Vital Concerns for the World

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I don't have time to elaborate now, but TODAY'S NEWS is full of great examples of how power works. To see how power works in capitalist countries have a look at this: http://www.marketwatch.c...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-power-works-in-united-stated-and.html

We don’t watch Fox News at our house because we understand it was founded to be a Republican “news” outlet, which is to say it's a propaganda vehicle.  So I am ignorant of what they say a...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2013/10/lies-are-poison-that-tears-us-apart.html

For those of us who are mystified by the behavior of the Republicans in Congress two recent articles have been useful.  They reveal that a cabal set this confusing project – to overturn The A...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-power-of-lies-wealth-and-fear-to.html

The way I understand it John Boehner could get a vote to fund the government if he would be willing to let it happen.  The problem is that he is deferring to the demands of his Tea Party collea...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2013/10/john-boehner-in-valley-of-death.html

We all tend to reject some practices that were considered conventional in the past.  Would we countenance the way the EuroAmericans treated the Native Americans who hunted down and drove out fr...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2013/09/we-all-tend-to-reject-some-practices.html

AlJazeera today has an article about the non-violent movement in Syria -- Yes, a non-violent movement.  Who knew? Syria's nonviolent resistance is dying to be heard by RANIA KHALEK Al...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2013/09/non-violence-is-alive-in-syria-still.html

The United State government seems to be cursed with a tendency to blunder over and over again in the Middle East.  At least it seems about to reproduce the blunders of the past -- again.  The ...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2013/09/reproducing-blunders-of-past.html

Forgive me for some abstract thoughts on an issue of importance to me:  Ruminating on morals I need to distinguish between “religion” and a moral sensibility that is more general.  Santa...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2013/09/moral-sensibility-not-religion-is.html

Watching BILL MORYERS’S INTERVIEW WITH MARK LEIBOVICH  today, on the system of relations in Washington, I learned what I could not have made up, could have have imagined.  Justice is being s...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-washington-cesspool-who-could-have.html

It took me many years in my teaching to declare to my students that societies run on myths.  At this point it seems strange that it took so long for me to come to that. But now I see it so cle...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2013/08/one-drop-of-negro-blood-what-it-meant.html

An unknown group is funding an advertising blitz in Missouri to reduce state taxes.  They tried through the Missouri legislature to cut state taxes but the governor vetoed the bill .  Now this...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2013/08/when-rich-control-news-advertising-and.html

The more we learn about the Kidnapping of the Muslim cleric in Italy the more unsavory it becomes.  Here is WHAT AN UNAPPRECIATED WHISTLE BLOWER FROM THAT OPERATION HAD TO SAY ABOUT WHY IT WAS ...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2013/07/mcclatchy-cia-operative-fabricated.html

At this moment, when we all wonder about what is happening to this country, I want to reproduce here some signs of how seriously the politics in this country is broken.  What I present here has...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2012/12/in-2005-bbc-produced-film-called-power.html

WAYNE LAPIERRE, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION, SAYS THAT HE REPRESENTS THE MOTHERS AND FATHERS AND FAMILIES WHO ARE GUN-OWNERS.  HE NEVER MENTIONS THE GUN MANUFACTU...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-worlds-most-successful-gun-salesman.html

THIS IS A WORKING LIST ON THE TOPIC OF THE MORAL IMAGINATION IN SOCIAL PRACTICE  .  In process >  I take this to be what is involved in all social life.  It is of course manifest in polit...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2012/12/working-list-on-moral-imagination-in.html

Delegates are gathered in Doha to talk about global warming again but scarcely anyone believes much of consequence will result.  Nick Clark of Al Jazeera has produced an article that reminds us...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2012/12/can-planet-earth-be-saved.html

Governments claim the sole right to exercise violence and they also can excuse or dissimulate or expunge the exercise of violence -- at least most do.  When information about the abuse of human...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2012/12/secret-british-files-of-torture-exposed.html

Elizabeth Drew’s account of the tactics used by the Republican Party to restrict the Democratic vote  – narrowing the windows of time in which pre-voting can take place, demanding IDs that ...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2012/12/shameful-strategies-to-deter-voting-in.html

In the social sciences the emphasis on "science" can conceal the powerful influence that the moral imagination has on human life and social affairs.  That moral concerns animate a lot of our th...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2012/12/in-social-sciences-emphasis-on-science.html

Apparently it was Karl Rove who said to the donors who supported the Romney campaign with huge blocks of cash, “without us, the race would not have been as close as it was.”  The “us” i...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-threat-of-super-rich-self-interests.html

It is now common knowledge that the profile of wealth in the United States has changed radically in the last few years.  While most people in the country have gained little ground in the last t...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2012/11/risks-of-concentrated-wealth.html

It is difficult to believe that such people believe in democracy.  How will they behave if the candidate they support doesn't win?  That is, if it turns out that the "democracy" they claim to w...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2012/10/democracy-includes-everybody-right-so.html

I am dumbfounded that the story seems to be gaining salience among many Americans that President Obama went to the Middle East to apologize.  No, he went to the Middle East to call for demo...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2012/10/obama-apologized.html

The passing of Senator George McGovern reminds us that it is possible for the wrong person to win an election.  McGovern, a Democrat, ran in 1972 the most unsuccessful presidential campaign in ...

http://rcanfield.blogspot.com/2012/10/mcgoverns-death-reminds-us-of-tragic.html