ghana”

 Source: Flipboard Years ago in a high school anatomy class, I saw film footage of a man — perhaps a prison inmate or a patient at a mental hospital — who “volunteered”…… Read more “Fascism is a Mind-Killer by Chauncey DeVega”

Source: Wired 90% of the world’s adults consume some form of caffeine everyday, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug on Earth. Michael Pollan, author of…… Read more “How Caffeine Addiction Changed History”

  Legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger discusses the takeover of the Taliban in Afghanistan in this clip. He calls the US military a killing machine and…… Read more “John Pilger on Afghanistan: US Military a Killing Machine! & How The Taliban Went From Ally to Enemy”

One of my favorite non-fiction writers, Chris Hedges, sits down with the always entertaining & informative Michael Moore on his provocative podcast Rumble

  A country falls into the hands of kleptocrats, a state is taken over. This happens again and again, all over the world. Including in South Africa,…… Read more “Corruption in South Africa”

    Science historian Clifford Conner is author of the new book The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump.

  Ukuri guca mu ziko ntigushya: The truth goes through fire but never burns (Rwandan proverb)