Source – nationandstate.com – “…McAfee – who is on the lam from the IRS – asks a few rhetorical questions: “Immediately people jump on their soapboxes…first its gun control…then immigration…then race issues…this was racially motivated, psychologically motivated…before we even know what happened we are jumping on our soapboxes.”…more important questions – is what is wrong…
Source – nbcnews.com – “…Osvaldo Salas first met Castro in 1955 while the Communist leader was fundraising in New York City. In 1957, a 16-year-old Roberto Salas published a photo in Life magazine of the Statue of Liberty draped in a Cuban Flag. That photo became an iconic image. In 1959, Roberto and his father…
Source -veteranstoday.com – “..His campaigns, first that year as an independent and then as a Reform Party candidate in 1996, were the most successful bids for the presidency by a third-party candidate in United States history. Some argued that it was his success—he won 19 percent of the vote in 1992—that caused the political apparatus…
Source – arabamerica.com – “…Well it’s sort of phony patriotism. They say they love their country, but their letting big corporations and government abuses run our country to the ground without doing anything about it. Half of them don’t even vote. Half of the people don’t vote in congressional elections, ⅔ don’t vote they stay…
Source – suspiciousdeaths.blogspot.com – “…The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly colored, and it’s very…
Source – original.antiwar.com – “…When Justin was 14 years old, he wrote an article on Objectivism, Ayn Rand’s philosophy, for a local New York newspaper. Rand’s lawyer, Henry Holzer, responded by sending him a “cease and desist” letter. Not long after, Justin went to a lecture at the Nathaniel Branden Institute and stood in line…
Source – thedailybell.com – “… These are self-evident truths made explicit in the Declaration of Independence that we celebrate today. 1. It is your right, and DUTY to ABOLISH a government that no longer represents you. The entire point of governments is to protect your life, liberty, and property and whenever any Form of Government…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…The basic frame of 21st century economics contrasts sharply with that of the 20th century economics it must now displace. The new frame is far more complex and nuanced. Yet most people can readily grasp it because it is logical, consistent with foundational ethical principles, and reflects the reality that most…
Source – freedomoutpost.com – ‘… More than 70% of food in America is processed and almost two-thirds of the food available comes from only 4% of the farms. This means that a very high percentage of the food consumed in America was somehow provided by a corporation whose main goal is profit, not nutrition” How…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…Youth today are so aware of what other youth are doing that these movements build off of one another—the students fighting gun violence and [racism] and so much more. They’re having these conversations about the world that they want to live in and that they believe that they’re entitled to as…
Source – hopedance.org – ‘…Hellyer demonstrates that God is alive, well and everywhere, and that humanity’s choice is between the Dark and the Light. To follow the Light means giving up atomic weapons, replacing the oil economy with clean zero-point energy developed by Americans in the 1960s, having governments create 34 percent of all new…
Source – newyorker.com – “…Carlin laments that the United States has “turned into a nation of rats and squealers,” who, to his immense disgust, have come to venerate, trust, and co-operate with the police. “You don’t help the police,” he says. “They’re not on your side.” In a riff that explains why he has always…
Source – telesurenglish.net – “…The painting reveals two sides of Kahlo’s politics. On one hand, it denotes her allegiance to the international communist movement and, in the moment she created the work, its Trotskyite faction. On the other, her devotion to Mexicanidad and Mexican nationalism is elucidated through the work’s allusions to ex-voto panels and…
Source – voicesofmontereybay.org – “…In March of 1988, Mae put an end to the radio broadcasts after receiving a death threat by telephone…the 1988 call scared her enough that she called it quits. “I pushed my luck for 17 years on the air,” she told listeners on her final broadcast. Seven months later, Mae died…
Source – theburningplatform.com – “…The main theme throughout Rules for Radicals and Alinsky’s work was empowerment of the poor.[5] Alinsky used symbol construction and nonviolent conflict to create a structured organization with a clearly defined goal that could take direct action against a common enemy” Who Was Saul Alinsky? Many of the tactics of the…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…North Americans and Europeans have to wake up, soon. Even in Nazi Germany, there were soldiers who were so disgusted with Hitler, that they wanted to send him to the dogs. Today, in the West, there is not one powerful political party which believes that 500 years of Western colonialist plunder…
Source – thenation.com – “…The Tiananmen Movement remains a taboo topic in China, banned from academic and popular realms. Even the actual number of the dead and wounded remains unknown. In the immediate aftermath, after mass arrests and purges throughout the country, the CCP constructed a narrative portraying the Tiananmen Movement as a Western conspiracy…
Source – greenpeace.org – “…Rees emphasizes that capitalist economics reinforces our short-term, selfish instincts by presuming endless growth on a finite planet. Many ecological economists have pointed out that such growth is a biophysical and thermodynamic impossibility…The youth movements, exemplified now by Extinction Rebellion, Greta Thunberg, and others, offer the potential for a deep change…
Source – theguardian.com – “…Thirty years on from the violent crushing of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, the man’s identity remains unknown; it is by no means certain he is still alive. But the photograph that captured his solitary moment of dissent in June 1989 remains one of the most memorable images of the last…
Source – commondreams.org – “…These informed, concerned people—who don’t have to worry about a living wage, not having health insurance, being gouged by payday loans, and having no savings—were called “the contented classes” in The Culture of Contentment, a book by the late progressive Harvard economist John Kenneth Gailbraith. His main point—until the contented classes…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – “…Wayne was a nomad, a radical and a truth-teller – the kind whose blunt clarity sent many a smug programmed wannabe glitterati headed swiftly in the other direction…Wayne did his best to live his philosophy which he termed, “love of life”. The feudalist City of London bloodline bankers who herd us…
Source – theburningplatform.com – “…When any government becomes almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to be fighting—whether that evil takes the form of war, terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, violence, theft, pornography, scientific experimentations or some other diabolical means of inflicting pain, suffering and servitude on humanity—that government has lost its claim…
Source – theguardian.com – ‘…Rupert Sheldrake has researched telepathy in dogs, crystals and Chinese medicine in his quest to explore phenomena that science finds hard to explain…I had some exposure to psychedelics, and that opened me up to the idea that consciousness was much richer than anything my physiology lecturers had ever described. Then I…
Source – byronchristopher.org – “…The day after controversial eco-activist Wiebo Ludwig died, the RCMP wanted to open his coffin and take his fingerprints one final time.”…Wiebo has entered into the realm of conspiracy theory, along with other notables so honored. The Mounties have once again reminded us all how they so clumsily set him up,…
Source – truthdig.com – “…The brutality of our corporate executioners grows by the day. They will stop at nothing, including wholesale murder, to consolidate power and amass greater profits. Blinded by hubris, driven by greed, disdainful of democracy, foolishly believing their wealth will protect them, they will herd us over the cliff unless they are…
Source – readynutrition.com – “…The government doesn’t like inspiration. You’re setting an example. You’re no longer just some kook living in the woods, you’re showing the world what can be done without the “help” of government, and that our trust in their system has been misplaced and unwarranted. We can all leave their control grid,…
Source – themindunleashed.com – “…Our collective history is littered with original thinkers, artists, and inventors like these, yet we rarely hear of them, and therefore cannot learn from their incredible originality. Unless of course, we too become mavericks and move away from the herd” Geniuses, Radicals and Sages: It’s Time to Break Free – By…
Source – rebellion.earth – “…The social institutions that are meant, in theory, to serve the common good — namely, our governments — are in large part the source of our woes. This is because most governments, and especially the most powerful governments, are thoroughly enmeshed in fossil-fueled global capitalism” Can Civil Disobedience Turn the Tide…
Source – home.solari.com – “…(I) helped the federal government implement these changes as president of Hamilton Securities Group – lead financial advisor and portfolio strategist to the FHA mortgage insurance operations. I did so until the honest officials and my company were forced out by phony scandals rigged by the Department of Justice and the…
Source – slate.com – “… Sheela is a fascinating, larger-than-life figure, but she’s probably garnering as much “devotion” as she is because pop culture is largely devoid of female characters as complicated as she is, especially women of color. Rooting for her is not unlike rooting for Walter White in Breaking Bad: You know you’re…
