Month: September 2016

Marjorie Cohn: President Obama: ‘Patron’ of the Israeli Occupation

Marjorie Cohn: President Obama: ‘Patron’ of the Israeli Occupation – Truthdig Posted on Sep 29, 2016 By Marjorie Cohn President Obama has without fanfare pursued some of the most evil policies of any previous president: • creation of a permawar culture in Washington with consequent thousands into the millions of victims slaughtered in the Greater Middle East […]

Donald Trump Is a Worse Crook Than Bernie Madoff

Madoff only scammed his rich clients. Trump could scam us all. By Nomi Prins September 29, 2016 photo above: Gage Skidmore an excerpt: Trump vs. Madoff, The Scorecard Trump is much richer than Madoff ever was, though we have no idea by how much. Forbes puts his wealth at $3.7 billion. Trump says it’s $10 […]

Health, Spirituality and Culture

Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health 15th Annual Mental Health & Spirituality Conference Los Angeles, CA 26th May 2016 photo above: WCCM (World Community for Christian Meditation) by Laurence Freeman OSB (Please click here for the WCCM website with which he is affiliated. Its “Meditatio Radio” may be clicked on at my Home page.) […]

A PEBBLE IN MY SHOE

This was written by my friend, Bill Thiessen. It speaks its own profound truth. A PEBBLE IN MY SHOE An irritation. It happened again (on Saturday). It happened to the Lord as well—often. It happens on the road. I was leisurely cycling through the parking lot Stopped in the shade to send a message He […]

the Iconocast: Fr. John Dear, S.J. (episode 20) – WWW.JESUSRADICALS.COM

December 2, 2010 In this interview, Jarrod and Mark interview Father John Dear. Dear is a Jesuit priest, peace activist, lecturer, and writer of twenty books on nonviolence. He has been arrested many times in the course of his activist career. His longest period of incarceration lasted eight months, plus nine months of house arrest, following […]

25 and counting

September 2016 My friend Ron Dart has just published his 25th book: The North American High Tory Tradition. Please see a review by my friend Henk Smidstra here. Well worth getting the book! – any of Ron’s, on a wide variety of topics.  

Rafeef Ziadah – We Teach Life, Sir and Shades of Anger

December 11, 2012 This is an incredibly powerful voice! A Palestinian woman, third generation refugee, expressing the pent-up hurt and anger in response to the massive injustice of US-sponsored Israeli Occupation and generations long attendant brutality. She was live streamed from Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto Tuesday, September 20, 2016. Please click on […]

Human Element Makes Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ Quite Captivating

Published on Sunday, September 18, 2016 by Shadowproof photo above:  Screen shot from the new film “Snowden,” featuring actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden and Shailene Woodley as the whistleblower’s influential girlfriend Lindsay Mills. by Kevin Gosztola an excerpt: “Oliver Stone met with Snowden in Russia at least half a dozen times over a period […]

Will Trumpism, Brexit, and Geopolitical Exceptionalism Sink the Planet?

The Mounting Threat to Climate Progress Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Rise of the Right and Climate Catastrophe photo above: In his first major speech on energy, delivered in May, Donald Trump—who has called global warming a Chinese hoax—pledged to “cancel the Paris climate agreement” and scrap the various measures announced by President Obama to ensure […]

Empire’s Religion: Arundhati Roy Confronts the Tyranny of the Free Market

Published on Thursday, September 15, 2016 by Common Dreams by Jake Johnson photo above: ‘Whether she is writing of Kashmir or of the Palestinians, of American foreign policy or of terror in the Middle East, of environmental degradation or of the threat posed by nuclear proliferation, [author and activist Arundhati] Roy,’ writes Johnson,  ‘maintains a […]

Walking from Wrongs to Rights: UN Declaration shows the way | Church for Vancouver

By Laurel Dykstra September 15, 2016 image above: cover of the new Mennonite Church Canada publication well worth ordering – for individuals and groups! an excerpt: A couple of weeks ago, members of our community joined a circle of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in our diocese to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls […]

How America became a 1% society | The Guardian

Since 1980, the economy has continued to grow impressively, but most of the benefits have migrated to the top. Bill Moyers asks why. Monday 12 September 2016 17.50 BST photo above: idiamonds.blogspot.com The article linked with excerpts below, is incredibly compelling, in the direction of what is ultimately paramount in living our lives: love of neighbour. […]

How Breitbart Conquered the Media

 TA-NEHISI COATES Sep 12, 2016 Politics Why the Media Didn’t Bother to Verify if Hillary Clinton’s Remark About Half of Donald Trump’s Supporters Being ‘Deplorable’ Was True – The Atlantic Political reporters were taken aback by Hillary Clinton’s charge that half of Trump’s supporters are prejudiced. Few bothered to investigate the claim itself. an excerpt: […]

“A Continuous War Mentality”: Richard Falk on Israel’s Human Rights Abuses

Written by C. J. Polychroniou and Lily Sage By C.J. Polychroniou and Lily Sage, Truthout | Interview photo above: Israel Defense Forces operating in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge, July, 2014. (Photo: Israel Defense Forces) WN: Israel to Palestine is the United States to the entire world: a brutal (mini-)Empire that is deeply committed to […]

North Korea accused of ‘maniacal recklessness’ after new nuclear test

US Geological Survey records 5.3 seismic event at ground level near nuclear test site Friday 9 September 2016 Martin Farrer and agencies WN: The grand irony is ever there: the US and the Western  world accuse North Korea of “maniacal recklessness” (indeed, absolutely accurately), and we read in the article linked below that “the United […]

America and the Plague of ‘Moral Idiocy’

Tuesday, September 06, 2016 by Consortium News When it comes to applying rules of international law and ethics, the U.S. government and its mainstream media operate with stunning hypocrisy, what might be called “moral idiocy” photo above: Hillary Clinton and Henry Kissinger. (Photo: Atlantic Council/flickr/cc) Hillary Rodham Clinton was awarded, May 1, 2013, the Atlantic Council‘s Distinguished […]

The NSA Abroad: The UK Base That Makes US Targeted Killing Possible

Newly revealed documents leaked by Edward Snowden and reported by The Intercept detail the inner workings of the NSA’s largest overseas base Tuesday, September 06, 2016 by Common Dreams by Lauren McCauley, staff writer photo above: The National Security Agency’s largest overseas spying base, Menwith Hill. (Photo: Trevor Paglen via The Intercept) an excerpt: Another […]

UN Human Rights Chief Urges Action Against Western ‘Demagogues’ | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Comparing the likes of Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, and Geert Wilders to ISIS, UN’s Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein implores: “Speak out and up…Draw the line!” Tuesday, September 06, 2016 by Common Dreams photo above: “The formula is…simple: make people, already nervous, feel terrible, and then emphasize it’s all because of a group, lying within, foreign […]

The Revenge of Roger’s Angels

How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media. September 2, 2016 7:30 a.m. By Gabriel Sherman photo above: Wesley Mann/AUGUST: Roger Ailes. WN: There is something profoundly disturbing, but in no way surprising, about Roger Ailes, who recently was fired from Fox News, after his decades-long harassment and abuse […]

LeBron And Friends Opened The ESPYs With A Speech You Need To Hear

“The urgency to create change is at an all-time high.” 07/13/2016 09:04 pm ET Updated Jul 15, 2016 Read the text, and watch the video (linked below) of the four honoured athletes who articulately and straightforwardly call for all gun violence to end: in particular by police, and in retaliation for police killings of Blacks. […]

Where Movements Meet: Black Lives Matter Organizers Visit #NoDAPL

photo above: by Melinda Lee By Kelly Hayes, Truthout | News Analysis an excerpt: Last weekend, as thousands of Indigenous protesters continued their efforts to ward off construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a delegation from another life-and-death struggle visited the Native encampments in Standing Rock, North Dakota. While there have been numerous expressions of […]

When this is over, you will have nothing that you want – Chicago Tribune

photo above: Donald Trump calls for ideological screening tests of all immigrants. Aug. 31, 2016. (C-SPAN) By Garrison Keillor Special To The Washington Post an excerpt: Why doesn’t someone in your entourage dare to say these things? So sad. The fans in the arenas are wild about you, and Sean Hannity is as loyal as […]

Deeming Pollution of Earth Sinful, Pope Proposes Climate Action as Sacred Duty

Humans are turning the planet into a ‘polluted wasteland full of debris, desolation, and filth,’ says Pope Francis Published on Thursday, September 01, 2016 by Common Dreams by Nika Knight, staff writer photo above: “The world’s poor, though least responsible for climate change, are most vulnerable and already suffering its impact,” Pope Francis said. (Andrew […]