The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Out of whose womb came the ice and the hoary frost of heaven? The waters are hidden as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer […]
A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf […]
From SOPA and PIPA to ACTA to CISPA to the TPP and now back to CISPA, internet activists have been caught up in a deliberately bewildering game of whack-a-mole with freedom-crushing legislation. Source: Corbettreport.com
I’m interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life. -Toni Morrison Any true academic or informed citizen will concur that a sound historical perspective is invaluable to […]
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” -William Blake Happy Friday indeed, and this post is all ’bout ‘The Matrix’ If any concept is of necessity in understanding the current states of society […]
In the beginning was God and as he was Good, it follows that only Good could have proceeded from him. It is recalled by the ancients, the world began as a great harmony. By his providence he sent forth the word into the chaos and out of the darkness it rose as a great pillar. […]
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/1/8/howard_zinn_three_holy_wars Any such thing as a good war? costs/outcome/who benefits? Zinn re-examines the Revolutionary war, the Civil war and WWII. These wars are termed holy wars due to traditional history rendering them as beyond criticism. source: Democracynow.org
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