Amos's River of Justice

Author: Sheila Marler

  • In Gaza Death Comes for Everyone

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Gaza death comes for everyone. On October 7, we were horrified. Hamas attacked Jewish people on the border of Israel and committed carnage. Then, we were alarmed about Benjamin Netanyahu’s threats against Gaza. We beg him not to act out his own rage and the rage of the people of Israel.…

  • Immigration has Become the Norm

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesImmigration has become the norm. What are we going to do about it? For immigrants, immigration is not a choice. It’s life and death. It’s always been that way in the United States. However, as war, climate change and natural disasters continue to destroy living conditions for millions of people, even those…

  • Why Worry About Same-Sex Marriage and Trans-ideologies?

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesWhy worry about same-sex marriage and trans-ideologies? This article is not a rejection of same-sex partners and trans people. It’s a request for the missing narrative about hetrosexual relations and how they affect social organization. Currently it is being drowned out by a particular version of a patriarchal narrative. It is more…

  • American Classics and the Poetry of Democracy

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesHarold Kaplan said ‘humanist aspirations’ are the dominant American intellectual tradition. But an abstract notion of democratic humanism is only part of the story. Kaplan explains democratic humanism in the context of writers of the American classics: Emerson, Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, D. H. Lawrence, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Twain, and Henry James. They…

  • Popular Culture is Being Used to Manipulate the Public

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA neoconservative attempt at self-perpetuation can be seen in two of the Star Trek series. According to David Greven, the Enterprise series is the first Trek series to openly break with Trek’s core liberal values. Regardless of whether this was intended to manipulate, this is just one influence driving American culture to…

  • Was the Enlightenment a Democratic Movement?

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesAccording to Harold Kaplan, Americans do not question the effects on the United States of the Reformation and the Enlightenment. But was the Enlightenment a democratic movement? Kaplan wrote: “We do not question that the twin roots of American national history were the religious revolution, which broke the Catholic hegemony, and the…

  • Plato Has Ruled the World for 2500 Years

    Plato Has Ruled the World for 2500 Years

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesPlato has ruled the world for 2500 years through his lasting influence on philosophy, politics, and religion. It’s time we paid attention to what he actually said. He is considered an authority on politics, even though in his lifetime, his writings were not compatible with the politics of his home country, Athens.…

  • Bourgeoisie Manipulation

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis article proposes that we live under the influence of bourgeois (middle class) manipulation, examining how the bourgeoisie might manipulate society to serve their interests. In a previous article I questioned whether we, the voters, owe anything to the Enlightenment or to the Enlightenment’s champions, the Freemasons. Since Enlightenment ideals helped pave…

  • Agricultural Policy and Food Security

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    Reading Time: 10 minutesOne of the reasons I supported Bernie Sanders for president was his support of family farms against the abuses of agribusiness.  Agricultural policy and food security should be at the center of our plan for the future. This makes sense because we have a large and growing global population and dwindling resources. …

  • Gender Rights are a Litmus Test for Left-ness

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAside from the climate crisis there is general agreement that individuals on the left don’t have to share the same religious beliefs or ideology. However, that belief is misleading. A focus on Gender rights seems to be an ideological requirement. The issue of Gender rights has become a litmus test for left-ness.…

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