Source: RNN   Like Cicero in the Roman Republic, there are always a handful of chroniclers who can see and articulate clearly the social, cultural, and…… Read more “The Chris Hedges Report: Bidding Farewell to the American Century”

Source: The Marginalian The measure of growth is not how much we have changed, but howharmoniously we have integrated our changes with all the selves we havebeen…… Read more “What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization”

Source: Anti-War The US with its EU vassals in tow has carried out a two-pronged attack on Russia. The first is Joe Biden’s cruel proxy war on…… Read more “The West’s Economic War on Russia Has Failed by John V. Walsh”

 Source: Common Dreams Two dogs walking. One of them says to the other: “I bark and I bark, but I never feel like I effect real change.”…… Read more “We Are Dancing on the Very Edge of Hell by Robert C. Koehler”

One of my all-time favorite journalists, John Pilger,  explains how to see through propaganda, especially the most dangerous of all, which is the propaganda that claims to…… Read more “John Pilger’s Tips For Seeing Through Propaganda”

 Dr. Bruce Lipton, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of…… Read more “Dr. Bruce Lipton: Four False Beliefs that Society is Built On”

In my seventy-plus years from 1946 to now, the chorus of fear-mongering bullshit has never ceased – only grown louder. The joke is on us. Ha Ha…… Read more ““Facing Clear Evidence of Peril” in a Country of Lies by Edward Curtain”

Source: ICH Russia and China are determined to hold the American perpetrators of the Nord Stream sabotage to account. Uncle Sam’s days – indeed decades – of…… Read more “High Stakes as Uncle Sam’s Days of Impunity Are Finally Over by Finian Cunningham”

Source: Big Think While yoga has become a trendy lifestyle and wellness practice in North America, its roots are ancient, spiritual, and profound. Originally developed in Hinduism,…… Read more “Alexandra Keeler: In the West, yoga is exercise. In the East, it is something much bigger”

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”