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Homage to Prof. Lewis Warsh (Part 2): From Scrolls of a Temple Sweeper

LITERARY         by John High And perhaps in this moment you can hear the voice yourself? Propping up your elbow on the table at the imagined cafe with the Poet in your own particular being and place…

Homage to Prof. Lewis Warsh (Part 2): Lamp’s angle

LITERARY         by Tony Iantosca    Certain only that we have bodies the question then becomes what to do with them and why to do that and not something else. Losing it, you can become something else…

Homage to Prof. Lewis Warsh (Part 2) : Lewis Poem

  LITERARY       by Christine Gans  I was fortunate enough to spend my undergraduate and graduate years with Lewis at LIU. My first ever workshop was with Lewis and he was the first reader on my MFA thesis,…

US Trying to Extradite Venezuelan Diplomat for the ‘Crime’ of Securing Food for the Hungry: The Case of Alex Saab v. The Empire

The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions. This is according to Montréal-based international human rights lawyer John Philpot. He…

Israel & Palestine: Stop the Carnage! Cease Demolitions and Evictions.

Statement of Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security Board. The world is confronting yet another round of death and destruction in the Middle East with the ever-present danger of regional Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalating into wider conflagration. Ending the carnage…

Why should new generations advocate for the abolition of NATO?

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded in 1949 as an intergovernmental military alliance with the aim of defending its allies and stopping the expansion of the then Soviet Union. NATO was founded more than 70 years ago and…

No more tax tricks! Global minimum tax for corporations could raise 100 billion

What may seem impossible to employees is common practice for multinationals: they shift their profits around the world until they no longer have to pay taxes on them. A global minimum tax on corporate profits could put an end to tax evasion.…

The Tragedy of Palestine is the Fate of the Human Race

When President Biden recently announced the world’s news that “Israel has a right to defend itself”, it was like a stab in the heart of every true lover of freedom and democracy in the world who desires the very best…

Exceeding Expectation: Hope from the Garden

     Art Without Borders was a nonprofit originally designed by my daughter and me to bring the performing arts across demographic barriers, to not only make classes and performances accessible to marginalized communities, but also to bring otherwise separated communities together through…

Face 2 Face with David Rojas

On this show we are speaking with  David Rojas, Colombian activist living in New York, about the serious situation in Colombia where at least 19 people were killed during protests opposing tax increase and inequality.

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