Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act July 22, 2020 Bats With Napalm Vests and Other Great American Innovations by David Swanson WN: This is horrible! Unconscionable! Despicable! Exponentially Hypocritical! . . . and whatever other superlative expletives can be thrown at U.S. planning, developing, experimenting, and deploying […]
George Yancy: To Be Black in the US Is to Have a Knee Against Your Neck Each Day
By Woojin Lim,Truthout Published July 18, 2020 photo above: reddit.com WN: A close relative saw the post, The Case for Reparations, ((a long essay about the history of Black repression in the U.S.), and in response merely indicated that these things happen and moved on . . . Another close relative who did not read […]
The Price of White Evangelical Patriarchy
By Eric C. Miller | July 7, 2020 photo above: Donald Trump stands near a statue of John Wayne during a news conference at the John Wayne Museum in Winterset, Iowa. (AP/Jae C. Hong) WN: Though not declamatory, this interview with Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of just published Jesus and John Wayne: How White […]
The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. Story by Ta-Nehisi Coates June 2014 Issue WN: NOTE: This piece appeared in The Atlantic 6 years ago. It […]
A Long Talk With Anthony Fauci’s Boss About the Pandemic, Vaccines, and Faith
A Long Talk With Anthony Fauci’s Boss About the Pandemic, Vaccines, and Faith just asking questions July 1, 2020 By Jebediah Reed@jebediahreed photo above: statnews.com WN: So much could be said that is positive about the article. As to the first two items in the title, I have excerpted a little on that. As to […]