Vanishing of the Bees (2009)

Bart Ehrman "How the Bible Explains Suffering"

John Dominic Crossan "The Historical Jesus"

Happy Holidays 
from The Boston Pine Flag!

Henry Giroux "On 'Zombie' Politics" (Moyers and Company)

Bill George "The Role of Your Faith in Global Capitalism: Does It Have a Place?"

Thom Hartmann "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America and What We Can Do to Stop It." (Democracy Now!)

The NSA is Coming to Town (ACLU)

This is a video produced by the ACLU to protest the invasive spying currently done by NSA and other US Government agencies. The American people are the most monitored and photographed population in the history of the world. The Global War on Terror has transformed our Republic into a totalitarian police state. Anything that the Stazi did in East Germany, the KGB in the Soviet Union, or the Gestapo in Nazi Germany has been surpassed by the CIA, FBI, NSA, and fellow acronyms. The United States is no longer a free country with free people; it is a violent and implacable fascist tyranny drunk off of the blood of its own people and the rest of the world. With a military expenditures equal to the rest of the world combined, militarized police forces, and six times the number of people incarcerated than were imprisoned in Stalin's Gulags to call the United States even a nice country to live in is delusional. I do not see how private individuals can turn back the clock and enjoy the blessings that have been so recently stolen, but we do not have to pretend that this transformation has not occurred, nor do we have to like it. 

Jonathan Haidt "The Rationalists Delusion in Moral Psychology."

Jonathan Haidt "Explaining Our Contentious Culture." (Moyers and Company)

Francesca Stavrakopoulou "The Bible's Buried Secrets: Episode 3 The Real Garden of Eden." (BBC)

Francesca Stavrakopoulou "The Bible's Buried Secrets: Episode 2 Did God have a Wife?" (BBC)

Francesca Stavrakopoulou "The Bible's Buried Secrets: Episode 1 Did King David's Empire Exist?" (BBC)

Nelson Mandela Dies.

One of the great liberal voices of the 20th Century has vanished from the earth with the passing of Nelson Mandela, Former President of the Republic of South Africa. Few people can be credited with successfully combating racism as much as Mandela did. Yet, far from waging a war with bullets and bombs he followed the examples of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. fighting a successful campaign with pacifistic non-cooperation. From the ANC's non-violent protests against Apartheid , which Mandela lead for 27 years behind the formidable walls of Pollsmoor Prison, to his calls for Truth and Reconciliation, he ensured that his fight was a fight of ideas and ideologies and not of blood. The Guardian's obituary for Nelson Mandela can be found here.

Chris Hedges "Beware the Tea Party Dominionists." (State of Belief)

Chris Hedges "What Does the Christian Right Want?"