Constantine in Canada – Ron Dart – with Vancouver letter re: Franklin Graham
February 27, 2017 Constantine in Canada: The Conservative Evangelicals Ron S. Dart WN: Years ago, I wrote an editorial in The Mennonite, a U.S.-based periodical, about evangelism being carried out – without the Gospel. The Editor later informed me that he had never received so many angry Letters to the Editor attacking my article in his […]
Truthdiggers of the Week: Sanctuary Churches, Havens for Undocumented Immigrants
photo above: Members of the Reformed Church of Highland Park, N.J., show support for undocumented immigrants. (Reformed Church of Highland Park / Facebook) Posted on Feb 18, 2017 By Emma Niles an excerpt: Since President Trump took office less than one month ago, fears of increased deportations at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have […]
Trial of the Century Pits Trump Climate Denialism Against ‘Right to a Climate System Capable of Sustaining Human Life’
Published on Friday, February 24, 2017 by Common Dreams photo above: The climate kids asked the court to declare that their constitutional and public trust rights have been violated and to order the government to develop a science-based National Climate Recovery Plan to reduce emissions to a climate-safe level. (Photo: Our Children’s Trust) Why ‘Climate […]
You’re Fired! The Unemployable Trump Administration
February 23, 2017 Dana Snitzky Longreads photo above: British (Canadians) burn White House in War of 1812. (Metaphorically, would that Trudeau and Company do the same now! Then again, Trump the Arsonist is working hard on that project himself! “Give a man enough rope…”) an excerpt: The second takeaway is that Donald Trump is made […]
Conservative evangelicals join letter denouncing Trump’s order on refugees
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey February 8, 2017 WN: My question is really amazement. How is it possible that conservative Christians reading Jesus are so blinded to what Jesus calls for? The story below is hugely encouraging. Some conservative Christians actually get Jesus! Go figure… an excerpt: “This is not the usual list of left-leaning, social […]
Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein: Trump’s attacks on the press are more dangerous than Nixon’s
Avi Selk, Kristine Guerra February 20, 2017 photo above: The reporter who helped expose an infamously paranoid, manipulative and destructive president said Sunday that Richard Nixon had nothing on Donald Trump. “Trump’s attacks on the American press as ‘enemies of the American people’ are more treacherous than Richard Nixon’s attacks on the press,” former Washington […]
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them – Jesus
WN: Across the United States, there has been massive support by conservative Evangelical Christians for Donald Trump. For instance, before election, he was fêted by 1,000 Evangelical leaders in New York City who embraced him as a great Christian leader. At his inauguration, Franklin Graham (Billy Graham’s son) ad libbed that God’s blessing was on […]
Why Do So Many Americans Fear Muslims? Decades of Denial About America’s Role in the World.
Jon Schwarz February 18 2017, 6:11 a.m. photo above: During a memorial service in Baghdad, Iraqis gather around a bomb hole in the ceiling of the Al-Amariya shelter in 2003, where more than 400 people were killed in a U.S.-led missile attack during the Gulf War. Iraqis opened a new memorial center outside the Al-Amariya shelter […]
EKOS: Most Catholics view Israel negatively; Canadians overwhelmingly understand that criticism of Israeli gov’t policy is not necessarily anti-Semitic and Israel Lobby reports failure of anti-BDS efforts
February 17, 2017 Disconnect: Canadians’ views of the Israeli government vs. Canadian gov’t policy toward Israel and Palestine Issued by: Independent Jewish Voices Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, Murray Dobbin, Dimitri Lascaris, LL.B. Authored by Diana Ralph Executive Summary This survey exposes a dramatic disconnect between the opinions of Canadians and the positions […]
If Being a Christian Means XYZ, then I am not a Christian.
February 15, 2017 by Kimberly Stover WN: I have copied the entire posting below, with a link at the end for where you may see the original, become a “Follower” of the author, etc. Billy Graham was definitely right on in the citation below from 1981. Would that he too had stayed away form the […]
Trump’s anti-press conference would be funny – if it weren’t so scary
Friday 17 February 2017 15.09 GMT Richard Wolffe If Donald Trump is qualified for any job – and that’s a rather big if, based on this press conference – it’s clear that he wants to be a media critic on Fox News WN: It is extremely painful to continue to post about Donald Trump. A friend […]
Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science
by Dennis Venema / Scot McKnight • February 16, 2017 WN: Almost anyone raised fundamentalist or evangelical was fed on the almost total disconnect between science and the Bible, with the Bible, according to reigning wisdom, winning out. Sadly, a great number of those so raised who went on to study the biological sciences and similar fields […]
The Stephen Miller Story: From Pestering Latino Students in High School to Drafting Muslim Ban
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Video Interview WN: Someone described Stephen Miller as a snot-nosed little kid with grown-up wannabe extreme attitude. (I embellished that description a little…) My kids are around his age (he’s 31). Were he my kid with that kind of pathetic insolence, I’d take him aside […]
Fake News and Donald Trump’s War on Truth
Published on Friday, February 10, 2017 by Truthdig by Sonali Kolhatkar photo above: President Trump with chief of staff Reince Priebus, center, adviser Kellyanne Conway and members of the press aboard Air Force One in January. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP) an excerpt: “Fake news” and “alternative facts” are hardly new concepts. Right-wing websites, […]
For America’s Sake, We Need Answers about Russia. Now.
Why we must now ask famous questions that so bedeviled Richard Nixon: What did Donald Trump know and when did he know it? Published on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 by Common Dreams By Michael Winship image above: Russian President Vladimir Putin. ‘The bottom line is that Putin is far shrewder than Trump,’ writes Winship. (Image: […]
After Mega-Lies by Trump Adviser Stephen Miller, It’s Time to Rev Up the Reality-Based Community
Posted on Feb 13, 2017 By Juan Cole / Informed Comment WN: I confess to sitting back in sheer wonderment at the gargantuan monstrosity of endless prevarications spewing forth from seemingly all spokespersons for the current US administration, of whom Trump bar none is Chief! According to Politifact, in excess of 69% of his statements are chronically […]
John Oliver on Trump and the truth: ‘a pathological liar’
In his return to HBO, the host of Last Week Tonight dissected the troubling falsehoods in the president’s statements and exactly where they originate Guardian staff Monday 13 February 2017 23.59 GMT John Oliver has criticized reality TV star turned president Donald Trump’s rhetoric, calling him “a pathological liar”. Brilliant satire in the video embedded below. […]
Tomgram: Rajan Menon, The China Missile Crisis of 2018?
Posted by Rajan Menon at 5:11pm, February 12, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. an excerpt: “We’re Going to War in the South China Sea…” Facing off against China, President Trump could find himself in a similar predicament, having so emphasized his toughness, his determination to regain America’s lost respect and make the country great […]
“I’ve Never Been So Ashamed To Be an American.” Really?
These are shameful times, but the current ugliness did not start simply with Donald Trump Published on Friday, February 10, 2017 by Common Dreams By Christian Christensen photo above: ‘How deep is our disconnect from that of which we should be most ashamed?’ asks Christensen. (Photo: Ted S. Warren/ AP) WN: Of course the author […]
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
Feisty Harriet’s Reviews In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author) Feisty Harriet‘s review Nov 16, 2016 bookshelves: world-war-ii Read from November 16 to 20, 2016 WN: “I am not comparing the incoming US administration to Hitler’s Third Reich, however the similarities in the […]
Trump travel ban hits major setback after judges uphold temporary restraining order
Ben Jacobs in Washington @Bencjacobs Thursday 9 February 2017 23.17 GMT Complete victory’: attorney general celebrates Trump travel ban verdict Judges upheld order issued last week to prevent 90-day travel ban from seven Muslim-majority countries and 120-day freeze on US admission of any refugees Travel ban: judges refuse to reinstate Trump’s order – live WN: One […]
Trump’s War on the Courts, the Press, and the States
Published on Wednesday, February 08, 2017 by RobertReich.org In short: Trump is a robber baron control freak who wishes to become the wealthiest and most powerful man in the world. A narcissistic megalomaniacal Ugly American to outdo all former contesters. an excerpt: Trump’s real beef is California is independent of him. It has defied Trump […]
Why We March: Reflections from Women’s Marches
Jan 26, 2017 Donald Trump Women’s March photo above: Sean Talbot joined thousands of people marching in the rain in Portland, Oregon. See more of his photos from the day at Stumptown Lives. On Saturday, January 21st, the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States, millions of people […]
Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports
February 8, 2017 What the author is describing is scapegoating, ubiquitous in human cultures and history. René Girard, recently deceased, is the dominant modern theorist in this regard. For more on scapegoating violence and Girard on my website, please see amongst others this and this. (You will also see below each article related posts highlighted.) […]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s The Donald in the News!
Crimes of the Trump Era (a Preview) The 25/8 News Cycle Is Already Rolling, But the Looting of America Hasn’t Really Begun By Tom Engelhardt Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 7:45am, February 7, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. an excerpt: Call it perfect scheduling, but just two days before his inauguration — two days, […]
Dear Mr. Trump…
Recent news about campaign by Avaaz highlighted below: With the Muslim ban, Trump has shown that the worst fears about his Presidency are true. Add your voice to the open letter below to join the resistance — then spread it far and wide: —- Dear Mr. Trump, This is not what greatness looks like. The […]
My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it’s not Orwell, he warned, it’s Brave New World
The ascent of Donald Trump has proved Neil Postman’s argument in Amusing Ourselves to Death was right. Here’s what we can do about it photo above: We were keeping our eye on 1984. But it’s Brave New World we should have feared instead. Photograph: Flickr/Urban Integration Comments 1,315 Andrew Postman Andrew Postman, author of more […]
Jeremy Scahill on Donald Trump and the Military-Industrial Complex
Posted on Feb 2, 2017 In an interview with acTVism, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill discussed the connection between President Trump’s Cabinet picks and the military-industrial complex. Scahill also addressed the history of anti-war movements and Germany’s role in the United States’ “war on terror.” He examined the significance of the Ramstein Air Base in Germany, and questioned […]