In part one of this series, we discussed a number of films which encapsulate the depravity of an America enslaved to unbridled corporate power, and how many of our countrymen dispense with all semblance of morality in order to earn a living. In part two we will...
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Mapping Militarism 2025
World BEYOND War has just released its 2025 edition of Mapping Militarism, which uses 24 interactive maps to highlight the state of war and peace on our planet. Each map allows the viewer to spin the globe, zoom in and out, scroll the timeline back through the years,...
Obscene Wealth
Gabriel Zucman is a French-born economist who teaches at California, Berkeley and the Paris School of Economics. Zucman’s academic specialization is in wealth inequality, using tax data to track the stratification in wealth in the US and the rest of the world. A...
Disgraced Televangelist Jim Bakker Warns of End Times and Pleads for $1 Million to Survive
One of the 20th Century’s most popular – and disgraced — televangelists is pleading with his supporters to donate $1 million dollars to save his ministry. On the May 6 episode of The Jim Bakker Show, Bakker warned his viewers that unless they sent him one million...
Gaza: “Holocaust” Is the Necessary Word in the Fight for Historical Memory
No other word than Holocaust suits what is occurring now in Gaza. Perhaps the future will provide a unique term to suit the unique horror, but for now we we need to know this as a Holocaust with a capital H. The world has never witnessed atrocities in the way that...
Making Sense of Schrodinger’s Cat
How can a cat be alive and dead at the same time? I love how science has rediscovered religion. Leaving aside the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe, the universe itself is conscious. In the beginning was consciousness — inner light. Then there was outer...
Ignore Starmer’s Theatrics. Gaza’s Trail of Blood Leads Straight to His Door
Western capitals are still coordinating with Israel and the US on their ‘criticisms’ of the genocide – just as they earlier coordinated on their support for the slaughter After 19 months of being presented with dissembling accounts of Gaza from their governments,...
Veterans Reflect on Meaning of Memorial Day
This Memorial Day weekend, Veterans For Peace is calling on its members and friends to reflect on the gravity of the day, whose official purpose is to “honor all those who died in service to the U.S. during peacetime and war.” Veterans For Peace chooses to honor ALL...
Possible Consequences of Overcoming an Addiction
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Getting Bogged Down: The State and the Natural Environment in Art
We have no prairies To slice a big sun at evening– Everywhere the eye concedes to Encrouching horizon, Is wooed into the cyclops’ eye Of a tarn. Our unfenced country Is bog that keeps crusting Between the sights of the sun “Bogland” by Seamus Heaney A fascinating...
Starmer & Lammy’s Empty Words
Lammy called Israel’s escalation of the genocide “morally unjustifiable.” But what is beyond unjustifiable is for Lammy to say this while directly arming and providing surveillance information for the genocide. Yesterday, after releasing a joint statement with France...
Pushing Back on Tyranny
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