October 11th, 2011
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October 11th, 2011
Marching In King’s Shadow
Op-Ed Contributor
Marching in King’s ShadowBy DIANE McWHORTER
Published: October 6, 2011
Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, an Elder Statesman for Civil Rights, Dies at 89 (October 6, 2011) IF you recognized the name of only one of the two greats who succumbed to cancer on Wednesday, that’s perhaps because the work of the Rev. Fred [...]
September 20th, 2011
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace | Truthout.
September 3rd, 2011
Christianists on the March
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School and worked for many years as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, warns that the Christian Right is the most dangerous mass movement in American history.
After two years reporting on the movement for his new book “American [...]
August 18th, 2011
Truthdig, Posted on Jul 26, 2011
Fundamentalism Kills
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/fundamentalism_kills_20110726/
By Chris Hedges
The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists who propagate the bigoted, hateful caricatures of observant Muslims and those defined as our internal [...]
August 17th, 2011
Charley Reese’s Final Column – “Why we have taxes and deficits”
by EDITOR REPOSTS
Charley Reese’s Final Column…Retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel…
Charley Reese is retiring. His last column is this one. I know many will miss this southern gentleman.. He had a great run and we are all better off for it.
Farewell, Mr. Reese, and thank [...]
August 16th, 2011
Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central America. He writes a weekly column for Truthdig.com and is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute. He is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, which was a finalist for [...]
August 15th, 2011
Truthdig, Posted on Jul 18, 2011
America’s Disappeared
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/americas_disappeared_20110718/
By Chris Hedges
Dr. Silvia Quintela was “disappeared” by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly was kept alive at a military base until she gave birth to her son and then, like other victims of the military [...]
August 14th, 2011
Truthdig, Posted on Jun 20, 2011
This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/this_hero_didnt_stand_a_chance_20110620/
By Chris Hedges
Tim DeChristopher is scheduled to be sentenced in a Salt Lake City courtroom by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on July 26. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $750,000 fine for fraudulently bidding in December 2008 on parcels of [...]
August 14th, 2011
Duty to Warn
Fascism Anyone?
By Gary Kohls, MD
Over the past two years I have written several columns (including last week’s offering) warning about the many early signs of fascism that have been appearing in America (as well as other militarized and capitalist nations around the globe). American elites that have been in charge of domestic and [...]