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"If Everything is Antisemitic then Nothing Is"
A Response to the opinion of Rev. William Barber, The Poor People’s Campaign, on his assessment of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
Elliott Abrams is a nightmare, and read why we oppose his nomination to the State Department’s Bipartisan Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
There is a tacit agreement that exists in the United States that affirms white supremacy, and when that covenant is challenged the nation goes haywire. This article appeared in Radical Discipleship.
Our understanding of God is distorted and controlled by those seeking to maintain power without question or analysis. This article, “Freeing God be God,” appeared in Radical Discipleship.
Israel’s hypocrisy and deceptive claims of democracy are exposed through its continuous occupation and genocidal practices against Palestinians. It is time for supporters of Israel to break their silence and demand justice. End Israel’s apartheid. This article appeared on Mondoweiss.
When FOX fired Tucker Carlson they were covering their behind! Racial biases and proponents of snickering hatred must be challenged and stopped.
Conversation on WPFW-FM with Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei, Director of The Gaza Mental Health Program
The Morning After the Mid-Term Elections - Analysis and Commentary with Rev. Traci Blackmon, Rev. William Lamar, IV and Mr. Terry Lynch
Speaking with Ariel Gold, Executive Director, Fellowship of Reconciliation. Aired on WPFW FM 89.3 on September 14, 2022
It Is Harder to End a War Than Begin One
Twenty years ago planes crashed into the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennslyvania. There was disbelief, weeping, and shock as people in the affected areas lookied for their loved ones. There was a deep eeriness in the air, and grief and disbelief set in, and then the tone began to shift to revenge and retribution. Chants began to arise like “USA! USA! USA!” Politicans and preachers began to use the phrase “God bless America,” as if America was somehow more deserving of God’s blessings than anywhere else. Three days later I was speaking on the phone with an insurance company representative about a personal matter, and the insurnace represenatative paused the call so that the entire office could sing “God Bless America.” It was a time, a moment, and a setting that the American public could be conjoled and sold anything seemingly patriotic and it was. The military went into Afghanistan to dislodge Al Queda, and it stayed to create a new government and country. Something that the Soviets had tried to do previously. But that wasn’t enough because the neo-cons and the defensive contractors with the military industrialists decided that it was an opportunity to reconstruct a region in our own image, to control the natural resources of the region, and to create governments loyal to the interest of the west and particularly the US. The US invaded Iraq under false pretenses as a result. If you remember there were claims of weapons of mass destruction, that Saddam Hussein was offering asylum to Al Queda, and any other excuse to invade Iraq, disassemble a nation and attempt to reassemble one in the image and imagination of the US. If the US controlled Afghanistan and Iraq then with the assistance of their client state, Israel, could put maximum pressure on Iran for its surrender. All of this failed. Twenty years later the US has left Afghanistan in failure, watching the cities and towns of the country fall to the Taliban without resistance.
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