Category Archives: Resistance

Is This the “Pope Francis Alternative”? Ukraine and “Effective Nonviolent Resistance”

Pope Francis, Ukraine and “effective nonviolent resistance” National Catholic Reporter – May 30, 2022 by Eli McCarthy — Opinion Ukraine – so many new graves A bird sits on a cross amid newly made graves at a cemetery near Mariupol, Ukraine, May 15. (CNS/Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko) So much energy is being expended to urge Pope … Continue reading Is This the “Pope Francis Alternative”? Ukraine and “Effective Nonviolent Resistance” →

Ukraine: in the East, The War Turns Grim

“NOTE: The shift can be felt even here, thousands of miles away: Russia’s nonstop shelling and bombing is wearing down Ukrainian forces in its eastern regions. They are retreating, taking many casualties. The “wise men” of Davos, and some national leaders of allied nations were talking of concessions to Moscow to get the war over … Continue reading Ukraine: in the East, The War Turns Grim →

A Long, Satisfying Read: DuBois’s “Black Reconstruction”

The Nation: Abolition Democracy W.E.B. Du Bois and the making of Black Reconstruction. By Gerald Horne – MAY 3, 2022 By the time his magnum opus, Black Reconstruction, was published in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois was already a rara avis—a prominent Black activist-intellectual in the midst of Jim Crow. Dapper and diminutive, and nattily … Continue reading A Long, Satisfying Read: DuBois’s “Black Reconstruction” →

G. W. Bush’s Accidental Moment of Truth

The “Truth Gaffe” of the Century Excerpted from The Guardian: The audience chuckled at George W Bush’s Iraq-Ukraine gaffe. I’m not laughing Arwa Mahdawi I don’t think it’s possible to overstate the depravity and horror of the former president’s 2003 invasion of Iraq Published: Saturday, 21 May 2022 George Bush accidentally confessed to being a … Continue reading G. W. Bush’s Accidental Moment of Truth →