Millions Will Be Harmed by Trump’s Policies, Warns Rights Advocate in Open Letter
‘As president, you will have the heavy responsibility to prevent enactment of dangerous pledges and proposals that were made in the course of the campaign’ Published on Thursday, November 24, 2016 by Common Dreams By Nika Knight, staff writer WN: Human Rights Watch Director Kenneth Roth, subject of the article highlighted below, valid as it […]
Vengeance is Love – Klaas Goverts (trans. Floris and Judith Kersloot)
WN: The brief article below so captures the absolute essence of biblical justice, biblical vengeance. See also my book review of God’s Just Vengeance; and also Christopher Marshall’s two outstanding studies on biblical justice that is invariably restorative, here, and again here. “Vengeance is Love” (Mar 26, 2012) by Klaas Goverts, translated by Floris and Judith […]
Letter to First Ministers from major business and civil society leaders
More than 60 CEOs and civil society leaders urge Prime Minister and Premiers to take bold action on clean growth and climate change Media release: November 24, 2016 This looks highly promising, in direct contradistinction to the new administration to the south, and seemingly to this woman vying for Conservative Party leadership. an excerpt: Dear […]
No, Everything Is Not Going to Be Alright
Published on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 by Common Dreams By Ted Rall photo above: ‘Trump’s fascism,’ writes Rall, ‘will come about naturally, caused by the perfect storm of his ego, his CEO mentality, the politics and personalities of the men and women with whom he is surrounding himself, and a set of developments that are […]
Pope Francis Denounces Growing ‘Demonization’ of Enemies and Outsiders
By David Gibson, Religion News Service 11-21-2016 an excerpt: “God has only sons and daughters,” the pope said. “We are the ones who raise walls, build barriers, and label people. God has sons and daughters precisely so that no one will be turned away.” Francis said “our instinctive reaction” is to “discredit or curse” those whois anathema […]
We Are All Deplorables
Posted on Nov 20, 2016 By Chris Hedges an excerpt: Those cast aside by the neoliberal order have an economic identity that both the liberal class and the right wing are unwilling to acknowledge. This economic identity is one the white underclass shares with other discarded people, including the undocumented workers and the people of color demonized by the carnival […]
George Takei: They interned my family. Don’t let them do it to Muslims.
By George Takei November 18 at 6:00 AM Follow @GeorgeTakei George Takei is an actor, activist and social media maven. The United States apologized for locking up Japanese Americans. Have we learned nothing? an excerpt: There is dangerous talk these days by those who have the ear of some at the highest levels of government. […]
White, Conservative, Christian Friend—I Wish You Really Were Pro-Life
October 12, 2016 / John Pavlovitz WN: The highlighted article below is truly powerful and wise! Likewise in relation to the article: I am not a “progressive,” because too many “progressives” I read are not consistently pro-Life. They (of course not all) favour the use of abortion as birth control, elevating women’s right to choose […]
As a Muslim, How Do I Tell My Child the New President Doesn’t Like Us?
Donald Trump’s victory has led to a surge in anti-Muslim feeling in the US. Explain that to a nine-year-old. By Mehdi Hasan an excerpt: How do I explain to my daughter, a proud US citizen who recites the pledge of allegiance in class every morning, that millions of her fellow Americans elected as her next […]
How could we — I — get so much so wrong? – Michael’s essay
CBC: The Sunday Edition With Michael Enright Sunday November 13, 2016 excerpts: On the morning after, an early warming sun lit up the street now covered in freshly fallen leaves. A beautiful young woman walking briskly on the other side of the road suddenly looked over and smiled beatifically. Everything was as it should be in […]
For Abolition: Prisons and Police Are More Than Brutality, They’re State Terror
Saturday, 12 November 2016 00:00 By Frank Castro, The Hampton Institute | News Analysis photo above: Jobs For Felons Hub; Edited: LW / TO This is an incredibly powerful assessment of “state terror” in arguably the most oppressive democracy of recent times: the United States of America. The author’s analysis rings true at every turn: […]
Rising European Fascists Welcome Trump Victory
Saturday, 12 November 2016 00:00 By Ryan Harvey, Truthout | Report photo above: Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Front, the largest far-right party in France, speaks to reporters at a political meeting in Perpignan, France, February 15, 2014. Under Le Pen, the daughter of the party’s founder, the National Front has moved […]
The Republic Repeals Itself
By Andrew Sullivan WN: The article linked below is one of despair. There is no doubt this is a sentiment joined in by untold millions around the world, not least in America. However, Andrew Sullivan’s painting of the American Republic as an ideal to emulate was only ever that: an ideal with a hollowed-out centre. […]
GLOBAL MILITARY SPEND
List of countries by military expenditures Staggering! When will we ever learn? an excerpt: This article is a list of countries by military expenditure in a given year. Military expenditure figures are presented in United States dollars based on either constant or current exchange rates.[1] These results can vary greatly from one year to another […]
Israel breaching Palestine’s right to development, UN human rights expert finds
NEW YORK (27 October 2016) – Palestine’s right to development is being denied by Israel, creating an environment plagued by poverty, “epic” unemployment and economic stagnation, according to a new report from a United Nations human rights expert. Michael Lynk – the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories […]
The world vs Donald Trump
Dear friends, The unimaginable has happened. President Trump. And worse, there are Trumps in every town. Threatening all our democracies. What’s most important now is to build a global movement to stop them. Over 2 million of us have signed the open letter, below, from the world to Trump, and it’s been covered across major […]
Hugh Hewitt Questions Ben Carson If He Was Ruthless Enough to Kill Thousands of Innocent Kids in War
December 16, 2015 Watch Full Show DemocracyNow! WN: The audience booed when conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked evangelical neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson (likely now to be a cabinet member in the Trump administration), December 15, 2015, if he was ruthless enough to kill thousands of innocent kids in war. Think of it!: Hewitt was […]
HOW TRUMP TOOK HATE GROUPS MAINSTREAM
The full story of his connection with far-right extremists. Sarah Posner and David Neiwert Oct. 14, 2016 5:00 AM photo above: Donald J. Trump Credit Randall Hill/Reuters This is the second in-depth look at Trump and hate/white extremists that I have posted on this site. The first is here. Surely with this exposure of the […]
Election 2016 and the Growing Global Nuclear Threat
Playing a Game of Chicken with Nuclear Strategy By Michael T. Klare Tomgram: Michael Klare, Whose Finger on the Nuclear Button? | TomDispatch an excerpt: It’s clear that we’re on the threshold of a new nuclear era: a time when the actual use of atomic weapons is being accorded greater plausibility by military and political […]
Will American politics survive Trump?
Sunday November 06, 2016 The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright Perhaps the most fascinating are David Frum’s comments. Frum (son of former CBC “As It Happens” personality Barbara Frum) is a long-standing Canadian/American conservative, former speech-writer for George W. Bush, and ardent Republican: who also voted already this season for Hillary Clinton! – and is […]
“The system not only failed Adam Capay. It buried him alive”
Sunday October 30, 2016 by Michael Enright Everything about the situation of Adam Capay described below could not be more contradictory to that mandated by the recently promulgated United Nations Nelson Mandela Rules. The United States has Guantanamo Bay. Ontario has the Thunder Bay Jail. Not much difference, really, when it comes to solitary confinement […]
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015 The document linked below is outstanding! It is nothing less than a Declaration of Human Rights for the imprisoned. In reading it in the context of Canadian prisons, I repeatedly found myself saying: “If only!” This for me is reminiscent of the saying of Tertullian (155-230 A.D.), […]
Meditation
November 6, 2016 An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, CHRISTIAN MEDITATION NEWSLETTER, Vol. 34, No. 3, October 2010, pp. 4-5. The other is essential to the mystical and loving mind. Otherness stimulates the mind to let go of its fixed points and expand beyond itself, enlarging the view we have of the world and of […]
Julian Assange Speaks About Hillary Clinton, the U.S. Election and the Litany of Charges Against Him
In a 25-minute interview with John Pilger, an award-winning Australian journalist, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange summarized his analysis of emails he published from the personal account of Hillary Clinton’s national campaign chairman, John Podesta, and much more. Among the topics: “Pay for play” arrangements by which foreign officials paid large sums to gain access to […]
EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump Aides’ Deeper & Linked Roles in Putin Agenda Revealed; Russian Mafia Nexus With Trump & Aides Goes Back Years
Published on November 4, 2016 by Brian Frydenborg New threads in the Team Trump/Team Putin tangled web show Manafort and Page linked to each other as part of a Russian plot to control Ukraine and also show a mutual Russian mafia godfather linking them with each other and Trump, providing even deeper and more fertile […]
Creating a National Security State “Democracy” Or How the American Political System Changed and No One Noticed
By Tom Engelhardt Tomgram: Engelhardt, Resurrecting My Parents From the Dead for Election 2016 | TomDispatch an excerpt: To say that this is the election from hell is to insult hell. There’s been nothing like this since Washington forded the Rubicon or Trump crossed the Delaware or delivered the Gettysburg Address (you know, the one […]
Nasty Women: Donald Trump, the Greatest Victim in the History of the World
Tomgram: Ann Jones, Donald Trump’s Open Carry | TomDispatch By Ann Jones an excerpt: Donald Trump grabbed a new lifeline. Speaking at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on October 15th, he raised a hand as if to take an oath and declared: “I am a victim!” The great business tycoon, the one and only […]
Trump, America, and the Abyss
November 3, 2016 4:47 p.m. By Andrew Sullivan I have decided to post a few articles warning against Trump’s America. It is that dire. The world never has seen a potential evil dictator like Trump, in terms of capacity to do evil like no other before. Period. An evil dictator heading up the most evil […]
My Journey to the Center of the Alt-Right – The Huffington Post
By Luke O’Brien Illustrations By Mariano Pascual November 3, 2016 I went to a white nationalist ethnostate in Indiana. I got bounced from a secret meeting in D.C. I spent weeks figuring out how hate gurgles up from the nastiest recesses of the Internet. And I’m sorry to report that unconscionable racists will be a […]
How Many Nuclear Warheads Does the United States Need?
Friday, 04 November 2016 00:00 By Lawrence S. Wittner The Asia-Pacific Journal | News Analysis photo above: interestingengineering.com It is a moral obscenity, replete with preparedness to commit unthinkable evil, that drives all nuclear powers, bar none. By any standard of human decency or morality, the retention of nuclear weaponry is an assault against every […]
Nuclear Weapons: Who Has What at a Glance
WN: President Obama meanwhile, has committed $1 trillion over 30 years to rebuild the US nuclear arsenal. So much for the Nobel Prize winning President! Quite a legacy… What an obscene tragedy! See schematic of where nuclear weapons are held in Europe alone. an excerpt: At the dawn of the nuclear age, the United States […]