The World Turned Upside Down

There is something out in the dark that wants to correct us. Each time I think “this,” it answers “that.” Answers hard, in the heart-grammar’s strictness. If…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Against Certainty” by Jane Hirshfield”

The Lie That Underpins All Injustices Facing Black Americans

  “The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is,” Kurt Vonnegut…… Read more “Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety”

Source: ScheerPost My wife and I have spent sixty years fighting for social justice in America and trying to be good citizens, me as a civil-rights lawyer…… Read more “Why I’m Leaving America by Guy Saperstein”

Two of my Top 10 public intellectuals have a fascinating discussion here in this episode of On Contact w/ Chris Hedges. According to Giroux, education has increasingly…… Read more “Henry Giroux: The Age of Manufactured Ignorance”

  Lee Camp exposes Bill Gates and the hidden side of his capitalist projects. The corporate media spend hours honoring his benevolent philanthropy but rich men never…… Read more “Lee Camp: The Dirty Truth About Bill Gates”

Understand the GOP Bible

 

(Use extra virgin olive oil & stay healthy! Throwing out all of my vegetable oil right now!!)

      If you live in the United States, odds are you’ve encountered the distinctly American “conservative christian.” It seems that these people, despite their fierce…… Read more “How Conservatives Co-Opted Christianity”

Can you see the Absurdity of our World? Can you Imagine another Society? Act now, join us! Find your local group near you here: https://rebellion.global World Map…… Read more “Can You See It?”

   Source: Salon We are in the midst of an ignorance outbreak. QAnon’s account of global politics, despite being both irrational and implausible, has enraptured thousands. Specious…… Read more “Andy Norman: “We Face a Scourge of Mind Parasites””

White America has declared over & over again via its mores, values & norms that in spite of becoming a hegemon on the backs of the African…… Read more “Black Americans Resettling in Ghana”

 Source: Flipboard Years ago in a high school anatomy class, I saw film footage of a man — perhaps a prison inmate or a patient at a mental hospital — who “volunteered”…… Read more “Fascism is a Mind-Killer by Chauncey DeVega”

Source: Wired 90% of the world’s adults consume some form of caffeine everyday, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug on Earth. Michael Pollan, author of…… Read more “How Caffeine Addiction Changed History”

  Legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger discusses the takeover of the Taliban in Afghanistan in this clip. He calls the US military a killing machine and…… Read more “John Pilger on Afghanistan: US Military a Killing Machine! & How The Taliban Went From Ally to Enemy”

One of my favorite non-fiction writers, Chris Hedges, sits down with the always entertaining & informative Michael Moore on his provocative podcast Rumble

  A country falls into the hands of kleptocrats, a state is taken over. This happens again and again, all over the world. Including in South Africa,…… Read more “Corruption in South Africa”

    Science historian Clifford Conner is author of the new book The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump.

  Ukuri guca mu ziko ntigushya: The truth goes through fire but never burns (Rwandan proverb)  

  John Henrik Clarke was a pure Master Teacher. My first introduction to Clarke was in the 90s with the book Africans at the Crossroads: Notes for…… Read more “Marcus Garvey Lecture: John Henrik Clarke”

Ousman Touray is a prominent youth leader whose focus is on development and who firmly believes of Pan Africanism. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies…… Read more “Ousman Tourey: A Message To All Africans”

 Source: ConsortiumNews The Carthaginian general Hannibal, who came close to defeating the Roman Republic in the Second Punic War, committed suicide in 181 BC in exile as…… Read more “Chris Hedges: The Empire Does Not Forgive”

A meditation on the parallel lives of fellow commuters and the particular solitude to be found among strangers on a train.

Sourcw: L’HORA As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States,…… Read more “The Great Game of Smashing Nations by John Pilger”

Source: Going Rogue with Caitlin Johnstone Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone · The End Of Illusions

why fear this moment when no thoughts come at last I lie naked in the arms of experience why fear this moment when no words come at…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “why fear this moment…” by Gill Washington”

This video explores the most dangerous of all psychic epidemics, the mass psychosis. A mass psychosis is an epidemic of madness and it occurs when a large…… Read more “How an Entire Population Becomes Mentally Ill”

Dreams aren’t practical, they are a vision of what is possible Source: Yes! We live in a country of colonized cultures. The project that is the United…… Read more “Decolonizing Our Dreams by Samir Doshi”