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How shall we get at hope, a word that is so recently a victim of abuse? Here’s a novel method: first descend into the realm of deep politics. For, like it or not, our response to news of the day—especially if it is dark or tragic—inevitably affects our capacity for hope. And the hope...
In an eye-opening reversal that adds more convolution to our national life just when we need it, President Obama announced he would run for a second term on the same day that his administration unveiled plans to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before a military commission at Guantánamo Bay (“Gitmo”) for his roles in...
January 17, 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday If Dr. King were alive today, he would shudder at what his nation has become four decades after his death—especially in view of the new forms of violence, self-deception, and even nihilism in which America is steeped. That’s why, as we celebrate King’s birth today in...
I have no new writings to offer at the moment. For now, let’s allow the reflections of three of this country’s most important voices suffice—in light of the fantasmagorical election cycle we have just come through…(see links below) Bill Moyers, eloquent as usual, describes the sad situation America now finds itself in: rule by...
The singular mission of true religion and genuine spirituality, I believe, is to valiantly bear witness to the One Light, the Font of Radiant Love, the First Source, the Loving Divine Person—and do so even if all earthly things crash, indeed, especially when catastrophic events engulf us. Central to this mission is the separation...
This excerpt from a larger white paper (“Weapons of Mass Coercion,” also posted at this site) tells the true story of the 2005 electromagnetic attack on leaders of the 9/11 truth movement … Rewind back to 2005: About a dozen leading activists in the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere are organizing around the...
Early in 1999, Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote an unusual letter to EPA head Carol Browner. He wanted her to address constituent concerns “about the possible release of toxic chemical substances from jet contrails” and “reports of toxic spraying over populated areas in 41 states.” Lieberman also noted “recent outbreaks of flu-like symptoms and other...
Police Brutality in Pittsburgh after the G20 A remarkable article in Harper’s magazine in late 2009 provides a sobering perspective for those of us who are serious about reforming America with the help of radical wisdom.1 What is now under way, states journalist Ando Arike ominously, is “what appears to be the first arms...
Get ready for the greatest political transformation in history: humanity’s long, purposeful evolution toward the abolition of war—that is, radical wisdom in action on the global stage. Let’s honor those who died in foreign wars by seeking for saner and wiser ways to settle international disputes, through the mechanism of global institutions of law...
Even after decades of observing the mainstream media, I never cease to be amazed at how brazenly it filters out uncomfortable facts—in this case, the truth about the assassination of Martin Luther King, a paragon of radical wisdom if there ever was one. The latest instance of suppression is Hellhound on the Trail: The...
As readers of this blog know, I am committed to remaining unconditionally cheerful, even as oil gushes in the gulf, debt gushes in Greece, and blood gushes in futile conflicts in central Asia (Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan), and even while the U.S. gets ready to implode from a fraud-ridden financial system that corrupt Washington...
To get on the inside track in our thoroughly corrupt federal government, it’s necessary to grant favors to the insiders, here and there—when you can—as you move up the ladder. But to get appointed to the biggest jobs, one must become a direct asset to the secret government, even if it is unwitting. (One...
“Things fall apart, the center does not hold.” —Poet W.B. Yeats (at the close of World War I) In the last few generations, the “modernist” consensus of rationality, democracy, and enlightened self-interest has broken down. The relentless modernist attack on religion and the reality of consciousness itself has diminished the moral heart of civilization,...
Thought precedes action; the outer world is an expression of our inner thoughts and feelings. In this same sense, the eventual achievement of a democratic constitutional planetary government will be an outer expression of an inner transformation in the hearts and minds of a critical mass of people around the world. Indeed, if we...
It is not widely known that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and subsequent anthrax mailings became the pretext for a huge expansion of research for the production of genetically modified bacteria and viruses for deployment as bioweapons. During the Bush era, tens of billions of dollars were appropriated for R & D including...
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