Jose Padua: Bad
When I bought the shiny black leather shoes with the flat front toe and zip-up tongue for my high school play at the 4 Dudes shoe store downtown, the salesman … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Warrior Cops
Warrior cops continue to destroy civil liberties and the lives of innocent people. I’ve been suffering a slight case of cognitive dissonance lately, a disorientation that stems from residing in … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: Guns, Guns, Guns
One of the grimmer small events of recent American life occurred just as 2014 was ending. A mother had her two-year old toddler perched in a shopping cart at an … Continue reading
Ann Jones: Is This Country Crazy?
Inquiring Minds Elsewhere Want to Know. Americans who live abroad — more than six million of us worldwide (not counting those who work for the U.S. government) — often face … Continue reading
Deirdre Fulton: ‘Everything is Awesome’? Not So Much for Middle Class, Says Warren
Despite positive economic indicators, ‘America’s middle class is in deep trouble,’ says the progressive senator… . “For more than thirty years, too many politicians in Washington have made deliberate choices … Continue reading
Mel Packer: Expendable Workers
The number of people seen as “expendable” by those in charge of our world is growing dramatically. Once, in an industrial era, the wealthy needed two-legged mules (read human laborers) … Continue reading
Nelson Mandela on Non-Violence
http:// Nelson Mandela on Non-Violence from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
In the Aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks, Let’s Not Forget Fraternity
Originally posted on The Contrary Perspective:
Alex Dunn. Introduction by b. traven. Alex Dunn is one of TCP‘s EU correspondents. An English ex-pat living in Luxembourg gives us a view…
Dawn Potter: As a Thief in the Night
1891 It was about nine o’clock that the explosion occurred, and soon a black vapor poured out of the top of the shaft. . Horrible Explosion of Mine Gas! The … Continue reading
Rituals that Reconnect: Why We Must Make Sacred Space Everywhere
Originally posted on gerri ravyn stanfield:
For a week or more in the summer of 2001, fires burn through northern New Mexico, decimating forests in the Pecos Wilderness and Los…
Djelloul Marbrook: Poetry as Lightning
Poetry is by its very nature subversive. Poetry is the lightning of a society. In its flashes the demons of a society glow. The copper-wired job of the critical establishment … Continue reading
Bernie Sanders: Fight for our Progressive Vision
As I look ahead to this coming year, a number of thoughts come to mind. First and foremost, against an enormous amount of corporate media noise and distraction, it is … Continue reading
Malcolm X: Make it plain
American Experience: PBS Documentary on the Life & death of the Hon. Malcolm X. (1994). “Here – at this final hour, in this quiet place – Harlem has come to … Continue reading
Chard De Niord: The media continue to play into the terrorists’ hands
There are millions of Muslims who find the terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere reprehensible and antithetical to Islam. I heard a French Muslim, who is also a town official, … Continue reading →