The World Turned Upside Down

    My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longer I begin to feel a new tenderness toward you, very raw and unfamiliar,…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Crossroads” by Louise Glück”

Cory Booker felt the need to explain systemic racism in the justice system to Judge Barrett after she admits she hasn’t looked into it. Can you believe…… Read more “Sen. Booker Questions Amy Coney Barrett on Systemic Racism”

Living On The Edge Of The ‘Vanishing Middle Class’ Source: Epic Economist  “If you are making less than $3,000 a month, you have plenty of company, because…… Read more ““Goodbye Middle Class: Half Of All American Workers Made Less Than $34,248.45 Last Year” by Epic Economist”

For more details on the GOP’s plan to steal the 2020 elections, see this eye-opener –

LISTEN Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Cornel West – Reflections on Donald Trump, the Virus, and Questions of Karma and Justice”

The sun once glimpsed God’s true natureAnd has never been the same.Thus that radiant sphereConstantly pours its energyUpon this earthAs does He from behindThe veil.With a wonderful…… Read more “Poets Nook: “Why Aren’t We Screaming Drunks?” by Hafiz”

 

In Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen surveys the most significant Supreme Court rulings since the Nixon era and argues that only rarely has the Court in recent decades…… Read more “Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America”

  Source: Rebellion In America Despite the rising salience of “fake news” in the U.S., propaganda, misinformation, and conspiracy theories are hardly new phenomena. In the 1950s,…… Read more “The Case Against Social Media: Mass Misinformation in the Covid-19 Era by Anthony DiMaggio”

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.” — E. O. Wilson

Source: Brain Pickings What does love mean, exactly? We have applied to it our finest definitions; we have examined its psychology and outlined it in philosophical frameworks;…… Read more “How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing””

Chris Hedges, former Foreign Correspondent for the New York Times and currently host of On Contact, was part of the team of reporters at The New York…… Read more “An Evening With Chris Hedges”

Source: Foreign Policy in Focus The problem of America today is the problem of white men. Who lies at the intersection of guns, right-wing fanaticism, pandemic and…… Read more “The Problem of Surplus White Men by John Feffer”

Source: Channel 4 News (UK) Trump’s election campaign wanted to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016. The ‘Deterrence’ project can be revealed after Channel…… Read more “Revealed: Trump Campaign Strategy to Deter Millions of Black Americans From Voting in 2016”

The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature, the…… Read more “The Dying Planet Report 2020”

(Excerpted from Vandana Shiva’s book Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom ) In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a…… Read more “Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life by Dr. Vandana Shiva”

Source: Behind The Curtain In 1888, the year before he went insane, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the following in Twilight of the Idols: We have got rid of…… Read more “The End of Reality? by Edward Curtin”

LISTEN Jim Sciutto is CNN’s chief national security correspondent and co-anchor of CNN Newsroom. Sciutto previously served as ABC News’ senior foreign correspondent. As a foreign correspondent…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Jim Sciutto – Vladimir Putin is Donald Trump’s “Honey Trap””

The muffled syllables that Nature speaksFill us with deeper longing for her word;She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,She makes a sweeter music than is heard.…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Premonition” by George Santayana”

(Skip to the 4:40 mark if you don’t understand Spanish) How can we combat the present deterioration of democracy, the rise of authoritarian powers, and the increasing…… Read more “Against the Dictatorship of Ignorance”

Painting by Warner Sallman, “Head of Christ,” © 1941 Soutce: The Conversation The portrayal of Jesus as a white, European man has come under renewed scrutiny during…… Read more “The Long History of How Jesus Came To Resemble a White European by Anna Swartwood House”

  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”