The World Turned Upside Down

They don’t steal votes to steal elections. They steal votes to steal the money. If you can steal an election, you’ve stolen the keys to the treasury…… Read more “Greg Palast & David Cay Johnston: How Trump Stole 2020 — A Warning!”

The Universe in Verse 2019: full show from Maria Popova on Vimeo. Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. Thanks to Maria Popova…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: The Universe in Verse 2019”

  LISTEN: Chauncey DeVega & Jason Stanley   Jason Stanley is a professor of philosophy at Yale University and author of the bestselling books How Fascism Works:…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Jason Stanley Talk of How Donald Trump is Using the Pandemic to Destroy Every Aspect of American Democracy”

    Source: The Atlantic  Six weeks ago, Ahmaud Arbery went out and never came home. Gregory and Travis McMichael, who saw Arbery running through their neighborhood…… Read more “The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying by Adam Serwer”

They sailed out centuries ago to tame the godless savages and teach them how to die by gunfire instead of spears like proper Christian gentlemen. They brought…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Civilized” by Caitlin Johnston”

The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately black and working class.…… Read more “Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.: Covid-19 Demands a National Reckoning”

  This film presents an alternative outlook of contemporary society, in particular UK & US, however parallels can be made to nearly every society that exists today.…… Read more “Our System.Our Structure.Our Illusion”

Margaret Kimberley is an Editor and Senior Columnist at the Black Agenda Report, which publishes news, commentary and analysis from the black left. She is author of…… Read more “Margaret Kimberley: The Persistence of White Supremacy in the US”

Source:News Junkie Post As the global COVID-19 crisis builds up its incredible momentum, for which an apex is still months to come, the mainstream media and so-called…… Read more “COVID-19: Seeds of Revolution Grown on Capitalism’s Corpse? by Gilbert Mercier”

Source: The Irish Times Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love…… Read more “The World Has Loved, Hated and Envied the US – Now, For The First Time, We Pity It by Fintan O’Toole”

                                         LISTEN: A Preview of Things to Come Chris Hedges is one of the best public intellectuals in the US. His a Pulitzer-winning journalist, author, and philosopher.…… Read more “In Conversation: Chauncey DeVega & Chris Hedges – A Preview of Things to Come”

How many stories have we heard about non-white/non-female genius & talent being snuffed out because of  misguided notions of white male intellectual superiority? This is the story…… Read more “Almost Famous: The Story of Ed Dwight Jr.”

Why does race matter so profoundly for health? David R. Williams developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being, going beyond traditional measures like…… Read more “How Racism Makes Us Sick |”

/ REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our…… Read more “Requiem for the American Dream”

Answering to the call of the devotee, the Beloved One whispers in his heart: “Come to Me with that which I have not” Searching all over, in…… Read more “Poet’s Nook:” Come to Me with that which I have not” by Sadiq M Alam”

Source: Counterpunch  I had this fantasy that the New York Times would follow up its 1619 Project look at slavery with a comparable examination of Settler Colonialism.…… Read more “The Settler Colonialism Project by Frank Joyce”

READ: COVID-19 & Imperialism – The Coming Disaster & Revolt “Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty…… Read more “COVID-19 & Imperialism: The Coming Disaster & Revolt”

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice,…… Read more “Musings”

One of my favorite public intellectuals, Chris Hedges,  talks to Cornell University Professor, Noliwe Rooks, about how America’s public education system, under successive administrations, continues to be…… Read more “Educational Apartheid in America”

  In high Peru, in Nicaragua, throughout Patagonia, in the cities, you’ve had no rights, you’ve nothing: cup of misery, America’s abandoned child, there’s no law, no…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: ‘The Judges’ by Pablo Neruda”

Source:Nautilus On this past International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I reread a bit of Bertrand Russell. In 1933, dismayed at the Nazification of Germany, the philosopher wrote “The…… Read more “The Case for Professors of Stupidity by Brian Gallagher”

  Isn’t it strange how the stupid are so bold & opinionated while the intelligent are full of doubt?

(Source: The Intercept) LISTEN: Coronavirus & The Radical Religious Right’s Bumbling Messiah Donald Trump and extreme right groups are encouraging people to take to the streets during…… Read more “Coronavirus and the Radical Religious Right’s Bumbling Messiah”

  The barbaric leaders of China, Europe & the USA have it all twisted! See Too Many Africans by Stephen Corry which breaks it down in simple,…… Read more “Depopulation of Africa As Official Policy For Resources In The Industrial World”

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Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quoa is the former African Union Ambassador to the United States. Her career as a pan-Africanist has taken her throughout the continent and the world.…… Read more “Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quoa Speaks!”

We can defeat this kleptocracy! WE CAN DO THIS!!