The World Turned Upside Down

We are more–WAY MORE– than we think we are. Enjoy the journey, fellow sojourners…..

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LISTEN Shawn Rosenberg is a professor of political science and psychology at UC Irvine and one of the world’s foremost experts in political psychology. He warns that…… Read more “Who is Really Responsible for America’s (and the World’s) Democracy Crisis and the Rising Tide of Neofascism and Fake Right-Wing Populism?”

  (You can skip the first 10 minutes to get to the Yacovone’s illuminating presentation) In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning…… Read more “Donald Yacovone: Teaching White Supremacy”

       “It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it…… Read more “George Monbiot – An Oligarch’s Prime Minister”

David Bowie / Marlene Dietrich Source: Psyche ‘Kaloprosopia’ means transforming your personality by living your life as a work of art. The term was coined in the…… Read more “How Adopting a Persona Can Reveal One’s True Self by Sam Mills”

Carol Anderson Interview (Prepare for a REAL education…take notes…reflect…pass on the knowledge and fight back in whatever way you can)

Source: Strategic Culture Foundation Helen Caldicott warns that the sharpening military confrontation between the United States and Russia puts global security, peace and ultimately our very existence…… Read more “Dr. Helen Caldicott: Why This Is More Dangerous Than the Cuban Missile Crisis by Finian Cunningham”

Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, just out, called “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.”  – “The very values of…… Read more ““The Myth of Normal”: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture”

  As a country founded on the violence of racial slavery and genocide, the United States has yet to overcome its historical dependence on the ideology of…… Read more “Baynard Woods: ‘Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness’”

Energy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation, wages are in free fall. Billions of dollars are diverted by Western…… Read more “Chris Hedges: The Return of Fascism”

Sleep of the Just

 

Connect the dots good people….

Excerpted from the book, “Ways of Being Alive” by Baptiste Morizot One species has transformed into a material backdrop for its tribulations the 10 million other species…… Read more “Baptiste Morizot: ‘The self-destructive delusion that we are the only species that has a right to life on Earth has led to the ecological crisis’”

Source: JohnPilger In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the…… Read more “JOHN PILGER: SILENCING THE LAMBS. HOW PROPAGANDA WORKS“

  Audio: An Immense World by Ed Young

Source: CounterPunch Ben Cronin: “Hamilton was against slavery the way a Prius-driving Californian with stocks in Exxon Mobil and Nestle is against global warming — notionally.” Michelle…… Read more “Worth Re-Reading: Broadway’s “Hamilton” and the Willing Suspension of Reality-Based Moral Consciousness by Elizabeth Keyes (2019)”

Reviewed by Matt Sharpe Research initiated in the immediate post-war years in the US on ‘the authoritarian personality’ has undergone a revival in the era of Putin,…… Read more “Book Rant: “Authoritarian Nightmare-Trump and His Followers” by John W. Dean and Bob Altemeyer”

They’re full of shit but one can try to understand what makes these folks tick. This episode revceals a lot and is worth the watch. Chris Hedges…… Read more “The Chris Hedges Report: The Psychology of White Supremacists”

Source: SALON CAHOKIA MOUNDS, Illinois: I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples. The temperatures, in…… Read more “Chris Hedges: We Are Not the First Civilization to Collapse, but We Will Probably Be the Last”

Quite a riveting 6-part audio documentary that asks questions about who we are as a nation, and what race might reveal about our current crisis.

This Is Hell! · Texas, Slavery, Jim Crow, and U.S. Fascism / Gerald Horne Slavery was not just an issue of Dixie. That is to say, you…… Read more “Gerald Horne: Texas, Slavery, Jim Crow, and U.S. Fascism”

LISTEN In yet another great episode of The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega, Chauncey chats with the esteemed Professor Eddie Glaude who explains how American society is…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Eddie Glaude on America’s Great Pain and Horrible Journey and How White Racial Innocence Will Not Save It”

Source: PSYCHE Need to know Each of us has, I hope, at one point in time discovered a thinker whose writing captures exactly what we think, or…… Read more “How to Think for Yourself by David Bather Woods”