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Tag Archives: Martin Luther King Jr.
Yes, Jesus Would Have Been Branded a Domestic Extremist Today
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged activism, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Christ, Christmas, civil liberties, civil rights, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, domestic terrorists, Dystopia, fascism, Gulags, Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr., Mass Incarceration, Militarism, Nativity, Nazis, police state, Privatized Prisons, Roman Empire, surveillance state, Technocracy, WWJD
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Stand Up to Tyranny: How to Respond to the Evils of Our Age
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, imperialism, Inequality, Law, Militarization, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, society, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged activism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Covid-19, empire, Jesus, lockdown, Martin Luther King Jr., Militarization, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, spirituality, surveillance state, Torture, war
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Gandhi’s Despair and the Struggle for Truth and Love
By Robert J. Burrowes ‘When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, consciousness, culture, Election Fraud, elites, Empire, Environment, Geopolitics, imperialism, Revolution, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Abby Martin, activism, Daniel Dalai, Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja, Edith Rubinstein, Idowu Jawando, Ina Curic, International Day of Nonviolence, Martin Luther King Jr., Nonviolence, Peace, The People's Charter to Create a Nonviolent World, Violence, war, Zakia Haddouch
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The U.S. is ruled by the worst among us
By Carla Binion Source: Intrepid Report Is it possible for the human race to evolve beyond war, extreme income inequality, corporate money’s control of political systems, and other anti-democratic trends? Some people say even hoping for such evolution is too idealistic, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Philosophy, society, Sociology, war
Tagged American History, empire, Frederick Douglass, Government, Howard Zinn, imperialism, Income Inequality, Martin Luther King Jr., politics, Public Opinion, Slavery, Truth, war
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Nonviolence or Nonexistence? The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
By Robert J. Burrowes Fifty years ago, on 4 April 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The night before he died, King gave another of his many evocative speeches; this one at the packed Mason Temple in … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Art, Corporate Welfare, culture, Environment, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Bolivia, Bruce Gagnon, Eddy Kalisa Nyarwaya Jr., Ella Polyakova, Gaëlle Smedts, General Dynamics, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, John Seed, Martin Luther King Jr., Movimient Humanista, Nonviolence, Poetry Against Arms, Rainforest Information Centre, Russia, Rwanda Institute for Conflict Transformation and Peace Building, society, Soldiers’ Mothers of Saint-Petersburg, Violence, war, war profiteers
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Rest in Peace and Rise in Power Dick Gregory
As many of you may have heard over the weekend, pioneering comedian and activist Dick Gregory died of heart failure on August 19th at age 84. For those not familiar to him, it’s difficult to encapsulate the scope of his … Continue reading
Kick Open the Doorway to Liberty: What Are We Waiting For?
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The greatness of America lies in the right to protest for right.”—Martin Luther King Jr. Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head. Free speech, religious expression, privacy, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, culture, freedom of speech, History, patriotism, police state, Social Control, society
Tagged activism, civil liberties, D.H. Lawrence, free speech, Grassroots Activism, John W. Whitehead, Liberty, Martin Luther King Jr., Militarization, police state, Police Violence, The Rutherford Institute
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Malcolm X Was Right About America
(Editors note: Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of Malcolm X. The venerated activist would surely have approved of Hedges’ radical appraisal of his philosophy and principles.) By Chris Hedges Source: Axis of Logic Malcolm X, unlike Martin … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, Empire, History, Philosophy, Racism, Social Control, society, Spirituality
Tagged Alex Haley, Chris Hedges, James Baldwin, James H. Cone, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Peter Goldwin, Revolutionary
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