Blog 10 May 2022 Inside the CIA’s secret Kabul base, burned out and abandoned in haste Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul Sun 3 Oct 2021 image above: The burnt-out remains of cars, minibuses and armoured vehicles at the… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Apr 2022 Paul and Christian Social Responsibility WN: New Testament scholar Chris Marshall first published this piece in 2000. There is another piece on this site (Is… Editor No Comments
Blog 31 Oct 2021 Spotlight on “Why MAGA Social Media Is a Hacker’s Wet Dream” Adam Rawnsley, Senior Researcher; Shannon Vavra, National Security Reporter Oct. 31, 2021 image above: Optimized Hate WN: Fools rush in… 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 17 Sep 2021 Pope Francis told bishops to shepherd pro-choice politicians ‘with God’s style.’ Sam Sawyer, S.J. September 17, 2021 photo above: Pope Francis celebrates a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 May 2021 Why Canada’s special forces ‘shadow army’ is still fighting ISIS By Adnan R. Khan May 11, 2021 photo above: Spec Ops Magazine WN: In short, Canada’s Special Operations Regiment (CSOR),… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Apr 2021 Empire Politician: The new president’s paper trail reveals a man who has often betrayed his own bedrock principles. Jeremy Scahill April 28… Editor No Comments
24 Mar 2021 The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America Of the extraordinarily valuable and informative works for which Mr. Valentine is responsible, his latest, CIA As Organized Crime, may… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Feb 2021 His pastors tried to steer him away from social media rage. By Peter Manseau Feb. 19, 2021 photo above: Michael Sparks, far left, stands with other Trump supporters as they are… 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 28 Apr 2020 Voices Rock Medicine Women Physicians’ Choir A Toronto-Based Choir of Women Physicians singing "Rise Again" by Leon Dubinsky WN: The first video below is so inspiring--and… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Mar 2020 All about COVID-19 with Physician and Writer Kevin Patterson VIDEO: The conversation with the smart doctor you’ve been wanting to have. Speaking with Aletha Humphreys (Executive Director, Greenwoods Elder… 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 15 Jul 2019 Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face By Cade Metz July 13, 2019 photo above: The Brainwash database, created by Stanford University researchers, contained more than 10,000… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Jan 2019 American Psychological Association links ‘masculinity ideology’ to homophobia, misogyny American Psychological Association links 'masculinity ideology' to homophobia, misogyny For the first time in its 127-year history, the APA has… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Sep 2017 The Racial Wealth Gap Is Leading to An Almost-Nonexistent Middle Class With people of color projected to make up the majority of Americans by 2043, a new study warns against policies… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Jul 2017 Urgent Special Appeal From Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPJ) We Need You! Dear Friends, On April 19, 2017, Issam Al Yamani, a prominent Palestinian activist in the Greater Toronto… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Oct 2016 The CIA’s Involvement in Indonesia and the Assassinations of JFK and Dag Hammarskjold By Edward Curtin and Greg Poulgrain Global Research, July 22, 2016 In the "City of God," St. Augustine tells the… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Sep 2016 Integral Voices – A semi-monthly global conversation bringing you the latest in thought leadership on global social justice and peace September 1, 2016 integralvoices This is a Roman Catholic voice from Center of Concern in Washington D.C. Below is an… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Aug 2016 Special Investigation: My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard by Shane Bauer July/August 2016 issue of Mother Jones This is a highly poignant story, at once courageous and deeply… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Aug 2016 50 Former National Security Officials and Advisers From GOP Administrations Denounce Trump Posted on August 8, 2016 This man is one sick soul. an excerpt: Another day, another public rebuke of Donald… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Jul 2016 Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ) Below is information about a highly insightful and motivating website. Welcome to CESJ - Center for Economic and Social Justice… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jul 2016 Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, How Extrajudicial Executions Became “War” Policy in Washington Posted by Rebecca Gordon at 4:00pm, July 17, 2016. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch Photo above: US Predator drone an… Editor No Comments
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Blog 19 May 2016 US Officials Responsible for Torture Should Be Prosecuted Under Nuremberg Protocols photo above: Congressional Republicans surround President George W. Bush as he signs the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act… Editor No Comments
Blog Unknown 17 May 2016 CIA Torture Is Out in the Open – but Guantanamo Bay Detainees Are Still Going Nowhere By Rebecca Cordell This article is a bit dated, but the realities remain the same. an excerpt: The recent release… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Apr 2016 World Social Forum, August 9 – 14, Montréal Canadian Friends of Sabeel, a pro-reconciliation entity encouraging justice and peace between Palestine and Israel, and part of a worldwide… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Mar 2015 Transformative Justice Vision and Spirituality: M2/W2 Association and The Criminal Justice System This paper was done in May 2002 for a presentation at a Correctional Service of Canada institution. I do not… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Apr 2024 Focus on: Trump’s a Fraud When It Comes to Law and Order and ‘Backing the Blue’ Ron Filipkowski Updated Apr. 22, 2024 WN: Nothing really to add. Besides his inveterate lying, his whole life has been a… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Apr 2024 Thoughts on: Donald Trump’s Christian Soldiers Peter Dreier \ Activism April 15, 2024 image above: The evangelical Left Behind series sold over 40,000,000 books — greater than… Editor No Comments
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Blog 29 Mar 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 Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie star in a scene from the movie “Barbie.” The OSV News classification is A-II – adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG-13 – parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (OSV News photo/Warner Bros.) 05 Mar 2024 A Catholic defense of ‘Barbie’ and Greta Gerwig’s feminism Abigail Wilkinson Miller March 05, 2024 image above: Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie star in a scene from the movie… Editor No Comments
Blog “We put God right at the center of the White House.” —Paula White, speaking at an Evangelicals for Trump event at Solid Solid Rock Church, Ohio, March 6, 2020 05 Mar 2024 Thoughts On: Where Did Evangelicals Go Wrong? By Peter Wehner March 3, 2024 Illustration above by Brian Reedy. WN: Think of the illustration in conjunction with this… 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
Blog 31 Jan 2024 The ‘Profound Influence’ of Christian Extremists on Mike Johnson Roger Sollenberger Jan. 31, 2024 image above: WN: Dominionism is at root a fundamental disavowal of Jesus' life and ministry… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jan 2024 Comments: On getting over ourselves Ken Sehested 30 January 2024 image above: by Ken Sehested WN: I so appreciate Ken's musings. You may subscribe here.… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jan 2024 A few thoughts on Alistair Begg: ‘I’m not ready to repent over’ same-sex wedding advice By Ian M. Giatti, Christian Post Reporter Monday, January 29, 2024 image above: Alistair Begg, senior pastor of Parkside Church… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Jan 2024 A Few Thoughts On: Pope Francis in 2024 – a year in God’s time 04 January 2024 The Tablet by Austen Ivereigh WN: Is the Pope amongst the wisest Christian leaders alive today? I… Editor No Comments
05 Jan 2024 Interactive, Partial Book Review of: The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes Interactive, Partial Book Review of: The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes, James Alison, New York: Crossroad… Editor No Comments
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Blog 26 Dec 2023 This Is Why Jesus Wept Dec. 24, 2023 By Peter Wehner Mr. Wehner, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, is a contributing Opinion writer.… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Dec 2023 New research undercuts Republican views of racism Analysis by Washington Post Staff December 7, 2023 image above: Vlada Karpovich WN: People in constant denial of historic racism… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Nov 2023 Trump lashes out at Laurene Powell Jobs over Atlantic piece calling him ‘fascistic,’ anti-Christian Monday, November 27, 2023 by Charles Jay for Community Contributors Team image above: LAURENE POWELL JOBS | www.thefemalelead.com WN: In… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Nov 2023 Tragically: Europe’s far right goes mainstream By Ishaan Tharoor with Sammy Westfall Email image above: Geert Wilders: who is the anti-Islam politician leading the largest Dutch… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Nov 2023 Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans By Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan Nov. 11, 2023 WN: What monumentally sick baby! And the GOP in lockstep.… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Nov 2023 Opinion The carnage must stop. Time for a ceasefire in Gaza. By Philippe Lazzarini November 8, 2023 image above: WN: Listen to President Roosevelt in 1939: September 1, 1939—5 a.m. The… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Nov 2023 Sudan’s civil war triggers an ‘unimaginable’ humanitarian crisis Ishaan Tharoor November 9, 2023 image above: Anthony Beck WN: One simply aches. . . excerpts: It’s not just… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Nov 2023 EU Scientists ‘Can Say With Near Certainty’ That 2023 Will Be Hottest in 125,000 Years Jessica Corbett Nov 08, 2023 image above: Vincent M.A. Janssen: https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-holding-banner-2561628/ WN: There is nothing more to say than: Lord,… Editor No Comments
Blog People enter the Music City Center for the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Nashville. RNS photo by Kit Doyle 08 Nov 2023 Why Southern Baptists are Furious Over a Sex Abuse Case in Kentucky By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham writes about faith and values, and has written extensively about the Southern Baptist Convention. Nov.… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Nov 2023 Kairos Canada November 8, 2023 WN: Here is their current statement: Dear Wayne, The escalating violence in Gaza, other Occupied Territories and… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Nov 2023 The Essential Skills for Being Human By David Brooks Opinion Columnist image above: Liana Finck WN: Outstanding, lovely article. excerpts: I have learned something… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Nov 2023 Israel’s Dangerous Delusion: No third party will step in to govern Gaza. By Hussein Ibish image above: The destroyed farmland was used to amass dozens of armored vehicles. Source: Satellite image by… Editor No Comments
Blog NABLUS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - OCTOBER 17, 2023: A march in the city center of Nablus, West Bank, on October 17, 2023. The march was initiated by Fatah members, but Hamas flags (in green) also appeared in the crowd. A quarrel then broke out when Fatah members tried to push Hamas supporters to leave the demonstration. (Photo by Lorenzo Tugnoli/For The Washington Post) 24 Oct 2023 Israel says Hamas ‘is ISIS.’ But it’s not. By Ishaan Tharoor with Sammy Westfall Email image above: A march in the city center of Nablus, West Bank, on Oct.… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Oct 2023 Stress is weathering our bodies from the inside out Akilah Johnson and Charlotte Gomez Oct. 17, 2023 image above: WN: At once fascinating and utterly tragic. . . excerpts:… Editor No Comments
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Blog The Security Council votes on a draft resolution on the situation in the Middle East. The resolution, submitted by Brazil, called for “humanitarian pauses” to deliver lifesaving aid to millions in Gaza. The resolution received 12 votes in favour, 2 abstentions (Russian Federation, United Kingdom), and 1 vote against (United States). The Resolution was not adopted due to a veto by the United States. A view of Council members signaling their abstention. 18 Oct 2023 Agonizing: U.S. Vetoes Security Council Resolution on ‘Humanitarian Pause’ in Gaza AJ McDougall Breaking News Reporter Oct. 18, 2023 image above: Security Council Meets on Situation in Middle East, Including Palestinian… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Oct 2023 Reflection on: Everything I thought I knew about Israel and Gaza was wrong Editor in Chief Jodi Rudoren October 9, 2023 --source of image above NOTE: Please see too: Agonizing: U.S. Vetoes… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Oct 2023 Theories on the Psychology of Violence WN: I met the author of the presentation below at a COV&R (Colloquium on Violence and Religion) Conference.I recall a… Editor No Comments
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Blog 25 Jul 2023 The American Evangelical Church Is in Crisis. There’s Only One Way Out. By Russell Moore July 25, 2023 image above: Religion and Right-Wing Politics: How Evangelicals Reshaped Elections - The New York Times… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jul 2023 When climate change hits home By David Gelles Photo by Tom Fisk WN: At once gargantuan challenges and huge optimism. excerpts: We know that man-made… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jul 2023 Who Truly Threatens the Church? July 9, 2023 By David French Opinion Columnist image above: Robert Stokoe | Follow WN: There is great wisdom in… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Jul 2023 It’s Seven Grandkids, Mr. President Opinion By Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist July 8, 2023 photo above: One of the photos Lunden Roberts posted on Instagram… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Jul 2023 Dread, white and blue David Shribman The Globe and Mail Pittsburgh Published June 30, 2023 photo above: The Supreme Court in its final day… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 May 2023 Franklin Graham warns Liberty graduates about ‘culture of confusion,’ ‘lies from Hell’ By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor May 13, 2023 image above: The Rev. Franklin Graham gives the commencement address at… Editor No Comments
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
26 Mar 2023 The Other Side of the Good News: Confronting the Contemporary Challenges to Jesus’ Teachings on Hell WN: I knew I would eventually review this book. But it took me seven years after its publication to do… Editor No Comments
Blog “We put God right at the center of the White House.” —Paula White, speaking at an Evangelicals for Trump event at Solid Solid Rock Church, Ohio, March 6, 2020 25 Mar 2023 Comments On: Amazing Disgrace By Sarah Posner Illustration above by Brian Reedy. Think of the illustration in conjunction with this hugely ironic quote, one… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Mar 2023 Thoughts About: Why white Christian nationalists are in such a panic By Jennifer Rubin | March 19, 2023 WN: In response to the article highlighted below, I quote Scripture (Philippians 2)… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Mar 2023 Amazon Rainforest Destabilizes the World March 17, 2023 by Robert Hunziker image above: Vlad Hilitanu WN: Thank God for small environmental gains. But the outlook… 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 Mar 2023 The United States and ICC have an awkward history By Adam Taylor with Sammy Westfall Email image above: bicakhukuk.com WN: "Oddly, the U.S. position on the ICC is the… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Mar 2023 Is Violence Master Of Us All? April 22, 2001; April 29, 2001; May 6, 2001 - 3 Sunday School classes image above: A History of Violence:… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Mar 2023 Comments On: Jimmy Carter embodies the ‘road not taken’ by many White evangelical Christians Story by John Blake: He is the author of the forthcoming: More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Mar 2023 Thoughts On: Worried that women will be prosecuted for using abortion pills? It’s already happening by Arwa Mahdawi March 4, 2023 WN: While I oppose abortion on principle, abortion should be an ethical, not a… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Feb 2023 Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Manisha Ganguly, David Pegg, Carole Cadwalladr and Jason Burke Wed 15 Feb 2023 image above: Tal Hanan… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Feb 2023 While locked up in a U.S. prison, Jesse Krimes secretly created epic works of art Feb 15, 2023 image above: While serving five years in a U.S. federal prison, Jesse Krimes created elaborate works of… 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 15 Feb 2023 Extensive Commentary On: What white Christian support for Trump reveals about systemic racism By Robert P. Jones | November 12, 2020 WN: Beyond tragic the pullquote to the right, this means four-fifths of American… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Feb 2023 He planned to blow up a mosque, but found salvation there instead Sheena Goodyear CBC Radio Posted: Feb 10, 2023 image above: When Richard (Mac) McKinney first visited a mosque in Muncie,… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Feb 2023 Commentary On: How can I reconcile the good and evil of Jean Vanier? Colleen Dulle photo above: Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche communities, is pictured in a Feb. 17, 2015, photo. (CNS photo/courtesy… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Jan 2023 State Terror: Tyre Nichols’s Death Is America’s Shame Jan. 27, 2023 By Charles M. Blow Opinion Columnist image above: Protesters gather in NYC’s Union Square Friday night after… Editor No Comments
Blog Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022). Daniel Craig as Detective Benoit Blanc. Cr. John Wilson/Netflix © 2022. 28 Jan 2023 More than a whodunit: ‘Glass Onion’ examines our complicity in society’s evils by Mike Jordan Laskey January 28, 2023 image above: Daniel Craig as Detective Benoit Blanc in "Glass Onion: A Knives… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Jan 2023 What Really Took America to War in Iraq By Melvyn P. Leffler--From the January/February 209 issue: The George W. Bush years January 23, 2023 image above: Alex Cochran… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Jan 2023 Thoughts On: The Great Santos January 20, 2023 Matthew Stevenson image above: Original cover art for the 1927 edition of The Great Gatsby by Francis… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Jan 2023 Following in MLK’s Footsteps Means Resisting Christian Nationalism By Nicholas Powers | Truthout January 16, 2023 WN: In the excellent article highlighted below, the author writes: Today the… Editor No Comments
Blog Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) seen during the first day of the 118th session of Congress on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. 04 Jan 2023 Focus On: All of the Many, Many Lies George Santos Has Told Decca Muldowney | Reporter-Researcher Jan. 04, 2023 image above: kget.com WN: This is Trump (weighing in at 30,000 mistruths - that's… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Jan 2023 So Sad: The Final Campaign Inside Donald Trump’s sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run for reelection. (Which isn’t to say he can’t win.) The Power Trip Dec. 23, 2022 Olivia Nuzzi New York’s Washington correspondent WN: I once saw a cartoon about a… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Dec 2022 Firewood will save the West Paul Kingsnorth is a novelist and essayist. His latest novel Alexandria is published by Faber. He also has a Substack:… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Dec 2022 ‘That’s Hitler, Bannon thought’: 2022 in books about Trump and US politics by Lloyd Green Sun 11 Dec 2022 image above: Steve Benson | Copyright 2022 Creators Syndicate WN: This is an… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Dec 2022 Catholic group under attack by GOP for aiding migrants says its work ‘is mandated by the gospel’ December 19, 2022 WN: It's all so anti-Christ and tragic . . . excerpts: Humanitarian workers are slamming a baseless… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Dec 2022 ‘Conspiracy to defraud’ is the perfect charge against the grifter Trump December 19, 2022 By Eugene Robinson | Columnist WN: Trump The Ultimate Grifter. Trump The Ultimate Ugly American. Trump The… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Dec 2022 Herschel Walker Is the New Normal By Tom Nichols December 6, 2022 image above: meetthematts.com WN: The title is tragically true. As the article says: If… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Nov 2022 Beware of Those Who Believe They Were Sent By God thomhartmann (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.) November 29, 2022 Image by… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Nov 2022 Israel and the Palestinians: Apartheid State by Ron Dart image above: 15 May, 2013, marked the 65th anniversary of the Nakba – when 750,000 Palestinians were… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Nov 2022 At last!: Trump finally starts bleeding evangelical support—but this time no one thinks it’s the stigmata Aldous J Pennyfarthing for Community Contributors Team November 18, 2022 image above: A group of 25 evangelical pastors and leaders… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Nov 2022 Trump Wanted I.R.S. Investigations of Foes, Top Aide Says Michael S. Schmidt Nov. 13, 2022 image above: Rick McKee | Counterpoint.com WN: Trump always looks bad, because he has… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Nov 2022 The war in Ukraine has paralyzed global politics By Ishaan Tharoor with Sammy Westfall Email image above: Leaders meet during a Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia,… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Nov 2022 Insights Into: Trump Is Back In by Tom Nichols November 16, 2022 WN: "Lance the boil!" Amen! Please also see, by Cas Mudde, November 16, 2022:… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Nov 2022 Comments on: Loyal to “God” and Trump, Mike Pence Defends His Record By Jennifer Szalai Nov. 14, 2022 image above: Donald Trump presenting Mike Pence as his running mate at a campaign… Editor No Comments
13 Nov 2022 Captain America; The Armageddon Factor (Two Reviews Together) Captain America and the Crusade Against Evil: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism, Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence, Grand Rapids:… Editor
Blog 13 Nov 2022 The Great Sumas Lake Heist: A Guilty Little Secret in Plain Sight Sumas Lake until a century ago covered about 10% of the Fraser Valley's fertile farmland. Then it was 'disappeared.' Whatever… Editor No Comments
09 Nov 2022 Book Review of: Glory to God in the Lowest: Journeys to an Unholy Land Olive Branch Press, 2022, Donald E. Wagner By Ron Dart The title of this timely, autobiographical and not-to-be-missed book tends… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Nov 2022 The Quiet Part is Very Much Out Loud: Conservative Publication Calls For Embrace of Totalitarianism By Annika Brockschmidt November 7, 2022 WN: Christian Nationalism, according to this article, is now in the conservative mainstream. This… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Nov 2022 Remembering Frederick Buechner, 1926-2022 August 29, 2022 Martin Dotterweich Memorial image above: thedubiouspandita.wordpress.com WN: Decades ago, I encountered the writings of Frederick Buechner. I never tired… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Nov 2022 Highlighting: Never underestimate how much people hate Nancy Pelosi Monica Hesse November 1, 2022 image above: Nancy Pelosi gets a kiss from her husband, Paul Pelosi, at a 2007… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Nov 2022 Thoughts On: If today’s GOP baffles you, consider what motivates its base By Jennifer Rubin November 1, 2022 image above: Illustration above by Brian Reedy. Think of the illustration in conjunction with… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Nov 2022 Two Arizona Republicans on their fight for election facts October 30, 2022 CBSNews - Sunday image above: Arizona AG debunks 2020 election fraud claims | 60 Minutes 01:12 ©… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Nov 2022 Stephen Miller group’s radio ads accuses Biden of ‘racism’ towards white Americans By Meridith McGraw 10/31/2022 WN: Sadly, I've been hearing tropes like this for years from a close relative . .… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Oct 2022 The Secret Path – Gord Downie’s Secret Path In Concert WN: The concert and the TV Special, "The Secret Path" (the latter written and directed by Gord Downie of "The… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Oct 2022 Deconstruction or Reconstruction? Pastors Discuss a Reboot of Evangelicalism Bob Smietana October 26, 2022 image above: Panelists Joel Lawrence, from left, Malcolm Foley, Gavin Ortlund, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, Doug Sweeney… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Oct 2022 If Trump Runs Again, Do Not Cover Him the Same Way: A Journalist’s Manifesto Perspective by Margaret Sullivan Margaret Sullivan was The Post’s media columnist from 2016 until late August. This article is adapted… Editor No Comments
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 11 Oct 2022 Interaction With: Looking for advice on masculinity? Try St. Joseph rather than Jordan Peterson Oct 11, 2022 by Stephen G. Adubato | Opinion Stephen G. Adubato studied moral theology at Seton Hall University and… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Oct 2022 Why Donald Trump was bad for America but good for Canada October 10, 2022 Galen Watts FWO / Banting Fellow, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven image above: Donald Trump is… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Oct 2022 This $108 Bamboo Home Is a Lifeline for Future Flood Victims by Nick Aspinwall Oct. 08, 2022 image above: Courtesy of Heritage Foundation of Pakistan WN: Wow! The article below is… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Oct 2022 Thoughts On: Why Do So Many Americans Believe the Lies Pushed by the GOP? thomhartmann Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.) Thursday September 29, 2022… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Oct 2022 Opinion: How the U.S. role in the Holocaust plays out in today’s politics By Kate Woodsome Producer, writer, director | September 21, 2022 image above: Members of the Sturmabteilung [Stormtroopers] or SA —… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Oct 2022 Opinion: Once again, the media fails to press Republicans on Trump’s vile rhetoric By Jennifer Rubin Columnist |October 3, 2022 WN: Tragically, everything about Trump politically is summed up in an adverb and… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Sep 2022 Roger Stone: ‘F**k the voting, let’s get right to the violence.’ Also Stone: ‘That’s a deepfake’ Rebekah Sager Daily Kos Staff Tuesday September 27, 2022 image above: from documentary by filmmakers Christoffer Guldbrandsen and Frederik Marbell… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Sep 2022 Trump’s Messiah Scam Increases His Threat To America September 23, 2022 thomhartmann image above: Pete Linforth from Pixabay WN: The author of the article highlighted below consciously or… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Sep 2022 The online incel movement is getting more violent and extreme, report says Taylor Lorenz Updated September 23, 2022 image above: CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANITY’S “COME TO JESUS” MOMENT IN WAKE OF ELLIOT RODGER SHOOTINGS… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Sep 2022 Jan. 6 Twitter witness: Failure to curb Trump spurred ‘terrifying’ choice Drew Harwell September 22, 2022 image above: Former Twitter employee Anika Collier Navaroli. (Marlena Sloss for The Washington Post) WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Sep 2022 NY AG Sues Trump and Children Over ‘Staggering’ Criminal Fraud Julia Conley September 21, 2022 WN: I have a close relative who railed against the dishonesty of the Clinton's, Obama,… 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 2 Comments
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 24 Aug 2022 Is Donald Trump the Antichrist? thomhartmann Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.) Tuesday August 23, 2022… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Aug 2022 After decades in GOP, Colo. senator says: ‘We need Democrats in charge’ By Jonathan Edwards August 23, 2022 image above: Longtime Republican Colorado state Sen. Kevin Priola, left, announced his decision to… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Aug 2022 There Is No Happy Ending to America’s Trump Problem By Damon Linker Mr. Linker, a former columnist at The Week, writes the newsletter “Eyes on the Right.” Aug. 21,… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Aug 2022 Frederick Buechner, Popular Christian ‘Writer’s Writer’ and ‘Minister’s Minister,’ Dies at 96 Emily McFarlan Miller August 16, 2022 image above: WN: The brilliant novelist/theologian was a great discovery. I read much of… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Aug 2022 Focus On: Can GOP Voters Handle the Truth? By Tom Nichols August 17, 2022 image above: imgflip.com WN: I have been in profound disagreement over the years with… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Aug 2022 FROM THE HEALTH DESK POLITICO Nightly by DAVID SIDERS 08/16/2022 WN: May such initiatives proliferate! excerpts: FROM THE HEALTH DESK — It’s no secret that… 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 14 Aug 2022 In Afghanistan, a legacy of U.S. failure endures By Ishaan Tharoor with Sammy Westfall August 14, 2022 image above: A crying Afghan woman begs for help from US troops.… Editor 2 Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2022 All the Marys July 18 2022 by Diana Butler Bass WN: The sermon by the above historian is revolutionary in terms of the… Editor No Comments
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Blog 08 Aug 2022 Thoughts On: “We need to take away children.” An investigation by Caitlin Dickerson August 7, 2022 image above: These illustrations were created by The Atlantic using direct quotes… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Aug 2022 Opinion | The GOP is sick. It didn’t start with Trump — and won’t end with him. By Dana Milbank | Columnist August 4, 2022 image above: Trump is sick. So is the GOP., by Joel Mathis,… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Aug 2022 Thoughts on: Opinion | Josh Hawley’s problem with masculinity By Jonathan Capehart Columnist| August 3, 2022 image above: The House Jan. 6 committee shows a photo of Sen. Josh… Editor No Comments
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Blog 01 Aug 2022 Interaction With: When Christianity Becomes Toxic ‘Christianism’ August 1, 2022 WN: This reflection by a top Christian ethicist is pointed, powerful, and hopeful! Please click on the… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jul 2022 Response To: The backlash to Christianity: Republicans are now panicked — but they only have themselves to blame July 29, 2022 By Amanda Marcotte, Senior Writer image above: rightwingwatch.org WN: This line in the highlighted article below stands… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jul 2022 Comments On: The Claremont Institute triumphed in the Trump years. Then came Jan. 6. By Marc Fisher and Isaac Stanley-Becker Updated July 30, 2022 | Published July 24, 2022 image above: Don Quixote de la Mancha… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jul 2022 Thoughts on: Honest Government Ad | US Supreme Court 🇺🇸 WN: This video is brilliant. Caveat: While the language is raw, the sentiment is true. I think it powerfully captures… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jul 2022 Pope Francis says Catholic Church committed cultural ‘genocide’ of Canada’s Indigenous peoples Jul 30, 2022 by Christopher White Christopher White is the Vatican correspondent for NCR. His email address is [email protected]. Follow him… Editor No Comments
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Blog 27 Jul 2022 What in the World Happened to Elise Stefanik? July 26, 2022 By Peter Wehner Mr. Wehner is a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum. image above: Damon Winter/The… Editor No Comments
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Blog 18 Jul 2022 Bill McKibben: “Appalling” European Heat Wave Demands Massive Climate Action By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Published July 18, 2022 WN: Nothing really to add. Except, to slightly vary the adage:… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Jul 2022 Focus On: Mapping Militarism 2020 by David Swanson May 6, 2020 WN: The article highlighted below represents a brilliant and multiplex presentation of the worldwide… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jul 2022 Interaction with: US Democracy’s Survival Requires a More Powerful Response to January 6th by Douglas London July 15, 2022 image above: demdigest.org WN: “You can fool all the people some of the time… 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 14 Jul 2022 Right into the political danger zone By Marc Tracy July 14, 2022 image above: In “Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom Cruise trains a group of young pilots… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Jul 2022 Commentary on: John Bolton Casually Admits to CNN That He’s Planned Coups by Justin Baragona WN: Ah, the noble United States of America: ultimate bastion of democracy; exceptionally godly and self-sacrificing; a… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jul 2022 Tomgram Engelhardt, Life in Hell (Literally!) July 5, 2022 By Tom Engelhardt image above: thedailybeast.com WN: In the micro, I have a close relative who still… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jul 2022 Trump proven unfit for power again by Washington Examiner June 29, 2022 WN: The article highlighted below is reporting by a conservative news outlet. The final… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Jul 2022 The internet is… saved??!! image above: (September 2016)--For 5 years we've fought corporate giants to save the internet, and it's looking like WE'VE WON!!!!!… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Jul 2022 Corporate and Contemplative Prayer WN: Taylor was kind enough to grant me permission to reproduce fully the excellent meditation below. He explains the provenance.… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Jul 2022 The United States of Antipathy July 5, 2022 WN: There is dire warning in the article highlighted below. I fear it is warranted. We are… Editor 2 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 02 Jul 2022 The Pandemic Is Waning. Anthony Fauci Has a Few More Lessons to Share. By Anna Peele June 29, 2022 image above: Anthony Fauci. (Jesse Dittmar for The Washington Post) WN: Great insights about… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Jul 2022 How Trump World pressures witnesses to deny his possible wrongdoing By Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany June 30, 2022 image above: Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jul 2022 Thoughts on: Discovering the true self in God with Thomas Merton’s guidance This article appears in the Take and Read feature series. View the full series. Editor's note: "Take and Read" is a weekly blog that… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jul 2022 Why I Oppose the Death Penalty WN: I was invited to dialogue with Dr. Richard Land of (later) “The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission” of the… 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 28 Jun 2022 Opinion A question for those who say more faith will prevent gun violence: How? By Kate Cohen Contributing columnist |June 27, 2022 image above: Handguns for sale at a store in Greeley, Pa., on… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Jun 2022 A planet in peril and our embrace of Big Brother: George Orwell would have been shocked by Rebecca Solnit image above: cloudcity7.com WN: The author's concluding line is foreboding and powerful: In many ways, we are… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Jun 2022 I Prayed and Protested to End Roe. What Comes Next? By Karen Swallow Prior: Dr. Prior is a research professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a columnist for the… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Jun 2022 Response To: ‘If you decide to cut staff, people die’: how Nottingham prison descended into chaos by Isobel Thompson June 21, 2022 image above: Ben Jones/The Guardian WN: This is a worldwide story repeated since the… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Jun 2022 The Jan. 6 hearings and the spectacle of competence Perspective by Inkoo Kang June 23, 2022 image above: Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) speak… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Jun 2022 How Franklin Graham pushed a domestic abuse victim to return to her husband By Sarah Pulliam Bailey June 20, 2022 image above: Naghmeh Panahi is pictured outside of her house in Boise. (Kyle… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Jun 2022 Focus On: The Rise and Cost of He-Man Politics By Bill Donahue June 20, 2022 image above: (Van Saiyan for The Washington Post) WN: This article is about sick… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Jun 2022 Reflections On: Opinion Doug Mastriano’s unhinged ‘Nazi’ claim signals deeper danger ahead By Greg Sargent, Columnist June 2, 2022 image above: thedispatch.com WN: The U.S. has become increasingly unhinged--thanks in significant part… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jun 2022 Interaction With: When the US Is Truly Run by These Fascists It Will Be Too Late Thom Hartmann June 8, 2022 image above: That single strongman Leader is the key to understanding everything else that happens… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jun 2022 Thoughts on: With the Buffalo massacre, white Christian nationalism strikes again Perspective by Samuel L. Perry Philip S. Gorski May 20, 2022 image above: Hundreds of white nationalists marched on the… 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 01 Jun 2022 Reflections on: How US gun culture stacks up with the world By Kara Fox, Krystina Shveda, Natalie Croker and Marco Chacon, CNN Thu May 26, 2022 WN: Add to this the overwhelming… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 May 2022 The reinvention of a ‘real man’ By Jose A. Del Real May 23, 2022 image above: Bill Hawley, left, speaks with a veteran in Buffalo, Wyo.… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 May 2022 Pope Francis, Ukraine and effective nonviolent resistance May 30, 2022 by Eli McCarthy Opinion WN: There is in Jesus no legitimate "just war theory." There are many… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 May 2022 Climate Change Fuels Heat Wave in India and Pakistan, Scientists Find By Henry Fountain May 23, 2022 image above: A field on the outskirts of New Delhi, where temperatures have been… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 May 2022 Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, kept secret database, report says By Sarah Pulliam Bailey May 22, 2022 WN: Wherever men see themselves as "central, superior, and deserving" in any relationship,… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 May 2022 Ukraine-Russia crisis: Nonviolent resistance is a brave and often effective response to aggression CUE API |Loughborough, March 6 image above: People hold signs as Fridays for Future activists demonstrate against the Russian invasion of… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 May 2022 Silent Genocide By Robert C. Koehler image above: An example of the damage done by depleted uranium shells on armour plating. WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 May 2022 Devotional – M2/W2 Staff-Board Retreat, June 12, 1999 WN: In 1998, I became Executive Director of M2/W2, a Restorative Justice/Prison Visitation program. I held that position until retirement… Editor No Comments
10 May 2022 Covenant of Peace The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics, Willard M. Swartley, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006 WN: This is about… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 May 2022 The Mumbai Bombs, July 2006 July 12, 2006 Dear Editor: Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter MacKay predictably was the pot that called the kettle… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 May 2022 The Adages of Erasmus The Adages of Erasmus: Philosophy, Formation and Wisdom, William Barker, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2001. WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 May 2022 The Impact of Christ on Female/Male Relationships This study still has pertinence today. There are two versions, which titles below explain. The second was presented on the… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 May 2022 Commentary on: Faith, Science, and Francis Collins By Dhruv Khullar April 7, 2022 photo above: Wikipedia--Francis Collins is the only Presidentially appointed N.I.H. (National Institutes of Health) director… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 May 2022 Reflections on: How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable By Nicholas Confessore April 30, 2022 WN: "Mr. Carlson asked a guest in 2017. 'Is that bigoted?' " Yes, Mr.… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Apr 2022 RJ World eConference 2022 WN: The second RJ World eConference too place, April 23-30, 2022. About the first, two years ago, you may view… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Apr 2022 Opinion: A young Democrat’s viral takedown demands a ‘wokeness’ rethink By Greg Sargent Columnist | April 20, 2022 WN: Wow! This Senator powerfully stands up for love of neighbour and… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Apr 2022 Thrilling to: The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself By David Brooks Opinion Columnist Feb. 4, 2022 image above: Concept by Jason Sfetko, Illustration by Justin Metz WN: The article… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Apr 2022 Waging Peace by Diana Oestreich WN: Below is a powerful sermon about the above title! It was preached Sunday, April 3, 2022, at… Editor No Comments
30 Mar 2022 Is the digital age confirming Ivan Illich’s once radical ideas? WN: Here’s a friendly new review of Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey by Robert Inchausti. He is the author of… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2022 Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey Discussion Group with David Cayley David Cayley is introduced on this website here. This summer, he consented to meet with a group of us on… Editor No Comments
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
23 Mar 2022 Apocalypse Now!: A Revaluation of the Thought of Ivan Illich Brother John, Taizé In his masterful and comprehensive study recently published by Penn State University Press, Ivan Illich: An Intellectual… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Mar 2022 Circles of Support and Accountability Needless to say, I believe in Restorative Justice and CoSA! 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 15 Mar 2022 Reflection on: John Mearsheimer on why the West is principally responsible for the Ukrainian crisis Mar 11th 2022 by John J. Mearsheimer image above: Dan Williams WN: I recently sent out to several people an… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Mar 2022 Restorative Justice and Spiritual Origins, November 19, 2004 WN: Some of the papers on Restorative Justice are understandably repetitive, though I culling the obviously such. image above: sikhnet.com… Editor No Comments
Blog Anti-riot police give signal to be ready. Government power concept. Police in action. Smoke on a dark background with lights. Blue red flashing sirens. Dictatorship power. Selective focus 06 Mar 2022 Is Violence Master of Us All?: Fight, Flight or Just Peacemaking WN: The host was the affable lawyer Gerry Palmer, quite well-known in Abbotsford for his work with numerous non-profit organizations,… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2022 Liz Theoharis, The Rise of White Christian Nationalism: Which Way America? By Liz Theoharis Liz Theoharis, a TomDispatch regular, is a theologian, ordained minister, and anti-poverty activist. Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2022 Spotlight on: Putin’s spiritual destiny Giles Fraser is a journalist, broadcaster and Rector at the south London church of St Mary’s, Newington image above: ft.com… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Feb 2022 Ominous: A Convoy Revved by Foreign Actors Spreading Lies Andrew Nikiforuk Today | TheTyee.ca Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Feb 2022 When the Rage Came for Me By Stephen Marche About the author: Stephen Marche is the author of The Next Civil War. February 12, 2022 photo… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Feb 2022 A Look At: Despite Their Pastors Dying, Between 30-40% of American White Evangelical Christians Remain Anti-Vax February 4, 2022 WN: To understand some of this phenomenon, please see my Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne:… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Feb 2022 Canada’s Anti-Vax Answer to Jan. 6 Is an Indefinite Blockade of Ottawa Justin Ling Jan. 30, 2022 photo above: © Provided by CBC Kids News WN: In two words: How stupid! excerpts:… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Feb 2022 Tragic: Minnesota National Guard Activated as Unrest Grows Over Police ‘Execution’ of Black Man Pilar Melendez Justin Rohrlich Solomon Gustavo Updated Feb. 04, 2022 photo above: Minneapolis PD WN: Utterly predictable . . . Utterly… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Feb 2022 The making of THE BIG LIE myth By Emma Brown, Aaron C. Davis, Jon Swaine and Josh Dawsey May 9, 2021 photo above: A Dominion Voting Systems voting… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Feb 2022 Highlight: The lesson for bishops from Benedict report: Apologize, apologize, apologize by Thomas Reese Accountability Opinion Vatican photo above: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sits in St. Peter's Basilica on Dec. 8,… Editor No Comments
Blog 31 Jan 2022 The Jan. 6 Committee Members Are Patriots Making Sure Treason is Fully Documented Eleanor Clift Jan. 26, 2022 photo above: cbsnews.com WN: We'll wait and see . . . excerpts: The Jan. 6… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Jan 2022 Marshall McLuhan, the Catholic thinker who predicted the internet, spent his last days praying with a Jesuit Nick Ripatrazone January 28, 2022 photo above: Marshall McLuhan at New York University's Loeb Center, June 14, 1966 (AP Photo/John… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Jan 2022 How the Capitol attacks helped spread Christian nationalism in the extreme right By Jack Jenkins January 26, 2022 photo above: Right-wing podcaster Nick Fuentes, center, speaks to Trump supporters during a march… Editor No Comments
Blog Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump clash with police officers in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis 23 Jan 2022 Reflections on: The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare Thomas Homer-Dixon Special to The Globe and Mail Published December 31, 2021; Updated January 2, 2022 photo above: cbsnews.com WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jan 2022 Words that Got Martin Luther King, Jr. Shot By Martin Luther King, Jr. January 17, 2022 photo above: Dick DeMarsico from Wikimedia Commons (public domain) WN: Saturday, January… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Jan 2022 Surveillance will follow us into ‘the metaverse,’ and our bodies could be its new data source By Tatum Hunter January 13, 2022 image above: (iStock/Washington Post Illustration) WN: The privacy encroachments are not unlike the proverbial… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Jan 2022 Read NPR’s full interview with former President Donald Trump January 12, 2022 photo above: Former President Donald Trump spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep in a brief phone interview. WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jan 2022 Misinformation from the U.S. is the next virus—and it’s spreading fast By Stephen Maher January 3, 2022 image above: ca.news.yahoo.com WN: This great misinformation virus/viral tragedy is not simply a case… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jan 2022 Elizaveta Pilenko-Skobcova (Mother Maria) (1891 – 1945) WN: Such stories as highlighted below are immensely inspiring! I have relatives though who insist, in kind not unlike Trump… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Dec 2021 How Awesome Is “Awesome”? by Andrew Bacevich December 21, 2021 photo above: taurusarmed.net WN: Of course war is a mockery of everything decent, no… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Dec 2021 How One Country Stopped COVID Dead in Its Tracks December 15, 2021 by David Axe photo above: news24online.com WN: The article highlighted below stands to reason… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Dec 2021 “Our Lady of Everyday Life”: La Virgen de Guadalupe and the Religious Lives of Mexican Catholic Women December 12, 2019 by Melissa Borja photo above: Photo credit: Roberto Castañeda, Jr. WN: There is something beautifully compelling in… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Dec 2021 What the New Right Sees Dec. 11, 2021 By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist photo above: Amazon.com WN: The author make a compelling case. excerpts: The… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Dec 2021 Introducing THE ANÁSTISIS CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION & MINISTRY photo above: On the ceiling of Chora Church in Istanbul, Turkey, is this fresco, called Anástasis in Greek. It portrays… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Dec 2021 Were Moderna & Pfizer’s HEK-293 Tests Immoral? December 7, 2021 Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC Priest, Religious, Moral Theologian, Autistic, Writer, Social Media Guru, etc. WN: This… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Dec 2021 God in a Cave By G. K. Chesterton December 23, 2020 WN: Wow! Beautifully stated. Such is God . . . excerpts: he old… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Nov 2021 Vandana Shiva: The Great Seed Piracy June 21, 2016 Vandana Shiva Environment photo above: Source: The Asian Age WN: The account of the article highlighted below… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Nov 2021 Commentary on: “The Invention of Thanksgiving” By Philip Deloria November 18, 2019 image above: The Indians who joined the mistrustful Pilgrims, Wampanoag tradition suggests, were honoring… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Nov 2021 The Teacher Who Never Spoke By Maureen Swinger November 22, 2021 WN: So beautiful. So very humbling. So complicatedly hopeful. excerpts: he summer my brother… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Nov 2021 All the Lawyers Who Stood Between Ahmaud Arbery and Justice Pilar Melendez November 24, 2021 photo above: groyourwealth.com WN: An enormous tragedy . . . A muted victory . .… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Nov 2021 Learning to Love Recklessly Dorothy Day Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in these… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Nov 2021 New Revelations Emerge on How Donald Trump Killed 400,000 (or More) Americans David Corn Washington, DC, Bureau Chief, Bio | Follow photo above: President Donald Trump at a coronavirus task force briefing at… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Nov 2021 Paper and Story: “The Sex Offender as Scapegoat” John 12:20 - 33; John 11:49-52: 49But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Nov 2021 Thoughts on: “White People Explain Racism to Me” By Elie Mystal Twitter November 15, 2021 photo above: (Fizkes / Shutterstock) WN: We Whites, lacking the lifelong experiences described… 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 10 Nov 2021 Who Knew Being Silent With Monks Could Be So Liberating? Sarah Sands Nov. 10, 2021 photo above: Education Images WN: Beautifully written: the deafening joy of silence . . .… Editor No Comments
09 Nov 2021 Love on a human scale: The Gospel according to Ivan Illich – Review by Marcus Peter Rempel Every now and then a book comes into my life that puts me in a happy dilemma: I want to… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Nov 2021 Announcement of “Hit CS Lewis biopic ‘The Most Reluctant Convert’ highlights author’s dramatic conversion” CP Entertainment | Monday, November 08, 2021 By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post Editor photo above: “The Most Reluctant Convert: The… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Nov 2021 The Horror of: “ ‘It’s being abused by an entire belief system’: a haunting film on sexual abuse by Catholic clergy” David Smith in Washington; @smithinamerica Tue 9 Nov 2021 WN: The dreadfulness of ‘It’s being abused by an entire belief… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Nov 2021 Consider: “U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder” By David Leonhardt Nov. 8, 2021 photo above: Image by torstensimon from Pixabay WN: This remains consistent everywhere: vaccinations save… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Nov 2021 Walter Wink & “The Myth of Redemptive Violence” November 8, 2021 by Robert Koehler WN: The author of the highlighted article below is right on. For background to… 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 06 Nov 2021 Reflections on “Drone Strikes and Torture Will Cause Big Blowback” November 5, 2021 by Brian Cloughley photo above: AK Rockefeller – CC BY 2.0 WN: It is ominous to read… Editor No Comments
Blog Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas embrace during an audience at the Vatican Nov. 4, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) 04 Nov 2021 Pope Francis meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Gerard O’Connell November 04, 2021 photo above: Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas embrace during an audience at the… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Nov 2021 If we’d listened to Cardinal Bernardin, the Catholic Church would not be so divided today Steven P. Millies November 04, 2021 photo above: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin speaks with reporters on the steps of his Chicago… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Nov 2021 Nearly a Third of Republicans Surveyed Are Ready to Support Violence By Matthew Rozsa, Salon Published November 2, 2021 photo above: aljazeera.com WN: Founder and CEO of PRRI, Robert Jones said:… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Nov 2021 Focus on “I’m With Condoleezza Rice About White Guilt” By John McWhorter image above: Michael Morris WN: The writer makes a compelling case . . . excerpt: I… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Oct 2021 Interaction With “Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis” By Grigori Guitchounts October 27, 2021 image above: A rendering of dendrites (red)—a neuron’s branching processes—and protruding spines that receive synaptic… 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 26 Oct 2021 Reflections on “God, Trump and the Closed-Door World of a Major Conservative Group” By Robert O'Harrow Jr. October 25, 2021 image above: Nick Ogonosky WN: There is a telling quote in the article… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Oct 2021 Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny WN: The video below is highly disturbing. It is an interview with Yale historian Timothy Snyder, author of the widely… 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 23 Oct 2021 Going “Inside the Effort to Create a ‘Christian Nationalist’ Internet” Jack Jenkins October 20, 2021 WN: What more is there to say? The subtitle of a book by Kristin Kobes… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Oct 2021 Mapping the Evangelical Mind By Abbie Storch October 20, 2021 WN: The review of Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a… 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 17 Oct 2021 A cheap and efficient way to directly convert industrial CO₂ offgas into oxygen and solid carbon By Community last October 17, 2021 WN: Wow! Shout it from the housetops! excerpts: We can’t go on belching CO2… 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 13 Oct 2021 The Hopkins doc vs. the vaccine consensus By MYAH WARD With help from Tyler Weyant 10/13/2021 photo above: witf.org WN: Openness to the science from all directions… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Oct 2021 A Handful of Reasons to Join a Church [despite the exodus] – Sharad Yadav posted in Clarion Journal for Religion, Peace & Justice by Sharad Yadav WN: I like what I read below! One… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Oct 2021 Justice and Peace: Lumen Christi Institute Streamed live, October 7, 2021 image above: smp.org WN: The Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network does excellent… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Oct 2021 On A letter from Hell By Robin Schumacher, Exclusive Columnist photo above: pxhere.com WN: It is interesting that the photo chosen for the article highlighted… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Oct 2021 They Went to Bible College to Deepen Their Faith. Becca Andrews September 30, 2021 photo above: yelp.com WN: The article highlighted below begins with Megan Wohlers telling her story… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Oct 2021 Trump Extremists Brought Numerous Guns on January 6, Evidence Shows Mark Follman, Dan Friedman, Ryan Little, and Sam Van Pykeren September 30, 2021 photo above: Mother Jones illustration; John Minchillo/AP;… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Sep 2021 Josh McDowell steps back from ministry after controversial remarks on black families By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter September 23, 2021 photo above: Josh McDowell speaks at Talbot Chapel at Biola University… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Sep 2021 Engelhardt, A Hellfire World By Tom Engelhardt photo above: 'THEY ARE ALL DEAD': Harrowing leaked footage shows US drone strikes in Afghanistan as pilot… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Sep 2021 Insuring Heaven or Hell on Earth? Peter Bosshard, Rev. Fletcher Harper September 28, 2021 photo above: psmag.com WN: As seen in the article: "We disagree." excerpts:… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Sep 2021 Pastor Gives Christians Who Claim ‘Religious Exemption’ From Masks And Vaccines An Epic Bible Lesson Mike Walsh Sep. 23, 2021 photo above: Keith Marshall/Facebook WN: The Pastor below said he had to make private his… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Sep 2021 Mapping America’s hospitalization and vaccination divide By Zach Levitt Zach Levitt is a graphics reporter focusing on cartography for The Washington Post. He previously worked at… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Sep 2021 Alberta COVID party sends several people to hospital with virus by Darcy Ropchan and News Staff Posted Sep 23, 2021 7:23 am MDT WN: A relative from the same general… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Sep 2021 Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter By Katherine J. Wu, Ed Yong, and Sarah Zhang September 21, 2021 image above: Shannon Lin/The Atlantic WN: A hugely… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Sep 2021 A Canadian Amazon Warehouse Could Soon Be the First to Unionize in North America By Candice Bernd, Truthout Published September 17, 2021 photo above: Members of Teamsters Locals 987 and 362 protest outside an… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Sep 2021 What Jason Kenney’s ‘mission accomplished’ moment has reaped for Alberta By Jason Markusoff September 15, 2021 photo above: Jason Kenney speaks on July 12 at the Premier's annual Stampede breakfast… 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 09 Sep 2021 States of Incarceration by Emily Widra and Tiana Herring Tweet this September 2021 WN: My strongest statement about the horrors of worldwide incarceration… Editor No 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
02 Sep 2021 The Genealogy of Violence The Genealogy of Violence: Reflections on Creation, Freedom, and Evil, Charles K. Bellinger, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 157 pages.… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Aug 2021 Empire or Humanity? By Howard Zinn Posted on August 15, 2021 image above from the Movie Poster: The Fall of the American Empire… 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 10 Aug 2021 Earth’s climate outlook grim but not hopeless, faith leaders say Aug 10, 2021 by Brian Roewe Action photo above: A girl in Falmouth, Britain, plays with sand during a climate… Editor 2 Comments
Blog 10 Aug 2021 ‘Get scared’: World’s scientists say disastrous climate change is here By ZACK COLMAN and KARL MATHIESEN 08/09/2021 04:01 AM EDT Updated: 08/09/2021 03:29 PM EDT photo above: Fire burns during… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Aug 2021 When Even the Conservative IEA Sounds an Alarm on Climate, the World Must Listen By Daniel Ross, Truthout August 8, 2021 WN: The last quotation in this article is arresting: “We’re already the proverbial… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Aug 2021 Looking to a post-pandemic Canada: What can we learn from the U.K.? By Fahad Razak, Arthur Slutsky and David Naylor Fahad Razak, Arthur Slutsky and David Naylor are physicians and professors in… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Aug 2021 Am I Woke? Perhaps I am Awakening by Christy Thomas July 31, 2021 photo above: Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Aug 2021 This Is Why America Needs Catholicism By Matthew Walther Mr. Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing editor at… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Aug 2021 Covid Is Now a Crisis for the Unvaccinated By Aaron E. Carroll Dr. Carroll is the chief health officer for Indiana University. He’s also a writer who focuses… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jul 2021 Hot planet summer By MICHAEL GRUNWALD 07/30/2021 photo above: trofire.com WN: All sobering. excerpts: OPINION: TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH — During a… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Jul 2021 Concerning Life by David Cayley June 12, 2021 photo above and to the right (clickable): Cover of David Cayley’s new (massive) book… 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
Blog 28 Jul 2021 Beyond human endurance By Ruby Mellen and William Neff July 28, 2021 image above: convergence.unc.edu WN: The concluding quote is ominous: “As humans,… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Jul 2021 Apocalypse Right Now Opinion Maureen Dowd July 24, 2021 photo above: Fire consumed a home as the Sugar Fire tore through Doyle, Calif.,… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Jul 2021 The Threat of an Unvaccinated South By Adam Harris July 22, 2021 photo above: kyma.com WN: Sadly, idiot politicians like the one mentioned in the second… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Jul 2021 What were the Capitol rioters thinking on Jan. 6? By Dan Zak and Karen Heller July 20, 2021 photo above: (Robert Carter for The Washington Post) WN: Sadly, the… Editor 2 Comments
Blog 21 Jul 2021 The Democrat blocking progressive change is beholden to big oil. Surprised? Alex Kotch Tue 20 Jul 2021 photo above: Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, chairs a Senate energy and… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Jul 2021 How to worry about the Delta variant By MYAH WARD 07/20/2021 image above: wrex.com WN: I have a close relative who "won't let anybody shoot that stuff… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Jul 2021 There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming Ideas by David Frum July 13, 2021 image above: Adam Maida / The Atlantic WN: Sobering and eerily prophetic. Please… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Jul 2021 South Africa’s riots are a warning to the world Ishaan Tharoor July 18, 2021 photo above: A scene at Chris Hani Mall in the aftermath of the unrest in… 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 18 Jul 2021 Republicans were happy to support vaccine when they could credit Trump, then went on the attack By Community last July 17, 2021 image above: cagle.com WN: "Guns and Bibles" (see below)--but nary a drop of authentic… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jul 2021 Tucker Carlson’s Manufactured America By Megan Garber July 12, 2021 WN: Sick . . . Please also see an earlier piece by Timothy Karr,… 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 17 Jul 2021 Four Pinocchios for Ron Johnson’s campaign of vaccine misinformation Fact Checker Analysis Salvador Rizzo Reporter July 16, 2021 photo above: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Jul 2021 Cartoon: Thanks, anti-vaxxers! Mark Fiore for Daily Kos Community Friday July 16, 2021 WN: This is brilliant--but so tragic! And so richly deserved! Please… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Jul 2021 ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ book excerpt: The inside story of Trump’s defiance and inaction on Jan. 6 By Philip Rucker and Carol D. Leonnig July 15, 2021 WN: Sick . . . excerpts: Part two of an… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Jul 2021 How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance By Michael Kranish July 14, 2021 photo above: patheos.com WN: What does one do with such elite entitlement; with such… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Jul 2021 This entire country is haunted By Alicia Elliott July 12, 2021 photo above: The Mohawk Institute Residential School, referred to by former students as ‘the… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Jul 2021 “The Apocalypse Has Begun”: by David Cayley January 2, 2016 WN: This is a highly instructive essay. There is much on my website about… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Jul 2021 An American Kingdom By Stephanie McCrummen July 11, 2021 photo above: Mercy Culture Church in Fort Worth. (Dylan Hollingsworth for The Washington Post)… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Jul 2021 Signs of a Need to Hate By Community last July 11, 2021 image above: Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jul 2021 How to Love an Atheist Spouse by Stephanie Williamson July 5, 2021 photo above: Élizabeth and Félix WN: So beautifully instructive! excerpts: or Christians living in… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jul 2021 The Ascension of Bernie Sanders Opinion Maureen Dowd July 10, 2021 photo above: Senator Bernie Sanders heading back to his office after breakfast in Burlington,… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Jul 2021 Opinion: Liberal democracies are running out of time to save the rest of the planet from covid Opinion by Robert Zoellick July 9, 2021 photo above: The first batch of vaccines from the United States arrive in… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2021 Haiti’s fate is intertwined with the U.S. By Ishaan Tharoor with Claire Parker Email photo above: A man speaks on the phone next to a mural in… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2021 Opinion: Nikole Hannah-Jones just proved the correctness of critical race theory Opinion by Paul Butler Contributing columnist July 8, 2021 photo above: Nikole Hannah-Jones during an interview in Brooklyn on Tuesday.… 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 07 Jul 2021 Welcome to crazy town: The QAnon movement explained By Brian Bethune July 7, 2021 photo above: mindbrews.in WN: Loony and terrifying! You will also find interesting this story… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Jul 2021 Opinion: Texas Republicans rush to guard the Alamo from the facts Opinion by Jason Stanford July 5, 2021 photo above: The Alamo in San Antonio, seen in 2013. (Eric Gay/AP) WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Jul 2021 Are Pro-Choice Catholics Worthy of Communion? By Michael F. Pettinger June 29, 2021 photo above: Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden attend a church service… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jul 2021 War Criminal Donald Rumsfeld Found Dead at 88 by Phyllis Bennis July 1, 2021 photo above: Then-US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld addresses a press conference at the… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jun 2021 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jun 2021 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!((See:… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jun 2021 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,… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Jun 2021 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Jun 2021 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Jun 2021 ‘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… 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 13 Jun 2021 The Wisdom of Trauma WN: The video is beautifully presented and wonderfully hopeful! Dr. Gabor Maté is an amazingly wise and compassionate healer. TAKE… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Jun 2021 ‘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… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Jun 2021 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Jun 2021 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Jun 2021 How to ensure Indigenous tourism experiences support the right communities By Mike Alexander | June 4, 2021photo above: Jusquan Bedard paints finishing touches on the Gwaii Haanas legacy totem pole before it… Editor 2 Comments
Blog 02 Jun 2021 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 May 2021 Thoughts and Prayers for my right wing aunt and uncle By Community May 29, 2021 WN: I found this wise, caring and touching. excerpts: So I just found out today… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 May 2021 Opinion: It’s ‘The Code’ of the NHL, and it has no cure for stupid Opinion by Ken Dryden May 27, 2021 photo above: Toronto center John Tavares is taken from the ice on a… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 May 2021 René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment WN: This is immensely helpful in this historical moment. Lumen Christi Institute René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment… Editor No Comments
23 May 2021 I Was a Catholic Zionist: A Biblical Challenge to Tribalism and Idolatry WN: This review is from THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM Review: "I Was a Catholic Zionist"--An Eloquent Exploration of Judaism's… 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 16 May 2021 Eyes Open: An Anti-Asian Racism PSA May 13, 2021 by Cindy Lu WN: This video speaks for itself . . . Description: Melissa Grelo and Elaine… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 May 2021 Alfred McCoy, How Washington Lost the Ultimate Drug War May 6, 2021 By Alfred McCoy photo above: Afghan War Kills 3 Children a Day: Report | Common Dreams News… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 May 2021 Joe Biden’s War Powers: Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill April 28 2021 Recording: Go to website and listen to Joe Biden's War Powers 2021-04-28·36 min. Transcript… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 May 2021 Trump’s Secret Rules for Drone Strikes Outside War Zones Are Disclosed By Charlie Savage May 1, 2021 photo above: Targeted killings away from conventional war zones have been a central feature… Editor 2 Comments
Blog 28 Apr 2021 Opinion: The American right is becoming completely untethered from reality Opinion by Max Boot April 28, 2021 photo above: President Biden in the Rose Garden at the White House on… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Apr 2021 Opinion: Prolonged solitary confinement is torture. It’s time for all states to ban it. Opinion by Tammie Gregg and Donna Lieberman April 28, 2021 at 5:00 a.m. PDT image above: Julie Lai for The Washington… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Apr 2021 Almost Everything Biden Said About Ending the Afghanistan War Was a Lie April 27, 2021 by Sonali Kolhatkar image above: Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair chart below: The Washington Post, Fatal Force… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Apr 2021 Out of Sight / Out of Mind The Magazine: Spring 2021 COVID-19 in prisons got our attention. Manitoba has quietly been home to the highest incarceration rates… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Apr 2021 Tribes Want Medals Awarded for Wounded Knee Massacre Rescinded Mark Walker April 23, 2021 photo above: Kristina Barker for The New York Times WN: This kind of story can… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Apr 2021 Saving the salmon and Beauty: After years of trying to get the province to protect an important salmon watershed, one northwest B.C. First Nation is… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Apr 2021 America’s unique gun violence problem, explained in 16 maps and charts By German Lopez @germanrlopez [email protected] Updated Apr 16, 2021 WN: I will embed below the video produced. Please view that… 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 20 Apr 2021 Compliance Will Not Save Me April 19, 2021 Ibram X. Kendi, Contributing writer at The Atlantic photo above: Charmaine Edwards (left) speaks to supporters during… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Apr 2021 Hundreds gather to protest 13-year-old’s killing following release of body cam footage Gabe Ortiz Daily Kos Staff Monday April 19, 2021 photo above: AP WN: A man in our Home Improvement Group… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Apr 2021 Driving While Black is still a death sentence By BRAKKTON BOOKER 04/13/2021 WN: Words fail. . . . Please also see here and here: Black Toronto residents 20… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Apr 2021 How Trump Unleashed a Domestic Terrorism Movement— “He tells them what to do. He tells them why they’re angry.” Mark Follman March+April 2021 Issue photo above: Nate… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Apr 2021 Everyone Belongs to God Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt. Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Plough Publishing House, 2015. Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842–1919) was born in Möttlingen, Germany,… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Apr 2021 Dianne Tramutola-Lawson–Class of ’60 WN: Dianne is one of the amazing volunteers in charge of Colorado CURE. Please enjoy this brief interview: You may… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Apr 2021 Former inmate taps into her prison experience for ‘groundbreaking’ PhD research CBC Radio · Posted: Sep 24, 2020 6:07 PM ET | Last Updated: March 3 photo above: Prison For Women,… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Mar 2021 I’ve been a priest for 50 years and still struggle with the problem of evil John J. Strynkowski March 28, 2021 photo above: Photo by Markus Schumacher on Unsplash WN: The reflection highlighted below is… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Mar 2021 Restorative Justice: Peacemaking Not Warmaking; Transformative Justice: Penal Abolitionism Not Prison Reform by Wayne Northey for The Kenarchy Journal, Volume 2. image above: cccu.org PLEASE NOTE: Below are excerpts of my paper… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Mar 2021 America Must Understand How Bad Trump Truly Was in Order to See What’s Coming By Jake Jackson March 24, 2021 image source: Blog for Arizona WN: The situation in the U.S. continues to be… 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 25 Mar 2021 Why America’s Great Crime Decline Is Over March 24, 2021 Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic photo above: wisegeek.com WN: The "new model" called for in… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Mar 2021 The wrong kind of normal By RENUKA RAYASAM and MYAH WARD 03/23/2021 photo above: There Have Already Been 104 Mass Shootings In US So Far… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Mar 2021 Introducing: The Kenarchy Journal NOTE on image above: Foot washing by UK artist Dinah Roe Kendall WN: It is exciting to introduce The Kenarchy… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Mar 2021 Preparing Formerly Incarcerated Returning Citizens as Part of the Crime Prevention Solution WN: Charles Thornton became a friend through our attending International CURE Conferences together: once in San José Costa Rica (2017),… 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 01 Mar 2021 Houses of hate: Dangerous, racist and falling apart. By nearly every metric, the nation's penal system is not just failing, it's making things… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Feb 2021 The Useful Idiot: 02/28/2021 By S.V. Dáte, HuffPost US illustration above: Rebecca Zisser/HuffPost; Photo: Getty WN: I can only add: I have two… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Feb 2021 10 Years After His Passing, Howard Zinn Remains a Threat to the Status Quo By Anthony Arnove, Truthout Published January 27, 2020 photo above: wikiwand.com WN: Trump and white nationalists, for starters, would not… 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 26 Feb 2021 On Misreading Victory Tomgram January 7, 2020 By Andrew Bacevich illustration above: lindsaysocialstudies.weebly.com (President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy: "Speak softly and carry a… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2021 There Is No Christian Case for Trump January 30, 2020 Peter Wehner Contributing writer at The Atlantic and senior fellow at EPPC photo above: President Trump speaking… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Feb 2021 Christians as Dangerously Empathic Good Samaritans January 8, 2021 by Gary Olson image above: The Good Samaritan Painting by Tissot WN: In short: for us in… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Feb 2021 The Prognosis October 2020 | Pandemic By David Cayley WN: There are recent posts and others here, that inform you about David… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Feb 2021 Vancouver Police Have Reduced Street Checks. They Should Stop Them Altogether, Say Advocates Jen St. Denis Today | TheTyee.ca Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. This… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Feb 2021 Pandemic Revelations December 4, 2020 WN: I recently posted an article about David Cayley. There have been a few others. So I… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Feb 2021 Neoliberalism – Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all.… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Feb 2021 Frederick Douglass’ Hope Gerald McDermott January 25, 2021 WN: This highlighted article is about challenge and hope. excerpts: n January 1862 Frederick Douglass,… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Feb 2021 This Valentine’s Day, Celebrate Love as Growth and Liberation By adrienne maree brown, Truthout Published February 14, 2021 photo above: Participants take part in an event organized by Love… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Feb 2021 Earth Matters: Fossil fuels kill 8.7 million people a year; climate crisis an eco-justice issue By Meteor Blades February 13, 2021 Earth Matters is a weekly compendium of wonderful, disturbing, and hideous news briefs about… 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 Reckoning with the Toxicity of Christian Nationalism By Bill Berkowitz February 8, 2021 WN: The article highlighted below is very disturbing for followers of the one Mark… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Jan 2021 Killing Nora: The Real Reason Trump Should Have Been Impeached January 22, 2021 by Nicky Reid cartoon: too true! WN: What is true of the Criminal Justice System is also… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Jan 2021 Donald Trump’s new reality: By George T. Conway III January 22, 2021 WN: George Conway knows American law and history, clearly has done his… 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 09 Jan 2021 The American Abyss A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next. By Timothy Snyder Jan. 9,… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Dec 2020 National Security Experts Warn Trump “Is Promoting Terrorism” National Security Experts Warn Trump “Is Promoting Terrorism” The president’s post-election incitement expands on a tactic he has long used:… 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 06 Dec 2020 The COVID-19 tsunami is coming, and it will be worse than most people can imagine The COVID-19 tsunami is coming, and it will be worse than most people can imagine SquireForYou Tuesday December 01, 2020… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Dec 2020 Trump Has Pushed Ahead With Drone Strikes, Putting US Citizens in the Crosshairs Trump Has Pushed Ahead With Drone Strikes, Putting US Citizens in the Crosshairs by Adam Hudson, Truthout Published December 5, 2020… Editor No Comments
05 Dec 2020 GOD IS NOT GREAT: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens, Toronto: Emblem Editions, 2008, 307 pp. WN: With such a claim in the title, Hitchins' treatise invariably tells… Editor No Comments
04 Dec 2020 Dancing With Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain, Book Review of Dancing With Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain Jarem… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Dec 2020 A New Technology That Will Dangerously Expand Government Spying on Citizens A New Technology That Will Dangerously Expand Government Spying on Citizens December 2, 2020 by Jack Rasmus Image by Hebi… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Nov 2020 Manmeet Singh Bhullar Left A Legacy Of Making Others Feel Like They Belong Manmeet Singh Bhullar Left A Legacy Of Making Others Feel Like They Belong The grief and lessons, five years after… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Nov 2020 Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism? Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism? Donald Trump has revealed the depths of the country’s prejudice—and… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Nov 2020 Washington Post Publishes Names and Details of 1,400 Civilians Killed in US-Led Bombings of ISIS Washington Post Publishes Names and Details of 1,400 Civilians Killed in US-Led Bombings of ISIS By Brett Wilkins / Common… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Nov 2020 The United States Is Not a Democracy. Stop Telling Students That It Is. When our students only learn about this exceptionally strange system from their corporate-produced history and government textbooks, they have no… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Nov 2020 Trump’s Politics Fractured My Family. Where Do We Go After The Election? Trump's Politics Fractured My Family. Where Do We Go After The Election? I'm a Democrat, they're Republicans. Healing the political… 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 11 Nov 2020 The McCarrick Report: The Vatican Owns Up To Enabling Abuse The McCarrick Report: The Vatican Owns Up To Enabling Abuse November 10, 2020 by Mary Pezzulo WN: The article highlighted… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Nov 2020 Two more reasons Kamala Harris as VP will be a historic milestone for our nation Ian Reifowitz for Community Contributors Team November 07, 2020 photo above: people.com WN: The article highlighted is immensely hopeful! An… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Nov 2020 ‘I Mostly Listen’: Offering Blueprint for Democrats, Green New Deal Champion Chloe Maxmin Unseats Powerful GOP Incumbent in Rural Maine 'I Mostly Listen': Offering Blueprint for Democrats, Green New Deal Champion Chloe Maxmin Unseats Powerful GOP Incumbent in Rural Maine… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Nov 2020 Plough: Daily Dig for November 6 Daily Dig for November 6 D. L. Mayfield Xenophobia is the opposite of hospitality. It means “fear of… Editor No Comments
01 Nov 2020 Book Review of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, Jean Bethke Elshtain, New York: Basic Books,… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Oct 2020 The Man Card WN: Please see this new and powerful video--free until November 3! It tells America's story of the past half century… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Oct 2020 The Trial of the Chicago Seven: A Review by Martha Sonnenberg The Intersection of Memory and History: A Review of “The Trial of the Chicago Seven,” written and directed by Aaron… Editor No Comments
Blog 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) 27 Oct 2020 Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda By Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, and Ethan Zuckerman March… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Oct 2020 Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman, Trump’s Divine Fate Posted by Ariel Dorfman October 22, 2020. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. WN: In a word: brilliant! More so: incredibly… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Oct 2020 The World Order That Donald Trump Revealed When it comes to foreign policy, the president’s most important characteristic is not amorality or a lack of curiosity; it… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Oct 2020 Trump’s Wild Lies Down the Election Homestretch Are Not Crazy The president isn’t nuts—he’s trying to make you nuts. Disinformation October 19, 2020 Mark Follman National Affairs Editor Bio |… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Oct 2020 Is abortion the only thing that matters to Jesus? Blog / Paradigm Shift Guest Contributor September 4, 2020 “I have felt a heaviness in my soul lately.” by Jennifer… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Oct 2020 James Murdoch, Rebellious Scion Increasingly uncomfortable with News Corp’s politics and profit motives, Rupert’s younger son chose chickens and sheep over Fox, and insists… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Oct 2020 The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging to good health while endangering everyone else’s. By Olivia Nuzzi The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging to good health while… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Oct 2020 The TSN anchor is a proud voice for the Black community Kayla Grey is using her platform to fight racism By Claire Sibonney October 5, 2020 WN: The article highlighted below… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Oct 2020 Dying in a Leadership Vacuum Editorial 4 References 1 Citing Article WN: Wow! I've decided to post this Editorial in its entirety. This is the… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Sep 2020 Another Four Years of Trump Might Kill Off Remaining Hope Saving Planet From Climate Destruction Another Four Years of Trump Might Kill Off Remaining Hope Saving Planet From Climate Destruction It's quite possible the world… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Aug 2020 ‘He’s Destroyed Conservatism’: The Republican Case Against Trump’s GOP Stuart Stevens was a winning GOP operative. Now he feels terrible about what he’s done to the country. By MICHAEL… 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 13 Aug 2020 RJWorld eConference, August 22 – 31, 2020: Robbie Robidoux & Wayne Northey RJWorld eConference, August 22 – September 6, 2020: Robbie Robidoux & Wayne Northey RJ World 2020 was a 17-day (extended… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Aug 2020 Life Under the Bomb Means a Life of Resistance Published on Thursday, August 06, 2020 by Common Dreams by Rev. John Dear photo above: "Our message over the years… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Jul 2020 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… Editor No Comments
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Blog 19 Jul 2020 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… 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 04 Jul 2020 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… Editor No Comments
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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
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Blog 23 May 2020 Inside the Influential Evangelical Group Mobilizing to Reelect Trump Lee Fang May 23 2020, 3:00 a.m. photo above: politifact.com WN: These Evangelicals are very dangerous and scary--like their conservative Catholic… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 May 2020 A Top Obama-Biden Aide Slams Trump for Missing the Moment for “Economic Dignity” A Top Obama-Biden Aide Slams Trump for Missing the Moment for “Economic Dignity” May 18, 2020 David Corn Washington, DC,… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 May 2020 New Documents From the Sham Prosecution of Gen. Michael Flynn Also Reveal Broad Corruption in the Russiagate Investigations New Documents From the Sham Prosecution of Gen. Michael Flynn Also Reveal Broad Corruption in the Russiagate Investigations Glenn Greenwald… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Apr 2020 Editorial: Dolan delivers the church to Trump and the GOP Editorial: Dolan delivers the church to Trump and the GOP Apr 28, 2020 by NCR Editorial Staff photo above: New… Editor No Comments
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Blog 02 Apr 2020 How China’s Fails, Lies and Secrecy Ignited a Pandemic Explosion The regime now is in full propaganda mode, aided by the World Health Organization. Andrew Nikiforuk April 2, 2020| TheTyee.ca… Editor No Comments
Blog 31 Mar 2020 N.J. comedian’s riff on Trump’s coronavirus response goes viral WN: This outstanding riff on Trump's Easter, God and Jesus sadly (for America, for Planet Earth) nails it! The memes… Editor No Comments
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Blog 24 Mar 2020 The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, says we can beat the novel coronavirus—but first, we need lots… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Mar 2020 Inside the COVID-Denialist Internet Bubble While many of the president’s ardent supporters have come around to the seriousness of the disease, others have come up… Editor No Comments
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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
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Blog 25 Feb 2020 New Book! — Justice That Transforms: Volume 1 WN: Wipf and Stock Publishers gratefully re-published (my re-edited) Volume 1 of a series by the same title, January 9,… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Feb 2020 “Nothing” bishop gets frank on married priests, Vatican under Francis "Nothing" bishop gets frank on married priests, Vatican under Francis Feb 19, 2020 by Joshua J. McElwee photo above: Bishop… Editor No Comments
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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 19 Dec 2019 Many Evangelicals Excuse Anything Trump Does — By Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Published November 30, 2019 WN: This kind of veneration is not only despicable, it is beyond… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Dec 2019 Poet Mary Szybist: Whose version of Mary am I holding? Poet Mary Szybist: Whose version of Mary am I holding? Mary Szybist Mary Szybist is a poet, professor and the… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Dec 2019 Progressives Rebel as House Hands Trump War Spending Package Progressives Rebel as House Hands Trump War Spending Package By Mike Ludwig, Truthout December 12, 2019 WN: And this is… Editor No Comments
Blog U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) listens as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler speaks about articles of impeachment against Preisdent Donald Trump during a news conference with other Democratic committee chairs to announce articles of impeachment against the president on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC2ESD9I0Q6D 11 Dec 2019 When the Facts Are Not Debatable The House’s two charges against Trump get right to the point, are easy to prove, and precisely describe the threat… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Dec 2019 Punishment and Prison Bibliography Patrick S. O'Donnell WN: This is an outstanding Bibliography! The author explains: From 2000-2015, I was an adjunct instructor in… Editor No Comments
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Blog 19 Nov 2019 America’s Arms Sales Addiction November 17, 2019 The 50-Year History of U.S. Dominance of the Middle Eastern Arms Trade By William D. Hartung Honestly,… Editor No Comments
Blog Ranking Member Devin Nunes (L), Republican of California, speaks with Representative Jim Jordan (C), Republican of Ohio, and Republican Counsel Stephen Castor (R), during the first public hearings held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as part of the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump, with witnesses Ukrainian Ambassador William Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent testifying, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., November 13, 2019. Saul Loeb/Pool via REUTERS - RC2HAD9JPDQ7 14 Nov 2019 The Exposure of the Republican Party The Exposure of the Republican Party The GOP will not be a great or good party until those who lead… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Oct 2019 Uncovering Russiagate’s Origins Could Prevent Future Scandals There are legitimate grounds to probe the intelligence officials behind the all-consuming Trump-Russia affair. By Aaron Maté October 28, 2019… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Oct 2019 Scheer, Who Is Toast, Should Have Listened to Preston Manning To win, Tories must chuck their leader and Harper’s old playbook. Michael Harris Today | TheTyee.ca Michael Harris, a Tyee contributing editor,… Editor No Comments
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Blog 27 Oct 2019 Harry Nigh started groundbreaking sex-offender support group The Circles of Support and Accountability model has spread worldwide By Julie McGonegal October 22, 2019 WN: Last week in… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Oct 2019 It’s Time For One Per Cent Families Like Mine To Pay A Super Wealth Tax PERSONAL 10/20/2019 This election, we have a chance to vote for a party with a serious plan to tackle inequality.… Editor No Comments
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Blog 17 Oct 2019 Our Mad Dog President—and His Bible-Thumping Kennel Pals Published on Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Common Dreams by Michael Winship The White House theocrats may be the biggest danger… 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 12 Oct 2019 Why this ‘genius’ scholar is mapping out the world’s largest jail system photo above: Kelly Lytle Hernández, who received the MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, views prison abolition through the eyes of rebels Fri… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Oct 2019 Donald Trump’s Iran Humiliation U.S. Military bases and Iran photo above: infiniteunknown.net Oct 08, 2019 Opinion | TD originals by Scott Ritter WN: One… Editor No Comments
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Blog 02 Oct 2019 Playing the Trump Card in Ukraine October 1, 2019 by Victor Grossman WN: Indeed! excerpts: Yes, we all detest Trump and would be gladdened and relieved… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Oct 2019 Iran’s Capacity to Strike Back Should Even Make a Politically Desperate Trump Think Twice Iran’s Capacity to Strike Back Should Even Make a Politically Desperate Trump Think Twice Such a scenario means that the… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Oct 2019 Beyond Impeachment: Remove This Regime from Below October 1, 2019 by Paul Street photo above: White House – Public Domain WN: This is a powerful broadside against… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Oct 2019 Donald Trump Is Finished Sep 30, 2019 TD originals Bill Blum photo above: President Donald Trump, with Vice President Mike Pence at left, takes… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Sep 2019 Why Would a Whistle-Blower Save This Nation of Cowards? For nearly three years, none of our leaders have held Trump accountable—yet we expect the Ukraine scandal to be different.… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Sep 2019 Ronald Wright: Can We Still Dodge the Progress Trap? Author of 2004’s ‘A Short History of Progress’ issues a progress report. Ronald Wright 20 Sep 2019 | TheTyee.ca Ronald Wright’s 10… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Sep 2019 Under Donald Trump, drone strikes far exceed Obama’s numbers By S. E. Cupp May 8, 2019 photo above: In this 2013 file photo, an X47-B Navy drone grabs the… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Aug 2019 A Killer Cop Gets Fired, and Somehow the Cops Are Angry Daniel Pantaleo suffered the absolute minimal consequence for killing Eric Garner. The fact that the police union is throwing a… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Aug 2019 We must call the El Paso shooting what it is: Trump-inspired terrorism It is staggering to imagine how much more violence this president may motivate if he continues down this deeply disturbing… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jul 2019 In Joyful Act of Resistance, Pink Seesaws Installed at Border Fence "We are all connected." Published on Tuesday, July 30, 2019 photo above: "The symbolism of the seesaw is just magical."… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Jul 2019 On Judging 28/07/2019 photo above: KayR Studios from Pexels WN: All I can say is: wow! Letter 19: On Judging Desert Fathers… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Jul 2019 A US-born teen was in border custody for 23 days. Now he’s suing the government A US-born teen was in border custody for 23 days. Now he’s suing the government Francisco Galicia and his mother… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Jul 2019 Imperialist Made Crisis of Migrants and Refugees For the last 18 years, since the new era of war and occupation began, there has been no end to… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Jul 2019 Review: A lifetime of studying the three great monotheistic faiths Jack Miles July 24, 2019 Facebook Twitter Email WN: Sounds utterly fascinating! My Orthodox son reminds me that Christianity did… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Jul 2019 Editorial: The politics of division stripped of any disguise Jul 18, 2019 by NCR Editorial Staff photo above: The White House is seen in Washington July 12. (CNS/Tyler Orsburn) … Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Jul 2019 AOC’s ‘Squad’ Represents Me As An American Jew – More Than Any Republican July 16, 2019 by Shoshana Hershkowitz photo above: Getty Images WN: White American "Christian" Evangelicals, meet real (Judeo-)Christian values! Amen!… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Jul 2019 Here’s the real reason Trump is attacking ‘the squad’: he’s scared of their politics Here's the real reason Trump is attacking 'the squad': he's scared of their politics The four congresswomen who came under… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Jul 2019 Donald Trump has made it clear: the only ‘real Americans’ are white and Christian Donald Trump has made it clear: the only 'real Americans' are white and Christian In a recent tirade from his… Editor No Comments
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Blog 18 Jul 2019 It Has Long Been Past Time To Take A Stand July 16, 2019 by Henry Karlson image above: GDJ: Stop Racism / Pixabay WN: Trump is doing great evil in… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Jul 2019 Progressives Need to Start Preaching Hell Again July 16, 2019 by Chuck McKnight photo above: Gage Skidmore, Flickr, Creative Commons 2.0 Generic. WN: Amen! Except: I… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Jul 2019 American Carnage: a masterful must-read on Trump’s Republican takeover Tim Alberta of Politico has written a compelling, alarming and scoop-heavy history of the fall of the party of Lincoln… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Jul 2019 ‘You’re excluding people that look like me’: Megan Rapinoe’s message to Trump US soccer captain again rejects White House visit, saying team does not want to be ‘corrupted’ Sarah Marsh Wed 10… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Jul 2019 How Can We Celebrate “Freedom” While Kids Are in Concentration Camps? How Can We Celebrate “Freedom” While Kids Are in Concentration Camps? By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Published July 4, 2019… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Jul 2019 This Palestinian hip hop group’s new record is a feminist rallying cry Eloise Blondiau July 05, 2019 photo above: Tamer Nafar, Maysa Daw and Mahmood Jhere (image courtesy of damrap.com) WN: Incredibly… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Jul 2019 The U.S. women are part of a movement. They won’t be the only female athletes to speak up. The U.S. women are part of a movement. They won’t be the only female athletes to speak up. photo… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Jul 2019 Kids Locked In Cages Aren’t So Sure You’re Actually “Pro-Life” Benjamin L. Corey July 1, 2019 WN: Of course, the persons addressed in the article highlighted below in the… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 May 2019 ‘Now I Am Speaking to the Whole World’: How Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Got Everyone to Listen 'Now I Am Speaking to the Whole World': How Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Got Everyone to Listen Published on… Editor No Comments
Blog Church of Holy Sepulchre 14 May 2019 Good Friday Sermon and Easter Sermon, 2017 by Randy Klassen Good Friday Sermon and Easter Sermon, 2017 by Randy Klassen photo above: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem WN: Randy… Editor No Comments
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23 Apr 2019 Fatal Discord Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind Book Review of: Fatal Discord Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind WN: My friend Ron Dart sent… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Apr 2019 From Restorative Justice to Transformative Justice, Tri-Cities Justice Forum, November 29, 1999 From Restorative Justice to Transformative Justice, Tri-Cities Justice Forum, November 29, 1999 WN: I had forgotten about presentations such as… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Apr 2019 Good Riddance to Cultural Christianity Good Riddance to Cultural Christianity April 19, 2019| nones, Religious Right, voluntary association photo above: Pat Robertson speaks at the… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Apr 2019 Canadian Company, Peace Collective, Reinvents MAGA Hat As Anti-Hate Toque By Charmaine Noronha photo: Victor, who immigrated to Canada from Kampala, Uganda, is proud to "unravel hate," and call Canada… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Mar 2019 GOP legislator prays to Jesus for forgiveness before state’s first Muslim woman swears in By Reis Thebault National and breaking news reporter March 28 at 11:20 AM photo above: Pennsylvania state Rep. Movita… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2019 Ecuador legalized gangs. Murder rates plummeted. Ecuador legalized gangs. Murder rates plummeted. A stunningly successful experiment has the potential to upend the mainstream US approach to… 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 Mar 2019 Why Did Bush Go to War in Iraq? The Answer Is More Sinister Than You Think Why Did Bush Go to War in Iraq? The Answer Is More Sinister Than You Think No, it wasn't because… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Mar 2019 The Rapid Decline Of The Natural World Is A Crisis Even Bigger Than Climate Change The Rapid Decline Of The Natural World Is A Crisis Even Bigger Than Climate Change A three-year UN-backed study from… Editor No Comments
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Blog 15 Mar 2019 “I Felt Like I Was Being Physically Ripped Apart”: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Opens Up About Her New Fame, Trump, and Life in the Bubble “I Felt Like I Was Being Physically Ripped Apart”: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Opens Up About Her New Fame, Trump, and Life… Editor No Comments
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Blog 28 Feb 2019 On the Record: Jody Wilson-Raybould’s Devastating Testimony on the SNC-Lavalin Scandal On the Record: Jody Wilson-Raybould’s Devastating Testimony on the SNC-Lavalin Scandal Trudeau tried to pressure justice minister to cut deal… Editor No Comments
Blog Michael Cohen, left, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) 27 Feb 2019 TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL D. COHEN COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND REFORM U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FEBRUARY 27, 2019 photo above: CNN Politics WN: I've spent a 40-year career working with prisoners and ex-prisoners. Many were clearly cons.… Editor No Comments
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Blog 17 Feb 2019 How Colin Kaepernick Beat the NFL How Colin Kaepernick Beat the NFL His settlement with the league is a major victory for the leader of the… Editor No Comments
Blog Assam Hadhad, a Syrian refugee who arrived in Canada last year, displays a tray of chocolates at his shop, Peace by Chocolate, in Antigonish, N.S. on September 21, 2016. The one-time Syrian refugee who founded a thriving Nova Scotia chocolate company has announced plans to hire and mentor other refugees. Peace by Chocolate of Antigonish, N.S., has committed to hiring 50 refugees by 2022, and to mentor 10 refugee-run start-ups over the next few years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan 17 Feb 2019 Nova Scotia Chocolatier Peace by Chocolate Pledges To Hire 50 Refugees By 2022 Nova Scotia Chocolatier Peace by Chocolate Pledges To Hire 50 Refugees By 2022 The now-famous company will also mentor 10… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Feb 2019 Why the Justice Department Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Abysmal Conditions in Federal Prisons Why the Justice Department Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Abysmal Conditions in Federal Prisons Natasha Lennard February 9 2019, 6:00 a.m.… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Feb 2019 Millennials are so over US domination of world affairs by Bruce Jentleson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University July 26, 2018 6.36am EDT photo above: Millennials… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Feb 2019 Catholic leaders resist Trump’s ‘national emergency’ plan to fund border wall Politics & Society Dispatches Catholic leaders resist Trump’s ‘national emergency’ plan to fund border wall Kevin Clarke February 15, 2019 … Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Feb 2019 Is Trump’s National Emergency (ANOTHER) Step Toward Fascism? Is Trump’s National Emergency (ANOTHER)((My good friend Gerry Ayotte rightly added the word in brackets. There is a sense of… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Feb 2019 The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years America’s prison sentences are far too long. It’s time to… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Feb 2019 The New Report on Sexual Abuse in the Southern Baptist Church Is Proof of an Ongoing Crisis The New Report on Sexual Abuse in the Southern Baptist Church Is Proof of an Ongoing Crisis A devastating report… Editor No Comments
Blog back view of security guard leading criminal in handcuffs 08 Feb 2019 Why today’s criminal justice reform efforts won’t end mass incarceration Why today’s criminal justice reform efforts won’t end mass incarceration WN: The article highlighted below is outstanding commentary on the… 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
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Blog 05 Feb 2019 The Cautious Case for Climate Optimism The Cautious Case for Climate Optimism Believing in a comfortable future for our planet probably means some giant carbon-sucking machines.… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Jan 2019 The man who stood behind Trump The man who stood behind Trump After his laugh was heard around the country, Joe Davidson is wondering: “I’m a… 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 17 Jan 2019 New Pro-Life Movement: ‘No’ to Trump; ‘yes’ to atheists New Pro-Life Movement: 'No' to Trump; 'yes' to atheists Jan 17, 2019 by Peter Feuerherd Justice People photo above: Aimee… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jan 2019 Former New York Times reporter slams grand jury report on clerical abuse Former New York Times reporter slams grand jury report on clerical abuse Jan 11, 2019 by Thomas Reese, Religion News… 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
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Blog 09 Jan 2019 Donald Trump Is the Damn Emergency Donald Trump Is the Damn Emergency By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout January 9, 2019 WN: I hate now mentioning the… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Dec 2018 Biggest Stories of 2018: Israel Announced Apartheid, Shot Thousands of Civilians A systematic pattern of war crimes amounts to crimes against humanity, which Israel is certainly guilty of this year, even… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Dec 2018 What’s Behind U.S. Troop Withdrawals Announced for Syria and Afghanistan? By Sara Flounders Global Research, December 27, 2018 WN: What is indisputable is the U.S. remains singularly guided in the… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Dec 2018 How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. life in pixels Dec. 26, 2018 WN: This article is sobering about our capacity to create and believe illusion. Photo… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Dec 2018 Deadly weather: the human cost of 2018’s climate disasters – visual guide Deadly weather: the human cost of 2018's climate disasters – visual guide Scientists say extreme weather events are getting worse… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Dec 2018 Escape From the Trump Cult Escape from the Trump Cult Millions of Americans are blindly devoted to their Dear Leader. What will it take for… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Dec 2018 Book Review of Long Have I Loved You Book Review of Long Have I Loved You: A Theologian Reflects on His Church, Orbis Books, 2000, Walter J. Burghardt… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Dec 2018 Trump routinely says things that aren’t true. Few Americans believe him. Trump routinely says things that aren’t true. Few Americans believe him. Polling A new Washington Post Fact Checker poll Take… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Dec 2018 Bush the Archvillain Bush the Archvillain By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Published December 4, 2018 photo above: President George H.W. Bush speaks during… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Dec 2018 Richer Rich People and Terrified Brown People: Bush Was Basically Trump With Better Manners Richer Rich People and Terrified Brown People: Bush Was Basically Trump With Better Manners Wednesday, December 05, 2018 by Abby… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Dec 2018 An Eye for Eternity An Introduction to William Blake Malcolm Muggeridge WN: Malcolm Muggeridge's conversion to Christianity was amongst the most remarkable of the… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Nov 2018 The Cross: God’s Peace Work – Towards a Restorative Peacemaking Understanding of the Atonement The Cross: God’s Peace Work – Towards a Restorative Peacemaking Understanding of the Atonement WN: This was written initially as… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Oct 2018 Georgetown Prep President: Working for Hope in a Season of Contempt Georgetown Prep President: Working for Hope in a Season of Contempt Politics & Society Short Take James Van Dyke, S.J.… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Oct 2018 Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Bad Character Has Nothing to Do With His Bad Politics Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Bad Character Has Nothing to Do With His Bad Politics Published on Wednesday, October 03, 2018 by… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Sep 2018 The Kavanaugh Hearings The Kavanaugh Hearings by John Graham WN: This is very wise commentary -- thanks to one of my nieces for… Editor No Comments
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Blog 10 Sep 2018 Reinforcing US Status as ‘Bully and Hegemon,’ Bolton to Threaten ICC Over Probes into America’s War Crimes Human rights advocates decried the Trump administration's attack on the International Criminal Court as "another low point" in its effort… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Sep 2018 Trump’s Pantheistic Temptation February 06, 2017 by Vern Redekop WN: Anything my friend and scholar Vern Redekop writes -- and he is prolific!… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Sep 2018 Thousands of Mental Health Professionals Agree With Woodward and the New York Times Op-ed Author: Trump Is Dangerous My current concern is that we are already witnessing a further unraveling of the president’s mental state, especially as the… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Sep 2018 Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa September 4, 2018 WN: The sooner madman Trump is off the world stage, the… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Sep 2018 How Israel Spies on US Citizens A never-shown Al Jazeera documentary on the pro-Israel lobby in the United States reveals possibly illegal Israeli spying on American… Editor No Comments
Blog 31 Aug 2018 Reckoning With John McCain Respecting the best of McCain requires grappling with the rest of McCain. By Timothy Patrick McCarthy Twitter August 27, 2018… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Aug 2018 Millennial Evangelicals Diverge from Their Parents’ Beliefs The separation of families at the border, climate change, and various progressive causes have galvanized young Christians. By Eliza Griswold… 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 22 Aug 2018 Donald Trump’s Fixer Says the President Engaged in a Criminal Conspiracy to Sway the 2016 Election That’s impeachable. By John Nichols Twitter August 22, 2018 10:40 am photo above: Michael Cohen leaves his federal court hearing in… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Aug 2018 Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Will China Be the Next Global Hegemon? Beijing’s Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump “America First” Versus China’s Strategy of the Four Continents By… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Aug 2018 Trump’s War on Regulation Is Just Another Form of Trickle-Down Economics Aug 14, 2018 by Robert Reich photo above: Economist Robert Reich. (YouTube screen grab) WN: True to expectation, an acquaintance… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Aug 2018 Trump Wouldn’t Have Let Her in the Country, But Ilhan Omar Is Likely Joining Congress Wednesday, August 15, 2018 by Informed Comment Ilhan Omar is humane where Trump is selfish. Ilhan Omar is high-minded where… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2018 Why the Vatican continues to struggle with sex abuse scandals by Chico Harlan August 12 at 6:53 PM Email the author photo above: Members of Chile's bishops conference, Luis Fernando… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2018 How Does This All End? How Do We Come Back Together? August 1, 2018 by Tim Suttle 8 Comments WN: In the article highlighted below, we are told -- again by… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Aug 2018 Willow Creek, Your Time Is Now August 6, 2018 by Scot McKnight 68 Comments photo above: Pat Baranowski was the executive assistant to the Rev. Bill… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Aug 2018 A Paradigm Shift in Christian Theology: What It Means to Say “God is Jesus” August 6, 2018 by Roger E. Olson 19 Comments That "God is Jesus" is commonplace for Christian peace theologians/peacemakers… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Aug 2018 America just won the world’s hardest math contest. Again. by Mahbub Majumdar August 1, 2018 Mahbub Majumdar is the national coach for the Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad and a professor… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Aug 2018 Melania Trump trolls her husband photo above: First lady Melania Trump with President Trump at the White House on Monday. (Andrew Harnik/AP) by Karen Tumulty,… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Aug 2018 Pope revises catechism to say death penalty is ‘inadmissible’ Commits the church to working toward its abolition worldwide((There is clearly moral ambiguity on this issue. I greatly appreciate this… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Jul 2018 HERE’S WHAT RUSSIA `HAS’ ON TRUMP Reader's Editorials Donald Trump Vladimir Putin Russia WN: The article highlighted below does not surprise... It is also no… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Jul 2018 Judgment days In a small Alabama town, an evangelical congregation reckons with God, President Trump and the meaning of morality Please go… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Jul 2018 How Pope Francis gives witness to the ‘new holiness’ 11 April 2018 | by Laurence Freeman Benedictine monk Laurence Freeman on the apostolic exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate The Pope’s… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Jul 2018 Enough Bombs Bursting in Air. We Need to Love One Another. By William Rivers Pitt Truthout, Published July 4, 2018 WN: I love it when people not necessarily in the faith… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jul 2018 Trump is now dangerous – that makes his mental health a matter of public interest Bandy Lee This world authority in psychiatry, consulted by US politicians, argues that the president’s mental fitness deserves scrutiny Sun… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Apr 2018 How Martin Luther Paved the Way for Donald Trump To understand why evangelicals support the president, look to the first Protestant. By Michael Massing April 19, 2018 illustration above… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Apr 2018 Jesus Was Not White. Here Is Why Recognizing That Matters Newsweek Newsweek Europe 2018-03-31 by: Robyn J. Whitaker photo above: © Provided by IBT Media (UK) Depictions of Jesus… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Mar 2018 The Last Temptation How evangelicals, once culturally confident, became an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Mar 2018 Parenting the Resistance: 5 Ways to Have Hard Conversations with Kids March 5, 2018 by Erin Wathen WN: I guess the realities discussed here are universal. For people who care --… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Mar 2018 Billy Graham & The Cold War Before the Culture War – White evangelical voters, Donald Trump, and the evolution of the religious right The Cold War before the culture war March 6, 2018 by Fred Clark WN: What emerges with great clarity in… Editor No Comments
09 Mar 2018 They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change with Author John Dear Book Review of: They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change, John Dear, ORBIS… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Mar 2018 Chuck Feeney: the billionaire who gave it all away Philanthropist lives modestly in rented apartment after giving away $8bn fortune Sat, Mar 3, 2018, 06:00 Conor O'Clery photo above:… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Mar 2018 The Arctic Is Melting Down as the Antarctic Food Chain Is Breaking Monday, March 05, 2018 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report photo above: Little Visuals excerpts: A draft UN report has warned that… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Feb 2018 The Last Real Evangelical: Evangelist Billy Graham Feb 23, 2018 photo above: Evangelist Billy Graham speaks in Dallas at the 1974 Southern Baptist Convention. (AP) by Mel… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Feb 2018 Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs No matter what anyone tells you, we’re not ready for the massive societal upheavals on the way. This story is… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Feb 2018 Billy Graham and the Gospel of Fear February 21, 2018 byCecil Bothwell Photo above by Richard Bromley | CC BY 2.0 [NOTE: For a differing view with… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Feb 2018 Hostiles Does the latest revisionist western get it right or wrong? Vic Thiessen Media Matters February 16, 2018 excerpts: The new… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Feb 2018 The Land of No Men: Inside Kenya’s Women-Only Village WN: These are fascinating stories of Kenyan villages where women are in charge. You may notice they are a tad… 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 25 Jan 2018 Pope Francis’ blind spot on sexual abuse Jan 25, 2018 by Thomas Reese, Religion News Service Opinion photo above: Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley,… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Jan 2018 Francis’ commitment to abuse survivors in question Jan 23, 2018 by NCR Editorial Staff Accountability Opinion photo above: Pope Francis listens to a question from a journalist… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Jan 2018 Reconciliation illustration above: The rescue by (Anabaptist) Dirk Willems. Engraving by Jan Luiken in Martyrs Mirror, v. 2, p. 387 of… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Jan 2018 New York City vs. Big Oil Flanked by Nation contributors Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben, Bill de Blasio announced that New York City would divest from… Editor No Comments
Blog Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, seen in reflection, poses for a portrait following an interview with the Associated Press at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Trump says that if he’s elected president, he’ll know within six months whether he can achieve an elusive peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians, one of the world’s most vexing challenges. But the Republican presidential candidate says he has doubts about each side’s commitment to the peace process. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) 06 Jan 2018 And the Trumpie goes to . . . By Dana Milbank Opinion writer January 5 at 7:48 PM WN: despite what the article highlights below, there is someone… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Dec 2017 Cardinal Law’s complex role in the contemporary history of clergy sexual abuse December 28, 2017 by Thomas P. Doyle photo: Boston Cardinal Bernard Law bows his head as a victim of clergy… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Dec 2017 “Fox Evangelicals” Embrace Trump’s White Nationalism Wednesday, 27 December 2017 07:36 BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Dec 2017 Erasmus: Wild Bird WN: I had the privilege of editing, copy-editing, writing the Foreword, and publishing on Amazon/Kindle, Ron Dart's excellent book on… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Dec 2017 “Prison, Sexual Assault, and Editing John Howard Yoder: One Man’s Story” by Andy Alexis-Baker WN: In January 1975, I read John Howard Yoder's The Politics of Jesus at an Inter-term course taught by Clark… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Dec 2017 N.T. Wright: Working on a building Institutions are essential to the church’s mission, but they are not reality, Wright says. They are merely the scaffolding and… 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 26 Nov 2017 Utilizing Indigenous Thought to Cope in the Age of Trump Sunday, November 26, 2017 By Four Arrows, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: aljazeera.com WN: Below is a wise, challenging, hopeful piece.… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Nov 2017 A Better Man WN: This is a riveting film about a former couple who meet up 20 years after the male subjected his… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Nov 2017 Hellrazed? — edited by Kevin Miller WN: Kevin Miller produced the movie Hellbound? five years ago to look at changing views on the doctrine of hell.… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Nov 2017 Pope Denounces ‘Mentality of Fear’ Caused by Nuclear Regimes, Urges Disarmament Published on Friday, November 10, 2017 by Common Dreams At a seminar at the Vatican, Pope Francis praised the U.N.'s… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Nov 2017 Submission to BC Government’s consultation on cannabis regulation CULTURE, JUSTICE by Archbishop Michael Miller • November 9, 2017 WN: The issue of cannabis legalization internationally is well summarized here. A breakdown of… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Nov 2017 Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race For years, racism has been defined by the violence of far-right extremists, but a more insidious kind of prejudice can… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Nov 2017 White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, Vol 3 (3) (2011) pp 54-70 ©2011 International Journal of Critical Pedagogy Permission to quote… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Oct 2017 Here’s everything Gregg Popovich said about President Trump and racism at Spurs media day Popovich talked for more than 10 minutes about the divisiveness of the country and said that we must feel uncomfortable… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Oct 2017 Forget Trump, This Huge Volcano Could Literally Wipe Out Life on Earth If only for a moment, this story is forcing many to put the current political chaos "into perspective" by Jake… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Oct 2017 Katharine Hayhoe: A leading climate scientist, and an evangelical by Lloyd Mackey • October 12, 2017 • 0 Comments chart above: How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Oct 2017 As Trump Carves Path of Destruction, Nader Asks Obama: Where Are You? While list of programs and rules under attack grows, a call for former president to fight back against "Trump-led assault on… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Oct 2017 1,516 mass shootings in 1,735 days: America’s gun crisis – in one chart Monday 2 October 2017 19.09 BST WN: In the introductory essay to my website, I write: ***************************************************************** Nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter described… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Sep 2017 Acts of Faith Perspective Colin Kaepernick vs. Tim Tebow: A tale of two Christians on their knees By Michael Frost September 24 at 7:00 AM photo above: San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem before… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Sep 2017 CAMPAIGN NONVIOLENCE WEEK OF ACTIONS 2017 TAKE ACTION SEPTEMBER 16-24, 2017! Campaign Nonviolence is a long-term grassroots movement for a culture of peace and nonviolence free… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Sep 2017 Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Last Men Standing Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 8:03am, September 5, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. Victory at Last! In America’s Wars, Failure Is the… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Sep 2017 On 9/11: How We Hyped Terrorism and Slighted the Real Threat: Climate Change SEP 11, 2017 Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Sep 2017 The Pentagon’s New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion Or Buck Rogers in the 21st Century By Alfred W. McCoy [This piece has been adapted and expanded from Alfred… Editor No Comments
Blog Buy the book 26 Aug 2017 Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother By Alfred W. McCoy [This piece has been adapted and expanded from… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Aug 2017 Don’t Just Protect Affirmative Action From Trump—Demand More Racism’s economic effects are pernicious. August 24, 2017 By Bryce Covert WN: Similar realities obtain of course in Canada. Please see… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Aug 2017 ‘Shades of 1933 Germany’: Trump’s Hostile Rally Prompts Third Reich Comparisons Former British ambassador expresses shock at president's rhetoric as U.N. panel issues warning on Charlottesville response Published on Wednesday, August… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Aug 2017 Ex-intelligence chief – Trump’s access to nuclear codes is ‘pretty damn scary’ James Clapper questioned the US president’s ‘fitness to be in this office’ after his speech in Phoenix, joining a growing… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Aug 2017 The Fundamentalists Holding Us Back from a Climate Change Solution The evangelical Christian movement has been at war with environmentalism for decades—but the stakes have never been higher. By ALLIE… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Aug 2017 Christianity Does Not Justify Trump’s ‘Fire and Fury’ Steven Paulikas THE STONE AUG. 14, 2017 photo above: Jeff Swensen for The New York Times excerpts: Jeffress told The Post,… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Aug 2017 Why Trump Could Be Gone Before 2020 AUGUST 18, 2017 by PAUL STREET excerpts: Increasingly, though, one really must wonder if the arch-authoritarian racist idiot Donald Trump will… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Aug 2017 Parked Electric Cars Earn Cash While Feeding the Power Grid Lorraine Chow Aug. 11, 2017 09:56AM EST In Europe, electric vehicles are not just a low-emission way of getting from A… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2017 How to Challenge Media Narratives Without Being Called a Conspiracy Theorist August 12, 2017 John Kiriakou Contributor photo above: President Kennedy minutes before his assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Aug 2017 How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God Brendan O'Connor Tuesday 12:35pm Filed to: ANOINTED BY BIG OIL WN: The supreme haughty superiority of Christians who just know all… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Aug 2017 Denier-in-Chief Trump Should Read NOAA’s Frightening New Climate Report With "highest concentration of CO2 in the air in 800,000 years," how much more proof does president need? Published on… Editor No Comments
Blog Illustration by The Spectator 11 Aug 2017 Note To Wall Street: Never Mind Your Nuclear Stock Tips For “Highly Dovish Forward Guidance.” On Account of Everyone Being, You Know, Dead. by Abby Zimet, staff writer illustration above: by The Spectator We can't even. Tensions with North Korea continue to escalate,… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Aug 2017 Trump has taken us to the brink of nuclear war. Can he be stopped? In previous nuclear standoffs, Trump’s predecessors knew when to hold back from further antagonising the other side. But now there… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Aug 2017 On Fighting Inequality, Which Nations Do More Than Pay Lip Service? Sunday, July 23, 2017 By Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org | News Analysis WN: Jesus says more about wealth and power than most things. The… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Aug 2017 Deforestation and Climate Disruption Are Degrading the Amazon, Endangering Our Survival Monday, August 07, 2017 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report photo above: The Amazon Rainforest, the most biologically diverse place on… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Jul 2017 Salvation as At-One-Ment book cover above: Stricken By God? is an anthology of papers by authors from all the major Christian traditions, arguing… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Jul 2017 Church program offers hope to released sex offenders CATHOLIC VANCOUVER JUL 17, 2017 BY AGNIESZKA KRAWCZYNSKI photo above: Maureen Donegan heads the Archdiocese of Vancouver's prison ministry, including the COSA… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jul 2017 Now Is The Time For Prophetic Moral Action Published on Monday, July 17, 2017 by Red Letter Christians photo above: arrest of Rev. Barber. "It’s time," writes Rev.… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jul 2017 Pope Francis allies accuse Trump White House of ‘apocalyptic geopolitics’ Article vetted by the Vatican offers scathing critique of Steve Bannon, who is Catholic, the Trump White House and ‘evangelical… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Jul 2017 The Demolition of U.S. Global Power Donald Trump’s Road to Debacle in the Greater Middle East Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Trumping the Empire Posted by Alfred McCoy at… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Jul 2017 The Fallout Report Climate & EnvironmentHealthJusticeJuly 10, 2017 In St. Louis, America's nuclear history creeps into the present, leaching into streams and… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Jul 2017 Trump Bet Americans Would Like His Un-Presidential Antics. He May Be Right. Posted on Jul 15, 2017 By Neal Gabler / Moyers & Company WN: Of course nonsense about "American exceptionalism" stinks to high heaven! Always… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Jul 2017 Courts Must Hold Executive Branch Accountable for Drone Strikes Thursday, July 13, 2017 By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout | News Analysis WN: Of course all Presidents by definition are mass murderers. Trump is… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Jul 2017 Tomgram: Engelhardt, Aiding and Abetting the Tweeter-in-Chief The Insult Wars in Washington How They Blind Us to Our Troubles By Tom Engelhardt Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:15pm, July 9,… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Jul 2017 Doctrine of Discovery Task Force – Christian Reformed Church of North America WN: There are so many in dominant North American culture who simply deny any relevance in the past treatment of… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Jul 2017 Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Two Impulsive Leaders Fan the Global Flames Posted by Dilip Hiro at 6:51am, July 6, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. image above: Winning entry of this year's International Trumpism… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Jul 2017 The Unacknowledged Logic of North Korea’s Missile Tests We may not like it, but nuclear weapons may be all that stands in the way of another US-conducted “regime… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Jul 2017 For the US and Its Allies, the Road to Tehran Runs Through Damascus and Southern Lebanon JULY 5, 2017 by JOHN WIGHT WN: The image above presents Trump, now de facto leader of the Western world,… 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 30 Jun 2017 Reality Check: The End of Growth in the Tar Sands. So Now What? Published on Friday, June 30, 2017 by Oil Change International A managed decline is highly preferable to an unmanaged one,… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jun 2017 There Trump Goes Again Published on Friday, June 30, 2017 by Washington Post by Eugene Robinson photo above: White House deputy press secretary Sarah… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jun 2017 “Trump Feels a Kinship With Authoritarian Leaders”: Richard Falk on Turmoil in the Middle East Wednesday, June 28, 2017 By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout | Interview photo above: Professor Richard A. Falk speaks at the 10th session… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Jun 2017 Institute for Religion, Peace and Justice (St. Stephen’s University) WN: Below is notice of a new Institute to address our fractured world with a message and initiatives for peace… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Jun 2017 Beyond #Canada150: A Statement from Primate Fred Hilz on National Aboriginal Day, June 21, 2017 WN: Below is a wonderful statement by Primate Fred Hilz of the Anglican Church of Canada. Would that all Christians… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Jun 2017 White Supremacy Is Anti-Gospel. I’m Glad the Southern Baptist Convention Agrees WN: I copied the entire article below. It is about an historic decision by the Southern Baptist Convention. Russell Moore… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Jun 2017 The Gospel Counter-Narrative WN On April 4, 2017, our pastor, Rob Brown, at Eden Mennonite Church in Chilliwack BC preached a great sermon… 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 tried to derail climate action before – and it ended in humiliating defeat George W Bush failed in his attempt to block global action on climate change. His mistake – about to be… 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 30 May 2017 America’s Iran Hysteria The Irrationality of Iran Vilification By Danny Sjursen Posted by Danny Sjursen at 7:46am, May 30, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. WN: It… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 May 2017 Indigenous Alliance Launches Divestment Campaign Against US and Canadian Pipelines Thursday, May 25, 2017 By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, Truthout | Report photo above: Indigenous activists march with allies in the Tar Sands Healing… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 May 2017 ANCIENT PRACTICES OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE 7th International CURE Conference on Human Rights & Prison Reform April 25-29, Alajuela San Jose, Costa Rica by Bruno van der Maat… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 May 2017 “Born Again” in Deir Nidham: Against the Illegal Military Occupation, from a Black-American Prophetic Christian Perspective Jadaliyya by Taurean J. Webb (a FOSNA Board member) Tactics of Racial Supremacy photo above: A checkpoint in the Israeli Barrier in… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 May 2017 ‘Death row nun’ explains why she does it Sister Prejean tells prisoners they’re worth more than their crimes By Agnieszka Krawczynski of The B.C. Catholic Wednesday, 10 May… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 May 2017 Help Build a Strong Canadian Anti-Poverty Plan Consultations to inform the Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy (CPRS) have begun! For the first time, the federal government is now ready… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 May 2017 It’s Time for our Prime Minister to Commemorate Nakba Day May 15, 2017 in the Huffington Post Blog Tyler Levitan, Campaigns Coordinator for Independent Jewish Voices Canada WN: Sadly, Justin Trudeau… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 May 2017 Select Bibliography of Key Restorative Justice Works Select Bibliography of Key Restorative Justice Works Compiled by Wayne Northey WN: Today, I updated a bibliography, especially weighted towards… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Apr 2017 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… 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 15 Apr 2017 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Apr 2017 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Apr 2017 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Apr 2017 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… Editor 2 Comments
Blog 08 Apr 2017 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Apr 2017 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Apr 2017 Who Rules America? WN: Of course who rules America in turn rules the world. Such unbounded ruthlessly greedy power brokers have embraced and… Editor 2 Comments
Blog 06 Apr 2017 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Apr 2017 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Apr 2017 ‘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… Editor No Comments
Blog 31 Mar 2017 Statement re Israeli Ministry’s Attack on JVP ahead of National Conference Today For Immediate Release Friday, March 31, 2017 - 2:30pm Organization Profile: Jewish Voice for Peace Contact: 510.465.1777, [email protected] Israeli Ministry’s Attack… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2017 Justice for Hassan Diab, April 5, 7pm, Vancouver Public Library Facebook events page March 28, 2017 Sponsored by BCCLA and Hassan Diab Support Committee ———————————— Justice for Hassan Diab: End… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Mar 2017 Trump is Considering Expanding Killing Powers Abroad. The Consequences for Civilians Will be Disastrous. Published on Thursday, March 16, 2017 by Speak Freely / ACLU by Hina Shamsi photo above: "If the Trump administration’s… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Mar 2017 Evangelist Franklin Graham hits perfect storm in Vancouver Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun 03.05.2017 photo above: Thirty-three Vancouver Christian leaders wrote a public letter admonishing Graham for saying “Islam… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Mar 2017 ** OUT NOW ** Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training Hello from Winnipeg! I couldn’t put it off any longer. The new self-help/memoir, Dancing with Elephants, is now available everywhere.… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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,… Editor No Comments
Blog 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… Editor No Comments
Blog 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,… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Jan 2017 Donald Trump Intentionally Lies to Us He has no mandate. That fact has so unhinged Trump that he is shaming himself and his office by promulgating… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jan 2017 Diving into an Ocean of Gratitude for Living and Caring with Patch Adams January 17, 2017 Not only is the posting by Jarem Sawatsky about Patch Adams wonderful. The link on which you… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jan 2017 Obama: Prevent nuclear war! From Avaaz: What’s the scariest thing about Trump?? He’s completely unpredictable, and if he decides to launch US nuclear weapons --… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jan 2017 Meaning and Relationship 08/01/2017 by Kim Nataraja Each one of us is born with the knowledge at a deep level of or being… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Dec 2016 Israeli Ministers Throw Trump-Like Tantrums After U.N. Security Council Slam Posted on Dec 27, 2016 By Juan Cole / Informed Comment an excerpt: He criticized President Obama: “The heart aches that after… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Dec 2016 If You Think Jesus Was White, Here Are Five Reasons You’re Wrong Posted on Dec 26, 2016 By Juan Cole Jesus is the polar opposite of Donald Trump. And sadly, so are some Trump… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Dec 2016 2016 Annual Christmas Appeal an excerpt: Dear Friends, “All we want is our dignity, and to stop being treated like animals in a cage.”… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Dec 2016 Calvin Prof on ‘Radical’ Watchlist: ‘The Call of the Prophet Is to Speak Truth’ By Joseph Kuilema 12-07-2016 an excerpt: My own discipline, social work, emerged in part out of the social gospel movement… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Dec 2016 Israel-Palestine: Call for a new Israeli-Palestinian peace process: the moment for renewed commitment December 1, 2016 A just resolution to the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict is critical for peace in our world today. Despite… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Dec 2016 Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Most Dangerous Country on Earth Was 11/8 a New 9/11? The Election That Changed Everything and Could Prove History’s Deal-Breaker By Tom Engelhardt Posted by… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Dec 2016 The Challenge of Jubilee “…to bring good news to the poor… to proclaim release to the captives… recovery of sight to the blind …to… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Nov 2016 Letter to First Ministers from major business and civil society leaders More than 60 CEOs and civil society leaders urge Prime Minister and Premiers to take bold action on clean growth… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Nov 2016 No, Everything Is Not Going to Be Alright Published on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 by Common Dreams By Ted Rall photo above: 'Trump’s fascism,' writes Rall, 'will come… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Nov 2016 Pope Francis Denounces Growing ‘Demonization’ of Enemies and Outsiders By David Gibson, Religion News Service 11-21-2016 an excerpt: “God has only sons and daughters,” the pope said. “We are the ones… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Nov 2016 George Takei: They interned my family. Don’t let them do it to Muslims. By George Takei November 18 at 6:00 AM Follow @GeorgeTakei George Takei is an actor, activist and social media maven.… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Nov 2016 White, Conservative, Christian Friend—I Wish You Really Were Pro-Life October 12, 2016 / John Pavlovitz WN: The highlighted article below is truly powerful and wise! Likewise in relation to… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Nov 2016 How could we — I — get so much so wrong? – Michael’s essay CBC: The Sunday Edition With Michael Enright Sunday November 13, 2016 excerpts: On the morning after, an early warming sun… 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 Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Front, the largest far-right party in France, speaks to reporters at a political meeting in Perpignan, France, Feb. 15, 2014. Under Le Pen, the daughter of the party's founder, the National Front has moved from the fringe to the center of French politics by softening the party's xenophobic image. (Pierre Terdjman/The New York Times) 12 Nov 2016 Rising European Fascists Welcome Trump Victory Saturday, 12 November 2016 00:00 By Ryan Harvey, Truthout | Report photo above: Marine Le Pen, the leader of the… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Nov 2016 The Republic Repeals Itself By Andrew Sullivan WN: The article linked below is one of despair. There is no doubt this is a sentiment… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Nov 2016 Israel breaching Palestine’s right to development, UN human rights expert finds NEW YORK (27 October 2016) – Palestine’s right to development is being denied by Israel, creating an environment plagued by… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Nov 2016 Hugh Hewitt Questions Ben Carson If He Was Ruthless Enough to Kill Thousands of Innocent Kids in War December 16, 2015 Watch Full Show DemocracyNow! WN: The audience booed when conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked evangelical neurosurgeon… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Nov 2016 HOW TRUMP TOOK HATE GROUPS MAINSTREAM The full story of his connection with far-right extremists. Sarah Posner and David Neiwert Oct. 14, 2016 5:00 AM photo… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Nov 2016 Election 2016 and the Growing Global Nuclear Threat Playing a Game of Chicken with Nuclear Strategy By Michael T. Klare Tomgram: Michael Klare, Whose Finger on the Nuclear… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Nov 2016 Will American politics survive Trump? Sunday November 06, 2016 The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright Perhaps the most fascinating are David Frum's comments. Frum (son… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Nov 2016 “The system not only failed Adam Capay. It buried him alive” Sunday October 30, 2016 by Michael Enright Everything about the situation of Adam Capay described below could not be more… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Nov 2016 United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015 The document linked below is outstanding! It is nothing less… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Nov 2016 Meditation November 6, 2016 An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, CHRISTIAN MEDITATION NEWSLETTER, Vol. 34, No. 3, October 2010, pp. 4-5.… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Nov 2016 Julian Assange Speaks About Hillary Clinton, the U.S. Election and the Litany of Charges Against Him In a 25-minute interview with John Pilger, an award-winning Australian journalist, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange summarized his analysis of emails… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Nov 2016 EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump Aides’ Deeper & Linked Roles in Putin Agenda Revealed; Russian Mafia Nexus With Trump & Aides Goes Back Years Published on November 4, 2016 by Brian Frydenborg New threads in the Team Trump/Team Putin tangled web show Manafort and… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Nov 2016 Creating a National Security State “Democracy” Or How the American Political System Changed and No One Noticed By Tom Engelhardt Tomgram: Engelhardt, Resurrecting My Parents From the Dead for Election 2016 | TomDispatch an excerpt: To say… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Nov 2016 Nasty Women: Donald Trump, the Greatest Victim in the History of the World Tomgram: Ann Jones, Donald Trump's Open Carry | TomDispatch By Ann Jones an excerpt: Donald Trump grabbed a new lifeline.… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Nov 2016 My Journey to the Center of the Alt-Right – The Huffington Post By Luke O'Brien Illustrations By Mariano Pascual November 3, 2016 I went to a white nationalist ethnostate in Indiana. I… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Nov 2016 How Many Nuclear Warheads Does the United States Need? Friday, 04 November 2016 00:00 By Lawrence S. Wittner The Asia-Pacific Journal | News Analysis photo above: interestingengineering.com It is… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Oct 2016 Review of the book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Below is one fairly detailed review of the book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and… Editor No Comments
Blog 27 Oct 2016 Infographic: 8 Canadian Symptoms of a Changing Climate By Asha Kerr-Wilson on September 23rd, 2016 The effects of climate change are seen and felt around the world. These… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Oct 2016 Donald Trump’s Apocalypse Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Whatever happens in November, the forecast is more stormy weather ahead. By John Feffer October 13, 2016 1:30 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 Dangerous New ‘Group Think’ for War with Syria/Russia Official Washington has a new 'group think' that is even more dangerous than the one that led to the Iraq… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Sep 2016 Marjorie Cohn: President Obama: ‘Patron’ of the Israeli Occupation Marjorie Cohn: President Obama: ‘Patron’ of the Israeli Occupation - Truthdig Posted on Sep 29, 2016 By Marjorie Cohn President Obama has… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Sep 2016 Donald Trump Is a Worse Crook Than Bernie Madoff Madoff only scammed his rich clients. Trump could scam us all. By Nomi Prins September 29, 2016 photo above: Gage… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Sep 2016 Health, Spirituality and Culture Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health 15th Annual Mental Health & Spirituality Conference Los Angeles, CA 26th May 2016… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Sep 2016 the Iconocast: Fr. John Dear, S.J. (episode 20) – WWW.JESUSRADICALS.COM December 2, 2010 In this interview, Jarrod and Mark interview Father John Dear. Dear is a Jesuit priest, peace activist, lecturer,… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Sep 2016 Will Trumpism, Brexit, and Geopolitical Exceptionalism Sink the Planet? The Mounting Threat to Climate Progress Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Rise of the Right and Climate Catastrophe photo above: In… 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 15 Sep 2016 Walking from Wrongs to Rights: UN Declaration shows the way | Church for Vancouver By Laurel Dykstra September 15, 2016 image above: cover of the new Mennonite Church Canada publication well worth ordering -… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Sep 2016 How America became a 1% society | The Guardian Since 1980, the economy has continued to grow impressively, but most of the benefits have migrated to the top. Bill… Editor No Comments
Blog U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to reporters after holding a "National Security Working Session" with national security advisors in New York, U.S. September 9, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RTX2OWEQ 13 Sep 2016 How Breitbart Conquered the Media TA-NEHISI COATES Sep 12, 2016 Politics Why the Media Didn't Bother to Verify if Hillary Clinton's Remark About Half of… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Sep 2016 “A Continuous War Mentality”: Richard Falk on Israel’s Human Rights Abuses Written by C. J. Polychroniou and Lily Sage By C.J. Polychroniou and Lily Sage, Truthout | Interview photo above: Israel… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Sep 2016 America and the Plague of ‘Moral Idiocy’ Tuesday, September 06, 2016 by Consortium News When it comes to applying rules of international law and ethics, the U.S.… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Sep 2016 UN Human Rights Chief Urges Action Against Western ‘Demagogues’ | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community Comparing the likes of Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, and Geert Wilders to ISIS, UN's Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein implores: "Speak… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Sep 2016 Iraqi Woman (Sundus Saleh) Uses Chilcot Report in War Crimes Lawsuit Against George W. Bush Sunday, 04 September 2016 00:00 By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout | News Analysis photo above: President George W. Bush discusses the… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Sep 2016 LeBron And Friends Opened The ESPYs With A Speech You Need To Hear “The urgency to create change is at an all-time high.” 07/13/2016 09:04 pm ET Updated Jul 15, 2016 Read the… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Sep 2016 When this is over, you will have nothing that you want – Chicago Tribune photo above: Donald Trump calls for ideological screening tests of all immigrants. Aug. 31, 2016. (C-SPAN) By Garrison Keillor Special… Editor No Comments
Blog 31 Aug 2016 “The Making of Donald Trump”: David Cay Johnston on Trump’s Ties to the Mob & Drug Traffickers | Democracy Now! August 10, 2016 Story an excerpt: DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: So, keep in mind he sought mercy for a drug trafficker.… 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 25 Aug 2016 Why Solidarity Between the Movement for Black Lives and Palestine Makes Sense By David Palumbo-Liu, Truthout | News Analysis Image above: Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Aug 2016 Bob Kerrey’s Unit Slaughtered Civilians in Vietnam; Why Was He Appointed to Chair Fulbright University? By John Marciano, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Former Sen. Bob Kerrey, board chairman of the new Fulbright University Vietnam,… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Aug 2016 Nearly 15 Years and $70 Billion Later, US Troops Still Endlessly Fighting Taliban | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community Monday, August 22, 2016 by Common Dreams Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland said mission would be 'temporary,' but would not say… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Aug 2016 US War Crimes or “Normalized Deviance” Tuesday, 23 August 2016 09:22 By Nicolas J.S. Davies, Consortium News | Op-Ed photo above: 1986 launch of the doomed… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Aug 2016 How Obama Helped Lay the Groundwork for Trump’s Thuggery His refusal to prosecute torturers and his Wild West assassination of bin Laden show how moral complacency can all too… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Aug 2016 Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Making Sense of Trump and His National Security State Critics | TomDispatch What Does It Mean When War Hawks Say, “Never Trump”? The Enemies of My Enemy May Be War Criminals By… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Aug 2016 Private Prisons Are Far From Ended: 62 Percent of Immigrant Detainees Are in Privatized Jails Written by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report photo above: Prisoners walk across the prison yard of Saguaro… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Aug 2016 The (US) Justice Department Will End All Federal Private Prisons, Following a ‘Nation’ Investigation | The Nation Our yearlong probe uncovered dozens of questionable deaths and years of dire warnings from internal monitors. By Seth Freed Wessler… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Aug 2016 Three Fact-Checking Websites of Note Image above: from Politifact: I'll highlight the All Pants-On-Fire assertions by Donald Trump - there are of course so many… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Aug 2016 Islamic Law: Europe’s Shari’a Debate Below is a link to a nuanced scholarly article on Europe and Sharia Law, and some mention of North America.… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Aug 2016 An Open Letter to Ivanka Trump From Michael Moore: ‘Your Dad Is Not Well’ Posted on Aug 11, 2016 By Michael Moore / AlterNet an excerpt: Dear Ivanka: I’m writing to you because your… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Aug 2016 Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (C.U.R.E.) Upcoming World Conference Human Rights and Prison Reform Seventh International CURE Conference April 25-29, 2017, San Jose, Costa Rica, Courtyard… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Aug 2016 An ‘American Holocaust’ Dr. Stannard, by most accounts, published in 1993 a meticulously researched, powerful book about genocide against indigenous populations in the… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Aug 2016 Eat Me: The Cannibalistic Origins of the State David Gornoski Friday, August 05, 2016 This an outstanding piece, especially in the writer's powerful juxtaposition of Jesus' invitation to… Editor No Comments
Blog in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) 13 Aug 2016 The Olympics Are a Colossal Waste and a Shameful Distraction photo above: The Olympic torch being carried in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue on the way to the… Editor No Comments
Blog 11 Aug 2016 The Myth of Trump’s Alternative Worldview photo above: Supporters attend a campaign event for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville,… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Aug 2016 ‘They’re Coming for the Ones You Love’: My Weekend of Gun Training in the Desert photo above: “John Wayne,” an active- duty serviceman, watches his trainer demonstrate a “controlled pair”—two shots to the center of… Editor No Comments
Blog Jobseekers stand in line to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State department of Labor in New York April 12, 2012. A report on Friday showed the economy created only 120,000 jobs last month, the fewest since October. The unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 percent, but largely as people gave up the search for work. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR30NJI 09 Aug 2016 The Average Black Family Would Need 228 Years to Build the Wealth of a White Family Today Just as past public policies created the racial wealth gap, current policy widens it. By Joshua Holland AUGUST 8, 2016 WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Aug 2016 “Jesus of Arrupe College” Depicts Diverse Students of Loyola University Chicago Two-Year College August 9, 2016/0 Comments/in News /by ISN Staff an excerpt: CHICAGO, IL – Loyola University Chicago’s Arrupe College unveiled a… Editor No Comments
Blog Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, seen in reflection, poses for a portrait following an interview with the Associated Press at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Trump says that if he’s elected president, he’ll know within six months whether he can achieve an elusive peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians, one of the world’s most vexing challenges. But the Republican presidential candidate says he has doubts about each side’s commitment to the peace process. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) 08 Aug 2016 The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism Posted on Aug 8, 2016 By Chris Hedges an excerpt: College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Aug 2016 Henry A. Giroux | Donald Trump and the Plague of Atomization in a Neoliberal Age Monday, 08 August 2016 00:00 photo above: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses a crowd during his campaign rally at… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Aug 2016 How a new source of water is helping reduce conflict in the Middle East Scientists and others look to desalination as a way to unite longtime enemies in a common cause. photo above: Sorek… Editor No Comments
Blog 03 Aug 2016 Teargassing of Indigenous Youth in Australian Detention System Reeks of Colonialism photo above: Activists display a sign decrying the murders of Aboriginal Australians in prison at an Invasion Day march and… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Aug 2016 Breaking the Camouflage Wall of Silence When AFRICOM Evaluates Itself, the News Is Grim By Nick Turse Posted by Nick Turse at 7:45am, August 2, 2016.… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Aug 2016 Surveillance of Everyone: Europe’s “Smart Borders” Would Automatically Monitor Individuals Written by Aline Fontaine and Morgane Remy, Translation by Leslie Thatcher By Aline Fontaine and Morgane Remy and Translated by… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Jul 2016 Michael Jordan: ‘I can no longer stay silent’ His statement on the shootings of African-Americans and the targeting of police officers July 25, 2016 an excerpt: “As a… Editor No Comments
Blog Donald Trump points to his vice presidential nominee, Mike Pence, on the final night of the Republican National Convention, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, July 21, 2016. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times) 22 Jul 2016 Facing Down Trump’s Demagoguery: Lessons From Weimar Germany Friday, 22 July 2016 00:00 By Charles Derber, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Donald Trump points to his vice presidential… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Jul 2016 Donald Trump’s Acceptance Speech Reconfirmed His Fascist Authoritarianism Friday, 22 July 2016 05:14 MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT an excerpt: "Law and order" were the… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Jul 2016 Review: The Need for a New Economic System by John S. Avery Posted on Feb 17, 2016 In: Just Third Way Feature | Tagged: Review by Dr. Dorothy Guyot of The Need… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Jul 2016 Labor Organizing Across Israel’s Apartheid Line: An Interview With Israeli Labor Activist Yoav Tamir photo above: A person stands by the partition wall separating Israel and Palestine. (Photo: Editor No Comments
Blog The damaged hospital in which the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical charity operated is seen on October 13, 2015 following an air strike in the northern city of Kunduz. Thirty-three people are still missing days after a US air strike on an Afghan hospital, the medical charity has warned, sparking fears the death toll could rise significantly. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) 17 Jul 2016 Lawless Drone Killings By Stephen Lendman Global Research, October 25, 2013 Obama and his advisors are obscene serial killers - with impunity. an… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jul 2016 The Network Leaked Data Reveals How the U.S. Trains Vast Numbers of Foreign Soldiers and Police With Little Oversight Douglas Gillison, Nick… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jul 2016 The Most Important US Air Force Base You’ve Never Heard Of Sunday, 17 July 2016 00:00By Norman Solomon, The Nation | News Analysis photo above: The US government's far-flung system for… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 Jul 2016 Canadian Friends of Sabeel July 17, 2016 image above: from Sabeel website Below is representative of what you can find on the website linked… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Jul 2016 Adventures in the Trump Twittersphere Zeynep Tufekci MARCH 31, 2016 Mr. Trump’s rise is actually a symptom of the mass media’s growing weakness, especially in… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Jul 2016 How technology disrupted the truth Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 Jul 2016 Ex-Seattle Police Chief Condemns Systemic Police Racism Dating Back to Slave Patrols Thursday, 14 July 2016 00:00 By Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now! | Video Interview an excerpt: On Wednesday,… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Jul 2016 Beyond Dallas and Orlando, a Global Arc of Violence Thursday, 14 July 2016 00:00 By Michelle Chen, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Motorcycle officers in a motorcade escort for… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Jul 2016 Hari Kondabolu Mainstream American Comic by Hari Kondabolu Hari Kondabolu is a Brooklyn-based comedian and writer who the NY Times has described… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Jul 2016 23 Ways You Could be Killed While Being Black The video features celebrities such as Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, and Rihanna. Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn Jul. 13, 2016 6:50 PM In the… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Jul 2016 The Chilcot Report Fails to Speak Plain Truth: Bush Lied, So Did Blair Sunday, 10 July 2016 00:00 By Calvin F. Exoo, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: US President George W. Bush and… 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 09 Jul 2016 The Illusion of Security Thursday, 07 July 2016 07:07 ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT photo above: Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Jul 2016 Seeking False Security at Fortress Europe’s Gates Seeking False Security at Fortress Europe's Gates Thursday, 07 July 2016 00:00 By Michelle Chen, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above:… Editor No Comments
Blog 09 Jul 2016 Trump, the Man and the Image His words increasingly signify his confusion about who he is and what he has got himself into. Trump vs. “Trump”… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2016 Of Lethal Drones and Police Shootings Friday, 08 July 2016 00:00 By Kathy Kelly, Consortium News | Op-Ed photo above: Demonstrators record a crowd of police… Editor No Comments
Blog 08 Jul 2016 The System That Killed Alton Sterling and Philando Castile Cannot Be Reformed Friday, 08 July 2016 00:00 By Aislinn Pulley, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Demonstrators protest police violence after Alton Sterling… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Jul 2016 It Is Important to Have Perspective on Elie Wiesel’s Legacy Wednesday, 06 July 2016 00:00 By Max Blumenthal, AlterNet | Op-Ed an excerpt: On the day of Wiesel's death, those… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Jul 2016 Electronic Monitoring Is Not the Answer Critical reflections on a flawed alternative James Kilgore October 2015 This is a very well researched paper that applies to… 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 03 Jul 2016 You Never Die Twice MULTIPLE KILLS IN THE US DRONE PROGRAM REPRIEVE: Delivering Justice. Saving Lives 2014 And next year, Chief Executive Terrorist Obama… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Jul 2016 In Transparent Act, Obama Administration Erases Civilian Deaths From Drone Strikes photo above: President Barack Obama convenes a meeting in the Situation Room to discuss the latest on the San Bernardino,… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jul 2016 After Brexit: Reckoning With Britain’s Racism and Xenophobia Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:00 By Laleh Khalili, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: A woman reacts during a referendum results… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Jun 2016 The Age of Disintegration: An Endless Cycle of Indecisive Wars Tuesday, 28 June 2016 00:00 By Patrick Cockburn, TomDispatch | News Analysis an excerpt: We live in an age of… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Jun 2016 Edward Snowden’s Strangely Free Life – As a Robot New York News & Politics by Andrew Rice June 26, 2016 9:00 p.m. For a man accused of espionage and… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Jun 2016 Tomgram: John Feffer, Donald Trump and America B Posted by John Feffer at 3:58pm, June 26, 2016. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. an excerpt: America B has a… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Jun 2016 The Rise of Superweeds— and What to Do About It Union of Concerned Scientists: Policy Brief an excerpt: In what may sound like science fiction but is all too real,… Editor No Comments
Blog 23 Jun 2016 The Case for a Child-Centered Energy and Climate Policy By Frederica Perera, Environmental Health News | Op-Ed photo above: Frederica Perera (Credit: Columbia.edu) an excerpt: Fossil fuel combustion and… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Jun 2016 Democrats’ War on Due Process and Terrorist Fearmongering Long Predate Orlando Glenn Greenwald June 21 2016, 6:45 a.m. Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert took on Attorney General Eric Holder's legal justification for… Editor No Comments
Blog 21 Jun 2016 Dominating the Skies — and Losing the Wars: Air Supremacy Isn’t What It Used to Be Tuesday, 21 June 2016 00:00 By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | News Analysis photo above: F-18 Hornets fly as part… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Jun 2016 Cornel West: Black Lives Matter Is an Indictment of Neoliberal Power By George Souvlis, openDemocracy | Interview photo above: Dr. Cornel West speaks at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on… Editor No Comments
Blog 16 Jun 2016 Finding your calling for the ‘third third’ of your life by Paul Stevens • June 16, 2016 an excerpt: There is no question that we have a population bulge in… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Jun 2016 No Welcome Mat for Monsanto: Vietnam Must Draw the Line Monday, 13 June 2016 00:00 By Dien Luong, Truthout | Op-Ed above picture: A young boy walks through fields of… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Jun 2016 Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, The Challenges of 2016 Posted by Noam Chomsky at 5:04pm, May 8, 2016. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. Excerpt from Noam Chomsky's new book:… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Jun 2016 Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Tick… Tick… Tick… Posted by Noam Chomsky at 5:04pm, June 12, 2016. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. Excerpt from Noam Chomsky's new book.… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Jun 2016 Race in the US: What if your identity was a lie? Features Racism 21 August 2015 @JohnMetta John Metta is a writer on racial issues in the US. Caption beneath above… Editor No Comments
Blog 07 Jun 2016 Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Justice for Torturers? Posted by Rebecca Gordon at 7:25am, June 7, 2016. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. photo above: A composite showing some… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Jun 2016 Opposing Mass Incarceration Is “Trendy,” but Can We Stop the Train of Piecemeal Reform? Friday, 03 June 2016 00:00 By James Kilgore, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Image: Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jun 2016 Crisis Narratives and the Ongoing Drought in Ethiopia Wednesday, 01 June 2016 00:00 By Christine Ro, Truthout | News Analysis an excerpt: But Ethiopia is much more than… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jun 2016 Soul to Soul at Honeywell Wednesday, 01 June 2016 00:00 By Nick Mottern, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Chris Antal and Nick Mottern stand outside… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jun 2016 In Wake of Coup, Should Brazil’s Olympics Be Moved or Become a Site of Protest? Wednesday, 01 June 2016 00:00 By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Video Report an excerpt: AMY GOODMAN: Jules Boykoff, can… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jun 2016 Preparing for the Next Memorial Day Wednesday, 01 June 2016 00:00 By Medea Benjamin, PINK Tank | Op-Ed an excerpt: The barbarism of targeting "suspects" by… Editor No Comments
Blog Brian Stauffer 01 Jun 2016 Limit the Next President’s Power to Wage Drone Warfare image by Brian Stauffer By JAMEEL JAFFER and BRETT MAX KAUFMAN MARCH 8, 2016 And President Obama repeatedly vociferously calls… Editor No Comments
Blog 01 Jun 2016 Drone Strikes Reveal Uncomfortable Truth: U.S. Is Often Unsure About Who Will Die By SCOTT SHANE APRIL 23, 2015 photo above: The rubble of a building that was destroyed in Yemen by a… Editor No Comments
Blog 31 May 2016 Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, The Grief of Others and the Boasts of Candidates photo above: An injured Afghan boy is put on a stretcher at a hospital in Jalalabad city, Afghanistan. Photograph: Nesar… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 May 2016 Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Oil World in Chaos an excerpt from the introduction to the piece: Only one problem: climate change threatens to screw up the formula. That… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 May 2016 God of the Depressed by Stephen H. Webb 2. 19. 16 In that I'm given to depression, I greatly appreciated this theological reflection. an… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 May 2016 Will Canada Recognize Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Poor Countries? photo above: Indigenous women and children in Guatemala are among those most impacted by Canadian mining companies' destructive practices. (Photo:… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 May 2016 Jeremy Scahill: Corporations Are Making a Killing Off US Targeted Killing Jeremy Scahill authored this recent book: , already covered in my blog here: The Assassination Complex. an excerpt from this… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 May 2016 Donald Trump Defends Bullying to Megyn Kelly, Advising Her to “Fight Back” 10 Times Harder By Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout Further to Donald Trump and the United Stats as consummate bullies. (See… Editor No Comments
Blog 17 May 2016 “Isolation Devastates the Brain”: The Neuroscience of Solitary Confinement By Carol Schaeffer May 11, 2016 an excerpt: “Isolation devastates the brain. There is no question about that,” said Zigmund.… 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 17 May 2016 Archbishop’s – Rowan Williams – address to the Synod of Bishops in Rome Wednesday 10th October 2012 In the first address by an Archbishop of Canterbury to the Synod of Bishops in Rome,… Editor No Comments
Blog 15 May 2016 US Army Chaplain Resigns in Opposition to Use of Assassin Drones by the United States If only hundreds more U.S. army chaplains would do this! an excerpt: [US Army Reserve Chaplain Captain Christopher John] Antal… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 May 2016 In Washington, Why Is Militarism the Only Option? by Tom Engelhardt This is a brilliant, devastating piece that presents militarism in the United States as their current "drug… Editor No Comments
Blog Atomic cloud over Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. (Photo: Hiromichi Matsuda) 08 May 2016 The Untold History of US War Crimes (Photo: atomic cloud over Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. (Photo: Hiromichi Matsuda) An interview with Professor (of History) Peter Kuznick It… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 May 2016 Re-Sacralizing Violence in the Left Behind Books by Paul Nuechterlein An excerpt: From the perspective of mimetic theory, the most serious problem with the Left Behind series… 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 14 Apr 2016 Does Faith Breed Violence? Book review of Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, New York: Schoken Books, 2015. You may… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Apr 2016 Some Relationship Advice From Pope Francis This is great stuff! An excerpt: Make Time For One Another, Even If You're Busy. "Love needs time and space;… 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
13 Aug 2015 Gratitude Books One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to LIVE FULLY Right Where You Are, Ann Voskamp, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010, 237 pp;… Editor No Comments
11 Aug 2015 Chasing the Scream The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, Johann Hari, New York: Bloomsbury, 2015, 389 pp. WN: An… Editor No Comments
14 Apr 2015 Atheist Delusions The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, David Bentley Hart, New Haven & London: Yale Divinity Press, 2009, 253pp. An… Editor No Comments
Blog 30 Mar 2015 What Olympic Ideal? By DANIEL MENDELSOHN image above: Ancient Olympia - Ruin in Greece - Thousand Wonders An excerpt: So too, all too obviously,… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 The London Bombs, July 2005 By Wayne Northey July 9, 2005 Dear Editor: Prime Minister Tony Blair hypocritically called the London bombings “barbaric attacks.” On… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 Thank A Trained Killer Week, December 19 – 25, 2005 An excerpt: The week before Christmas south of the border has been designated “Thank a Soldier Week.” It may be… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 Mr. Harper, But Emperor Bush Has Nothing on At All!!! By Wayne Northey Stephen Harper is a scary man. He is at best sycophant, at worst dupe, of the confidence… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 Sifting Dresden’s ashes image above: Enormous 360-degree panoramic picture of Dresden after Allied bombing| pinterest.com WN: Sixty years after the Allies' bombing of Dresden enveloped… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 “Pardon Me?!” "Pardon Me?!" A one-time friend, Lloyd Billingsley, years ago confidently told me that “the left” by definition is ideological, “the… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 One War is Enough By Edgar L. Jones image above: Love is the only way. There has been enough pain, enough war ... picturequotes.com WN:… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 Militarism Leads to Torture By Scott Galindez image above: Revealed: Senate report contains new details on CIA black sites WN: There is no Empire known… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 Jarhead, Montréal Shooting Spree, and Western Civilization It was while descending from a hike up Elk Mountain in the eastern Fraser Valley of British Columbia that someone… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 Is War the Real [U.S.] National Pastime? These are excerpts from an interview with Eugene Jarecki, director of the documentary: "Why We Fight". For consideration: "Pax Americana:… Editor No Comments
Blog 29 Mar 2015 We Are Mansfield Park image above: The young Fanny and the "well-meant condescensions of Sir Thomas Bertram" on her arrival at Mansfield Park. A… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Mar 2015 Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence photo above: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964 WN: The sermon, preached one year to the day before his… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Mar 2015 Three Quotes and Two Dictionary Entries Three Quotes and Two Dictionary Entries 1. “In [a true fairy-story] when the sudden 'turn' [or 'eucatastrophe'] comes we get… Editor No Comments
Blog 20 Mar 2015 Canadian Federal Candidates Questions: June 2004 Two questions that never received a response during election year 2004 . . . Mr. Warawa, the Conservative Party of… Editor No Comments
Blog 19 Mar 2015 Why Most Christians Are Not Consistently Pro-Life An excerpt: The other day Pat Robertson of the 700 Club called for the assassination of Hugo Chavez, President of… Editor No Comments
Blog 18 Mar 2015 The Jesus Quest & The Real Jesus WN: This is still a worthwhile article by New Testament scholar Richard B. Hays almost 20 years later. The original… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Mar 2015 Spirituality of Restorative Justice WN: Presented at Arts & Peace Festival, Restorative Justice Workshop, March 1, 2001. Something similar was also presented at Regent… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Mar 2015 Spirituality Evaluation of Restorative Justice Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 4, 2003 WN: I attended and presented at… Editor No Comments
Blog 14 Mar 2015 Restorative Justice and M2/W2 Ministry M2/W2 (Man-To-Man/Woman-To-Woman) is the Restorative Justice agency with which I was associated for forty years. An excerpt: A few years… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Mar 2015 Reflections on Capital Punishment An excerpt: Christian support for capital punishment, like Christian participation in war, has known a majority Christendom approbation since the… Editor No Comments
Blog 13 Mar 2015 Punishment and Retribution: An Attempt to Delimit Their Scope in New Testament Thought WN: I have loved this piece since the first time I read it decades ago! Preparing it as an "Occasional… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Mar 2015 Call For a Church Apology Vis À Vis Crime and Punishment photo above: freeimages.com An excerpt: When Anselm of Canterbury wrote Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man) in the 11th… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Mar 2015 Clark Pinnock Letters, June 14, 1991; October 9, 1991; October 22, 1991 image above: topfamousquotes.com WN:When I lived for nearly two years in the basement of noted Evangelical scholar Clark Pinnock's home,… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Mar 2015 Paul’s Gospel and Caesar’s Empire WN: Arguably the two greatest New Testament era historians in the world today are James D. G. Dunn and N.… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Mar 2015 On the Front Lines WN: Brian Stewart is a well-known Canadian journalist who a dozen or so years ago found his way to Christian… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Mar 2015 Jesus, Evangelicals, and American Empire image above: thenile.com.au WN: "Empire" by nature is gargantuan evil. There is none known to history that has not been… Editor No Comments
Blog 06 Mar 2015 Is Paul the Father of Misogyny and Antisemitism? WN: This paper highlighted below answers in the negative the question posed in the title. It was written by Pamela… Editor No Comments
Blog 05 Mar 2015 ‘In the Middle:’ Biblical Reflections on Restorative Justice WN: Tom Yoder Neufeld presented this to the Mennonite Central Committee Canada Restorative Justice Network in Winnipeg in 2003. It… Editor No Comments
Blog 04 Mar 2015 A Great Irony of History: The Anthropological Significance of the Cross, and Peace WN: I wrote this and presented it at the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) June 19, 2008. Paul Nuechterlein… Editor No Comments
Blog 02 Mar 2015 The Criminal Justice System and “Criminal” Justice image above: hub.wsu.edu WN: This is a true story in which in 2000 we intervened on behalf of a friend,… Editor No Comments
02 Mar 2015 The Fall of the Prison Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition, Lee Griffith, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1993. 258pp. WN: This is a profound piece of… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Feb 2015 Christianity and the Subversion of Just About Everything! April 16, 2017 WN: This essay was initially written in the 1980's while I was preparing a sermon on Romans… Editor No Comments
Blog 28 Feb 2015 Capital Punishment image above: izquotes.com WN: I was invited to dialogue with Dr. Richard Land of (later) “The Ethics and Religious Liberty… Editor No Comments
25 Jan 2015 Rogue State A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower, William Blum, Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine, 2000, 308 pp. A former Canadian… Editor
24 Jan 2015 The War on Terrorism and the Terror of God Lee Griffith, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002, 399 pp. “What would this mean if it were true that we love God… Editor
Blog 24 Jan 2015 David Cayley of CBC Ideas for over 30 years Presents… WN: Greetings all. About 25 years ago, I wrote to David Cayley in response to a CBC Ideas series broadcast… Editor No Comments
13 Jun 2014 Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America Barry Hankins, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008, 272 pp. An excerpt: Barry Hankins allows irenically that Schaeffer’s “arguments have not stood… Editor
Blog 17 May 2014 Chapter Sixty-Three In 2007 I first published Chrysalis Crucible, a coming-of-age novel about young Andy Norton who goes off to West Berlin… Editor No Comments
13 May 2014 Holding Forth . . . . . . or fifth . . . or sixth . . . SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the… Editor No Comments
Blog Original Cinema Quad Poster - Movie Film Posters 29 Apr 2014 WAR AND HELL – and Exception-Clause Footnote Theology WN: War and Hell is an interactive essay with a movie and a book. The movie: Saving Private Ryan. The… Editor No Comments
29 Apr 2014 Christian Anarchy Jesus’ Primacy over the Powers, Vernard Eller, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987. Jacques Ellul first introduced me to this theme after… Editor
28 Apr 2014 Bloomfield Avenue A Jewish-Catholic Jersey Girl’s Spiritual Journey, Linda Mercadante, Cambridge, Massachussets: Cowley Publications, 2006; 211 pages Linda was a friend from… Editor
21 Apr 2014 Blowback The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, Chalmers Johnson, New York: Henry Holt, 2000, 268 pp. It is the human… Editor
14 Mar 2014 Book Reviews List SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all website pages. A Farewell To Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey… Editor No Comments
Blog 12 Mar 2014 Transformative Justice Vision and Spirituality WN: Much of this material first appeared in The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice, “Christianity: The Rediscovery of Restorative Justice”,… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Mar 2014 The Two Great Commandments and Prison Ministry WN: This was my first devotional as new Executive Director given at M2/W2’s Annual General Meeting, May 21, 1998. I… Editor No Comments
Blog 10 Mar 2014 Is There A Place For Dreaming? WN: The title was of a wonderful song by singer/songwriter, Ken Medema, from his album, “In the Dragon’s Jaws” (no… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2014 Restorative Justice Stories – MCCC 50th Anniversary, December 14, 2013 WN: This paper was presented in Winnipeg exactly 50 years after 40 men(!) gathered to establish Mennoninte Central Committee Canada:… Editor No Comments
Blog 26 Feb 2014 Restorative Reintegration Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 1, 2003 photo above: reintegrationaustralia.com.au An excerpt: For… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 Restorative Justice Vision and Spirituality Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) Presentation, Langley Canadian Reformed Church, March 5, 2005 WN: I was grateful to co-present… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 René Girard and Violence WN: The paper below was (re)written just for my own joy in 1997, with subsequent rewrites. A version was prepared… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 Punishment and Retribution By C.F.D. Moule WN: The following is from the "Preface" of the MCC (Mennonite Central Committee "Occasional Paper" Publication, 1990)… Editor No Comments
25 Feb 2014 Chrysalis Crucible – a novel SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all website pages. “I shudder sometimes at what we’re selling, B.… MasterEditor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 Spirituality Evaluation of Restorative Justice Sixth International Conference on Restorative Justice, “Best Practices in Restorative Justice”, June 4, 2003 An excerpt: A few years ago,… Editor No Comments
Blog 25 Feb 2014 Restorative Justice and Prison Visitation WN: The following was written for the Mennonite Brethren Herald, and published August 2001. This was also typical of similar articles… Editor No Comments
Blog 24 Feb 2014 The Spirituality of Penal Abolition ICOPA IX Presentation 2000 Noted Canadian Quaker activist and author Dr. Ruth Morris was the main organizer of the above… Editor No Comments
Blog 22 Feb 2014 Towards A New Paradigm of Justice WN: Contemporary Western Restorative Justice theory and practice were not first developed by Americans, though they have greatly contributed to… Editor No Comments
22 Feb 2014 Beyond Retribution A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime, and Punishment,Christopher D. Marshall, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001, 342 pages. An… Editor
30 Jan 2014 About Me SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all website pages. I retired as Director of Man-to-Man/Woman-to-Woman--Restorative Christian Ministries… MasterEditor No Comments
30 Jan 2014 Restorative Justice SEARCH and ARCHIVES options are at the bottom of all website pages NOTE: Some of what follows is excerpted from… MasterEditor No Comments