https://www.amazon.com/Heartland-Memoir-Working-Richest-Country/dp/1501133098 You can work very hard in America, yet still be broke. And you can be white in America and still be poor. As our guest points out in her searing memoir, ‘Heartland’, ‘poor whiteness is a peculiar offense in that society imbues whiteness with power-not by just making it the racial norm next to …
https://www.amazon.com/Choosing-College-Learning-Decisions-Throughout/dp/1119570115 Given the cost and what’s at stake in choosing a college, perhaps, we are asking the wrong questions when we set about the process. Oh, there are a slew of books, rankings and resources which announce themselves as being definitive guides to making that choice. But, are they? Using the ‘jobs to be done’ …
https://www.amazon.com/Adjunct-Underclass-Americas-Colleges-Betrayed/dp/022649666X : Over the past few decades, the job of college professor has been completed transformed. And, according to Herb Childress, for the worse. He’s the author of ‘The Adjunct Underclass’ and questions whether we can really value higher education when we treat educators like desperate day laborers. In order to underpin the notion of …
At one time in the not too distant past, the drinking age in America was 18 with the logic being that if young men, at the time, could be conscripted to fight at that age in the jungles of Vietnam, they should be able to drink at home. Then, in 1984, Congress raised the age …
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Site-CIA-Post-9-World/dp/1631491970 Phil Mudd, who you see often as an analyst on CNN, was the former deputy director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center so he has firsthand knowledge of the vast changes in strategy and tactics that took place at the CIA in the wake of the 9-11 attacks on our nation. He understands how …
https://www.amazon.com/American-Predator-Meticulous-Serial-Century-ebook/dp/B07L2GMT7J In the podcast realm, true crime is by far the most listened to genre. Our focus on it is simply because it’s part of such a growing, and disturbing, trend in our society. Following on to our most recent post about the FBI profiles of active shooters in America, we turn our attention to …
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-releases-study-on-active-shooter-incidents The nation is trying to reckon with the deadly concoction of troubled young men, possessing tools of war and espousing, in many cases, hatred toward fellow Americans because of their color, sexual orientation, religion or other characteristics. The body count from this anti-social behavior continues to rise and prayers and condolences are becoming an …
https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/peter-koenig What if tomorrow nobody but the United States would use the US-dollar? Say begins a compelling article by our guest, Peter Koenig. You might say, back up, I don’t even understand what that means. Well, we need to. And so we lay out in a meticulous fashion the central role that the U.S. …
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Power-Jewish-Politics-Reinventing/dp/1512602574 The notion of African-American and Jewish leaders walking arm in arm during the civil rights movement of the 1960’s stirs many, so proud that they were on the right side of history. And yet that imagery may mask some truths that historians are now uncovering. Chief among them is Professor Marc Dollinger, author of …
https://www.studyfinds.org/ If you’ve had a lot of regrets about the decisions you’ve made in your life that brought you to this point…well, a new study points to the fact that you are not alone. According to the numbers, 4 in ten people say they regret how they’ve lived their lives so far. Frankly, I …