On Tuesday, October 26th I participated as an audience member in Eyewitness Palestine’s October virtual delegation about Palestinian street art as resistance from Bethlehem to San Francisco. As expected, the content was moving, and the two guides were compelling speakers. Unfortunately (but not surprisingly,) a third party began loudly clamoring for the attention that should […]
Posts Tagged ‘roots’
The Jewish Roots Of Critical Race Theory — And Why It Benefits Jews
(Tikkun Olam) Lawmakers in 26 states have introduced or passed legislation that prohibits the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) — a pseudo-academic pedagogy which openly demonizes White people, their culture and history — and has its roots in Jewish revolutionary circles such as the Frankfurt School , according to Jewish academic Jonathan Judakin: Jews […]
Opinion | The Roots of Democratic Disarray
In shaping their sweeping social spending legislation, with a putative price tag of $3.5 trillion, President Joe Biden and the Democratic congressional leaders have argued that this is what the voters chose last November. And polls do show broad support for universal pre-K, lower prescription drug prices and expanded health care, paid for by higher […]
The Roots Of Modern Science In Ancient Kemetic Egypt
In the modern Western world, science and religion have changed places in terms of which is regarded as ‘reality’ and what is most likely ‘just a fantasy’. In Medieval times religion was considered the true fundamental reality and science was theoretical, the fantasy world of eccentrics, philosophers, and dreamers. Yet there was a time when […]
Media Roots Radio
Press & Media Whitney joins Robbie Martin to discuss the new wave of hype surrounding ‘Domestic Terrorism’, how the ‘War on Terror’ was merely a prelude to a larger domestic crackdown on political dissidents and the extreme measures taken in times of ‘Continuity of Government’ August 1, 2021 1 minute read Source Views: 0
Covid lockdown forces Adivasis in MP to go back to their roots
With no income and all life at a standstill poor families around India have struggled to put together a square meal every day during the second wave of the Covid pandemic. With the government absent, many small voluntary and citizens groups stepped in to distribute rations consisting of cereals, pulses, oil, salt and sugar. In […]
Racist Karen; Roots of Racism Run Deep in Colonialist America (Colony of Satanic British Empire)
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The Roots Of Today’s White Collar Union Wave Are Deeper Than You Think
The Roots Of Today’s White Collar Union Wave Are Deeper Than You Think Above Photo: Maida Rosenstein/ Local 2110. At UAW Local 2110, Maida Rosenstein Has Quietly Organized The Most Prestigious Group Of Cultural Institutions On The East Coast. Before the recent wave of organizing among media workers, adjunct professors and nonprofit workers set the world talking about the […]
The Roots Of Colombia’s Crisis 2021
There has been a social explosion of the Colombian people against poverty and repression. President Duque’s ‘tax reform’ package was the last straw that broke their patience. The biggest upsurge of sustained popular protest since the 1970s has brought the country to an absolutely pivotal moment: Colombia’s future hangs in the balance. In this article […]
The Roots Of Catoptromancy in Ancient Persian and Central American Sources
“Thus television… has a prehistory in the domain of oriental folk-lore ,” wrote Berthold Laufer in 1928 in an article with the delightful title, The Prehistory of Television . Television was quite new even in the period in which Laufer was writing, but he was keen enough to see that this new technology had a […]
Media Ignores The Anti-Vax Movement’s White Supremacist Roots
Above photo: GoToVan. Anti-vaccine, anti-mask and anti-lockdown movements are, at their core, new mobilizations of white supremacy. Earlier this year, CBC Marketplace journalists attended a “$623 Mastering Vaccine Info Boot Camp.” The session’s host was Sherri Tenpenny, a woman who has built an empire based on convincing others that vaccines are harmful. The participants were introduced to […]
Appalling surge of anti-Asian violence—with historic roots
Image Credit: Ringo Chiu/Getty Images All without one historic act of vengeance on whites. More predictable acts of copycat violence have struck Asians minding their own business: the latest an 85 year old, San Francisco woman stabbed while waiting for a bus. With no end in sight, dozens of brutal attacks, from New York and […]
Is your name on this list? Your Jewish roots might be in the Middle East
In the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire was looking to conscript men into its army, including the several thousand young Jewish ones who were living in the city of Baghdad. The Jewish community didn’t like the idea of the imperial forces taking away its young men, so it arranged to pay authorities for exemptions. Rabbi […]
Albert Arie, one of the last remaining Egyptians with Jewish roots, dies at 90
One of the few remaining Egyptians with Jewish roots, Albert Arie, has died just ahead of his 91st birthday, according to media reports Thursday. “Today the Jewish Community in Cairo and its NGO to preserve Egypt’s Jewish heritage, the Drop of Milk Association, lost our pillar of strength, wisdom and support, the legendary Albert Arie […]
My First Seder: Finding Redemption and Roots Amid the Pandemic
A Passover Seder table. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself in Jerusalem sitting at my first Passover seder. Although this has been a period of unprecedented disruption and difficulty around the globe, I have had the good fortune of spending this time in Israel connecting with my Jewish roots, […]
Unravelling the Roots of Hera, the Wrathful Goddess of Marriage
Hera, also known by her Latin title as Juno, is best known in Western culture as the wife of Zeus, king of the gods. While technically subordinate to him, Hera is never a submissive figure, in fact in the opening of Virgil’s Aeneid, he calls her Iunonis iram meaning wrathful Juno. In the stories and […]
The Forgotten Roots of Modern Zionism
Not many Jews today recall a nineteenth-century European Jewish leader who wrote a booklet that inspired young Jews to move to the Land of Israel. The man first believed in assimilation as an answer for Jews, but later, due to what he saw as rising anti-Semitism, he advocated a new idea — what eventually became […]
The Gamers’ Uprising Against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots
Above photo: Much ado about GameStop. [Mike Mozart / CC BY 2.0. Wall Street may own the country, as Kansas populist leader Mary Elizabeth Lease once declared, but a new generation of “retail” stock market traders is fighting back. A short squeeze frenzy driven by a new generation of gamers captured financial headlines in recent weeks, […]
The Foreign Roots Of Haiti’s ‘Constitutional Crisis’
The Foreign Roots Of Haiti’s ‘Constitutional Crisis’ Above photo: Jovenel Moïse speaks at his inauguration ceremony after taking the oath of office, Port-au-Prince, February 7, 2017. UN Photo / Igor Rugwiza / Flickr. Haiti’s president’s term has come to an end, but he refuses to step down. Solidarity is urgent. As per usual, news on […]
The ‘Western’ Racist Roots of Israeli Apartheid
by Jeremy Salt Source Joe Biden supports a two-state solution to the ‘Palestine problem’. Well, first of all, it never was a Palestine problem. It was a zionist problem, leading to the colonization and takeover of Palestine by a settler minority. Second, the two-state solution is a chimera. Israel is not interested and by supporting […]