Month: April 2017

Getting Through U.S. Immigration – Spoof

WN: This brief spoof captures something tragically larger about American Empire. [su_video url=”http://waynenorthey.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/USA-spoof.mp4″]

Apply Domestic ‌Law: Provide Prisoners with Adequate Medical Care

Atena Daemi Tehran, Iran WN: In light of the Nelson Mandela Rules issued by the United Nations in 2015, what Iran is doing to its dissidents is flagrant violation. This apart from violation of what is described below. Please read on, and consider clicking below to be taken to a page where you may sign a […]

Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau. The man is a disaster for the planet

Donald Trump is a creep and unpleasant to look at, but at least he’s not a stunning hypocrite when it comes to climate change Bill McKibben @billmckibben Monday 17 April 2017 11.00 BST Last modified on Tuesday 18 April 2017 19.35 BST an excerpt: Last month, speaking at a Houston petroleum industry gathering, he got a standing ovation from the […]

Global Resource Depletion

Home › 2013 › Volume 64, Issue 08 (January) › Global Resource Depletion Is Population the Problem? by Fred Magdoff Topics: Ecology , Marxist Ecology , Stagnation Places: Africa illustration above found here WN: A fascinating article! So much to understand. So little time to learn and act! It is a long article, but so rewarding to read. an excerpt: The original 1972 Limits to Growth study [see update 30 […]

Video: “Trump Won’t Be Cancelling World War 3 After All”. #StandDownMrTrump

Mr Trump is a liar, a hypocrite and a fool By StormCloudsGathering Global Research, April 15, 2017 stormcloudsgathering.com WN: It is a towering truism in relation to Trump, that “one should never trust a liar.” If only it were that simple, and we could all go to bed tonight with full assurance that the world is safe […]

HOW TO JAM THE TRUMP BRAND

Naomi Klein April 12 2017, 8:19 a.m. WN: Anything short of violence to reduce this man’s power to do evil. Click below for a kind of Planet Harm Reduction 101. Naomi Klein is quite brilliant – and funny. Video below. Please click on: HOW TO JAM THE TRUMP BRAND

Is Trump Turning to Missile Strikes to Salvage His Failing Presidency?

Friday, April 14, 2017 By Michael Meurer, Truthout | News Analysis photo above: President Donald Trump makes a statement about the American attack on an air base in Syria, at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, April 6, 2017. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) WN: Trump is a colossal failure: at being a […]

VOW – Statement on Syria

Justin Trudeau has shown his true colours in his complete flip-flop on what The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) calls for below. He lacks the spine of his father, who in part was willing to stand up to U.S. Empire. Without doubt, he will also bless (has done so already?) the MOAB dropped […]

Mandela Rules Highlight Conference April 25-29 in Costa Rica

I’ll be speaking at this conference and will present this paper. Below is the press release for this event: The revised United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners will be the theme of the 7th International Conference on Human Rights and Prison Reform which will  be held at the Marriott Courtyard (near […]

Restorative Justice Then, Now and A Dream

WN: A massive body of Restorative Justice literature has emerged. A superb early study is Restoring Justice (Strong and Van Ness, 1997). A great early overview of the wider context is The Expanding Prison (Cayley, 1998). The first major study was Changing Lenses (Zehr, 1990) – considered a classic. The two best Christian theological studies […]

Pope opens free launderette for Rome’s homeless people

 Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent @harrietsherwood Pope Francis Laundry – which provides detergent, irons and tumble dryers – is latest papal initiative to help city’s poor photo above: The Pope Francis Laundry in Rome. Francis makes people on the margins of society a focus of his work. Photograph: Office Of Papal Charities/EPA WN: I love it! an excerpt: […]

Neoliberalism in the Driver’s Seat: Trump and Ryan’s Ruling-Class Schemes

Thursday, April 06, 2017By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout | Interview photo above: House Speaker Paul Ryan looks on as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 28, 2017. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) an excerpt: Donald Trump ran a campaign to “make America great again,” promising […]

The Banality of War

WN: Below is the first footnote of an essay for a possible chapter in an upcoming book slated for fall publication, Hellrazed, edited by Kevin Miller, of Hellbound? (the documentary) fame. I look at the issues of war and hell together from a Christian perspective. I periodically update the essay, then upload the revised version […]

The Spoils of War: Trump Lavished With Media and Bipartisan Praise For Bombing Syria

Glenn Greenwald April 7 2017, 7:43 a.m. WN: “The first casualty of war is truth“, is an adage proved invariably true throughout human history under all kinds of regimes: not least democracies. Or, as author/activist David Swanson tirelessly and convincingly argues: War Is a Lie – not only title of his most recent book, but a reality […]

Observers Warn That Syria Attack is Trump’s “Wag the Dog” Moment

Published on Friday, April 07, 2017 by Common Dreams Reports that Russia was warned about strike fuel accusations that military action was taken to distract from mounting domestic problems photo above: Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro appear in the 1997 film “Wag the Dog,” about a political consultant and a Hollywood director who construct a […]

Who Rules America?

WN: Of course who rules America in turn rules the world. Such unbounded ruthlessly greedy power brokers have embraced and even to a large extent realized in the 21st century what was offered Jesus in the 1st (Matthew 4:1 – 11): “all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour.“ But “the art of the deal” represents in fact […]

Canadian National Energy Board (NEB) is in crisis.

photo above: Council of Canadians campaigner Daniel Cayley-Daoust presenting to the NEB modernization panel February 22, 2017. Revelations of secret lobby meetings forced the resignation of its Energy East pipeline review panel last year. The NEB has long been accused of being biased in favour of industry, and leading pipeline reviews that don’t take transparency, public input […]

Fifty Years On: MLK’s Concerns Still Plague Us, Including Militarism

Tuesday, 04 April 2017 photo above: Racism, extreme materialism and militarism are still inextricably linked, and still prevent our society’s becoming anything close to Dr. King’s “beloved community.” (Photo: Susan Melkisethian) KEVIN MARTIN AND REVEREND DR. HERBERT DAUGHTRY WN: The United States has acted like an empire since its inception: its two foundational sins are indigenous […]

‘No Walls, No War, No Warming’: Progressives Call for Priorities Shift

Published on Tuesday, April 04, 2017 by Common Dreams Under President Donald Trump’s budget, “war wins out”—over pretty much everything photo above: Fifty years ago Tuesday, Martin Luther King, Jr. warned that “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual […]