Lawrence Davidson on the problems with the Texas Board of Education’s effort to institutionalize a fundamentalist form of Christianity through public schools.
Holy Texas
Category: Religion
A Tale of Two Genocides: Cambodia & Israel
Where Cambodia chose the difficult, winding road of national healing, Israel spurred a suicidal treadmill of retribution in the Middle East, writes Laurent Evrard.
Interview: Indian Communist Leader Mohammed Salim
Where does the Communist movement go from here? That’s the first question Betwa Sharma asks Mohammed Salim, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Israel’s Surveillance of Christian Americans
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has paid millions of dollars for a covert, digital surveillance operation targeting Christians across multiple U.S. states, writes Alan MacCleod.
Democracy vs. Religion in India
In a parallel with the 1954 Little Rock school segregation case, if India’s Supreme Court rules that a religious tradition takes precedence over individual rights it will deepen already unprecedented repression under the Hindu nationalist ruling party, writes Betwa Sharma.
Chris Hedges: Trump the God
Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders. Cult leaders are immune from rational and fact-based critique. That’s why all the chatter about fissures in the MAGA universe misreads Trump cultists.
DAY 52: Trump Extends Ceasefire as World Remains on Edge
Hours before he said bombing would resume, Donald Trump accepted a Pakistani request to indefinitely extend the ceasefire while the U.S. waits for a unified Iranian response, writes Joe Lauria.
Chris Hedges: Trump Has No Soul
When the soulless wage war it is part of a perverted drive to build a monument to themselves. The more they fail, the more they descend into a tyrannical rage.
Hedges Report: Why the US Is Losing Its War With Iran
John Mearsheimer details how the American Empire stumbled into one of its largest strategic blunders, and what it might entail for the rest of the world.
US Commanders Invoke Biblical End Times in Iran
One noncommissioned officer told the Military Religious Freedom Foundation that he was directed to tell his troops that Trump was “anointed by Jesus” and that war with Iran was “all part of God’s divine plan” to bring about Armageddon.