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Category Archives: Military-industrial complex
Enlightenment and Social Hope, Part 4
By Stefan Schindler The recent triumph of anti-democratic Republican Party politics was made possible with the criminal complicity of the Democratic Party, the mainstream news media, and the rise to political power of Christian fundamentalism. In the hotly contested 2000 … Continue reading
Posted in Armed conflict, capitalism, Economy and war, Media, Military-industrial complex, politics, Poverty, Propaganda, Protest, racism, Terrorism, Understanding violence
Tagged 2000 presidential election, Afghanistan w, Afghanistan war, America’s Pledge of Allegiance, Buckminster Fuller, Cheney-Bush Administration, Christian fundamentalism, David Hume, Dorothy Day, Dot Walsh, ecological apocalypse, Emma Goldman, global terror, Great Recession, Helen Keller, Howard Zinn, I.F. Stone, Iraq war, John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, Kurt Vonnegut, Lewis Randa, mainstream news media, Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Meg Randa, Mother Jones, nuclear war, Pentagon budget, Robert Kennedy, Rousseau, Supreme Court, Voltaire
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Enlightenment and Social Hope, Part 3
by Stefan Schindler Standing before Michelangelo’s statue of David, the poet Rilke said: “I must change my life.” A Catholic bishop, after reading the Dalai Lama’s autobiography, said in his New York Times book review: “We must change our lives.” … Continue reading
Posted in Armed conflict, capitalism, Champions of peace, Democracy, Military-industrial complex, politics, Poverty
Tagged Dalai Lama, democratic socialism, egalitarian economics, fascism, FDR, Justice Louis Brandeis, Michelangelo’s statue of David, New Deal, Norman Mailer, Republican party, Rilke, S&L crisis, Stefan Schindler, the Great Depression, The Spirit of The Sixties, Wall Street
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