Source: TomDispatch We’re now living in an age of opacity, as Rudy Giuliani pointed out in a courtroom recently. Here was the exchange: “‘In the plaintiffs’ counties,…… Read more “The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire by Tom Engelhardt”

“One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless… I have accepted the fact, hard as it may be, that human beings are inclined to behave…… Read more “Musings”

Source: Institute for New Economic Thinking Do you, inhabitant of the marvelous and menacing late-modern world, detect something missing – some kind of vitality, meaning, connectedness, love,…… Read more “The Perverted Dreams of Western Modernity and Capitalism May Be Exhausting Themselves by Lynn Parramore”

Source: Muck Rack It is an infallible law that if Seamus Heaney is the Irish poet of choice, things are looking up, but if W.B. Yeats is…… Read more “Democracy’s Afterlife: Trump, The GOP, and The Rise of Zombie Politics by Fintan O’Toole”

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.~~ Buddha

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This is a thought-provoking documentary that explores the psychology and science of belief and why we believe, sometimes falsely, in things that may not match up with…… Read more “Reasons To Believe: The Psychology of Belief”

Source: EdwardCurtin At the end of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, A Doll’s House, Nora, the aggrieved wife, leaves her husband’s house and all the illusions that sustained…… Read more “Everybody Knows the Fight was Fixed by Edward Curtain”

According to Jung the shadow possess the most inferior characteristics of the psyche that all men try to relinquish. The shadow might be a desire frowned on…… Read more “Carl Jung’s Philosophy of The Shadow”

American Psychosis is a short documentary film inspired by an essay of the same name written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and activist Chris Hedges. The film…… Read more “American Psychosis”

The opposite of life is not death. The opposite of life is habit. One who moves from cradle to gravein the flip book illusion we call timewithout…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “The Alive Ones” by Caitlin Johnstone”

Source: Scheerpost Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards the interests of the rich and however hostile it was to…… Read more “American Requiem by Chris Hedges”

LISTEN Source: Source: Movement Memos What will protest look like during a fascist power grab? Kelly Hayes talks with Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today: What It…… Read more “Mass Protest Is Coming and the Cops Are on Trump’s Side”

WATCH: The God Plant This documentary seeks to be the ultimate Odyssey of exploration into Cannabis and its uses starting from the formation of the Endocannabinoid system…… Read more “The God Plant”

LISTEN Paul Mason is a journalist, writer, film-maker and public speaker. He is the author of six books, including Postcapitalism. Paul Mason warns that the Democratic Party…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Paul Mason – Donald Trump’s Followers Fear the Freedom and Humanity of People Who are Not Like Them”

Source: Muck Rack I have been observing Trump since 2016. He is a despot in a business suit. He is undermining the government and the health of…… Read more “On Trump’s Megalomania by Evaggelos Vallianatos”

“The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are non-existent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices .…… Read more “Musings”

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”