“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
In a letter written in 1942, Bayard Rustin, a Quaker, and the man who organized Dr. King’s March On Washington in 1963, wrote that “the primary social function of a religious society is to speak the truth to power.” This appears to have been the first time that idea was written down in the form of which we have become familiar. It means that those of the cloth, especially, ministers, priests, nuns, rabbis, […]
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On his first day, Trump said this: “Recalling the day in Butler, Pa., in July when “an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear,” Trump said that “I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.” * On his first day, Trump pardoned over 1500 people who tried to overturn the government on […]
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Trump becomes President tomorrow. What can one person do to fight against his administration and its allies in the media and in the American Oligarchy? First, do not accommodate yourself to his actions. Do not back away even one step from the corruption and depravity of his policies. Do not be intimidated. Do not lose yourself in twisting this way and that to find something good in what he does. […]
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Nothing about Israel* yields to simple questions let alone simple answers, but Israel’s actions in Gaza now bring to mind what Thucydides said about the relationship between the Athenian Empire and the Melians: “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” The Israelis responded to the horror of the October 7 massacres and hostage taking (over 1200 murdered; rape used by Hamas as a weapon […]
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