Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation
By The New York Times June 30, 2021 WN: While video images can be selectively strung together, they are real images just the same. And this was anything but the proverbial walk in the park–or a tourist visit to the Capitol. Søren Kierkegaard wrote: The crowd is untruth. Anthropologist René Girard spent a career explicating […]
How did a small town [Lytton BC] in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth?
by Eric Holthaus Wed 30 Jun 2021 WN: We’re in this new normal, with much more and worse to come!1 And subsequently this grand tragedy happened to Lytton (by Andrea Woo, Patrick White and Carrie Tait, Lytton, British Columbia, Published July 1, 2021): ‘Like a war zone’: B.C. village of Lytton destroyed by fire. Unlike […]
The Catholic Church must come clean—completely—about what it did to Native Americans
The Editors June 30, 2021 photo above: A young woman takes part in a rally in Toronto June 6, 2021, after the remains of 215 children were on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in May. For years Indigenous people in Canada have wanted an apology from the pope for the church’s role […]
Pope Francis is not a liberal! (He’s not a conservative either.)
by James T. Keane June 28, 2021 photo above: Pope Francis stands apart from U.S. political factions. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters) WN: I have a brother who endlessly pegs/dismisses me as a “liberal.” Perhaps he indeed knows me better than I. At minimum, though, I embraced a credo that long since eschews self-appropriation of such categories, […]
Eyes of Compassion: Learning From Thich Nhat Hanh
Book Review of Eyes of Compassion: Learning From Thich Nhat Hanh, Jim Forest, Orbis Books, 2021 When I was working for Amnesty International in the 1980s, I began a correspondence with Jim Forest (who was working for Fellowship of Reconciliation at the time) that continues to thrive and flourish. I also began in the 1990s […]
House approves Juneteenth holiday, sends bill to Biden’s desk
By Marty Johnson – 06/16/21 WN: So momentous! And this announced on Thursday the 17th!: The federal government will give employees the day off on Friday after President Biden signs a bill making Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in America, a federal holiday. “Today @POTUS will sign the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, […]
‘Pure insanity’: Here’s perhaps the craziest election fraud conspiracy the Trump team pushed
By Aaron Blake Senior Reporter June 15, 2021 photo above: Rudolph W. Giuliani and then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen stand as Vice President Mike Pence arrives for a 2019 signing ceremony. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) WN: Don’t look now, but it seems close to half of America has taken leave of its senses, indeed […]
What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor
By Ezra Klein Opinion Columnist June 13, 2021 photo above: Peter van Agtmael/Magnum Photos WN: In Mark 14:1-11, there is a story of an unnamed woman who came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head. The story continues: 4 Some […]
The Wisdom of Trauma
WN: The video is beautifully presented and wonderfully hopeful! Dr. Gabor Maté is an amazingly wise and compassionate healer. TAKE NOTE: It is free to view these next two days. There is also much of interest and help on the SAND (Science and Nonduality) website. We read there: The mission of SAND is to forge […]
‘Green technology’ is fine, but to really save the planet we need to shop less
By Brian Bethune May 25, 2021 WN: A discussion of a brilliant book casting new light on ACD (Anthropogenic Climate Disruption). excerpts: If the purpose of a thought experiment is to cast new light on familiar phenomena, the better to inspire a cascade of new thoughts on scarcely registered realities, J.B. MacKinnon certainly delivers in […]
One priest’s message to the church: ‘Shut your mouth and just listen’
By Maclean’s June 8, 2021 photo above: Shoes are placed on the lawn outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School on June 4, 2021 (Darryl Dyck/CP) WN: I think I’ll just shut my mouth and listen . . . You may wish to view the video first, then read some excerpts. excerpts: Last Sunday, Father […]
John A. Macdonald can wait
By Stephen Maher June 7, 2021 photo above: Shoes sit in front of the Parliament buildings during a ceremony on June 3, 2021 in Ottawa (Adrian Wyld/CP) WN: It is the human condition that historians from within a culture generally silence any contrary narrative that might put into a negative light the moral rectitude of […]
How to ensure Indigenous tourism experiences support the right communities
By Mike Alexander | June 4, 2021 photo above: Jusquan Bedard paints finishing touches on the Gwaii Haanas legacy totem pole before it is raised in Haida Gwaii, B.C., in 2013. (Photo: The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck) WN: We’re gently called as settlers to embrace reconciliation by learning about our Aboriginal Neighbours . . . excerpts: Growing up […]
Canada’s Solitary Confinement Deemed “Torture”:
WN: Please consider signing the petition begun today. After nearly fifty years of work in Canada’s Criminal Justice System, and seeing personally and professionally how prisons in general, solitary confinement in particular, often do irrevocable harm to their keep, it seemed appropriate to use this platform for the petition. All statements are supported in the […]