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By Jason Markusoff September 15, 2021 photo above: Jason Kenney speaks on July 12 at the Premier's annual Stampede breakfast…

By George Packer July/August 2021 Issue The Atlantic image above: Lucy Jones WN: Wow! The essay is stunning as it…

by Emily Widra and Tiana Herring   Tweet this September 2021 WN: My strongest statement about the horrors of worldwide incarceration…

Essay by Carlos Lozada Illustration above: by Patrik Svensson Sept. 3, 2021 WN: Below are excerpts from an outstanding essay…

By Howard Zinn Posted on August 15, 2021 image above from the Movie Poster: The Fall of the American Empire…

August 12, 2021 by Dave Lindorff photo above: AC-130 Spectre gunship rains random death from the sky in the name…

Aug 10, 2021 by Brian Roewe Action photo above: A girl in Falmouth, Britain, plays with sand during a climate…

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…

By Julia Manchester - 08/08/21 WN: This continues to be tragic for women. We read: “The real root of the…

By Daniel Ross, Truthout August 8, 2021 WN: The last quotation in this article is arresting: “We’re already the proverbial…

By Fahad Razak, Arthur Slutsky and David Naylor Fahad Razak, Arthur Slutsky and David Naylor are physicians and professors in…

by Christy Thomas July 31, 2021 photo above:

By Matthew Walther Mr. Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing editor at…

By Aaron E. Carroll Dr. Carroll is the chief health officer for Indiana University. He’s also a writer who focuses…

by Archbishop Lazar Puhalo July 28, 2021 photo above: Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to…

By MICHAEL GRUNWALD 07/30/2021 photo above: trofire.com WN: All sobering. excerpts: OPINION: TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH — During a…

by David Cayley June 12, 2021 photo above and to the right (clickable): Cover of David Cayley’s new (massive) book…

Opinion by Columnist Jennifer Rubin July 28, 2021 photo above: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) hugs Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn…

By Ruby Mellen and William Neff July 28, 2021 image above: convergence.unc.edu WN: The concluding quote is ominous: “As humans,…

Opinion Maureen Dowd July 24, 2021 photo above: Fire consumed a home as the Sugar Fire tore through Doyle, Calif.,…

By Adam Harris July 22, 2021 photo above: kyma.com WN: Sadly, idiot politicians like the one mentioned in the second…

By Dan Zak and Karen Heller July 20, 2021 photo above: (Robert Carter for The Washington Post) WN: Sadly, the…

Opinion by Eugene Robinson Columnist July 21, 2021 photo above: Pyrocumulus clouds rise above the Bootleg Fire near Klamath Falls,…

Alex Kotch Tue 20 Jul 2021 photo above: Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, chairs a Senate energy and…

By MYAH WARD  07/20/2021 image above: wrex.com WN: I have a close relative who "won't let anybody shoot that stuff…

Opinion by David Von Drehle Columnist photo above: Lake Mead just above the Hoover Dam in Nevada last month. (Kyle…

WN: These are hugely helpful, wise, quietly powerful. Thanks to Gerry Ayotte who studied under Father Ron Rolheiser, and pointed…

Ideas by David Frum July 13, 2021 image above: Adam Maida / The Atlantic WN: Sobering and eerily prophetic. Please…

Ishaan Tharoor July 18, 2021 photo above: A scene at Chris Hani Mall in the aftermath of the unrest in…

By  Community last July 17, 2021 image above: cagle.com WN: "Guns and Bibles" (see below)--but nary a drop of authentic…

By Megan Garber July 12, 2021 WN: Sick . . . Please also see an earlier piece by  Timothy Karr,…

Inequality.org 07/17/2021 By Manuel Perez-Rocha | – an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., and…

Fact Checker Analysis Salvador Rizzo Reporter July 16, 2021 photo above: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)  WN:…

Mark Fiore for Daily Kos Community Friday July 16, 2021 WN: This is brilliant--but so tragic! And so richly deserved! Please…

By Philip Rucker and Carol D. Leonnig July 15, 2021 WN: Sick . . . excerpts: Part two of an…

By Michael Kranish July 14, 2021 photo above: patheos.com WN: What does one do with such elite entitlement; with such…

By Cindy Blackstock June 30, 2021 photo above: Memorial to residential school victims outside Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Shelby Lisk) …

By Alicia Elliott July 12, 2021 photo above: The Mohawk Institute Residential School, referred to by former students as ‘the…

by David Cayley January 2, 2016 WN: This is a highly instructive essay. There is much on my website about…

By Stephanie McCrummen July 11, 2021 photo above: Mercy Culture Church in Fort Worth. (Dylan Hollingsworth for The Washington Post)…

By Community last July 11, 2021 image above:

by Stephanie Williamson July 5, 2021 photo above: Élizabeth and Félix WN: So beautifully instructive! excerpts: or Christians living in…

Opinion Maureen Dowd July 10, 2021 photo above: Senator Bernie Sanders heading back to his office after breakfast in Burlington,…

By Jake Jackson July 10, 2021 WN: All so tragic! But for some comic relief:

Opinion Michelle Goldberg July 9, 2021 photo above: Mark Peterson/Redux WN: To the first part of the title: Amen!!!((This article…

Opinion by Robert Zoellick July 9, 2021 photo above: The first batch of vaccines from the United States arrive in…

Opinion by Michael de Adder Editorial cartoonist July 9, 2021 photo above: Brilliant yet tragic! Please click on: Grand Old…

By Ishaan Tharoor with Claire Parker  Email photo above: A man speaks on the phone next to a mural in…

Opinion by Paul Butler Contributing columnist July 8, 2021 photo above: Nikole Hannah-Jones during an interview in Brooklyn on Tuesday.…

By Marie-Danielle Smith July 8, 2021 illustration above: by Anna Minzhulina WN: Military. Police. Prisons.((See here also.)) All are rife…

By Brian Bethune July 7, 2021 photo above: mindbrews.in WN: Loony and terrifying! You will also find interesting this story…

Opinion by Jason Stanford July 5, 2021 photo above: The Alamo in San Antonio, seen in 2013. (Eric Gay/AP) WN:…

photo above: The last US troop withdrawal from Vietnam occurred in 1973, after almost ten years of continuous bombings with…

By Michael F. Pettinger June 29, 2021 photo above: Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden attend a church service…

by Phyllis Bennis July 1, 2021 photo above: Then-US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld addresses a press conference at the…

By The New York Times June 30, 2021 WN: While video images can be selectively strung together, they are real…

by Eric Holthaus Wed 30 Jun 2021 WN: We're in this new normal, with much more and worse to come!((See:…

The Editors June 30, 2021 photo above: A young woman takes part in a rally in Toronto June 6, 2021,…

by James T. Keane June 28, 2021 photo above: Pope Francis stands apart from U.S. political factions. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)…

Book Review of Eyes of Compassion: Learning From Thich Nhat Hanh, Jim Forest, Orbis Books, 2021 When I was working…

By Marty Johnson - 06/16/21 WN: So momentous! And this announced on Thursday the 17th!: The federal government will give…

By Aaron Blake Senior Reporter June 15, 2021 photo above: Rudolph W. Giuliani and then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen…

By Ezra Klein Opinion Columnist June 13, 2021 photo above: Peter van Agtmael/Magnum Photos WN: In Mark 14:1-11, there is…

WN: The video is beautifully presented and wonderfully hopeful! Dr. Gabor Maté is an amazingly wise and compassionate healer. TAKE…

By Brian Bethune May 25, 2021 WN: A discussion of a brilliant book casting new light on ACD (Anthropogenic Climate…

By Maclean's June 8, 2021 photo above: Shoes are placed on the lawn outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School…

Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes Du…

By Stephen Maher June 7, 2021 photo above: Shoes sit in front of the Parliament buildings during a ceremony on…

By Mike Alexander | June 4, 2021photo above: Jusquan Bedard paints finishing touches on the Gwaii Haanas legacy totem pole before it…

WN: Please consider signing the petition begun today. After nearly fifty years of work in Canada's Criminal Justice System, and…

By Community May 29, 2021 WN: I found this wise, caring and touching. excerpts: So I just found out today…

Opinion by Ken Dryden May 27, 2021 photo above: Toronto center John Tavares is taken from the ice on a…

WN: This is immensely helpful in this historical moment. Lumen Christi Institute René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment…

WN: The following video, God's Covenant in the Promised Land, was powerful in 2014. It is tragically as true now…

May 13, 2021 by Cindy Lu WN: This video speaks for itself . . . Description: Melissa Grelo and Elaine…

By Adnan R. Khan May 11, 2021 photo above: Spec Ops Magazine WN: In short, Canada’s Special Operations Regiment (CSOR),…

By Community May 11, 2021 WN: There have been many voices that point to Trump as a would-be despot, tyrant,…

Story by David Treuer May 2021 Issue Editor’s note: This article is part of a new series called “Who Owns…

May 6, 2021 By Alfred McCoy photo above: Afghan War Kills 3 Children a Day: Report | Common Dreams News…

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…

WN: Lauren Southern is vilified by the Left because of much of her past activism: a Canadian alt-right political activist,…

By Charlie Savage May 1, 2021 photo above: Targeted killings away from conventional war zones have been a central feature…

The new president’s paper trail reveals a man who has often betrayed his own bedrock principles. Jeremy Scahill April 28…

By John Nichols April 29, 2021 photo above: yourbasin.com; Jamaal Bowman topples US Rep. Engel in NY Democratic Primary WN:…

Opinion by  Max Boot April 28, 2021 photo above: President Biden in the Rose Garden at the White House on…

Opinion by Tammie Gregg and Donna Lieberman April 28, 2021 at 5:00 a.m. PDT image above: Julie Lai for The Washington…

April 27, 2021 by Sonali Kolhatkar image above: Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair chart below: The Washington Post, Fatal Force…

The Magazine: Spring 2021 COVID-19 in prisons got our attention. Manitoba has quietly been home to the highest incarceration rates…

By Jake Jackson April 24, 2021 photo above: Daily Sound and Fury WN: The Prophets and Jesus constantly call us…

Mark Walker April 23, 2021 photo above: Kristina Barker for The New York Times WN: This kind of story can…

After years of trying to get the province to protect an important salmon watershed, one northwest B.C. First Nation is…

By German Lopez @germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Updated Apr 16, 2021 WN: I will embed below the video produced. Please view that…

By Robert P. Jones | November 12, 2020 WN: Beyond tragic the pullquote to the right, this means four-fifths of American…

By Community April 16, 2021 photo above: The quote is from The Talmud. WN: The above from The Talmud echoes…

April 19, 2021 Ibram X. Kendi, Contributing writer at The Atlantic photo above: Charmaine Edwards (left) speaks to supporters during…

Gabe Ortiz Daily Kos Staff Monday April 19, 2021 photo above: AP WN: A man in our Home Improvement Group…

By BRAKKTON BOOKER 04/13/2021 WN: Words fail. . . . Please also see here and here: Black Toronto residents 20…

“He tells them what to do. He tells them why they’re angry.” Mark Follman March+April 2021 Issue photo above: Nate…

Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt.  Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Plough Publishing House, 2015. Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842–1919) was born in Möttlingen, Germany,…

WN: Dianne is one of the amazing volunteers in charge of Colorado CURE. Please enjoy this brief interview: You may…

CBC Radio · Posted: Sep 24, 2020 6:07 PM ET | Last Updated: March 3 photo above: Prison For Women,…

WN: Esther, my partner, and I have been hugely privileged to have been connected to the End Abuse Programs for…

Easter Song, Keith Green, and Reflections on the Resurrection NOTE: Please check out the footnotes for additional, more detailed commentary.…

John J. Strynkowski March 28, 2021 photo above: Photo by Markus Schumacher on Unsplash WN: The reflection highlighted below is…

by Wayne Northey for The Kenarchy Journal, Volume 2. image above: cccu.org PLEASE NOTE: Below are excerpts of my paper…

By Jake Jackson March 24, 2021 image source: Blog for Arizona WN: The situation in the U.S. continues to be…

John W. Miller March 25, 2021 photo above: Screenshot, America: The Jesuit Review WN: Amazon/Jeff Bezos is possibly America's most…

March 24, 2021 Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic photo above: wisegeek.com WN: The "new model" called for in…

By RENUKA RAYASAM and MYAH WARD  03/23/2021 photo above: There Have Already Been 104 Mass Shootings In US So Far…

Dominic Rushe Bio Environment  March 19, 2021 photo above: Axiom/Zuma WN: Hope springs eternal. The article highlighted is hopeful! excerpts: This…

Published on Saturday, March 20, 2021 by Common Dreams by Tim Koechlin photo above: economist.com WN: In short: Neoliberalism is…

NOTE on image above: Foot washing by UK artist Dinah Roe Kendall WN: It is exciting to introduce The Kenarchy…

WN: Charles Thornton became a friend through our attending International CURE Conferences together: once in San José Costa Rica (2017),…

By George Yancy, Truthout Published March 5, 2021 photo above: yankeewikis.com WN: I first became involved with men in prison…

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Dangerous, racist and falling apart. By nearly every metric, the nation's penal system is not just failing, it's making things…

02/28/2021 By S.V. Dáte, HuffPost US illustration above: Rebecca Zisser/HuffPost; Photo: Getty WN: I can only add: I have two…

By Anthony Arnove, Truthout Published January 27, 2020 photo above: wikiwand.com WN: Trump and white nationalists, for starters, would not…

January 23, 2020 by Mandy Smithberger illustration above: Matt Wuerker (Politico/Reddit) WN: In short: reducing military spending/international arms sales/wars is…

Tomgram January 7, 2020 By Andrew Bacevich illustration above: lindsaysocialstudies.weebly.com (President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy: "Speak softly and carry a…

January 30, 2020 Peter Wehner Contributing writer at The Atlantic and senior fellow at EPPC photo above: President Trump speaking…

March 26, 2020 by Ramzy Baroud photo above: Sgt. Paul L. Anstine III, U.S. Marine Corps – Public Domain WN:…

January 8, 2021 by Gary Olson image above: The Good Samaritan Painting by Tissot WN: In short: for us in…

By Peter Manseau Feb. 19, 2021 photo above: Michael Sparks, far left, stands with other Trump supporters as they are…

February 19, 2021 WN: Read the devotional below, then read a much longer and powerful reflection: Living in Communion: AN…

October 2020 | Pandemic By David Cayley WN: There are recent posts and others here, that inform you about David…

  Jen St. Denis Today | TheTyee.ca Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. This…

December 4, 2020 WN: I recently posted an article about David Cayley. There have been a few others. So I…

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all.…

POLITICO Nightly Tomorrow’s conversation, tonight. Know where the news is going next. By MICHAEL GRUNWALD--With help from Renuka Rayasam and…

Gerald McDermott January 25, 2021 WN: This highlighted article is about challenge and hope. excerpts: n January 1862 Frederick Douglass,…

Crime and Justice February 16, 2021 Abigail Weinberg Mark Helenowski photo above: Rev. Dr. William Barber II at an interfaith…

By Maya Schenwar, Truthout Published February 13, 2021 photo above: Dr. Carl Hart WN: The contention discussed in this article…

By adrienne maree brown, Truthout Published February 14, 2021 photo above: Participants take part in an event organized by Love…

By Meteor Blades February 13, 2021 Earth Matters is a weekly compendium of wonderful, disturbing, and hideous news briefs about…

February 12, 2021 by Paul Street photo above: Backbone Campaign – CC BY 2. WN: The highlighted article is a…

WN: Introduction Below is a clickable list of many of David Cayley’s Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) about 50-minute-long podcasts. They…

By Bill Berkowitz February 8, 2021 WN: The article highlighted below is very disturbing for followers of the one Mark…

February 10, 2021 by Gary Leupp photo above: via The Huffington Post WN: One can imagine with the above photo…

Going against Republicans, the media, and some on the left, the New York representative makes the case for accountability. By…

January 22, 2021 by Nicky Reid cartoon: too true! WN: What is true of the Criminal Justice System is also…

By George T. Conway III January 22, 2021 WN: George Conway knows American law and history, clearly has done his…

After Attempted Coup, We Must Fight White Supremacy and Sow Revolutionary Love By adrienne maree brown, Truthout January 10, 2021…