Guest authored post, originally published on Friday, January 4, 2013 by Phil Rockstroh at Common Dreams – View the original article here. “Memory believes before knowing remembers.” — William Faulkner In an era of corporate-state colonization of both landscape and mental real estate, when the face of one’s true oppressors is, more often than not, hidden from view, thus inflicting feelings of anxiety borne of powerlessness over the criteria of one’s life…

Guest authored post, originally published 16 December 2012 by Phil Rockstroh at Common Dreams - View the original article here. “All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.” - James Baldwin As we draw near to the Winter Solstice and the days shorten, one’s thoughts are drawn inward. Bright lights, fragrant…

Given the recent events in Newtown Conn. I redistribute my July 22, 2012 essay written on the occasion of yet another massacre. 16 December 2012 by Lawrence Davidson Part I – Gun Violence Epidemic Continues Well here we go again. Late in the evening of July 20th “a masked gunman entered a Colorado movie theater playing the new Batman movie and “opened fire…killing at least 12 people and wounding 50.”…

On December 6, 2012, RevolutionTruth hosted a live panel discussion with David Remes and Andy Worthington to discuss the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, the U.S. Government’s current position on indefinite detention, and their work examining and dealing with the effects it has had on the detainees that reside there. After ten years, multiple scandals, and worldwide condemnation of its practices, the highly controversial Guantanamo Bay Detention Center (GTMO) remains open…

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17 October 2012 by Lawrence Davidson - View the original article here. PART I – The Savage vs. the Civilized Back on 1 August 2012 I posted a piece entitled History on a Billboard. It reported on the placement, in the northern suburbs of New York City, of informational billboards with maps of Palestine showing the steady growth of Israeli confiscated territory and the corresponding shrinkage of territory available to the…

On August 2, 2012, RevolutionTruth hosted a live panel discussion with Carl Mayer, Bruce Afran, Daniel Ellsberg, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Tangerine Bolen (Host), David Segal, Kevin Gosztola, Michael Kelley, Laura Poitras, and Jacob Applebaum to discuss the current state of the ongoing Hedges v. Obama lawsuit against the US. Government regarding Section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA and answered audience questions.  Seven plaintiffs, backed by multiple civil liberties and human rights groups, filed suit…

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2011 has emerged as the 1968 of our generation, as some have put it. The rebellions of 1968, from the Democratic National Convention riots in Chicago to the revolts in France, have transposed themselves to our generation through the uprisings we’ve seen in Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Spain, England, and the U.S. We have seen millions of people overthrow the Egyptian tyrant, Hosni Mubarak. We have seen a man light himself…

Part I – The “Locally Normal” 　 The vast majority of people in any given society are “locally normal.” By this I mean that they conform to the accepted outlooks and behaviors of their local society. They fit comfortably with their neighbors who fit comfortably with them. Their opinions are majority opinions that reflect local societal norms. Those norms may or may not espouse racism and a wide variety of…

History doesn’t have enough examples of brave people who shared truths that made the establishment uncomfortable and challenged the conventional belief system. Today’s whistleblowers shine a light on what America is and what our wars are about. Whistleblowers help us draw a clearer line between what a nation says it is and what a nation really is. Thucydides wrote “The History Of The Peloponnesian War” in 431 B.C.E. and this…