Cancel Culture

Hello all right?? Today I bring to you, a reflection on what has been our way of thinking about something or someone... In this photo, we have two women, both covered the same way, but each with different meaning... yes, different meaning... the first picture, is an Arabic and Muslim woman, she is culturally represented, and the second picture, we have an American and Christian woman, representing what she does as fashion... In the eyes of many, the first image has been seen as an oppression, that Muslim women have no rights or powers over themselves, are forced by their husbands, to dress in an unwanted way, and we end up forgetting that culture , whatever it is, imposes virtues, behaviors and rules of good coexistence... the way we analyze our culture, we want it to be that way for all peoples... For the second image, ahhhh, there's no oppression, it's just fashion, we dress as we want... yes, unfortunately that's been our analogy... Have you ever heard of cultural approp...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ There's a quote from an ancient Buddhist text called the Dhammapada that's often translated as, “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” In other words our mental habits shape our personality and determine how that personality will behave, and that behavior contributes to the shaping of the world. We see a similar line in the Upanishads of Hinduism: "As is your desire, so is your intention. As is your intention, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny.” These are two different ways of expressing the same timeless observation we see pop up in various forms throughout philosophical traditions around the world: that our actions arise from our thoughts and our thoughts arise from our conditioned mental habits, so we need to be very careful about what those mental habits are since it will ultimately determine our destiny. But the pe...

China’s FM: What the U.S. says VS. what it does on Afghanistan 1. The U.S. says it cares about Afghan reconstruction, but "took away all that can be taken & blew up all that can’t be taken" as it withdrew. It even blew up Kabul airport's navigation & Afghans' civil planes! 2. The U.S. says it spent a huge fortune evacuating tens of thousands of Afghans it cares about, but it left behind tens of millions of ordinary Afghans & refugees to suffer, and offered them 0 dollar. 3. The U.S. lectures other nations about human rights, but it has kept violating the human rights of Afghans with illegal actions such as drone strikes killing civilians. 4. The U.S. says nothing about its responsibility for causing the chaos and bloodshed, but finger points or criticizes Afghanistan’s neighbors’ constructive efforts to restore stability. 5. The U.S. claims to be fighting a war on terror, but it took ETIM out of the list of terrorist organization, w...

Noam Chomsky Manufacturing Consent and the Media: Corbyn and the Press By  Paul Knaggs , September 10, 2021 Know the rules in press minipulation: Manufacturing Consent Renowned critic and always MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the classic voices of intellectual dissent in the last decades, has compiled a list of the ten most common and effective strategies resorted to by the agendas “hidden” to establish a manipulation of the population through the media. The media serves an important function in a democratic society. Historically the media have proven highly efficient in moulding public opinion, their power is in the main unchecked. Known as The Fourth Estate or fourth power a term that refers to the press and news media both in explicit capacity of advocacy and implicit ability to frame political issues. Though it is not formally recognised as a part of a political system, it wields significant indirect social influence. The derivation of the term fourth estate a...

Independence will free us from leaders like Boris Johnson who view being Scottish as a 'political disability' – Laura Waddell I welcome the announcement there is to be another Scottish independence referendum before the end of 2023. It’s time. Let’s go. By Laura Waddell Wednesday, 8th September 2021, 4:45 pm Here is our chance to rid ourselves of the Westminster system once and for all, a system so engrained, knotted, whorled and warped from centuries of elitism, that the current leader of the UK is another braying Bullingdon boy and even the Labour Party leader is a Sir. A system where any attempts at change are heckled by hyenas in the building and hounded by their compatriots in the press outside. A system that has held Scotland in outright contempt for hundreds of years. Here is our chance to get away from a political system that could elect a man like Boris Johnson as leader, a man who, under his time as editor of the Spectator, allowed publication of a poem ca...

"I served two deployments in Afghanistan. What I saw and did there disgusted me. Now I spend my life trying to convince kids not to join the military and not to fight these wars for the ruling class.⁣ I speak to high school and college-aged students now. I feel overwhelmed by all those I’m not reaching. I constantly ask myself if it’s all in vain. The US military is working with a billion-dollar-a-year advertising budget. More than 10,000 military recruiters stalk the hallways of high schools across the country targeting those with the fewest options after graduation. Black and brown people are disproportionately recruited.⁣ But know one thing: bottom-up socialism, communicated one conversation at a time and then collectively struggled for, is the only thing that can get in the way of another major war, the ongoing climate catastrophe and increased exploitation and oppression in the world. So I keep at it. I keep going to the schools trying to communicate the benefits of socialism...

Zodiac Maritime, the Mercer Street’s operator, has a long history of working closely with both the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and Israeli intelligence unit Mossad, using its ships to ferry arms and operatives around the region for covert operations, including assassinations "GULF OF OMAN — Earlier this summer, the Israeli-operated oil tanker Mercer Street was attacked by drones, allegedly emanating from Iran, disabling the ship and killing two people on board. The incident, portrayed as an unprovoked attack on a civilian vessel, caused worldwide outrage, and marked a new low in Iranian relations with Israel and its Western allies. But a MintPress investigation can now reveal that Zodiac Maritime, the Mercer Street’s operator, has a long history of working closely with both the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and Israeli intelligence unit Mossad, using its ships to ferry arms and operatives around the region for covert operations, including assassinations." Article: https://www.m...