It’s Worse Than You Think (from @Truthdig)

It’s Worse Than You Think (from @Truthdig): The election of Donald Trump, whose appeal to voters is based on magical thinking, assures the rise of a police state unlike anything seen in American history. Its fangs will appear the moment Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed.
- 2016/11/11

The English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Thomas Paine wrote, "These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

"It is Worse Than You Think" by Chris Hedges, bears reading, heeding and action. Christopher Hedges is an American journalist, activist, author, and Presbyterian minister. Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books.

"Knowledge is power and words are its weapons."

By James H. Williams

Defying the Politics of Fear (from @Truthdig)

Defying the Politics of Fear (from @Truthdig): The major political parties offer us nothing but continued corruption and oppression. A simple act of citizen defiance can be a first step on a road to profound change.
- 2016/11/06

The more that one knows about the world one lives in, the better off they are. Knowledge is power and words are its weapons! Learning is forever. Read and heed.

By James H. Williams

DOJ Agrees: North Carolina Counties Are Purging Black Voters From the Rolls (from @Truthdig)

DOJ Agrees: North Carolina Counties Are Purging Black Voters From the Rolls (from @Truthdig): A DOJ statement of interest filed Monday in response to an emergency lawsuit finds that GOP-led roll purging violates the National Voter Registration Act.
- 2016/11/02

The more that one knows about the world one lives in, the better off they are. Knowledge is power and words are its weapons! Learning is forever. Read and heed.

By James H. Williams

Dakota Access Pipeline CEO Kelcy Warren Should Face the Music (from @Truthdig)

Dakota Access Pipeline CEO Kelcy Warren Should Face the Music (from @Truthdig): Folk/rock legend Jackson Browne and other musicians are banding together to support the land and water protectors at Standing Rock—and to implore Warren to stop construction of the pipeline.
- 2016/11/02 "The more that one knows about the world one lives in, the better off they are. Knowledge is power and words are its weapons! Learning is forever. Read and heed."

By James H. Williams

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free." By Ralph Waldo Emerson

What book(s) you have read or would suggest reading, that has proven invaluable in aiding you in general or in your discovery, growth, vision, family, creativity, or enhancing wisdom?

 President Barack Obama, an avid reader as well as a gifted writer, has a summer reading list published every year. The list sometimes highlights new authors, but more importantly profound thoughts about issues and circumstances both in novel and nonfiction genres. Moreover, many world leaders today and throughout history in business, politics, academia and the sciences are and were inspired by books. A well-known fact, reading is an endeavor that offers many benefits for the health of mind and body.

By James Williams

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The United States’ War on Youth: From Schools to Debtors’ Prisons (from @Truthdig)

The United States’ War on Youth: From Schools to Debtors’ Prisons (from @Truthdig): The U.S. views children not as social investments but as suspects as the country models its schools after prisons and subjects its young to a criminal legal system marked by severe class and racial inequities.
- 2016/10/21

The more that one knows about the world one lives in, the better off they are. Knowledge is power and words are its weapons! Learning is forever.

By James H. Williams

How Power Works (from @Truthdig)

How Power Works (from @Truthdig): Historian Heather Ann Thompson’s book on the 1971 Attica prison uprising details the government’s brutality, lies and propaganda, demonization of the poor, obstruction of justice and silencing of those who tried to tell the truth. She exposes the American blueprint for social control.
- 2016/10/23

The more that one knows about the world one lives in, the better off they are. Knowledge is power and words are its weapons! Learning is forever.

By James H. Williams