Source – thenation.com – With delight and ease, Bowie broke the boundaries of gender and sexuality: “There’s a starman waiting in the sky He’d like to come and meet us But he thinks he’d blow our minds… —David Bowie, 1972 Forty years ago, David Bowie told an interviewer, “I’d love to enter politics. I will…
Source – occupywallst.org – A New Playbook for Revolution from the co-creator of Occupy Wall Street : Is protest broken? Micah White, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, thinks so. Recent years have witnessed the largest protests in human history. Yet these mass mobilizations no longer change society. Now activism is at a crossroads: innovation or…
Source – wakingtimes.com – For many waking up in the modern world, the weight of the planet is on their shoulders. It seems like the more one learns, the more everything is in ruin. Climate catastrophe and secret financial institutions threaten devastation on all sides, the media is run by the corporate elite and filters…
Source – grannypowerthefilm.com – “Two Raging Grannies” is a beautifully shot film that juxtaposes a journey into activism with a profound meditation on aging: Two Raging Grannies is, in fact, a bit of a misnomer. The two grandmothers in the film, Hinda and Shirley, are more concerned than angry, and more curious than anything else.…
Source – theantimedia.org – John Trudell, an American Indian poet, actor, spoken word artist, and political activist well-known for his involvement with the radical Red Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, died on Tuesday. After a battle with cancer, Trudell died in Santa Clara County, located in Northern California, at the age of 69.…
Source – ncronline.org – Bourgeois was not into clerical career advancement. He didn’t curry favor with the correct think tanks or develop the proper relationships with the guys in purple and red. He just did the kinds of things that make people nervous, questioning those otherwise viewed as guarantors of our security, and attracting thousands…
Source – veteranstoday.com – “The failures that are now taking place are amongst the stock-jobbers, brokers, and gamblers, and would to God, they were all swept from the land !” – Andrew Jackson Jackson is politically incorrect these days. Hot tempered, angry and unforgiving Manifest Destiny advocate who loved a lot of Indians like brothers…
Source – en.academic.ru – Revolutionary Union Movement and Europe: As he wrote in L’Homme révolté (in the chapter about “The Thought on Baxter”), Camus was a follower of the ancient Greek ‘Solar Tradition’ (la pensée solaire). In 1947–48 he founded the Revolutionary Union Movement (Groupes de liaison internationale – GLI)[7] a trade union movement in…
Source – nytimes.com – “I’ve been on a flight from depression, oppression, racism, injustice, inhumanity, cruelty. That flight is not over, but I’m not just running from it. I’m fighting it”: In 1968, William Lee Brent, an ex-convict, attended a Black Panther Party rally in Oakland and walked away possessing a new and unshakeable world…
Source – indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com – To say that the Black Hills (Kȟe Sapa) hold special significance for the Oceti Sakowin (The Great Sioux Nation) is an understatement. They’re not only our traditional homelands, where our ancestors once lived, they’re sacred. The Black Hills are the birthplace of our Nation, where we rose from Mother Earth’s womb.…
Source – salon.com – Ted Nugent would make a good cult leader. He’s got all the ingredients: charisma, fame in a popular art form, a highly articulate and highly singular worldview and a badass public persona. Also, the man is heavily armed: Nugent (aka The Motor City Madman, Uncle Ted, The Nuge, leader of Tribe…
Source – dissidentvoice.org – Arthur Topham’s Political Beliefs May Just Be Illegal: On November 7, Arthur Topham was convicted of inciting hatred against a racial group, the Jewish people. Mr. Topham maintains a website, Radical Free Press, in which he publishes and comments upon various documents. These documents include The Elders of the Protocols of…
Source – scgwynne.com – Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon, even Robert E. Lee, he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country’s greatest military figures. His brilliance at…
Source – disinfo.com – Back in October, we learned that 90% of the victims who are killed by U.S. drone strikes are innocent civilians just like you and me. Except that we’re not so innocent, right? Because our tax dollars pay for those drones. Sure, the politicians are the ones who sanction these wars; and…
Source – screenrant.com – ‘…The world that my generation is leaving everyone is a disaster, in every respect. Environmentally, socially, economically… So when I read it [the script for ‘The Hunger Games’] I just begged to be a part of it. So that, in the hope it would be a catalyst for young people to…
Source – uncletaz.com – In this article I will endeavor to demonstrate how one is led to this conclusion by focusing on one particular chapter from the book. It is Chapter Ten, entitled Philosophy and Monism: “The naïve man, who acknowledges as real only what he can see with his eyes and grasp with his…
Source – sott.net – He was public enemy number one for his attempts to stand up for injustice. He was the subversive lawyer and political reformer that for many years was in danger of being forgotten. Yet in the 250th year since his birth, Thomas Muir has made quite a comeback. He is now being…
Source – collectivelyconscious.net – (Editors Note: …this one’s worth repeating) : First, Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008. Now, every Icelander will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki. If Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has his way — and he…
– theguardian.com – “You can’t have a war on terrorism because that’s not an actual enemy, it’s an abstract. It’s like having a war on dandruff. That war will be eternal and pointless. It’s idiotic. That’s not a war, it’s a slogan. It’s a lie. It’s advertising, which is the only art form we ever…
Source – educateinspirechange.org – In this thought provoking compilation film from The Journey of Purpose, Jim Carrey imparts passionate words of wisdom regarding human potential, finding fulfillment, and escaping a life of fearful practicality in order to truly flourish. We are not defined by our possessions or the sum of our bank accounts, but by…
Source – riseearth.com – De. Sebi, a healer, pathologist, herbalist, biochemist and naturalist dedicated his life and knowledge to find a cure that will help people preserve their healtha and fight serious diseases. Moreover, this true healthcare reformer, stood up against the American Medical Association in court, claiming that his “cure for all diseases” can…
Source – npr.org – Destroyed By Rockefellers, Mural Trespassed On Political Vision: When Mexican artist Diego Rivera was commissioned in 1932 to do a mural in the middle of Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center, some might have wondered whether industrialist tycoon John D. Rockefeller Jr. knew what he was getting into. In 1934, the legendary artist’s work…
Source – ratical.org – Unique among the high ranking military officers of the US and the world I do not know of any other high ranking military officer of the US or the world, who has spoken or written such most important truths and facts about the nature and causes of war. General Butler wrote…
Source – theguardian.com – Few things make Neil Young as apoplectic as modern digital sound quality. In particular, his fury is directed at the MP3 download and its accomplice in crime, the iPod. Listening to music held on a tiny digital file through headphones or computer speakers accounts – says Shakey – for contemporary music’s…
Source – law2.umkc.edu, By Doug Linder – “Lenny Bruce is about Attitude. He was the genius of Attitude. If you dig Lenny, you dig the Attitude.” So wrote Eric Bogosian in his 1991 introduction to the republication of Bruce’s autobiography, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. Bruce, in his uncompromisingly frank humor, took on…
Source – nicaraguadispatch.com – 4 years on, still no closure on death of Alexis Arguello: Sometimes ignorance and resentment can come from the most unlikeliest of sources. In the ring, Alexis Argüello always knew his opponent and how to approach and attack him. Outside the ring, it was not always that easy. Back in the…
Source – americankabuki.blogspot.ca – Interview with Musician Jim Morrison of The Doors: Lizzie James: I think fans of The Doors see you as a savior, the leader who’ll set them all free. How do you feel about that? It’s kind of a heavy burden, isn’t it? Jim Morrison: It’s absurd. How can I set free…
Source – denverartmuseum.org – Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City on July 6, 1907, just three years prior to the start of the Mexican Revolution, one of the most complex and violent conflicts in Mexico’s history. This event shaped her political views and deeply impacted her life and work, to the point that around…
Source – redpepper.org.uk – On Nov. 10, it will be 20 years since Ken Saro-Wiwa, president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and eight other Ogoni leaders were hanged by the military dictatorship in Nigeria. Known as the Ogoni Nine, their crime was demanding a share of the proceeds of…
Source – thenation.com – The late scholar and Nation contributor brought left-leaning political philosophy to the fore: On October 21, the political theorist Sheldon Wolin died at the age of 93. Professor and mentor to countless Nation readers and contributors (including Stephen Cohen, Richard Falk, Joel Rogers, Tom Ferguson, and Corey Robin), Wolin helped revitalize political philosophy as…
Source – theantimedia.org – First, Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008. Now, every Icelander will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki. If Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has his way — and he likely will — Icelanders will be paid kr 30,000…
Source – trueactivist.com – Bilderberg is an annual meeting of the world’s elite: Royalty, world leaders, Rothschilds, Rockerfellas, Google, Microsoft, CEOs from the world’s biggest arms, tech and dirty energy corporations, and more who we will never know about. It used to be top-secret. In fact, not so long ago, Bilderberg was so secret that its very…
Source – zengardner.com – In 2014 I wrote about how the new world order plans sustained quite a few noticeable and uncomfortable setbacks, enough for anyone paying attention to take notice and wonder if 2015 would be worse for the global elite. Well it’s not quite the end of 2015 (as of the time of…
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