What follows are three very distressing and informative video reports (the latter two of which contain highly disturbing footage apparently featuring CIA-trained Syrian rebels prior to the moment they decapitate a twelve-year-old boy
Geopolitics & Globalization
We know virtually nothing about this artist, A. FIORILLO. Urban legend has it that the artist, who was obviously engaged in art making as a form of social activism, lived in Manhattan in the 1960’s through the early 1980’s.
“US elections got poor grades because experts expressed concern about the quality of the electoral laws, voter registration, the process of drawing district boundaries as well as regulation of campaign finance.”
Pope Francis visited Mexico this week, saying a mass at the border and calling for empathy and mercy for all immigrants fleeing violence and poverty.
Satan, Totalitarianism in America, and how a Bushwick Art Gallery got Banned from Facebook.
I awoke to the news that a comrade’s father had died. Amidst the well wishes and thoughts on mortality my wife informed David Bowie had passed as well. Such a day where…
Eight years ago, I heard what sounded like a car backfiring. About a minute later, there was a knock on my door. I was half-asleep, got out of bed without throwing on…
The most insidious aspects of the authoritarian regime depicted in George Orwell’s book, 1984, is not the shifting of language, nor the omnipresent surveillance, nor the visceral torture by rat-cage, nor even…
There is a crisis happening in California right now that could have global consequences. On October 23, an enormous methane leak erupted from a facility in Aliso Canyon, outside of Los Angeles….
Via Gods & Radicals: The 22nd Conference of Parties (COP) was held in Paris over the past few weeks, culminating on the morning of Saturday 12th. From the deliberations of the world’s governments…
Originally posted at Nature.com Abstract Studies of animal behavior consistently demonstrate that the social environment impacts cooperation, yet the effect of social dynamics has been largely excluded from studies of human cooperation. Here,…
Via Gods & Radicals: “Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw, And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods Like horses, and cattle…
The New Hampshire Democratic debate, hosted by ABC news, was broadcast on Saturday evening against stiff competition: college football. None of my universities had a decent football team, or a decent sports…
Via Gods & Radicals: “Many fear the fall of empires for the same reason. They look at the erosion of capitalism’s power in the world and fear that chaos will follow. Forgetting…
Via Gods & Radicals: This essay by Jonathan Woolley is among the great works published in A Beautiful Resistance—Everything We Already Are, available in print or digital. Roy Cohn: What’s it like? After? Belize:…
Cortland Pfeffer & Irwin Ozborne via Waking Times Christmas has become symbolic of all that is wrong with our society. Much like the Grinch, whose heart was three sizes too small; our…
Hahaha wow. Folks, the 5th GOP debate was some good ol’ fashioned scrappin’. John Kasich, confused and excited by all the action, started trying to karate-chop people from his podium. Jeb Bush finally…
Makia Freeman via Waking Times: A false flag formula is becoming readily apparent in the face of so many mass shootings and bombings in the US. The phenomenon has become so commonplace in the last 3…
Via Gods & Radicals: “For me, wherever I go, I know my natural and eternal environment, and I know it as part of me and me of it. Beyond whatever we think,…
Via Gods & Radicals: Take a deep breath and bring your attention a little to the left of your chest, and feel for the beating of your heart. Let its rhythm be your…
Harry Davies via The Guardian: Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is using psychological data based on research spanning tens of millions of Facebook users, harvested largely without their permission, to boost his surging…
Via Gods & Radicals: “In an age where we are confounded with rampant materialism, where our lives seem dictated to us by machines and prior programs, what does it mean to live…
Tom Philpott via Mother Jones: Pity Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-owned behemoth responsible for such beloved US beers as Budweiser, Bud Light, and Michelob Ultra. When InBev bought US beer giant Anheuser-Busch back…
Gregory Ferenstein via Business Insider: In a rare and far-ranging interview, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt sat down with each other to discuss their vision for the future of…
Via Gods & Radicals: The Fable of the Child and the Dog The Child: I haven’t always hated dogs. When I was a kid we had this dog that I really loved,…