The World Turned Upside Down

  You idiots better burn those fucking MAGA hats! Trump took your money, took a dump on democratic insitutions then punched you in the mouth telling you…… Read more “The Media Created a Monster. Now They Want to Wash Their Hands”

Source: Common Dreams The threat of fascism will hardly disappear when Donald Trump moves out of the White House in two weeks. On Capitol Hill, the Republicans…… Read more “Norman Solomon: In 2021, the Best Way to Fight Neofascist Republicans Is to Fight Neoliberal Democrats”

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Augusta Savage, Portrait Head of John Henry, ca. 1940. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The John Axelrod Collection See How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black…… Read more “Being a Black Male In America”

LISTEN  Harriet Washington is an award-winning science writer and medical ethicist. She’s the author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From…… Read more “Race And The Roots Of Vaccine Skepticism w/Harriet Washington”

Howard Nicholas is an internationally-renowned economist who explains in a brutally honest & studied way how and why the Western countries ensure Africa stays poor & begging…… Read more “‘Underdevelopment’ in Africa – What’s the Real Story?”

  Bill Moyers talks with noted lawyer Steven Harper and distinguished historian Heather Cox Richardson about threats to democracy. “When you have a society that loses respect…… Read more “Democracy on the Edge: The 3 Reasons GOP Leaders Are Letting Trump ‘Poison The Political Process’”

Source: Medium “When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no ‘white’ people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for…… Read more “How White People Got Made by Quinn Norton”

Source: HenryGirouxWriters speak the unspeakable and the closer you get to it, the more real it is, which is part of making life possible for those who…… Read more “The Centrality of Critical Education in Dark Times: a Tribute to Noam Chomsky on his 92nd Birthday by Henry Giroux”

OUR souls have touched each other,Two fountains from one jet;Like children of one motherOur leaping thoughts have met. We were as far asunderAs green isles in the…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Our Souls Have Touched Each Other” by Mathilde Blind”

More than eighty years ago, a then-obscure German philosopher wrote an essay that foresaw the essential reason behind President Donald Trump’s enduring political appeal. His name was…… Read more “Trump the Fascist Artist by Matthew Rozsa”

Source: TomDispatch We’re now living in an age of opacity, as Rudy Giuliani pointed out in a courtroom recently. Here was the exchange: “‘In the plaintiffs’ counties,…… Read more “The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire by Tom Engelhardt”

“One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless… I have accepted the fact, hard as it may be, that human beings are inclined to behave…… Read more “Musings”

Source: Institute for New Economic Thinking Do you, inhabitant of the marvelous and menacing late-modern world, detect something missing – some kind of vitality, meaning, connectedness, love,…… Read more “The Perverted Dreams of Western Modernity and Capitalism May Be Exhausting Themselves by Lynn Parramore”

Source: Muck Rack It is an infallible law that if Seamus Heaney is the Irish poet of choice, things are looking up, but if W.B. Yeats is…… Read more “Democracy’s Afterlife: Trump, The GOP, and The Rise of Zombie Politics by Fintan O’Toole”

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.~~ Buddha

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This is a thought-provoking documentary that explores the psychology and science of belief and why we believe, sometimes falsely, in things that may not match up with…… Read more “Reasons To Believe: The Psychology of Belief”

Source: EdwardCurtin At the end of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, A Doll’s House, Nora, the aggrieved wife, leaves her husband’s house and all the illusions that sustained…… Read more “Everybody Knows the Fight was Fixed by Edward Curtain”

According to Jung the shadow possess the most inferior characteristics of the psyche that all men try to relinquish. The shadow might be a desire frowned on…… Read more “Carl Jung’s Philosophy of The Shadow”

American Psychosis is a short documentary film inspired by an essay of the same name written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and activist Chris Hedges. The film…… Read more “American Psychosis”

The opposite of life is not death. The opposite of life is habit. One who moves from cradle to gravein the flip book illusion we call timewithout…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “The Alive Ones” by Caitlin Johnstone”

Source: Scheerpost Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards the interests of the rich and however hostile it was to…… Read more “American Requiem by Chris Hedges”

LISTEN Source: Source: Movement Memos What will protest look like during a fascist power grab? Kelly Hayes talks with Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today: What It…… Read more “Mass Protest Is Coming and the Cops Are on Trump’s Side”

WATCH: The God Plant This documentary seeks to be the ultimate Odyssey of exploration into Cannabis and its uses starting from the formation of the Endocannabinoid system…… Read more “The God Plant”

LISTEN Paul Mason is a journalist, writer, film-maker and public speaker. He is the author of six books, including Postcapitalism. Paul Mason warns that the Democratic Party…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Paul Mason – Donald Trump’s Followers Fear the Freedom and Humanity of People Who are Not Like Them”