Now Is the Time for 'Beginner’s Mind'| Mickey Z.

Kyoto Ryoan Ji. By Cquest - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5 Mickey Z. -- Now with Purpose July 16, 2020 “In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities. In the expert’s, there are few.” (Shunryu Suzuki) ...

'Try!' | John Michael Greer

July 15, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- One of the things that makes the magical history of America so, well, magical is the number of astonishing individuals who have played a central role in it. Even amon ...

Island of the Undesirables: AIDS, COVID-19, Confederate Prisoners, and a Million More Stories | Mickey Z.

Claire Yaffa Children With Aids Photograph Collection, PR 290 Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 15, 2020 Imagine a tiny, off-limits, allegedly haunted island upon which prisoners are recruited to di ...

Escape from the Zombie Food Court | Joe Bageant

Joe with BingoThe high technological imprisonment of our consciousness has been fairly recent. There are still those among us who remember when it was not so entrapped. A few of us still know what it ...

Looking for Conformity? Check Out the Far-Left | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 13, 2020 Consider this an intervention. *** In his Fourth of July speech at Mount Rushmore, the president spoke of “far-left fascism that de ...

Good News from Washington: AIPAC, Israel Losing to Progressive Democrats | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 12, 2020 While the U.S. Trump administration remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ ...

Laura D: The Fall and Rise of a Homeless Artist | Mickey Z.

Laura D teaching watercolors at a homeless shelter (Courtesy of Laura D) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 30, 2020 “The only place I felt I did anything right was art class.” Those are the words of ...

The Second Coming | William Butler Yeats

The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide ...

Reinventing Activism, Part 2: What Would a Personal Trainer Do? | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 29, 2020 (Part 1 of this series can be found here) The first line of the book, Becoming a Personal Trainer for Dummies, reads as follows: “W ...

Gimme (Fallout) Shelter | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 26, 2020 As you may already know, I’m a ghost sign aficionado. I love discovering them and photographing them. Lately, thanks to Covid-19, I ...

Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid | Ellen Brown

June 22, 2020 (Web of Debt) -- BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to tri ...