My rewrite of the famous quote by Lord Palmerston regarding “interests” to have it reflect the reality of Israel and its powerful friends would go something like this: “I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that Israel is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual friend of the United States and of enlightened western values. By design, Israel has no eternal allies. Its interests are indeed perpetual but center on its own success at aggressively portraying itself always as the victim while also advancing its own tribal interests.” I admittedly tend to think often about the enemy we of the western Christian tradition have been nurturing at our breast for decades in a spirit of tolerance, a viper that is only setting out to corrupt and then destroy us, manifest particularly at this time of year, when the life and death of Jesus Christ ought to be rightly celebrated. Alas, in today’s Israel what is truly remarkable is the government’s open suppression of Christian identity and worship without any complaint coming from Washington or from the other nominally Christian nations of Europe.

Saturday, April 19, 2-4pm
El Vaquero Mexican Restaurant, 3230 Olentangy River Rd.

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Every year, WGRN 91.9FM radio commemorates our Earth Day Birthday to celebrate our first broadcast in April 2016.

This year, we will partner with WCRS 92.7/98.3FM community radio to hold a special celebration at El Vaquero with food, drinks, an awards ceremony, and more!

This event is free and open to the public.

We will honor the following people.

Producer of the Year:

• Evan Davis, producer of “Conscious Voices” and “Your Music” and a long-time supporter of community radio in central Ohio.

Volunteer of the Year:

• Juanita Brown, producer of “The Pink Pill” and WGRN board member.

An America dying in dictatorship is fraught with horror, denial, angst.

 Countless Americans now live in terror of the totalitarian state coming at us full bore.  

 As a people, we’ve flirted with homegrown fascism in our literature, arts and imagination.  But we’ve only briefly confronted it in real time.

 Obviously, it sucks.  

 But on a karmic level, based on what we have done to other peoples and nations, don’t we deserve it?  

 And won’t this Trumpian nightmare force us to confront the faults that have powered his rise?

 America’s core freedoms have been a long term assumption.

 Based on gender, sexual orientation, class, race, involuntary servitude, religion, national origin, etc, for millions that freedom has been a cruel illusion.

 But in the larger flow of human history, we inherited from Indigenous America a unique sense of liberty.  Few North American tribes were authoritarian in nature.  

Friday, April 18, 2pm
Thompson statue, OSU oval