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    Author: Eddie Rockerz

    peace, love, truth & balance are what I strive to maintain & promote, no matter the cost. That's enough about me. Truth be told, I am you, fundamentally.

    The Coup Klux Klan and the January 6 Insurrection

    LISTEN What were the underlying fears and motivations for the insurrection beyond the Big Lie of a stolen election? The bedrock of white supremacy that has driven…… Read more “The Coup Klux Klan and the January 6 Insurrection”

    January 18, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    Matthew Cooke – This Is a Wake Up Call For Republicans

    January 18, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    The Myth Of American Exceptionalism

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    January 15, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    Musings

    January 15, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    America’s Been Coup’d

      Source: Indica The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe…… Read more “America’s Been Coup’d”

    January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    America the Undead by Chauncey DeVega

    Source: Salon What do we see in the images of Wednesday’s bloody and lethal attack by Trump’s terrorist mob on the Capitol Building and American democracy? There is the…… Read more “America the Undead by Chauncey DeVega”

    January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    America Has Entered The Weimar Era by Walden Bello

    Source: Foreign Policy In Focus By mid-February 2021, American deaths from COVID-19 may well surpass the country’s 405,400 deaths during the Second World War. By around mid-May,…… Read more “America Has Entered The Weimar Era by Walden Bello”

    January 12, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    Cornel West & Chris Hedges on America’s Existential Crisis

    Chris Hedges talks to moral philosopher Dr. Cornel West about what we can learn about America’s existential crisis after witnessing enraged supporters of Donald Trump storming the…… Read more “Cornel West & Chris Hedges on America’s Existential Crisis”

    January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    Frank Schaeffer:The Capitol Invasion Was Not About Politics But Religion

    Source: FrankSchaefferBlog America’s problem is not political. It is religious fanaticism. Until America addresses our White evangelical delusion problem we will not have a functioning democracy. Evangelical…… Read more “Frank Schaeffer:The Capitol Invasion Was Not About Politics But Religion”

    January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    Killer Robots Learn to Dance (just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get … )

    January 9, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    The Media Created a Monster. Now They Want to Wash Their Hands

      You idiots better burn those fucking MAGA hats! Trump took your money, took a dump on democratic insitutions then punched you in the mouth telling you…… Read more “The Media Created a Monster. Now They Want to Wash Their Hands”

    January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    Norman Solomon: In 2021, the Best Way to Fight Neofascist Republicans Is to Fight Neoliberal Democrats

    Source: Common Dreams The threat of fascism will hardly disappear when Donald Trump moves out of the White House in two weeks. On Capitol Hill, the Republicans…… Read more “Norman Solomon: In 2021, the Best Way to Fight Neofascist Republicans Is to Fight Neoliberal Democrats”

    January 4, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    Musings: To The New Year

    January 3, 2021 by Eddie Rockerz

    Ijeoma Oluo on ‘Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America’

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    December 30, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    Being a Black Male In America

    Augusta Savage, Portrait Head of John Henry, ca. 1940. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The John Axelrod Collection See How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black…… Read more “Being a Black Male In America”

    December 29, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    Race And The Roots Of Vaccine Skepticism w/Harriet Washington

    LISTEN  Harriet Washington is an award-winning science writer and medical ethicist. She’s the author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From…… Read more “Race And The Roots Of Vaccine Skepticism w/Harriet Washington”

    December 22, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    ‘Underdevelopment’ in Africa – What’s the Real Story?

    Howard Nicholas is an internationally-renowned economist who explains in a brutally honest & studied way how and why the Western countries ensure Africa stays poor & begging…… Read more “‘Underdevelopment’ in Africa – What’s the Real Story?”

    December 20, 2020December 20, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    Democracy on the Edge: The 3 Reasons GOP Leaders Are Letting Trump ‘Poison The Political Process’

      Bill Moyers talks with noted lawyer Steven Harper and distinguished historian Heather Cox Richardson about threats to democracy. “When you have a society that loses respect…… Read more “Democracy on the Edge: The 3 Reasons GOP Leaders Are Letting Trump ‘Poison The Political Process’”

    December 17, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    How White People Got Made by Quinn Norton

    Source: Medium “When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no ‘white’ people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for…… Read more “How White People Got Made by Quinn Norton”

    December 17, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    The Centrality of Critical Education in Dark Times: a Tribute to Noam Chomsky on his 92nd Birthday by Henry Giroux

    Source: HenryGirouxWriters speak the unspeakable and the closer you get to it, the more real it is, which is part of making life possible for those who…… Read more “The Centrality of Critical Education in Dark Times: a Tribute to Noam Chomsky on his 92nd Birthday by Henry Giroux”

    December 14, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    Musings

    December 14, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    Poet’s Nook: “Our Souls Have Touched Each Other” by Mathilde Blind

    OUR souls have touched each other,Two fountains from one jet;Like children of one motherOur leaping thoughts have met. We were as far asunderAs green isles in the…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Our Souls Have Touched Each Other” by Mathilde Blind”

    December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    Trump the Fascist Artist by Matthew Rozsa

    More than eighty years ago, a then-obscure German philosopher wrote an essay that foresaw the essential reason behind President Donald Trump’s enduring political appeal. His name was…… Read more “Trump the Fascist Artist by Matthew Rozsa”

    December 7, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire by Tom Engelhardt

    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”

    December 2, 2020December 3, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    Musings

    “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”

    December 2, 2020December 3, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    The Perverted Dreams of Western Modernity and Capitalism May Be Exhausting Themselves by Lynn Parramore

    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”

    December 1, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    The Global Great Transition

    November 30, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    The California Genocide No One Talks About

    LISTEN UCLA history professor Benjamin Madley’s book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Catastrophe 1846-1873 details the killing of tens of thousands of Native…… Read more “The California Genocide No One Talks About”

    November 28, 2020November 28, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    Democracy’s Afterlife: Trump, The GOP, and The Rise of Zombie Politics by Fintan O’Toole

    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”

    November 25, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    The Buddha

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

    November 22, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    Noam Chomsky – Our Stark, Cruel Dilemma

    See Facing Future Earth

    November 22, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    Reasons To Believe: The Psychology of Belief

    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”

    November 21, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

    The Conservative Fever Swamp is Reaching Critical Mass

    LISTEN The deeply racist and conspiratorial constituency has been part of the party for decades but it wasn’t always the dominant strain. Today it clearly is and…… Read more “The Conservative Fever Swamp is Reaching Critical Mass”

    November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 by Eddie Rockerz

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