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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
Crossposted from Sputnik, Oct. 28, 2021
October 31, 2021
US President Joe Biden is escaping to Europe this weekend leaving behind a domestic scene of political disorder and despair.
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Dandelion Salad
Originally published Mar. 27, 2016
Updated: April 12, 2020
“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. — Mark 16:6
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by Caleb Maupin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
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New Eastern Outlook, Sept. 18, 2018
September 27, 2018
The Roman Catholic Church and the Peoples Republic of China are set to sign an agreement, which would formally end the hostilities between these two entities. The Chinese government will formally acknowledge the Pope as the leader of the Catholic Church in China. In exchange, the Pope will reinstate ex-communicated Bishops selected by the Communist Party to lead Catholics on the Chinese mainland. In this context, it is worth reviewing the shifts and evolutions of Catholicism in global politics.
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by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
July 13, 2017
Every day we are faced with numerous choices, some relating to practical issues and others based on more complex psychological demands – how to react, what to say and do. Whilst on the face of it choices appear to have been made, in the main we react habitually; many if not all of our decisions proceed from the past, and are in fact unconscious, conditioned responses to the challenges of the day.
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TheRealNews on Feb 18, 2017
Matthew Fox and Paul Jay discuss the Pope’s message to social movements and comparing the European far right and the rise of Trump to Hitler.
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by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
December 18, 2016
Commercialisation has poisoned all areas of contemporary life, and together with its partner in crime, consumerism, is the principle cause of man-made climate change.
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by Rev. John Dear
World Beyond War
December 12, 2016
Today, Pope Francis released the annual World Day of Peace Message for January 1, 2017, called “Nonviolence—A Style of Politics for Peace.” This is the Vatican’s fiftieth World Day of Peace message, but it’s the first statement on nonviolence, in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—in history.
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
April 25, 2016
After 1700 years, the Catholic Church is turning against the idea that there can be a “just war.” We speak with John Dear.
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“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. — Mark 16:6
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PBS NewsHour on Sep 25, 2015
In his speech to the United Nations on Friday, Pope Francis said there is a “right of the environment” and that mankind didn’t have the authority to abuse it.
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Sep 24, 2015
Paul Jay asks Chris Hedges if the Pope’s rhetoric on climate change and capitalism is a positive force or a dangerous illusion.
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
September 24, 2015
I lack patience. I admit it.
There’s my confession.
I couldn’t sit through the Pope’s slow and plodding and polite speech to Congress, waiting for him to say something against the primary thing that body does and spends our money on. But finally he got there:
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with Richard D. Wolff
RichardDWolff on Jul 22, 2015
Global Capitalism: Monthly Economic Update
“Winners and Losers in Today’s Shifting Capitalism” Continue reading
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by Ellen Brown
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Web of Debt Blog
July 3, 2015
Pope Francis’ revolutionary encyclical addresses not just climate change but the banking crisis. Interestingly, the solution to that crisis may have been modeled in the Middle Ages by Franciscan monks following the Saint from whom the Pope took his name.
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with Noam Chomsky
Robert Malin – Dec 5, 2013
Note from Abel Collins: “I sat down to discuss a wide range of topics with the idol of my high school days, Noam Chomsky, in early October. This was before the release of Evangelii Gaudium, but after a lot of encouraging words about economic justice from Pope Francis. Chomsky’s eyes lit up when I asked him about his thoughts on the new Pope’s new direction for the Catholic Church.
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