The US “socialist” left currently playing the bothsides-ism game with Israeli genocide of Palestinians in the name of some bullshit notion of ‘nuance,’ must remember the words of Howard Zinn: “You can’t be neutral on a moving train.” Nothing is accomplished with an abstract support of Palestine when it’s convenient. It is when the empire’s […]
Roland Chrisjohn, lead author of Dying to Please You: Indigenous Suicide in Contemporary Canada, more effectively than anyone I know, confronts this tragic denial by mental health professionals: through their medicalizing and diseasing of sociopolitically-fueled suicidality, they are enabling suffering and increasing suicide. Chrisjohn is Onyota’a:ka of the Haudenausaunee, has a doctorate in psychology, and […]
Scott Noble’s latest documentary series, The War at Home, takes a deep dive into the history of labor movements and state repression in the United States. Soon to be a multi-part series, the first entry is titled “Rebellion” and can be viewed online for free [and below]. As with all of Noble’s films, The War […]
The post A History of Warring on the Homefront first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Source : Youtube.
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
—Auguries of Innocence, by William Blake
We don't normally do movie reviews here at BSNews. In fact, we usually concentrate exclusively on geo-politics and foreign policy, steer clear of sports and let others cover gossip and popular culture. My co-ed occasionally reveals her anthropological fascination and ultimate exasperation with the insidious twins of celebrity culture and the advertising industry but for me, I avoid them both like the plague, I never watch TV and I wouldn't know a Kardashian if one punched me in the face.
En hommage au regretté Howard Zinn
Source : Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn, le 20 janvier 2011.
Howard Zinn a prononcé un discours inaugural devant plus de 800 enseignants lors de la conférence du National Council for the Social Studies à Houston, le 16 novembre 2008.
Hiroshima après l’atomisation de 1945
Il y a 72 ans, respectivement le 6 et le 9 août 1945, des bombes atomisaient en quelques secondes les villes d’ Hiroshima et de Nagasaki au Japon. En mémoire de cette tragédie, nous republions ici l’article rédigé en 2015 par Baptiste Mannaia pour le Cercle des Volontaires :
Legislation from Rep. Kim Hendren would keep Howard Zinn works from all public and charter schools.
(COMMONDREAMS) A Republican Arkansas lawmaker has introduced legislation to ban the works of the late historian, activist, and writer Howard Zinn from publicly funded schools.
