In July, the Israeli Knesset ratified the first of a wave of bills that seek to curtail the powers of Tel Aviv’s supreme court, dividing Israel’s Jewish population between supporters of the current “liberal western democracy” model and those seeking a more radical system. While hundreds of thousands of Israeli protesters packed the streets, Israeli Read More...
Eric Zuesse The U.S. Constitution was truly a revolutionary, progressive, document. Anyone who considers it to be ‘conservative’ has no knowledge of history, or else is lying, because it’s the exact opposite of that: it’s radically progressive. It’s a truly revolutionary document. And it was created by men all of whom despised imperialism and had […]
by NoahMike Pence is waiting in the wings. For all we know, he is the biggest leaker in the Trumpanzee administration but he's also just another in a long, long line of typical Republican douchebags and worse. You can bet he shares his boss's envy of dictators who kill journalists with impunity. After all, his desire to torture our gay brothers and sisters is proud public knowledge.
Earlier today, Frank Schaeffer, whose dad, Francis Schaeffer, was one of the founders of the Religious Right, reminded his readers that this country was never meant to be a theocracy and still isn't. Odd that he had to say so-- but today was the day it needed to be done. "For seven hours today," he wrote, "the remains of the evangelist Billy Graham will lie in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Why? Billy was a family friend but this is not appropriate. We aren’t Iran. We aren’t a theocracy.
You may be aware that author and film-maker Frank Schaeffer is currently traveling around the country filming progressive candidates who are running for Congress next year. He started in Wisconsin with Randy Bryce, drove to North Carolina, then the OC and just finished with Jared Golden in Maine.
-by NoahNow we have the Republican Party warmly welcoming and embracing the Senate candidacy of Alabama's Judge Roy Moore. You can see some of the highlights of Moore's utter insanity and complete lack of character in the meme, but there is more, much, much more. It's not just things like his belief that homosexuality should be criminalized.
WASHINGTON (Analysis) — Far right-wing theocratic fascism has crept into the halls of the United States government. It now permeates the often unstated agendas of certain politicians and officials, whose Christian dogma demands that they act to make the United States a bastion for like-minded souls — meaning only those souls ardently worshiping the same God, for the same reasons, and in the same manner as they do. Everyone else is, for all intents and purposes, the enemy.
Jay Dyer returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his piece “Why I’m Finally Converted to Pro-Trump.” We talk about how Donald Trump’s election may represent a genuine challenge to globalism and to the entire Enlightenment mythos. Later we discuss Jay’s lecture on Seraphim Rose’s prophetic work Orthodoxy & the Religion of the Future – a book published in 1970s that was critical of the New Age, Eastern mysticism, Illuminism, globalism and called out alien/UFO phenomenon as a psy-op.
