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1. Thoughts of the past and future spoil your time. –Dipa Ma, in Amy Schmidt, Dipa Ma: The Life and Teachings of a Buddhist Master 2. If I had to use one single word to…
Month: November 2019
Reading Václav Havel I Think of Gideon Levy
Glucksman says the role of the intellectual is to warn, to predict horrors, to be a Cassandra who tell us what is going on outside the walls of the city. I share this notion….I too…
The Goal Is Justice, the Method Is Transparency
For those who would like to know a little more about the issues surrounding Julian Assange and Wikileaks, please take two minutes to read and ponder the following passages from Tariq Ali and Margaret Kunstler’s…
For So They Treated the Prophets…
Here’s Noam Chomsky–True prophets like Amos — “dissident intellectuals,” in modern terminology — offered both elevated moral lessons, which the people in power weren’t fond of, and geopolitical analyses that usually turned out to be…
There is Nothing Jewish That Is Alien to Me
Gershom Scholem, On Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays Schocken, 1976 Recently I’ve read works that deal with Jews and Judaism in crisis—those in the Yiddish-speaking world in the first half of the twentieth…
Share the Wealth with Andrew Wimmer and Mark Chmiel: Making Use of Wikileaks
According to Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, “[Wikileaks] functions almost like a group of historians of the present. Its institutional mission is to reveal the secret activities of political leaders and, in the process, show the public…
This Weekend in Saint Louis: Colin McLaughlin’s “Jailbird”!
My friend Colin wrote the play! Spread the word. The Missouri History Museum and Bread and Roses Missouri presents the premiere of Jailbird, a new play. In 1920, Eugene Victor Debs ran a campaign for…
Coming December 14th
Share the Wealth with Ale Vazquez.
If Obama Apologized for 1 Civilian Drone Victim Every Day, It Would Take Him 3 Years
Thanks to Liz Burkemper, for passing this along.
Hard to Believe It’s Been Thirty Years…
And glad to know the Mev Puleo Program is an agent of remembrance.