The Arch is dead. Desmond Mpilo Tutu, archbishop emeritus of the Anglican church and Nobel Peace Prize winner who fought a long battle with cancer died on December 26 , 11 weeks after his 90Ath birthday. His work within and after South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) reinforced his position as an international icon,… Read More Desmond Mpilo Tutu 1931-2021. A Tribute by Terry Bell
A suggestion by the Allahabad High Court that elections in Uttar Pradesh should be postponed has given life to rumours that this may be a real possibility. No less than the BJP’s maverick Rajya Sabha MP, Subramanian Swamy, considered close to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has tweeted, “Don’t be surprised by a Lockdown for Omicron and… Read More Bharat Bhushan: A madcap bail order and rumours of UP poll deferral
Gospel, a word from Old English, is a compound that means “good news.” And it’s gospel that’s been in short-supply as we head into the Christmas season. Whenever this fact gets me down, I remember that finding evil, malfeasance, and even suffering in the headlines is just a sign that the press is doing its… Read More Edward Snowden – Everything Going Great: Bad Faith, Worse News and Julian Assange
Desmond Tutu, the cleric and social activist who was a giant of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90. Desmond Tutu, giant in fight against apartheid South Africa, dies at 90 Desmond Tutu: A life in pictures Desmond Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and who received… Read More Archbishop Desmond Tutu: tributes paid to ‘a moral giant’ after anti-apartheid hero dies
“Jesus, if he lived in contemporary society, would be undocumented, because he was not a Roman citizen; he lived without rights, under Roman occupation,” adds the ScheerPost columnist. “Jesus was a person of color; the Romans were white. The Romans nailed Jesus and other people of color to crosses the same way we finish them… Read More Jesus sermon from the Rev. Chris Hedges
The climate crisis resembles a huge planetary lockdown, trapping humanity within an ever-deteriorating environment. There is a moment when a never-ending crisis turns into a way of life. This seems to be the case with the pandemic. If so, it’s wise to explore the permanent condition in which it has left us. One obvious lesson is… Read More Bruno Latour: The pandemic is a warning: we must take care of the earth, our only home
There is no mask that has slipped, just a change in the light that gives a dark edge to the same features. It is often this way with leaders on the way down. The trait people dislike is the origin of previous appeal inverted. The stolidity that once recommended Theresa May and Gordon Brown turned robotic.… Read More Brexit Britain: "Let them eat cake"
California prisoner, Talib Williams, is bringing a class action lawsuit on his behalf as well as other Black incarcerated people who were targeted by a July 20, 2020 raid at Soledad, California’s Correctional Training Facility (CTF). The suit seeks a reprieve from the state-sponsored terror that is their norm. Injunctive and declaratory relief, among other… Read More Justice in the USA: “You shouldn’t have been Black"
At the age of 14, Gabriel Boric – the great-grandson of a Croatian migrant and an avid reader of Marx and Hegel – formed a city-wide student union in the Chilean city of Punta Arenas. At 21, and by then a law student, he led a campus sit-in for 44 days in Santiago, Chile’s capital, to oust… Read More Gabriel Boric’s triumph puts wind in the sails of Latin America’s resurgent left
White people are not being replaced, but in many ways a white supremacist history and society is…. In 2018, halfway through the Trump presidency, Michelle Alexander wrote a powerful essay arguing that we are not the resistance. We, she declared, are the mighty river they are trying to dam. I see it flowing, and I see the… Read More Rebecca Solnit: Why are US rightwingers so angry? Because they know social change is coming
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