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William T. Hathaway is the author of eight books and was a Fulbright professor of creative writing at universities in Germany, where he currently lives. His environmental novel, Wellsprings: A Fable of Consciousness, tells of an old woman and a young man triumphing over the corporations that control our shrinking water supplies. Chapters are available at: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/cosmicegg-books/our-books/wellsprings. His peace novel, Summer Snow, is the story of an American warrior falling in love with a Sufi Muslim and learning from her that higher consciousness is more effective than violence. Chapters are available at http://shattercolors.com/fiction/hathaway?summersnow01.htm.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 26, 2019 Lost Civilization Re-emerges
The ancient Vedic civilization that orginated in India is gradually being restored to its global status.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 26, 2015 A guide to understanding our times
Capitalism inevitably divides humanity through wars, racism, sexism, and class antagonism.
(20 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 24, 2013 Strategies of Containment
The Democratic Party is the graveyard of social movements.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 8, 2011 Pioneer Jews of the West
Before the Mayflower sailed to America, Jews were living in what is now the USA.
SHARE Sunday, July 16, 2017 Rx against trauma
PTSD has become a plague, but there's hope for healing it.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 18, 2017 Then There's Only One Choice
A powerful antiwar poem of urgent relevance for us today, written by a young man shortly before his death from wounds.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 31, 2012 America Is Under Attack!
Corporate-controlled media and politicians are pumping fear into us to justify their wars of conquest.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 21, 2019 Trumped-up wars
Humanity is not helpless against this marauding male.
(40 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 10, 2016 Burn the flag on inauguration day!
Sometimes a paradox is needed to express the truth: Show your love of our country by burning its flag.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 25, 2011 Comrades in Arms
After a woman soldier was raped by a fellow GI in Iraq, her commanding officer refused to prosecute the rapist and threatened her with disciplinary action if she "made trouble."
SHARE Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Jump out of the pot!
We are saturated with art and entertainment that tell us to shun the social deterioration surrounding us and focus instead on romance, violence, and the shimmers of our interior zones, while outside the heat is gradually turned up and the conditions of our lives degraded.
SHARE Monday, February 3, 2020 The Supreme Awakening
An anthology of experiences of enlightenment from cultures around the world.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 16, 2015 The Realpolitik of Revolution
The defeat of NATO in the Mideast is a prerequisite for revolution in the West. Only the fanatics of ISIS, al Qaeda, and Taliban have the strength of arms and faith to defeat NATO.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 7, 2015 Germany's balancing act
German policy tries to balance conflicting pressures.
SHARE Sunday, February 6, 2011 Generations of Resistance to War
A Granny for Peace tells of finding young allies in her struggle against military recruiting.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, March 23, 2012 Stemming the Tides of Protest
The friendly mask that capitalism wore in the USA and Europe has been stripped away, revealing the predatory beast beneath.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Exit Free
After a woman soldier was sexually harrassed by both male and female colleagues, a peace group helped her to desert.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, December 12, 2016 Trump is the fulfillment of an ancient Chinese curse
"May you live in interesting times" was a curse the ancient Chinese hurled at their adversaries, wishing them strife, oppression, and struggle. It applies to us now because for all the uncertainties a Trump presidency holds, it will certainly be an interesting time, filled with opportunities for resistance and perhaps revolution.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 23, 2015 The Karma of Terror
We are the top terrorist, armed to the teeth with weapons of mass destruction.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Comparing Evils
A gay Afghan refugee compares the Taliban to the US Army.
(18 comments) SHARE Monday, April 7, 2014 Understanding Marx
An excellent introduction to Marx and a useful guide to overcoming our current plight.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, August 29, 2011 Keep On Rockin'
When her friend returned from Iraq crippled, a young woman became an enemy of the state.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 26, 2014 Transcending Death
Experiencing the timeless field of the transcendent overcomes our fear of death.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 13, 2018 Germany's new right wing
The German right wing surges ahead and is now the third most powerful force in the parliament.
SHARE Friday, July 26, 2013 The Fall of Empire
The defeat of the US empire is both inevitable and desirable.
SHARE Friday, April 6, 2012 The Last Days of the Lilliputians
Small in number but great in power, the 1% have designed myriad mechanisms of control to hold the 99% down.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 20, 2013 A terrible beauty is born
A review of a new novel blending ecology, mystic wisdom, and the many facets of family love.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 17, 2012 Subversive Thrills
Gaither Stewart's new thriller rewrites the rules of the genre.
SHARE Tuesday, December 22, 2020 Meet Shiva
Shiva has become more relevant to us now in this time of social dissolution.
SHARE Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Resurrecting Insurrection
How could this country we've been working so hard for so many years to change still be so vicious?
SHARE Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Fight back or go under
Trump is going to give Americans a needed lesson in class differentiation.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 11, 2012 Strategies of Deception
The liberal media are trying to deceive us into voting for Obama. They claim a Republican president would be much worse. In fact, the differences between Republicans and Democrats are mostly a matter of image and style.
SHARE Monday, January 25, 2016 A Long-War Strategy for the Left
Bernie Sanders' "long game" campaign is really only a game similar to that of his reformist predecessor, Dennis Kucinich, designed to keep us in the "big tent" of the Democratic Party. Capitalism, although resilient, is willing to change only in ways that shore it up, so before anything truly different can be built, we have to bring it down.
SHARE Thursday, February 6, 2014 Forging a Socialist-Islamist Alliance
The actual problem is the multifaceted aggression the West has been inflicting on the Middle East for decades and is determined to continue.
SHARE Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Shattering Myths Can Be Dangerous
Gaither Stewart shows that the USA is invading countries and building foreign bases in order to weaken its chief rivals, Russia and China, and to prepare for war with Iran.
SHARE Monday, April 23, 2012 Patriot's Game
Patriotism is an instrument of control that's cultivated in us as children.
SHARE Thursday, October 28, 2010 Sabotage on the Rise
Despairing with conventional politics, peace activists are turning to sabotage.
SHARE Monday, January 27, 2014 Saga of a dropout doper
I finally realized I needed to get out of that whole scene if I ever wanted to do any good writing.
SHARE Wednesday, December 28, 2011 Einstein's Prescience
Einstein's sociological predictions just before WWII were as accurate as his scientific predictions. He opposed the establishment of a Zionist state in Palestine, and argued for a socialist economy to break the chain of violence between countries and men.