When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade. We’ve braved the…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman”
The Coup Klux Klan and the January 6 Insurrection
LISTEN What were the underlying fears and motivations for the insurrection beyond the Big Lie of a stolen election? The bedrock of white supremacy that has driven…… Read more “The Coup Klux Klan and the January 6 Insurrection”
America’s Been Coup’d
Source: Indica The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe…… Read more “America’s Been Coup’d”
America the Undead by Chauncey DeVega
Source: Salon What do we see in the images of Wednesday’s bloody and lethal attack by Trump’s terrorist mob on the Capitol Building and American democracy? There is the…… Read more “America the Undead by Chauncey DeVega”
America Has Entered The Weimar Era by Walden Bello
Source: Foreign Policy In Focus By mid-February 2021, American deaths from COVID-19 may well surpass the country’s 405,400 deaths during the Second World War. By around mid-May,…… Read more “America Has Entered The Weimar Era by Walden Bello”
Cornel West & Chris Hedges on America’s Existential Crisis
Chris Hedges talks to moral philosopher Dr. Cornel West about what we can learn about America’s existential crisis after witnessing enraged supporters of Donald Trump storming the…… Read more “Cornel West & Chris Hedges on America’s Existential Crisis”
Frank Schaeffer:The Capitol Invasion Was Not About Politics But Religion
Source: FrankSchaefferBlog America’s problem is not political. It is religious fanaticism. Until America addresses our White evangelical delusion problem we will not have a functioning democracy. Evangelical…… Read more “Frank Schaeffer:The Capitol Invasion Was Not About Politics But Religion”
The Media Created a Monster. Now They Want to Wash Their Hands
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”
Norman Solomon: In 2021, the Best Way to Fight Neofascist Republicans Is to Fight Neoliberal Democrats
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”
Being a Black Male In America
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”
Race And The Roots Of Vaccine Skepticism w/Harriet Washington
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”
‘Underdevelopment’ in Africa – What’s the Real Story?
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?”
Democracy on the Edge: The 3 Reasons GOP Leaders Are Letting Trump ‘Poison The Political Process’
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’”
How White People Got Made by Quinn Norton
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”
The Centrality of Critical Education in Dark Times: a Tribute to Noam Chomsky on his 92nd Birthday by Henry Giroux
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”
Poet’s Nook: “Our Souls Have Touched Each Other” by Mathilde Blind
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”
Trump the Fascist Artist by Matthew Rozsa
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”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire by Tom Engelhardt
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”
Musings
“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”
The Perverted Dreams of Western Modernity and Capitalism May Be Exhausting Themselves by Lynn Parramore
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”
The California Genocide No One Talks About
LISTEN UCLA history professor Benjamin Madley’s book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Catastrophe 1846-1873 details the killing of tens of thousands of Native…… Read more “The California Genocide No One Talks About”
Democracy’s Afterlife: Trump, The GOP, and The Rise of Zombie Politics by Fintan O’Toole
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”
The Buddha
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.~~ Buddha
Noam Chomsky – Our Stark, Cruel Dilemma
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Reasons To Believe: The Psychology of Belief
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”
