by John Pilger Source: johnpilger Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened.  Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially…… Read more “War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda“

“Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.”

Check out this longer interview with Johann Hari about this disturbing phenomena affecting us all:

  For the first time in history, mental illness and suicide have become one of the greatest threats to school-aged children. Many parents still view dangers as…… Read more “Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment”

“Today is the day…I will not sit still and give in anymoreToday I riseI am bruised but I will get up and walk againToday I riseI don’t…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Today I Rise” by Alexandra Feldner”

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Interview: Dave Zirin on CounterPunch Radio A strong proponent of the Howard Zinn school of “people’s history,” in his latest book, Zirin gives voice to a disparate…… Read more “Dave Zirin: The Kaepernick Effect”

“A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures,…… Read more “Henry Wallace’s Critique of Fascism in 1944 is Haunting As America Dangles on the Precipice”

Source: The MIT Press Reader (In this excerpt from “Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience”, Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk trained as a molecular biologist,…… Read more “On Meditation and the Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist in Conversation by Matthieu Ricard & Wolf Singer”

Source: TruthOut Thousands of events take place across the U.S. annually in the last week of January for “School Choice Week,” organized by a self-described “nonpartisan, nonpolitical…… Read more “Many “Parent” Groups Opposing Masks and CRT Are Actually Driven by Dark Money by Alyssa Bowen, et al.”

Source: TruthOut W hen Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on January 19, 2022, they removed the last safety net preventing the U.S.’s plummet…… Read more “Fascism’s “Legal Phase” Has Begun. Threats of Are Real by William Horne”

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Source: Philosophical Salon We live in times of rampant social inequality and division. The extant political inequalities are hierarchical, and result in the increasing prevalence of wealthy…… Read more “IGNORANCE BY DESIGN by KIASHA NAIDOO AND FABIO TOLLON”

Source: ScheerPost Glenn Youngkin, the new governor of Virginia, announced during his first day in office this month that he is banning discussion of critical race theory…… Read more “Critical Race Theory Is Dangerous. That’s Why It Should Be Mandatory in American Schools by Dan Siegel”

You can skip to the 52:20 mark to hear this thought-provoking interview In this interview on the Chauncey DeVega show, author Leonce Gaiter explains how an allegiance…… Read more “Racism Will Bring America’s Ultimate Destruction”

Source: The Guardian Donald Trump’s elaborate plot to overthrow the democratically elected president was neither impulsive nor uncoordinated, but straight out of the playbook of another American coup…… Read more “Why is So Little Known About the 1930s Coup Attempt Against FDR? by Sally Denton”

 Source: The Marginalian When my atheist engineer grandfather died, my atheist engineer grandmother leaned over the body in the hospice bed that had contained half a century…… Read more “What Happens When We Die by Maria Popova”

    Racist ideas have long cast Black people as dangerous to the nation and White people as safe. But if there’s anything Jan. 6 showed us,…… Read more “Ibram X. Kendi Explains Why White Supremacy Is the Ultimate Diversion”

This is Hell! · Henry Giroux on his article Amid Apocalyptic Cynicism, Let’s Embrace Radical Hope in the New Year. / /

Source: TruthOut Cyn Rodriguez, an organizer with the Puerto Rican independence group Colectiva Solidaridad (Collective Solidarity), was sitting in the 350-seat auditorium of the Alexander Hamilton U.S.…… Read more “Activists Are Challenging Laws That Enable Vulture Funds to Exploit Global South by James Baratta”

  ‘On this episode of Vox Conversations co-host Sean Illing talks with philosopher David Chalmers about virtual worlds and the nature of reality, and other topics that…… Read more “Are We Living in a Simulation?”

Source: Independent Media Institute Alfred Ruf poisoned his wife as part of a scheme to get rich off her life insurance. So did Dr. Gregory “Brent” Dennis,…… Read more “Psychopaths in Suits by Thomm Hartmann”

The insurrectionary violence at the US Capitol that Donald Trump instigated on Jan. 6, 2021, marked another dark page in American history. But while many saw the…… Read more “‘This is not an aberration’: Jan. 6 and America’s Heart of Darkness”

Benjamin Franklin, “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America”: “Savages we call them, because their Manners differ from ours, which we think the Perfection of Civility; they…… Read more “Musings”

Emboldened by the rapid development of technology, a cultural ethos of rugged individualism, globalization, and the monopolization of our media, the era of efficiency in the so-called…… Read more “Vijay Prashad on Capitalism’s Erosion of Morality”

  The sequel to The Corporation exposes how companies are desperately rebranding as socially responsible — and how that threatens democratic freedoms. We witness recent groundswells of…… Read more “The Dark Heart of Capitalist America”