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“The long dormant seeds of ‘bottom-up’ culture, evolutionally baked deeply into our DNA and our neurophysiological systems, are vibrantly reawakening.”
“When I asked Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, ‘What’s the next big thing on the web?’ He
replied that it was trust.”
“This tsunami of bottom-up thinking and behavior is causing a bigger paradigm shift than the inventions of writing or Gutenberg’s printing press because we’re already genetically primed for this by our millions of years of human evolution.”
So many trends today look toward the end of life as we know it—climate change, the huge gluttony of the super-rich who work together to transcend national boundaries in their pursuit of more money, more power, ultimately a global feudal system.
By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, June 11, 2019
According to exit polls from late May, an impressive 82% of Irish voters say Ireland should remain a neutral country in all aspects. But Ireland is not remaining a neutral country in all aspects, and there’s no indication of whether Irish voters know that, or specifically what they think of the fact that the United States military, year after year, ships large numbers of troops and weapons (and occasionally presidents) through Shannon Airport on their way to endless disastrous wars.
“Sooner or later they end up in a cage, where (they) belong.”
This is hardly a surprise: A recent study by the Missouri attorney general’s office shows that black drivers are at least twice as likely — in some towns, much more than that — to be stopped by police as white drivers.
Paul Craig Roberts is a highly respected economist who is now retired from teaching at universities and working in government economics-advisory positions (that he held under a variety of prominent Republican Party politicians - including Jack Kemp, Orrin Hatch, Ronald Reagan and others). Roberts was known as “the economic conscience of Ronald Reagan”.
Roberts, just like a lot of retired folks that we might know, has been involved in an exciting new phase of his career. He is still highly respected, but his respect comes now from a new group of followers. His old followers call him a conspiracy theorist!
Roberts is now less politically connected, probably because he has now found the time (or the inclination) to become a more truly investigative journalist whose writings are not censored or banned or re-written by any editor, any publisher, any corporate advertiser or any corporate-infiltrated board of directors that might want to have input into his articles.
Thom Hartmann has long written and spoken on the topic of guns in the United States, along with many other topics. Of those topics he’s dealt with that I know anything about, I have not always agreed with him on every detail, but on most I’ve found him highly informative and persuasive. His new book, The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment, is possibly the best book I’ve ever seen on its topic, both to read, and to pass along to anyone in the United States, whatever their current opinion on guns and gun laws may be, as well as to share with anyone else on earth who may be trying to understand why the United States seems to be allowing its own ongoing slaughter, with guns the second-leading cause of death among children in the United States.
With the likes of John Bolton and Elliot Abrams directing US foreign policy, the US government has abandoned all pretense of “plausible denial” for its illegal regime-change initiatives. The “humanitarian” bombs may not be falling but, make no mistake, the US is waging a full-bore war against the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela.
Back in 1998, Venezuela had had nearly a half a century of two-party rule. A duopoly, not unlike the Republican and Democratic parties in the US, alternated in power imposing a neoliberal order. Poor and working people experienced deteriorating conditions of austerity regardless of which party was in power.
Then third-party candidate Hugo Chávez was elected president. HeH He initiated what has become known as the Bolivarian Revolution, which has inspired the peoples of the world while engendering the enmity of both the US imperialists and the Venezuelan elites.
This article explores the contributions, shortcomings, and lessons of the Bolivarian Revolution’s two decades, in the context of the US regime-change efforts from its inception to current attempts by the US to install the unelected Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president.
The second act of Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum’s must-see Moby Dick - Rehearsed has some of the most exciting action scenes this critic has ever seen performed on the live stage. When the whalers harpoon and pursue the Great White Whale the thrilling sea chase could be called the “Topanga Sleigh Ride.”
Orson Welles is best known for his work behind and in front of the movie camera but before he went Hollywood with the 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane the “boy wonder” was famous for his stage work. From Dublin’s Abbey Theatre to Broadway, during the 1930s the prodigious “prodigy” mounted memorable plays, notably the so-called Voodoo Macbeth at Harlem’s Lafayette Theatre, The Cradle Will Rock (which a superb Tim Robbins’ 1999 film reminds us was literally shutdown at the point of a bayonet) and a modern dress version of Julius Caesar that cleverly invoked fascism.
By Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
10 June 19
huge proposed bailout of two Chernobyl-in-progress Ohio nukes (plus two old coal burners) would put $20 million directly into the pockets of seven utility executives. Their bankrupt company last year spent $3 million “lobbying” the legislature.
Akron’s bankrupt FirstEnergy (FE) owns the Perry nuke, east of Cleveland, which in 1986 became the first US reactor damaged by an earthquake. Critical pipes and concrete were cracked, as were nearby roads and bridges. A top-level state study showed soon thereafter that evacuation amidst a major accident would be impossible.
The Wallis Studio Ensemble’s The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a stage renditiion of Douglas Adams’ sci fi send-up that has been adapted for radio, books, television and the movies. This fast-moving 90 minute version minus intermission is performed by around 10 youthful, colorfully costumed cast members. While today’s auds are used to state of the art CGI, Galaxy deploys low tech special effects on the mostly bare boards of the Lovelace Studio Theater. The FX include puppetry and masks by Alex Sheldon and Bosco Flanagan’s lighting design, which would have warmed the cockles of Bill Graham’s heart at Fillmore West rock concerts. Speaking of music, there is a little bit of live accordion and piano playing by Sheldon during the show, as well as recordings of songs such as Disco Inferno.