A Different Screaming Must Come Across the Sky Now
Dear Friend,
As 2017 winds down and a new year is about to be born, it's time for us to take a fresh look at our converging crises and as Richard Oxman says "SCREAM". In his powerful short article "A Different Screaming Must Come Across the Sky Now" he looks back at the second world war period when not a single motor car was manufactured in USA! He writes poignantly, "I pray that it will be obvious to the reader that WE CAN… mobilize anew. And that to get the ball rolling each reader must step back from the Nihilism now in vogue, and become the rogue citizen who stands out from the crowd screaming something Positive across the sky, even if it’s not what I recommend."
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Co-Written by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
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A Different Screaming Must Come Across the Sky Now
by Richard Oxman
I pray that it will be obvious to the reader that WE CAN… mobilize anew. And that to get the ball rolling each reader must step back from the Nihilism now in vogue, and become the rogue citizen who stands out from the crowd screaming something Positive across the sky, even if it’s not what I recommend.
Domination Of The Other Is Inbuilt In The Ideology Of Majoritarianism
by Dr. Y. Srinivasa Rao
In the modern democratic societies, the emergence of majoritarianism, as political ideology is a organised well thought of response of the social, religious, ethnic and racial majorities to the new progressive, democratic, secular and political philosophies/ideologies which have posed serious challenge. Afraid of losing the social and cultural monopoly, the majority invents socio-religious rituals, festivals, customs and traditions as tools of guaranteeing the domination and provided permanency to such a domination. There are three visible processes, through which the culture of majority goes through to keep itself afloat: 1) the form, nature and method of rituals goes through reforms, 2) it would be implanted into the national institutional structures as general culture and 3) it goes through the process of hypocritical secularisation.
Thrusting Forward With Fencing Foil And Else-Wise
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As always, people from every side are trying to “manage” the problem in Kashmir rather than resolve it once for and all!
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