This series focuses on the region from where the roots of Western Judaic and Christian civilization of today are traced: the northeastern, eastern, and southeastern region surrounding the Mediterranean from Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, (western) Iran, and Egypt). A similar evolution and change happened in the (farther) East that became dominated […]
Part II – Punishing Eve: Who were the Ancestors of the Christians: When and from where did rule through force originate, and what came before?
This series focuses on the region from where the roots of Western Judaic and Christian civilization of today are traced: the northeastern, eastern, and southeastern region surrounding the Mediterranean from Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, (western) Iran, and Egypt). A similar evolution and change happened in the (farther) East that became dominated […]
Part I: Punishing Eve: The Strange Marriage of the Christian Fundamentalist Taliban, the Catholics, and the Calvinist Wall Street / Corporate Elite
This is the first of a multi-part series in response to the all-guns-blazing attack on women taking place across the south and middle of America. Part I Note: The powerful white men in America who control the Christian fundamentalists are very similar in the ideology and misogyny toward women as that of the Taliban in […]
Film Review: The Lives of Others
A reminder to all Americans on Independence Day: After the NSA/Edward Snowden news broke and I began to read Glenn Greenwald’s coverage in The Guardian about the unfolding of events, I couldn’t help remembering Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s deeply significant 2007 Oscar winning movie, “The Lives of Others.” I recall all too well how I felt then […]
Hannah Arendt and Dirty Wars: The Banality of Evil
Art exists to stimulate its audience to provoke thought and stir viewers to consider what they believe and why. Good film art is literature. It is the story of a time, a record of events that draws viewers in as thinking, feeling participants; it stimulates reflection and comparison with one’s contemporary physical and intellectual world. […]
A Great Speech on Climate Change: President Obama heralds natural gas, WalMart, and a new nuclear plant in how America will lead the world, and he still gives the Keystone XL Pipeline a pass
President Obama knocked it out of the closed park—closed in that the audience was not open to the public with even the environmental representative attendees hand-picked; there were no hecklers such as Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin in that crowd. The President batted 900 hitting many of the right notes: that 2012 was the hottest […]
Film Review: Dirty Wars
Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill don flack jackets and travel some of the most dangerous roads in the world to flush out America’s secret branch of the military (JSOC). The film is a chilling exposé into how America cannot kill its way to end the war on terror. Rather the killing is the engine […]
Book Interview with the Author: America’s Education Deficit and the War on Youth
Rather than a reivew, the following are selected quotes from an interview on Truthout with the author, Henry A. Giroux about this important book. Giroux makes a strong and eloquent case that the war on public education is a war on America’s people and the social contract by a cruel neoliberal power structure whose intent is to shift away from […]
Film Review: The East
A Sunday afternoon watching writer-actor Brit Marling and writer-director Zal Batmanglij’s new release, The East, was an enthralling end of the week, or the beginning of a new one. For me, it was both. This is an outstanding film on all points of the measurement scale: a brilliant story, well scripted, a taut thriller delivered […]
Bi-partisan Assault on America: Is there a connection revealed between the disparate dots?
Events negatively impacting American quality and well-being of life are unfolding in such rapid succession that following the top news stories is enough to make one’s head spin. This last week, we learned that our government has secretly put in place a massive surveillance system beyond Orwellian proportions to spy on American citizens, and on […]
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