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  Caught Between the Devil and the Deep (Blue or Red) Sea

  By Nagui on December 23, 2021

  An ode to the US Electoral System, to sing every 4 years when the Circus is in Town ca. 2020. Caught Between the Devil and...

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  How the Rich are Eating the World: Richest 62 people as Wealthy as the Bottom Half!

  By Nagui on November 23, 2021

  Higher wages, crackdown on tax dodging and higher investment in public services can stop the widening divide. An uncontested Oxfam 2016 Davos report, which the...

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  Katie Halper interviews musician Roger Waters and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger.

  By Nagui on October 23, 2021

  Get ready for Katie Halper’s epic interview with legends and true heroes of the world. Musician Roger Waters and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger talk...

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  Water erosion hypothesis predates the Sphinx creation by millenniums.

  By Nagui on September 23, 2021

  In the ground-breaking documentary film “Mystery of the Sphinx” narrated by Charlton Heston, the late John Anthony West, with the help of geologist Robert Schock...

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  Crashing the Party: The End of the US Two-Party Duopoly!

  By Nagui on June 23, 2021

  Could this be the shape of the future USA political system (my prediction.) What’s the point of getting excited about the U.S. two-party duopoly when...

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  Smile You’re on Candid Camera, Web, Phone, Social…

  By Nagui on May 23, 2021

  In a TED Talk: “Why privacy matters”, Glenn Greenwald compares Jeremy Bentham’s 18th-century architectural design originally intended to be implemented in prisons that he called...

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  Lobbying: Corruption in the USA Under Another Name.

  By Nagui on April 23, 2021

  “Lobbying is not only much more prevalent in developing countries than previously thought but also much more effective than corruption as a means of influencing...

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  Hagar in the Wilderness; an Iconography with a Renewed Meaning.

  By Nagui on January 23, 2021

  One of my favorite paintings is by the neo-classical painter Camille Corot and is named ‘Hagar in the Wilderness’. Painted in 1835 the painting illustrates...

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  Zen and Now

  By Nagui on December 23, 2020

  It is difficult to not sit in constant judgement of yourself for failing to have maintained control over your life and surroundings in the past,...

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  Let’s Remember to not have to Remember ever again!

  By Nagui on November 23, 2020

  On every November 11th at 11:00 o’clock we’re asked to take a moment and remember the Great War. Since most historians believe World War II...

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  The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State.

  By Nagui on October 23, 2020

  Capitalism and Equality As an economic system based on private enterprise and markets, capitalism has been widely interpreted both as creative and productive for the...

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  Why Do We Have Wars?

  By Nagui on September 23, 2020

  An imaginary letter from a ‘child martyr’ of the Syrian civil war. “Look around me, everything is destroyed. My world is gone forever. My girlfriend...

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  We’re All Falling; Let’s Count the Ways

  By Nagui on August 23, 2020

  We are falling, humanity is falling, in so many ways, let’s count the ways. We live in a world that values maximizing personal gains at...

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  The Perfect Metaphor for the Two-Party Oligarchy of the 1%

  By Nagui on July 23, 2020

  Titanic Lessons and Life-Saving Solutions for a Sinking World Many causes aggravated the situation resulting in the dooming of the “Unsinkable” Titanic. Contrary to popular...

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  You’re Far More Powerful than You are Told!®

  By Nagui on June 23, 2020

  A crisis of spiritual intelligence Early in its history, religion exercised a stabilizing influence on society by helping people spiritually. It challenged us to be...

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  Braving the Stormy Seas of 2020 and Beyond…

  By Nagui on May 23, 2020

  A Society based on rickety principles is headed for the bottom Our personal and collective troubles were already weighing too heavily on us when the...

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  Too much junk food in your political diet? Welcome to the Egalitarian buffet!

  By Nagui on April 23, 2020

  The information you are about to consume is not meant to add caloric woes to your daily diet of political dia-tripes from rotten candied-dates and...

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  Bearing the Blame for Illeagle Wars!

  By Nagui on March 23, 2020

  In Yemen, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, every day brings more news of bombing, death and destruction; every week will expose more broken truces and backroom deals...

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  50 Outstanding Online Media Outlets!

  By Nagui on February 23, 2020

  Something to be thankful for! As the end of the winter is nearing, take a quick look at my “springtime” list of 50 outstanding Internet...

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  Modern Dissent: A New Era of Effective & Peaceful Action for Real Change!

  By Nagui on January 23, 2020

  Triggered by polarizing crises, protesters are back in the streets all over the world. This will become the new normal given the dismal shape the...

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  The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic

  By Nagui on December 23, 2019

  I really like to read books that reinforce the fact that of all the new ways to examine the lost meaning behind the gospels, the...

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  The New Gilded Age: Tax and Economic Reform is the Only Way forward!

  By Nagui on November 23, 2019

  Higher wages, crackdown on tax dodging and higher investment in public services can stop the widening divide. Oxfam is calling for urgent action and is...

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  The Buonarroti Code: A real life mystery far more thrilling that fiction!

  By Nagui on October 23, 2019

  More than five centuries ago, one of the Renaissance’s greatest artists Michelangelo Buonarroti “el divino” was the darling of the Catholic Church. The Papacy commissioned...

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  The Bible and Literature: The Shape of the Bible

  By Nagui on September 23, 2019

  Renowned literary theorist, Northrop Frye, examines the pattern of U-shaped narratives in the bible that deal with loss, return, and deliverance. Between 1980 and 1982...

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  That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.

  By Nagui on August 23, 2019

  The Pale Blue Dot video superimposes Mr. Sagan voice and narration over time lapse footage of Voyager 1 as it traveled out of our solar...

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  Promoting Fair Discussions on Our Most Pressing Issues!

  By Nagui on July 23, 2019

  I would like to personally welcome you to It Starts Today! Should we just sit back while our society is brought to its knees by...

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