Truth To Power – 08.18.17

Why are Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients infected with the AIDS-associated Kaposi’s Sarcoma Virus? Did it come from pigs? Why are the CDC, the NIH, and the entire scientific establishment ignoring research that shows Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients are often infected with the very destructive, cancer-causing virus that has been linked to the most dramatic symptom of the early AIDS cases, Kaposi’s …

A Bowl of Soul – 07.07.17

Hey, Hey Pretty Baby – Dave Dixon – R&B/Blues – 1961Doo Wah Diddy – The Exciters – R&B/Pop – 1963You’ve Got To Earn It – The Temptations – R&B – 1964Too Late – The Delfonics – R&B – 1972Run On Home – Brother Jack McDuff – Soul/Jazz – 1968Smokey Feeling – The Organization – Funk – 1974Look At You – …

Jonathan Latham, PhD – Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable

In 1381, for the first and only time, the dreaded Tower of London was captured from the King of England. The forces that seized it did not belong to a foreign power; nor were they rebellious workers – they were peasants who went on to behead the Lord Chancellor and the Archbishop of Canterbury who were, after the king, the …

Joseph Laycock – Why so many Americans think they’re #blessed

Last month, my colleagues and I were moved by a beautiful and tragic New York Times editorial by Kate Bowler, a religion professor from Duke Divinity School who was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Bowler recently wrote a book – Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel – that has been hailed as the first monograph tracing the history of the prosperity gospel …

Slavoj Zizek – We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism

n her classic study On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross proposed the famous scheme of the five stages of how we react upon learning that we have a terminal illness: denial (one simply refuses to accept the fact: “This can’t be happening, not to me.”); anger (which explodes when we can no longer deny the fact: “How can this happen …