American feminist author, journalist, and former Presidential political advisor, Dr Naomi Wolf talks to Daniel G Newman (author of “Unrig”) and Greg Palast (“The Best Democracy…… Read more “In Conversation: Naomi Wolf w/ Daniel G Newman & Greg Palast”

White people, you are the problem. White Supremacy to be exact. Racism is baked into American culture. People of color, for the most part, are like David…… Read more “The Fire This Time: A Message to White America”

Source: The Root It wasn’t Black-on-Black crime. Violent video games and rap songs had nothing to do with it; nor did poverty, education, two-parent homes or the…… Read more “Harvard Study on Racial Disparities & The Prison Industrial Complex”

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   When truly intelligent people talk, the air crackles & pops around them & seeds are planted in the mind of the listener. In this interview, Philadelphia-based…… Read more “The Education of Jaguar Wright”

Source: Popular Resistance  (RIP to the brilliant Kevin Zeese) The Republican and Democratic Party conventions showed that both major parties are failing to control the pandemic and…… Read more “The Two Parties Have Failed Us, But The People Can Succeed by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers”

A few weeks into the protests after the murder of George Floyd, a Tracy Chapman lyric from her 1989 song “Crossroads” shook me from my housework: “some…… Read more “A Nation Possessed: White Supremacy & The Devil by Rebecca Collins Jordan”

(See Full movie here) Samsara is the continuous cycle of life, death, and reincarnation envisioned in Hinduism and other Indian religions. In Hindu and Buddhist practice, samsara…… Read more “Samsara: A Cinematic Meditation”

    Is Democracy Under Threat?

Isn’t it amazing how many hidden figures are breaking through the surface now? And we are only just beginning to discover just how much knowledge/information was suppressed…… Read more “Before Kamala Harris, There Was Charlotta Bass”

Historian and professor Dr. Gerald Horne contextualizes the current race protests through a historical lens.

Source: The Guardian I once asked a British cabinet minister why the country had never apologised for the transatlantic slave trade. After all, this nation trafficked more…… Read more “The Case for British Slavery Reparations Can No Longer Be Brushed Aside by Afua Hirsch”

Beginning 400 years ago, and for more than 250 years of this stolen nation’s history, African slaves built the United States into one of the wealthiest countries…… Read more “Musings”

One of my favorite public intellectuals, Chris Hedges, discusses the teaching of history as a form of indoctrination with Professor James W. Loewen. Dr. Loewen’s book, Lies…… Read more “Teaching History for Indoctrination”

Source: ICH So, the tumult and the shouting–such as it was–dies, the Capitalists and the Cronies depart, still stands this diseased, battered country, reeling in furious confusion,…… Read more “American Recessional by Paul Edwards”

“Sleep is God. Go worship.”― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

Source: HamptonThink The Black Community is an internal colony within America. We have a Perpetual Foreigner status and are treated as such. We are socially, politically, educationally,…… Read more “Black Politicians: White Supremacy’s Indirect Rulers by Christian Gines”

Scumbag Imposter LISTEN Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is one…… Read more “Riots and Lawyers : Donald Trump’s Scheme to Steal the 2020 Presidential Election is Much Bigger Than Just The U.S. Mail”

  What is the relationship between American economics and American racism, and can it be severed? How will systemic racism, past and present, slow our emergence from…… Read more “How Has Racism Shaped the American Economy?”

He saw it coming……. https://youtu.be/l43bVhdQaqs

Prof. George Lipsitz https://www.youtube.com/embed/cDSIcPgNvnY Dr. Cornel West and Professor Tricia Rose nail down issues of white allyship, undoing invisible racist ideologies, and the hallmarks of possessive investment…… Read more “The Progressive Vision of George Lipsitz”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs7MNh6-jLQ “Nonsense! Nonsense!” snorted Tasbrough. “That couldn’t happen here in America, not possibly! We’re a country of freemen.”  The prophetic words of Sinclair Lewis ring hauntingly clear…… Read more “The Ghost of Sinclair Lewis”

Source: Miami Herald If people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?” Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil…… Read more “Will Whites’ Self-Interest Trump Democracy At The Polls in November? by Leonard Pitts Jr.”

Art by Mr. Fish Source: ScheerPost The terminal decline of the United States will not be solved by elections. The political rot and depravity will continue to…… Read more “Chris Hedges: America’s Death March”

Skipping through endless nights Trying to keep the spring in my step Letting the cocoon change me When this is over, will I be a butterfly? Or…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Always Darkest Before Dawn” by Amanda Steel”

Almost 2 million ballots were cast but not counted in the 2016 presidential race. And not just anyone’s ballot gets tossed. The chance of having your vote…… Read more “Will Your Vote Count in 2020?”

Source: LA Progressive Racism is much stronger among America’s white Christians than among churchless whites – and it always has been. That’s the message of a new…… Read more “White Christian Bigotry by James Haught”

  Source: News Junkie Post Flee, fight or freeze In the natural world, there are two kinds of responses to imminent threats: either flee or fight. Most…… Read more “Slavery of Fear by Gilbert Mercier”