![]() Mike Rivage-Seul: American Politics Realigning? Walz and Vance Might Be More Similar Than You Think Kamala Harris' selection of Tim Walz as her running mate and Donald Trump's choice of J.D. Vance as his offer strong indications that something new might be afoot for 2028. 19 ![]() |
![]() Bob Passi: Revitalizing the Democratic Party: Revitalizing Democracy The withdrawal of President Biden in favor of a younger and more vitalized ticket has provided a spark and an opportunity to welcome positive change and growth for both the Democratic Party and the nation.. 1 ![]() |
Gary Lindorff: Catching up to my (deceased) father
Just lately (maybe it's all these rainy days) / I have been receiving salient / Sweet and bitter,/Private foggy-edged / Fly-on-the-wall glimpses / Of my father during those years |
![]() Citizen News Service - CNS: Youth-led initiatives spark hope for children and adolescents living with HIV Please consider an article based on interviews with few male and female young people who were born with HIV, their peer youth counsellors and other service providers. |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Holistic vs Analytical Thinking: East vs West and The Ecological, Political and Economic Reasons for Their Differences Why would the ancient Chinese excel at algebra & arithmetic but not in geometry as the Greeks did? Why do the Chinese learn verbs at a faster rate than nouns? Why do Westerners learn nouns at a faster pace? Why are Easterners more conforming to their in-group than Westerners but more hostile to strangers than those in the West? For one author the answer is not religious. Rather, it is ecological, political and economic. |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: "Dictatorship" and "Democracy" as Loaded Language: Anti-Communist Cold-War Propaganda The term "dictatorship" has been used and abused by the Anglo-American Empire for the last 100 years. Believe it or not the Mordor ruling class was sympathetic to dictators in the 1920s and 1930s. Then it was used to tar and feather communism. So too "democracy" was feared by the rulers for most of its history. It was only cleaned up and sanitized after WWII. |
![]() John Hawkins: So Happy Together A photo Julian Assange with Stella and the kids on a beach somewhere in Australia, going around on Twitter. 1 ![]() |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: "TOTALITARIAN" ANTI-COMMUNISM: Loaded Language Straight Out of CIA, Neo-Con Playbook "Totalitarianism" has been used & abused by Anglo American elites for the last 100 years. It was looked upon favorably in the 1920s & 30s to restore "order" to capitalist crises. It became a negative word during the WWII to attack both fascism and communism. Cold War liberals in the 50s championed themselves as an alternative to communism. It still comes in handy today even though the word has been declared unscientific. |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations: Part II Schizophrenia, Modern Art and Western History Part II In Part I of this article I showed how when the left brain gets out of control the results can be either schizophrenia or modern art. In Part II I show how the worst aspects of the Reformation, the Enlightenment and Industrial capitalism can be linked to habits of the left brain gone haywire and manifested in material structures. |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations: Schizophrenia, Modern Art and Western History Part I Until now scientific comparisons between brain hemispheres appear as functionally interdependent. But Iain McGilchrist's great book, The Master and His Emissary, argues that there is also a power struggle between the hemispheres. When the left brain gets control results include schizophrenia & modern art. In Western history the Reformation, the Enlightenment & the Industrial Revolution had left-brain tendencies gone amuck. |
![]() Bob Passi: What to Do, What to Do! We are responsible for the actions of those we support and defend. And our job is to require accountability for their actions if we are to continue our support. Weasel word are not a substitute. 1 ![]() |
![]() Bob Passi: Fatherhood: An Ode to Fathers' Day The gift of fatherhood is a magical gift and one to be valued and celebrated/. 1 ![]() |
![]() Citizen News Service - CNS: From the frontlines: Homeless person won over alcoholism, survived floods and defeated TB Please consider the below article based on a real-life sharing by a homeless person who not only survived TB but also had to win over alcoholism and fight one of the worst floods during his treatment. It is worrying that he had suffered debilitating TB symptoms for over a year (without getting diagnosed). His life changed when he got lifesaving help from a frontline community health worker. |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Dogmatic Neoliberal Democrats: An Authoritarian Party and Their Upper-Middle Class Loyalists The word dogmatism is usually associated with working-class people who are assumed to be ignorant & uneducated. This is contrasted to the open-minded upper middle-class liberals. This article aims to show that upper middle-class Neo-liberal Democrats are every bit as dogmatic & authoritarian in their reasoning & loyalty to groups. They possess all 14 dogmatic traits as well as 3 authoritarian characteristics. |
![]() Citizen News Service - CNS: Indonesia is enforcing stronger anti-tobacco measures despite industry interference Today Ministry of Health Indonesia did an important meeting (hybrid - live on YouTube) where several experts shared that despite mammoth tobacco industry interference in public health policy, they are advancing tobacco control and public health. Dr Tara Singh Bam who has devoted over 17 years on the ground was awarded too for the progress made despite and in spite of obstacles and challenges. |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Aryan Idols and the Search for Indo-Europeans: The Prehistory and History of Fascist Mythology Part II In Part I of our article we explored the origins of Indo-European through the study of language & culture with India being the most likely candidate. But by the end of the 19th century these explorations turned to racial anthropology for answers.Now potential Indo-Europeans were identified by the land they occupied their physique and their brain size. Why the change in methods & why was India abandoned for Nordic origins of IE |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Aryan Idols and the Search for Indo-Europeans: The Prehistory and History of Fascist Mythology Part I The search for "Indo Europeans" seems a particularly lost cause. Why hypothesize a culture, language and geographical region and a time older than the Sumerians when there is no concrete evidence? In spite of this, the English and German linguists and archeologists were particularly determined to find one to discover such a culture, not in the name of scientific objectivity, but for political and economic reasons. 1 ![]() |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Neocon Realists and Global Neoliberals Dead on Arrival: A Theoretical Autopsy The Western world is disintegrating. But the capitalists&deep state agencies that are failing are not chickens with their heads cut off. Myopic&inept political actions are driven by the bankrupt theories that inform them. Journey the cesspools of the most conservative fields in academia, International Relations, infested by CIA agents&jackals. See why Neoconservative Realism&Neoliberal globalism theories are dead on arrival. |
![]() Paul Fitzgerald Elizabeth Gould: TRINEDAY's RoundTable 29 The Alexander Hamilton/Henry George Economic Dialogues We'll explore how a shift in taxes stops land speculators - who understand how to get rich without working is by keeping the unearned land-value increases for themselves when the property is sold. Georgist solutions ensured that the land value went back to the whole community instead. These ideas have been working in many cities and towns in USA and around the world for over a century. 1 ![]() |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Jean Houston's Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self: Sacred Psychology in Western History Can we draw any meaningful connection between the macro world of the evolution of societies & the micro world of individual development? Jean Houston argues that both macro and micro-worlds go through crisis and pathology that can be overcome through group rituals as they have existed throughout Western history. 3 ![]() |
![]() Bob Passi: Spring, Rebirth, Fresh Start We can let go of old systems and mistakes and use spring as an opportunity to find new and better solutions to our human problems on this planet. 1 ![]() |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Monotheistic Roots of Nationalism Part II: Commonalities in Socialization Between Monotheism and Nationalism Monotheism and nationalism are far from opposites in how they use propaganda. Both use sacred texts; mark social time with special occasions; mark social space with territories and each expects people to make pilgrimages. Conversion methods are similar and loyalty and exclusivity are demanded. A lifetime membership is expected and leaving is punished with exile. |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: The Monotheistic Roots of Nationalism Part I: What Nationalism and Monotheism Have in Common Anthony Smith and George Mosse have pointed out how nationalism has built itself up using the same techniques as religion. However, it is not any religion. It is no accident that ancient pagan societies never had nationalism. Neither has Buddhist or Taoist China. It is the characteristics of monotheistic religions that contain the key. |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Nationalism as the Religion of the Modern West If anyone from a tribal society had heard that a piece of colored cloth could motivate people to kill others and give up their own lives they would say we were crazy. When did nationalism start? What are the phases it has gone though. What other kinds of loyalties must nationalism overcome? 1 ![]() |
![]() Bob Passi: The History of Busy-ness What happens when you try to control creativity is probably that you will kill it. 2 ![]() |
![]() Blair Gelbond: Imagining our Future" FORWARD INTO THE PAST - A New Birth: Interbeing As we engage in the "struggle" to create a world that works for all living beings--those of us who feel called to contribute to the healing of the Earth can expect to be sorely challenged. My sense is that we can all benefit from an awareness of our family's historical roots. We will also need to draw sustenance by consciously recalling the wisdom of elders and allies. That way we will realize that we are not "in it alone". 41 ![]() |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Out on a Limb With Dialectical Materialism As a dialectical materialist I have always felt that the categorization of schools of philosophy into "idealist" and "materialist" was too narrow and reductionist. In the work of Steven Pepper & Andrew Reck I identified 5 schools of philosophy, not 2. Come join me in high adventure into ontology and epistemology. |
![]() Citizen News Service - CNS: Journey of a TB survivor from pain to strength Please consider the below article based upon personal lived experience and testimony of a TB survivor who not only survived the debilitating disease but also grew up to become a district TB officer in Nepal. Taking full cascade of lifesaving TB services to the people and communities that are at risk is so vital cog-in-the-wheel and entry gate to end TB pathway. |
![]() "Masters of War" versus Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona, Champion of the My Lai Vietnam Victims Everyone at the Hague hopes Charles III will cheerfully go into all details for the Hague Courts about what he remembers talking with the indicted pharmaceutical genocidists, Bill and Melinda French Gates, when Elizabeth II gave Gates in 2005 the accolade of KNIGHT COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE as well as all subsequent discussions about Bill Gates' London Patent Office Patent for Weaponized Coronavirus # WO 2016 012793 A1 1 ![]() |
![]() Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Fame vs Celebrity: Movies, Music, Sports and Politics What does fame mean? Does fame go back to hunter-gatherers or does it have an origin later in history? What does it mean to be a celebrity? Is it common in all societies or are celebrities historically emergent? What's the relationship between being famous & being a celebrity? Are these terms interchangeable or are they distinct? Why are political celebrities treated with more hostility than celebrities in movies sports&music? |