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In Defense of Higher Education: How To Address Genocidal Congress-members
As a life-long academic, I’m still smarting from watching Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, being bullied during her nearly four-hour testimony before the Republican-led Committee on Education and the Workforce.
The House committee was convened to uncover anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses in the context of students protesting the genocide taking place before our eyes in Gaza…
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#Anti-Semitism#Article 51#Colombia University#Committee on Education and the Workforce#George Galloway#Intifada#Lisa McClain#McCarthyism#Minouche Shafik
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Reporting In….
Just so you know, and as if you care, here’s why I haven’t been posting much lately. I’ve just had my second knee replacement (last Tuesday – 4 days ago).
Happily, the recovery process is going even better than the first which occurred five months ago. I’m already walking without a cane. And the pain is under control without use of opioids.
But, of course, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been…
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Even for “Democracy Now” Putin’s To Blame for the Rock Concert Massacre
Last week at least 137 Russians were killed at the Crocos rock concert outside of Moscow. Untold numbers were wounded, some remaining in critical condition. ISIS K has claimed responsibility.
However, do you know who’s truly responsible according to DN?
“Putin!”
That’s the takeaway the program’s audience was left with at the end of today’s program (3/25/24).
The presentation said little about…
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#Alexi Navalny#Amy Goodman#Crocus Massacre#Democracy Now#Joshua Yaffa#Larry Johnson#Mike Pompeo#Nina Khrushcheva#Nord Stream Pipeline#Ray McGovern#Scott Ritter#Seymour Hersh#Victoria Nuland#Vladimir Putin#Yevgeny Prigozhin
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Palm Sunday Reflection: The Revolutionary Jesus
Readings for Palm Sunday: John 12: 12-16; Isaiah 50: 4-7; Psalm 22: 17-24; Philippians 2: 6-11; Mark 14: 15-47
Today is Palm Sunday. For Christians, it begins “Holy Week” which recalls Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday), his Last Supper (Holy Thursday), his torture and execution (Good Friday), and his resurrection from the dead as the culmination of a long history that began…
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#Antonia#Bible#Christianity#Faith#God#Homiletic helps#Homilies#Hosanna#Jesus#Maccabees#Palm Sunday#Pilate#religion#Spirituality#Sunday Homilies#Zealot
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My Homilist’s Writer’s Block in the Face of Genocide
This is the 5th Sunday of Lent. I’ve read the liturgical selections as found on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ website. Anticipating Easter in just two weeks, the first reading is about Ezekiel’s 6th century BCE promise of resurrection to a Jewish people in their Babylonian Exile. The day’s selection from the Gospel of John describes Jesus’ raising of his friend Lazarus from his…
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Do They Think We’re Stupid? Maybe We Are. . .
Watching the news this morning on “Democracy Now” (DN) I couldn’t help feeling outraged, humiliated, and taken for a fool.
I mean, think about what’s happening in Haiti, Honduras, at our southern border, and in Gaza.
In each of those cases, the repeated refrain from Amy Goodman’s guests was that the U.S. is majorly responsible for the disasters in question.  All of them are marked either by…
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#Amy Goodman#Ariel Henry#Dana Frank#Democracy Now#Gaza#Genocide Joe Biden#Haiti#Honduras#Immigration#Jean Bertrand Aristide#Juan Orlando Hernandez#Liberation theology
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Netanyahu’s Bible Is Not about God
The ongoing genocide in Gaza at the hands of Apartheid Israel has brought the question of biblical interpretation from the margins to the center.
The impetus to do so has come from Benjamin Netanyahu. Think of his pronouncements about his Amalek strategy justifying his attacks in Gaza. Couple that with his IOF (Israel Occupation Force) song and dance celebrating the same. It has all raised the…
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#Amalek#Bible#Biden Genocide Joe#Constantine#Elohim#Jesus#Josiah#Mauro Biglino#Netanyahu#Paul of Tarsus#Paul Wallis#Popol Vu#Theodosius#Yahweh#Yeshua
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Regime Change in the U.S.: A Taste of Our Own Medicine
 I’ve given up on the United States. It’s irreformable. It’s a failed state.
Think about it. As things stand, the U.S. can do nothing but fight wars, close borders, impose sanctions, and fight meaningless culture wars. And even at that, despite the more than $2 billion it spends on “defense” each day, our country can’t win its forever wars. It lost in Vietnam, in Iraq, and Afghanistan. It’s in…
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#Augusto Pinochet#Cornel West#Cuba#Defense Budget#Donald Trump#Fascism#Guatemala#Iran#Marianne Williamson#Regime Change#Resa Pahlavi#U.S. Failed State
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Alexy Navalny Vs. Julian Assange, and Gonzalo Lira
Vladimir Putin has done it again. Just as he did with Yevgeny Prigozhin, he’s murdered another political adversary. This time it’s his “most prominent political opponent,” Alexy Navalny.
That’s the IMMEDIATE conclusion UNIVERSALLY drawn and promulgated by the political establishment and mainstream media in the collective west.
Such unanimity especially in the United States with its record of…
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#Alexy Navalny#Democracy Now#Genocide Joe#Gonzalo Lira#Hillary Clinton#Jeffrey Epstein#Joe Biden#Julian Assange#Masha Gessen#Ray McGovern#Scott Ritter#Tucker Carlson#Vladimir Putin#World Fellows Program#Yevgeny Prigozhin
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Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Vladimir Putin
Last Tuesday, ex-Fox News journalist, Tucker Carlson, spent nearly two hours interviewing Russian president Vladimir Putin. Their conversation lasted more than two hours.
Predictably, The New Yorker described the exchange as “boring.” Times Radio published a video whose clickbait title promised “Putin’s most insane moments in Tucker Carlson interview.” (See video above.)
For me, there was…
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Black Liberation Theology & Zionist Genocide of Gazans
Black History Month has me rereading the late James Cone’s seminal work, The Cross and the Lynching Tree. Cone, of course, is the father of black liberation theology. I’m finding his work especially relevant to the ongoing genocide of Gazans at the hands of white supremacist Zionist Jews.
A central theme of Cone’s writing, public lectures, and teaching focuses on the difference between white…
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#Benjamin Netanyahu#Bible#Black Jesus#Black Liberation Theology#Gaza#Genocide#IDF#International Court of Justice#James Cone#Liberation theology#Malcolm X#The Cross and the Lynching Tree#Zionism
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It’s Time to Reframe the Migrant Problem
Apartheid Israel’s war in Gaza along with “Genocide Joe’s” unconditional support for the holocaust there have set me thinking not only about Israel’s settler colonialism, but about colonialism in general and resistance to its depredations. The rebellion is unfolding before our eyes without most of us even noticing it in those terms.
I mean, not only Gazans have risen against continued European…
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Following Zionist Logic, Hamas Has the Moral Right to Commit Genocide against Israel
This past week, the world held its breath as South Africa’s top legal team pressed its case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The lawyers argued that the state of Israel is guilty of genocide by prosecuting its war against the people of Gaza.
On Thursday, the South Africans made their case in exquisite detail. It cited chapter and verse proving, the lawyers said, that Israel not…
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#Anti-Semitism#Apartheid#Gaza#Genocide#Hamas#Holocaust#ICJ#IDF#International Court of Justice#Intifada#Israel#Israeli Defense Force#morality#Nuremberg Tribunal#Settler Colonialism#South Africa#Zionism
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Cornel West and God’s Love for Mr. Netanyahu and “Genocide Joe”
Readings for Epiphany Sunday: Is. 60:1-6; Ps. 72: 1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13; Eph. 3:2-3a, 5-6; Mt. 2: 1-12
Just last night, I found myself in a ZOOM conversation with colleagues at OpEdNews, where I’m a senior editor. The name of Cornel West came up. His discussion with Norman Finkelstein was referenced.
West, of course, is the great theologian and former Harvard professor who is running this year…
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#Benjamin Netanyahu#Christianity#Genocide Joe#God#Homiletic helps#Jesus#Joe Biden#Ken Wilber#Sunday Homilies
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New Year’s Reflections
Happy New Year to everyone. The last four years (with COVID and all) have been rough.
Let’s hope that 2024 will be better, despite the continued war in Ukraine and the horrific and ongoing genocide in Gaza. But before I get to that, let me share a personal note about my own privileged life.
I’m writing from Clearwater Beach Florida, where Peggy and I arrived last Saturday (December 30th). Like…
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#Adolph Hitler#Cease Fire#Cost of War Project#Frantz Fanon#Gaza#Genocide#Genocide Joe#Israel#Nazis#The Wretched of the Earth
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Christmas Cancelled in Bethlehem
Last week, Christian church leaders in the city of Bethlehem announced the cancellation of traditional Christmas festivities in the place traditionally associated with the Jesus’ birth.
And this for at least two obvious reasons. For one, the genocidal killings by colonial settlers in Palestine’s occupied West Bank have made it impossible for tourists to come to Bethlehem.
For another,…
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#"Democracy Now"#Amy Goodman#Bethlehem#Christmas#Dar al-Kalima University#Gaza#Genocide#Genocide Joe Biden#Liberation theology#Rev. Isaac Munther#Rev. Mitri Raheb#Sabeel Liberation Theology Centre
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GOP Attacks on Higher Learning: What’s Education for Anyway? And How about Religion?
Readings for the Third Sunday of Advent:Isaiah 61: 1-2A, 10-11; Luke 1: 46-48, 49-50, 53-54; 1 Thessalonians 5: 16-24; John 1: 6-8, 19-28.
Last week, Americans were treated to a high-level display of hypocrisy, double standards, and pure ignorance regarding higher learning. The spectacle occurred during a House Education Committee hearing about on-campus demonstrations supporting Palestinians in…
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#Anti-Semitism#Benjamin Netanyahu#Christianity#Claudine Gay#Elise Stefanik#Genocide Joe#God#Homiletic helps#Homilies#Jesus#Liz Magill#Omer Bartov#religion#Sally Kornbluth#Spirituality#Sunday Homilies#Third Sunday of Advent#Vladimir Putin
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