Category: Politics and Current Events
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Faith in Public Life are hosting the Compassion Forum this Sunday, April 13th. The discussion of "wide-ranging and probing discussions of policies related to pressing moral issues that are bridging ideological divides now more than ever, including poverty, global AIDS, climate change and human rights," as well as the crisis in Darfur, will include Hillary…
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I was on a semi-vacation last week, so this week’s link roundup is a bit larger than normal. Enjoy! Howard Zinn is adding to his People’s History of the United States with a new graphic novel, A People’s History of the American Empire. Read about it at Tom Dispatch, and check out this Viggo Mortensen-narrated…
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by Kelly Bulkeley As of today a total of 116 dream reports about Barack Obama and 104 about Hillary Clinton have been posted on the metaphysicalpoll.com website. Here are some of the questions I’ve heard people asking about these intriguing political fables from the nocturnal imagination. Can we accept these as real dreams? Cautiously, yes.…
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Fred Pearce is the author of When the Rivers Run Dry: Water the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century, March 22nd is World Water Day, an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. Water consumption has tripled in the past 30 years and…
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by Kelly Bulkeley At the conclusion of a recent New Yorker story about her new website posting people’s dreams of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Toronto novelist Sheila Heti said, "I sort of hope that the campaign managers will change the way candidates give speeches as a result of people’s dream lives. It must be…
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by Margot Adler It’s not something you read in a newspaper or hear on an ordinary news show; it’s only on the comedy shows like Real Time with Bill Maher where you hear it whispered: the idea that John McCain has PTSD, and that it would be scary to have his finger on the button.…
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Is Margaret Seltzer, aka Margaret B. Jones, aka the latest memoirist to be exposed as a fraud, a sociopath who skillfully manipulated her benefactors in the publishing industry? Amy Alexander, co-author of Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis among African-Americans, ponders the question of blame in the Nation: Could it be…
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by Jane Eisner MEADVILLE, Pa. – In this pretty, snowy college town deep in Pennsylvania’s north country, enterprising college students are mapping out how to fix the way we nominate presidential candidates. Their ideas are too good to ignore. The Center for Political Participation at Allegheny College is embarking on a two-year Nomination Reform Initiative,…
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Beacon author Philip Winslow, in his recent book Victory for Us is to See You Suffer, several times quotes and highlights the activities of the Israeli group Breaking the Silence, "an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers that collects testimonies of soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories during the Second Intifadah." Breaking the Silence sponsors…
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by Barbara Katz Rothman It’s an interesting historical moment to be a white mother of a Black child, as another white mother’s Black child is running for president of the United States. Who’d have thought? I too am a white mother of a Black child. When my Black child, Victoria, was in kindergarten or maybe…
