February 2017 — Wayne Northey: The Gospel as Counter-Narrative to Empire

28 Feb 2017

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…

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25 Feb 2017

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…

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25 Feb 2017

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…

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24 Feb 2017

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…

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21 Feb 2017

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…

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20 Feb 2017

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…

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19 Feb 2017

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…

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19 Feb 2017

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…

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17 Feb 2017

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…

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17 Feb 2017

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…

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI - OCTOBER 31: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally at the Deltaplex Arena October 31, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. With just eight days until the election, polls show a slight tightening in the race. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

17 Feb 2017

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…

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16 Feb 2017

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…

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15 Feb 2017

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…

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14 Feb 2017

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…

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14 Feb 2017

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…

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14 Feb 2017

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…

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13 Feb 2017

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…

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13 Feb 2017

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…

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11 Feb 2017

“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,…

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10 Feb 2017

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…

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09 Feb 2017

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…

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08 Feb 2017

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…

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08 Feb 2017

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…

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08 Feb 2017

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,…

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07 Feb 2017

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…

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06 Feb 2017

Dear Mr. Trump…

Recent news about campaign by Avaaz highlighted below: With the Muslim ban, Trump has shown that the worst fears about…

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05 Feb 2017

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…

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03 Feb 2017

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…

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