Tag Archives: George Washington

Martin Luther King Speaks! Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution

January 20, 2020 · by · in Activism, Civil Liberties, nonviolent action, Peacemaking, Social Change

“One of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution.

Robert Parry | The Right’s Second Amendment Lies 

February 23, 2018 · by · in capitalist system, Civil Liberties, Government/Politics, manufacturing consent

Today’s American Right is drunk on some very bad history, which is as dangerous as it is false. …This gun fable is particularly insidious because it obstructs efforts by today’s government to enact commonsense gun-control laws and thus the false narrative makes possible the kinds of slaughters that erupt periodically across the United States…

Glenn Greenwald: Religious fanaticism is a huge factor for Americans’ support for Israel

April 16, 2015 · by · in Government/Politics, Israel, Racism, U.S. Foreign Policy

Greenwald: …there is no denying that religious extremism plays a very significant role in American attitudes toward Israel. Given its importance, this is a remarkably under-discussed phenomenon, mostly because American media figures are very comfortable maligning other countries as being driven by religious fanaticism while ignoring how much their own country is.