The World Turned Upside Down

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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”

READ: THE EMPTY BRAIN

Source: CaitlinJohnstone Facts: There are Chinese people with real grievances against their government. The US empire’s propaganda machine will spin current protests in China to advance imperial…… Read more “Caitlin Johnstone: China Keeps Aggressively Surrounding Itself With US Bases: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix”

(Get the book this essay is excerpted from here) All through the 1980s and 1990s, professorial mountebanks like James Q. Wilson and Charles Murray grew plump from best…… Read more “Worth Re-Reading: An Orgy of Thieves by Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair (2013)”

  Source: Consortium News During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. The novel, populated with 400…… Read more “Chris Hedges: Reading Proust in War”

Source: Epitome Born as Chloe Ardelia Wofford, Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist famous for her rich use of language and unforgettable Black characters. From her…… Read more “TONI MORRISON – WORDS TO LIVE BY”

Source: Muck Rack Look at the chart above. The chart explains everything. It explains why Washington is so worried about China’s explosive growth. It explains why the…… Read more “The One Chart That Explains Everything by Mike Whitney”

/ Source: NYT Honestly, I never expected this episode of Kanye West drama to last as long as it has. I certainly didn’t expect myself to care…… Read more “The Self-Destruction of Ye by Charles Blow”

“The Election Madness…seizes the country every four years because we have all been brought up to believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that the…… Read more “Howard Zinn on Election Madness”

Duke FHI’s From Slavery to Freedom Lab held their Distinguished Lecture Series with Lewis R. Gordon, “On Enslavement, Decolonization, and Freedom.” Drawing upon ideas in his two…… Read more “Lewis R. Gordon: On Enslavement, Decolonization, and Freedom”

Documentary

(The second half of this clip ( from the 3:17 mark) really struck me hard..It set my mind spinning….It reminded me of a movie whose title I…… Read more “Planetary Conversations: Rise and Fall of Apocalypse Empire”

Mother of us allPlace of our birthHow can we stand asideAnd watch the rape of the wold This the beginning of the endThis the most heinous of…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “The Rape of the World” by Tracy Chapman”

Source: ScheerPost August Wilson wrote 10 plays chronicling Black life in the 20th century. His favorite, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, is set in 1911 in a boarding…… Read more “Chris Hedges: They Crush Our Song for a Reason”

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

LISTEN

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”