Darren J. Mulloy is an Associate Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University and the author of American Extremism: History, Politics and the Militia Movement and The World of the John Birch Society: Conspiracy, Conservatism, and the Cold War. In the following interview, Darren Mulloy speaks about the danger of American extremism, the Christian Right, and right-wing terrorism.
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Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood this month to talk about the waves of abuse news coming out of the church, the state, celebrity
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TRNN Producer Lynn Fries hosts an extended interview with Thomas Piketty about his widely acclaimed Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
At one time most people referred to the Original Peoples of the western hemisphere as Indians, as though they were all a common ethnic group. In the Arctic they were called Eskimos. The Original Peoples, however, knew, and still know, themselves as Inuit, Innu, Haudenosaunee, Beothuk, Nuu-chah-nulth, Inka, Mapuche, etc. They all became known as Indians because Christopher Columbus landed somewhere in the Caribbean, likely the Bahamas, but he reckoned that he was in India.
You may think this interview controversial? Or not? If you do that is very good! It should give some food for thought. I know it did for myself. I listened 3 times, so I could fully understand this man's views and conclusions- Though he still seems to be processing his own discoveries. Again, the subject of technology and it's use is broached. And the weaponized political correctness....
NOTE: This interview was conducted in late February 2014, before a sentencing hearing that was eventually postponed. Ms. McCulley was then sentenced to a year each of prison and probation on April 25, 2014. She is now requesting a Reconsideration of her sentence, and this request will be heard on May 8, 2014.
I have been thinking for a long while about relinking this interview. It seems now is the right time.Background I first put this up over a year ago. It was well received then. Hopefully new readers will find it informative, enlightening and intriguing. I know, I did. As I said back then and it still applies now-
Sometimes it just takes one person with a creative mind to shake up the entire legal system. In the case of Costa Rica, that person is Luis Roberto Zamorra Bolaños, who was just a law student when he challenged the legality of his government’s support for George Bush’s invasion of Iraq. He took the case all the way up to the Costa Rican Supreme Court—and won.
Today a practicing lawyer, Zamorra at 33 still looks like a wiry college student. And he continues to think outside the box and find creative ways to use the courts to fuel his passion for peace and human rights.
