Source – theguardian.com – “…Zevon was born in 1947 in Chicago, the son of a young Mormon woman and a middle-aged Russian-Jewish immigrant gangster…”Warren’s father was a gruff little guy who probably killed people, but he was there for his son. But then, this was a guy who gave his son a prostitute for his…
Source – jacobinmag.com – “…While in prison, he shared a cell with disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, who later wrote of LaRouche that “To say that Lyndon was slightly paranoid would be like saying the Titanic had a bit of a leak.” (Bakker was, however, impressed by his cellmate’s knowledge of the Bible” The Utterly Bizarre…
Source – truthdig.com – “…What is happening to Assange should terrify the press. And yet his plight is met with indifference and sneering contempt…Assange is on his own. Each day is more difficult for him. This is by design. It is up to us to protest. We are his last hope, and the last hope,…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…The days when New York was another city, a city of newspapers and typewriters and young passion still hopeful that despite the problems and national tragedies, there were still fighters who would bang out a message of hope and defiance in the mainstream press. It was a time before money and…
Source – blackstarnews.ca – “Most adherents see Haile Selassie I as Jah or Jah Rastafari, an incarnation of God the Father, the Second Advent of Christ “the Anointed One”, i.e. the Second Coming of Jesus Christ the King to Earth“ Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, Bob Marley, and the Origins of Rastafari Rastafari is an…
Source – hiddenhistorycenter.org – “… John Judge, a researcher and activist who studied the Kennedy assassination alongside researchers like Mae Brussell and Penn Jones, Judge was the head of COPA and the founder of the Museum of Hidden History and the Hidden History Center” John Judge, the cofounder of the Coalition on Political Assassinations – (COPA),…
Source – brainpickings.org – “It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.” As a hopeless lover of both letters and famous advice, I was delighted to discover a letter 20-year-old Hunter S. Thompson — gonzo journalism godfather, pundit of media politics, dark philosopher — penned…
Source – theguardian.com – “… It was “so-called normal people”, not sociopaths, who were responsible for the atrocities of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism…His primary concern, however, which underpins nearly everything about him, is the defence of the individual against groupthink, whether on the right or the left” Jordan Peterson: ‘The pursuit of happiness is a…
Source – phibetaiota.ne – “…Human beings, who had spent centuries evolving away from slavery, were re-commoditised by the Industrial Era. Open source everything, in this context…to learn from our mistakes, and catalyse the re-opening of the commons, in the process breaking the grip of defunct power structures…Sharing, not secrecy, is the means by which we…
Source – morningstaronline.co.uk – “…From the belly of the beast to independence and freedom, he shared his journey and the vital knowledge and insights he gained along the way…There is simply nowhere to go in the corporate media for an alternative to the big lie. And that is why Bill Blum’s work is indispensable. His…
Source – thesaker.is – “… The words of Christ “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God” (Matt 5:9) fully apply to them all. They are also shining examples of what I call “the other West”, a West which far from constantly binging on messianic hubris…seeks to make the USA…
Source – danielpsheehan.com – “…Look, Danny,” one House investigator tells Sheehan, “if anyone is so ignorant that he doesn’t know that the Central Intelligence Agency has been smuggling heroin from Southeast Asia through Cuba into the United States for decades to secretly finance first the Nationalist Chinese and later their covert operations in Southeast Asia,…
Source – kirkusreviews.com – “…Members of the Occupy movement, whom he repeatedly cites as models of moral courage. He celebrates whistleblowers Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden for raising awareness of the government’s duplicity and “wholesale surveillance” The Wages of Rebellion – By Chris Hedges Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again…
Source – riggedgame.blog – “…The real cause, however, may be quite a bit more nuanced and a long time coming. As political commentator Kark Sharro suggests in a seven-part tweetstorm, the Yellow Vest movement is “about marginalsation and the impotence felt by ordinary people” Explaining France’s Grassroots “Yellow Vest” Movement — And Why It’s Spreading…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…There are no straight lines in nature. We can learn this from good literature. True. Or we can learn it from life. Che did. So did Joe Catron. They knew it because they respected life, others’ lives. They wanted to know them. And that’s been the message of countless wise philosophers, from across…
Source – salasphotocuba.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 – billhicks.tumblr.com – “…Whoever is elected President…when you win, you go into this smoke-filled room with the twelve industrialist capitalist scum-fucks who got you in there. And you’re in this smoky room, and this little film screen comes down … and a big guy with a cigar goes, “Roll the film.“ And it’s a…
Source – http://www.blacklistednews.com – ‘…The present military and economic power of the US government, and governments everywhere, rests on advanced technology. Governments, by their very nature, function to manipulate and coerce people—both their own citizens, and any other non-citizens whom they declare to be of interest. Governments have a monopoly on force, and this force is manifest through…
Source – collective-evolution.com – “…People are starting to realize that it doesn’t put the country at risk, but simply threatens the control mechanisms the global elite use to control us and enforce their ideas and ways upon us. It basically exposes secrecy that is used for profit and control, not defence, security, and national interests”: 11…
Source – stuartjeannebramhall.com – “…Our culture is hijacked by sophisticated rituals and symbols that bear little resemblance to our genuine needs”: Escape from the Cult of Materialism Escape from the Cult of Materialism Fair Wind Films (2016) Film Review This strange little documentary develops the premise that materialism (the pressure to buy stuff we don’t want…
Source – voltairenet.org – “:..Today, the fatherland of Hugo Chávez faces an offensive led by the US government, its troops and right wing media that feeds an internal terrorist minority, for whom destruction awaits, dealt out by the followers of the Eternal Commander…., that poor boy from Sabaneta who dreamed of having a gun in…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…Both of these entail a fundamental change in the way money is created. Positive money refers to money created directly without debt by the government, which can be given directly to debtors for debt repayment or used to purchase debts from creditors and then cancel them. Negative-interest currency (which I describe…
Source – whowhatwhy.org – “This is the horror of American politics today—not that Richard Nixon and his fixers have been crippled, convicted, indicted, disgraced and even jailed—but that the only available alternatives are not much better; the same dim collection of burned-out hacks who have been fouling the air with gibberish for the last twenty…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…Dolores Huerta: She and Cesar Chavez worked side by side, co-founding the United Farm Workers union and organizing the labor movement in California and beyond. It was Dolores who directed the 1965 Delano grape boycott, and her work as a political advocate has resulted in the passage of a number of…
Source – wakingtimes.com – “…Green anarchy gets power over power by shattering the illusion of tyrannical power with the hard-earned truth of authentic power: discovering a balance between nature and the human soul. It doesn’t seek power; it empowers”: (Eco-Consciousness and the Power of Green Anarchy) “For thousands of years we’ve been ruled by kings…
Source – angelfire.com – “A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky. I was hostile to the white man… we preferred hunting to a life of idleness on our reservations. At times we did not get enough to…
Source – theendofbeing.com – “… Peltier is considered by many of his supporters to have been arbitrarily chosen for conviction after earlier attempts to convict AIM leaders failed. Although obviously a controversial and contentious subject, enough evidence has emerged in defense of Peltier over the years that he counts among his supporters the Dalai Lama,…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…The process of the unsustainable collapsing and a new, more sustainable model emerging is called revolution. In the shared imagination, the word conjures up images of violent overthrow of a political order. In this book, revolution describes a blossoming of understanding so profound that it leads to the peaceful transformation of…
Source – stuartjeannebramhall.com – “…Their first politically motivated prank was directed attack against Neo-Nazi talk show host Hal Turner. In addition to shutting down his website through a DoS* attack, they charged massive amounts of pizza and industrial supplies to be sent to his address”: ‘We Are Legion’, The History of Anonymous Film Review We…
Source – c4ss.org –“We Live in a Culture of Death – And It’s Up To Us To Resist It”: On April 30th, Father Daniel Berrigan, an antiwar activist, Jesuit priest, author, and poet, passed away at the age of 94. Since the Vietnam War, Father Berrigan spoke bravely against American imperialism. But his opposition to…
