The Problem is Institutional Racism (tags)
Three hurdles make it difficult to talk about racism: the identity hurdle, the guilt hurdle and the renunciation hurdle. However, when I think back to the Welcoming time many years ago, I have to add a fourth hurdle: the imagination hurdle.
Stress for the soul. Climate change triggers stress and despair (tags)
Psychology understands fear as an arousal that primarily causes displeasure. Fear is never rational, but sometimes it is appropriate and serves as an alarm. Anxiety disorders, on the other hand, according to the common definition, are directed at non-existent dangers...
Israeli Military Court Justice: Rubber-Stamp Guilt (tags)
Israel
Russians Traveling Abroad Risk Lawless US Abduction (tags)
police states
The United States of Injustice (tags)
police state
The whitewash in the British Iraq war inquiry is already in place. (tags)
The whitewash, as usual, is in ‘The Terms of Reference.’
Author Darrel Ray Lectures on “God Virus” (tags)
It’s not every atheist author who begins a lecture to promote his book with a bit of a fire-breathing Fundamentalist Christian sermon on the nature and ubiquity of human sin and the need to appeal to the Holy Spirit to be cleansed of it. But that’s what Darrel W. Ray did at the San Diego Public Library September 19 in an appearance sponsored by the Humanist Association of San Diego (HASD). A former believer, Ray discussed the total lack of logic in religious appeals and the way religions mimic the behavior of germs in spreading from person to person, use classic hypnotic techniques in their services, and inculcate guilt in their believers — especially about sex. Ray also mentioned ways rationalists can talk to belivers without immediately putting them on the defensive, and offered help for those who are — in his words — “recovering from religion.”
Katrina's Latest Victim: Frances Newton RIP (tags)
A media awash in Katrina stories had no time for a poor black woman being killed by the state in Texas after being railroaded onto death row for a crime she probably never committed.
Blair not Cleared of Anything (tags)
Watch the broadcast.
Capitalism = Self-Destruct Anarchism = Self-Construct (tags)
APPROPRIATION
Plea Bargains: Torture for Confessions? (tags)
Plea Bargains in America render all guilty pleas from that system suspect. An archaic system full of underfunded public defenders, overzealous prosecutors, and a system that trumps up charges for leverage, scaring guilty pleas out of the poor is not fair.
J. David Galland's ... "NATO's Collective Guilt" (tags)
J.David Galland delineates retrospective and guilt as to who is really responsible for causing the Balkan wars and death. It is certainly not just Slobodan Milosevic.