Blog 28 Mar 2022 Capitalism and Racism WN: We have been studying an excellent book in this discussion group: How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and… Editor No Comments
27 Mar 2022 The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean Book Review of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Mar 2019 Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism March 15, 2019 by Ben Debney drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Aug 2016 Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism September 26, 2014 by CHARLES R. LARSON WN: There is someone of my acquaintance who rails against the US Black… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Jul 2016 Poverty Has Always Accompanied Capitalism Sunday, 03 July 2016 00:00 By Mark Karlin, Truthout | Interview photo above: "Poverty has always accompanied capitalism (as Thomas… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Jul 2024 Easter Song and Reflections on the Resurrection ***NOTE: Please check out the footnotes for additional, more detailed commentary. Also, there are poetry and songs in the final… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 May 2024 Re-issuing: How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God by Brendan O'Connor August 8, 2017 WN: I decided to republish this article of seven years ago. The supreme haughty… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 May 2024 Response To: Israeli Finance Minister Denounced for Calling for ‘Total Annihilation’ of Gaza Julia Conley May 01, 2024 image above: Religious Zionist head Bezalel Smotrich attends a discussion in the Israeli parliament on… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Apr 2024 Comments on: Christian Peacemakers Are Ramping Up Their Faith-Based Call for a Cease-fire by John Nichols \ Activism April 15, 2024 image above: Christian protesters singing for Gaza ceasefire WN: I was struck… Editor No Comments
Blog Attendees came from 18 different nations. 08 Apr 2024 Rwanda Dispatches May 18 to July 12, 2018 At 30 years on to this day, April 7, 2024, the Rwanda Genocide broke out, that saw more than 1… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Feb 2024 Anguished Thoughts On: Israel’s campaign in Gaza ‘plausibly’ amounts to genocide, US court finds ***NOTE: Several footnotes supply additional commentary/information*** The Guardian Middle East crisis – live updates Julian Borger Global affairs editor Thu… Editor No Comments
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Blog 12 Apr 2023 Was America Great When It Burned Native American Babies? (Audio and Transcript) – Truthdig Posted initially on Aug 5, 2016 Interview by Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer “Benjamin Madley((See many of his writings… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Mar 2023 Christian Pacifism and Its Cultured Naysayers ***NOTE 1: Many footnotes add detail and background to the text.*** ***NOTE 2: The PDF academic version is here.*** WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Feb 2023 Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes Du… Editor No Comments
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Blog 12 Oct 2022 Thoughts On: The GOP Is a Cultish, Destructive Fascist Organization—Not a Legitimate Political Party Thom Hartmann October 12, 2022 image above: WN: This is indeed tragic for our neighbours to the south; and Why… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Sep 2022 Long Live Imperialism?!–Thoughts On: Queen Elizabeth II and The End of Britain’s Imperial age By Ishaan Tharoor, with Sammy Westfall Email photo above: akdenizpazar.com WN: While true that Queen Elizabeth "was perhaps not privy… Editor 1 Comment
Blog 03 Sep 2022 Commentary On: The seeds of Biden’s democracy speech sprouted long before the Mar-a-Lago search By Sam Stein, Eugene Daniels and Jonathan Lemire 09/03/2022 WN: Of The Prison of Democracy: Race, Leavenworth, and the Culture… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Aug 2022 ‘West Wants to Change Regimes for Itself’ August 15, 2022 Julie Varughese Admin, Africa, Archives image above: On left: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken with Rwandan… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Jul 2022 The Neoliberal Order Is Crumbling. It’s Up to Us What Comes Next. 07.12.2022 image above: transcend.org WN: The article highlighted offers some fascinating analysis. excerpts: Neoliberalism may not be dead, but it… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Jul 2022 Reflections on: How to Read Donald Trump By Ariel Dorfman July 3, 2022 image above and below: "If there was a single company that embodied the overarching… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jun 2022 Do Christians Have a Responsibility to Protect? By Elias Crim April 18, 2022 WN: In the article highlighted, there is this: Here’s Augustine’s most famous passage on… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jun 2022 Thoughts on: It’s Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore. June 6, 2022 by Kim Phuc Phan Thi Ms. Phan Thi is the founder of the Kim Foundation International, which… Editor No Comments
07 Jun 2022 “There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way”: A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism Review of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century, Leilah Danielson, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Jun 2022 Thoughts on: The Queen’s jubilee can’t shake the ghosts of empire Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor June 3, 2022 image above: People watch planes fly over Buckingham Palace during celebrations marking the… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Mar 2022 What Goes Around . . .: Big Oil and Gas Kept a Dirty Secret for Decades. Now They May Pay the Price. Chris McGreal Wed 30 Jun 2021 photo above: Loïc Manegarium Communities are now demanding the oil conglomerates pay damages and… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Nov 2021 Commentary on: “Gomez, painting Catholics as victims, goes after his woke oppressors” Nov 10, 2021 by Thomas Reese, Religion News Service Opinion Politics photo above: Wikipedia WN: I felt gobsmacked by the… Editor No Comments
Blog Slum zone in Caracas city, Venezuela capital 07 Nov 2021 The European Union makes a policy play in Venezuela. by Anthony Faiola with Claire Parker photo above: istockphoto.com WN: Just as the "free press" is that only for the… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Nov 2021 Highlighting “Absolute Carbon Reduction Is an ‘Issue of Life and Death’ for Indigenous Peoples” By Amy Goodman Juan González, Democracy Now! Published November 2, 2021 photo above: Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Oct 2021 Concerning “Military vs Climate Spending: A Moral Catastrophe in Three Pictures” Richard Eskow October 28, 2021 photo above: Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Oct 2021 Commentary: “As Sen. Joe Manchin’s Star Rose in West Virginia, the FBI and IRS Probed His Closest Allies” Daniel Boguslaw October 23 2021 photo by Dominik Vanyi on Unsplash WN: The story below is about unbridled greed. It… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Oct 2021 Engagement With “Frances Haugen: ‘I never wanted to be a whistleblower. But lives were in danger’” Dan Milmo Global technology editor October 24, 2021 WN: Now this is wonderfully gracious theology from Frances Haugen: Because the… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Oct 2021 Interaction With “The CIA: 70 Years of Organized Crime” September 22, 2017 by Douglas Valentine – Lars Schall photo above by Tom Thai | CC BY 2.0 WN: Welcome… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Oct 2021 Legacy of Shame: October 19, 2021 by Kenn Orphan photo above: Photograph Source: Reagan White House Photographs – Public Domain WN: Saint Augustine… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Oct 2021 Comrade Ruskin By Eugene McCarraher August 26, 2019 photo above: John Ruskin in 1863 WN: This is a wonderful, encouraging article about… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Sep 2021 How America Fractured Into Four Parts By George Packer July/August 2021 Issue The Atlantic image above: Lucy Jones WN: Wow! The essay is stunning as it… Editor 2 Comments
Blog 05 Sep 2021 9/11 was a test: Essay by Carlos Lozada Illustration above: by Patrik Svensson Sept. 3, 2021 WN: Below are excerpts from an outstanding essay… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2021 Bomber Biden Sends in B-52 Bombers in a Tantrum over Taliban Advance August 12, 2021 by Dave Lindorff photo above: AC-130 Spectre gunship rains random death from the sky in the name… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Jul 2021 Opinion: The Jan. 6 select committee is already exceeding all expectations Opinion by Columnist Jennifer Rubin July 28, 2021 photo above: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) hugs Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn… Editor No Comments
19 Jul 2021 Front Page Augustine recounts this story of Empire: The king asked the fellow, “What is your idea, in infesting the sea?” And… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jul 2021 Around the World, Excessive Corporate Power Breeds Political Repression Inequality.org 07/17/2021 By Manuel Perez-Rocha | – an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., and… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2021 The war inside the Canadian Armed Forces By Marie-Danielle Smith July 8, 2021 illustration above: by Anna Minzhulina WN: Military. Police. Prisons.((See here also.)) All are rife… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Jun 2021 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 May 2021 Chris Hedges: God’s Covenant in the Promised Land WN: The following video, God's Covenant in the Promised Land, was powerful in 2014. It is tragically as true now… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Apr 2021 Dear White America – “History Has its Eye on You” By Community April 16, 2021 photo above: The quote is from The Talmud. WN: The above from The Talmud echoes… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Mar 2021 The fight to unionize Amazon is the most important labor story of this century John W. Miller March 25, 2021 photo above: Screenshot, America: The Jesuit Review WN: Amazon/Jeff Bezos is possibly America's most… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Mar 2021 Neoliberalism Doesn’t Care Published on Saturday, March 20, 2021 by Common Dreams by Tim Koechlin photo above: economist.com WN: In short: Neoliberalism is… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Mar 2021 Cornel West: The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street Is “Jim Crow, New Style” By George Yancy, Truthout Published March 5, 2021 photo above: yankeewikis.com WN: I first became involved with men in prison… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Feb 2021 How the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract January 23, 2020 by Mandy Smithberger illustration above: Matt Wuerker (Politico/Reddit) WN: In short: reducing military spending/international arms sales/wars is… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Feb 2021 On Some Bad House Manager Language February 12, 2021 by Paul Street photo above: Backbone Campaign – CC BY 2. WN: The highlighted article is a… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Feb 2021 On the Relative Vileness of George W. Bush and Donald Trump, Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene February 10, 2021 by Gary Leupp photo above: via The Huffington Post WN: One can imagine with the above photo… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Jan 2021 After Attempted Coup, We Must Fight White Supremacy and Sow Revolutionary Love After Attempted Coup, We Must Fight White Supremacy and Sow Revolutionary Love By adrienne maree brown, Truthout January 10, 2021… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Dec 2020 Jesus Was a Victim of Empire. Acknowledging This Should Transform Christianity. Jesus Was a Victim of Empire. Acknowledging This Should Transform Christianity. By Christine Mungai, Truthout Part of the Series: Religion's… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Nov 2020 Gustavo Gutiérrez and the preferential option for the poor Nov 8, 2011 by John Dear Blog | On the Road to Peace WN: What can one say? The highlighted… Editor No Comments
Blog BAYONNE, NJ - MAY 3: A wind blown American flag at the Tear Drop 9/11 Memorial flies over the skyline of New York City as the sun sets on May 3, 2020 in Bayonne, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) 16 Aug 2020 The Unraveling of America by Wade Davis August 6, 2020 Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jul 2020 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jun 2020 An Open Letter To Joe Biden Dear Mr. Biden. If I might be so bold, I wonder about connecting some dots at this incredible kairos moment… Editor No Comments
Blog 31 May 2020 Cornel West Says ‘Neo-Fascist Gangster’ Trump and Neoliberal Democrats Expose America as ‘Failed Social Experiment’ WN: Please see in light of the title this outstanding article by Canadian Wade Davis: The Unraveling of America. 1.… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Mar 2020 Beyond the Economic Chaos of Coronavirus Is a Global War Economy Beyond the Economic Chaos of Coronavirus Is a Global War Economy By William I. Robinson, Truthout March 23, 2020 photo… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Mar 2020 How America’s Elites Lost Their Grip By Anand Giridharadas November 21, 2019 Giridharadas is a TIME editor-at-large and the author of Winners Take All: The Elite… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Dec 2019 Freedom, Valor, Love: On Snowden’s Permanent Record November 20, 2019 by Michelle Renee Matisons WN: Former Canadian Member of Parliament Chuck Strahl once remonstrated at a workshop… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Oct 2019 Saying Goodbye to Sam Oct 28, 2019 Opinion | TD originals sketch above: Mr. Fish / Truthdig Chris Hedges Columnist Chris Hedges is a… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Oct 2019 Crises in Iraq and Haiti Expose the Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism It should be no surprise that the new governments installed by all these U.S. wars and coups are among the… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Oct 2019 Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Fading American Century Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Fading American Century The Real Cover-Up: Putting Donald Trump’s Impeachment in… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Oct 2019 Impeachment, Brought to You by the CIA October 4, 2019 by Rob Urie photo above: Photograph Source: Master Steve Rapport – CC BY 2.0 WN: There is… Editor No Comments
Blog Ron Dart, amongst many scholarly pursuits and prolific writing, is an enthusiastic mountaineer! 26 Mar 2019 The Journey to the East by Herman Hesse (1956): Part I/The Journey to the East: Part II WN: My friend Ron Dart is a prolific writer with wide-ranging subjects and invariably demonstrable wisdom. These two reflections again… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Feb 2019 A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy [irp]A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions.… Editor No Comments
Blog People mourn the loss of life as they hold a vigil for the victims of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 27, 2018. REUTERS/John Altdorfer 07 Feb 2019 Anti-Semitic Violence Erupts in America Anti-Semitic Violence Erupts in America By Joseph Kishore October 29, 2018 photo above: Reaction to anti-Semitic violence in Pittsburg, October… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jan 2019 Why Poverty Is Like a Disease Why Poverty Is Like a Disease Emerging science is putting the lie to American meritocracy. By Christian H. Cooper April… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jan 2019 Tucker Carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics Tucker Carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics “All I’m saying is don’t act like the way… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Aug 2018 The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean August 24, 2018 Slavery… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Feb 2018 Kipling, the ‘White Man’s Burden,’ and U.S. Imperialism by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney (Nov 01, 2003) photo above: The Moro Massacre (March 9, 1906): Phillipines… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Feb 2018 The Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny, and American Exceptionalism Posted on July 21, 2015 by christian hegemony Challenging Christian Hegemony Practical tools for recognizing and resisting Christian dominance WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Dec 2017 Anti-empire, pro-activist … The Last Jedi is as left wing as Jeremy Corbyn The latest Star Wars film is an unlikely champion of the grassroots – and it’s not even subtle about it… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Dec 2017 The Jesus Revolution is a long way from finished Sermon by Bruce Hiebert Langley (British Columbia) Mennonite Fellowship 26 November 2017 Text: Matthew 25:31-46 WN: My scholar friend Bruce… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Jul 2017 We Are the 99 Percent—Except for the Top 20 Percent of Us In a new book Dream Hoarders, Richard V. Reeves argues that members of the upper middle class, not just the… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Jul 2017 Worried About Those Global Cyber Attacks? They Were Started by Washington Worried About Those Global Cyber Attacks? They Were Started by Washington The notorious US spy agencies invented this monster, first… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Jun 2017 Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas JUNE 2, 2017 by PAUL STREET WN: The review below of… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jun 2017 The US and Israel Share a History of Ethnic Cleansing Sunday, May 28, 2017 By Mark Karlin, Truthout | Interview an excerpt: Mark Karlin Historically, what are some examples of… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jun 2017 Ajamu Baraka, “Uncle Tom,” and the Pathology of White Liberal Racism AUGUST 24, 2016 by ERIC DRAITSER WN: White Supremacy has many disguised faces. One is "white liberal", worn by those… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Apr 2017 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Nov 2016 Millions Will Be Harmed by Trump’s Policies, Warns Rights Advocate in Open Letter 'As president, you will have the heavy responsibility to prevent enactment of dangerous pledges and proposals that were made in… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Nov 2016 For Abolition: Prisons and Police Are More Than Brutality, They’re State Terror Saturday, 12 November 2016 00:00 By Frank Castro, The Hampton Institute | News Analysis photo above: Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Oct 2016 An Open Letter to Michelle Obama, October 13, 2016 WN: A friend reminded me, in response to that below, that none of us in the first world is… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Oct 2016 ‘Either We Destroy War or It Will Destroy Us’: Happy Birthday, Philip Berrigan Published on Wednesday, October 05, 2016 by Common Dreams | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Sep 2016 Empire’s Religion: Arundhati Roy Confronts the Tyranny of the Free Market Published on Thursday, September 15, 2016 by Common Dreams by Jake Johnson photo above: 'Whether she is writing of Kashmir… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Aug 2016 Platform – The Movement for Black Lives photo above (from this article): A sign marking the number of days activists have occupied Freedom Square, an encampment across… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Jul 2016 There’s No Business Like the Arms Business photo above: A mural near the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. ( Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Jul 2016 State Terrorism and Racist Violence in the Age of Disposability: Expanded Version Sunday, 10 July 2016 00:00 By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Demonstrators record a crowd of police… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Jul 2016 The Remaking of the Global Working Class Saturday, 02 July 2016 00:00 By Beverly Silver, ROAR Magazine | News Analysis photo above: The Remaking of the Global… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Jun 2016 Cornel West and the Fight to Save the Black Prophetic Tradition Monday, 09 September 2013 09:17 By Chris Hedges, TruthDig | Report photo above: Cornel West. (Photo: Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jun 2016 After Empowering the 1% and Impoverishing Millions, the IMF Admits Neoliberalism Is a Failure Wednesday, 01 June 2016 00:00 By Benjamin Dangl, Toward Freedom | News Analysis an excerpt: The IMF suggests neoliberalism has… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 May 2016 Trump Card: The Bully Who Exposes Our Bully Nation By Charles Derber and Yale Magrass photo above: by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels WN: There is much on this website about America's--and… Editor No Comments
Blog A member of the National Guard - a department which costs over $8 billion a year. Photo: DVIDSHUB via Flickr (CC BY) 23 Apr 2016 Global pitbulls: the US military mission to support corporate colonialism This is tragically our planet's reality... An excerpt: With its 800 bases in 80 countries, the US's global military domination… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Mar 2016 Pope Francis and the Just Third Way BY MICHAEL D. GREANEY, CPA, MBA JUNE 13, 2015 WN: This in my view is an outstanding article. Read it,… Editor No Comments
24 Jan 2015 The Myth of Religious Violence and Migrations of the Holy The Myth of Religious Violence and Migrations of the Holy My thanks to Oxford University Press for a review copy… Editor
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