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The Curse of Neoliberalism

                                                The Curse of Neoliberalism Our political economy has been sold to the highest bidder like slave … Continue reading

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The Veracity of Rumi and Hafez in English

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-erasure-of-islam-from-the-poetry-of-rumi Several different ideas and factors intersect to inform the subject of the veracity of Rumi’s and Hafez’s presentation in English. Coleman Bark’s adaptations of Rumi seek to create an authentic voice of bardic spirituality, even if that voice is … Continue reading

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Donald Trump’s Indian Astrological Inauguration Chart

This is the event chart for DT’s presidential inauguration:  January 20, 2017 at 12:00 pm at Washington D.C. The chart for DT’s inauguration is a chart that would apply to anyone inaugurated at this time and place. It happens to … Continue reading

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Quadruple Nullity

What is so shocking is the great number of intelligent people who have subscribed to the meme that the “Russians hacked the election”. This is a double and even a triple and quadruple nullity. The proof that this was a … Continue reading

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Hannibal Lecters

The Hannibal Lecters declined to savage the election of the neofascist Baby Trump. Who is to blame for this rabid indifference? Democracy’s snarling assassins are legion, and slink everywhere. Who placed Baby Trump on his gold potty to reign as … Continue reading

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Donald Trump- reign of the carny huckster

The virtual reality president elect is as sharp as P.T. Barnum, who observed that a sucker is born every moment. The cruel truth is that this not only describes America of the hoary past, but also of the recent past, … Continue reading

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Sufism Reoriented not a spiritual lineage, but a priestly lineage. (Not my circus, not my monkey.)

Ivy Duce was confirmed by Meher Baba in 1952 as the murshida of Sufism Reoriented, an order derived from Inayat Khan’s Sufi Movement in America. He told her that he would help her and her students spiritually on the basis … Continue reading

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The Problem Before Us

  This election cycle has thrown confused America into bold relief like never before. The cool face of Neoliberalism is being vigorously challenged, but most still don’t know what the problem is all about. Obama’s suave eight years will give … Continue reading

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Autobiographical notes…

I was born in Trieste, Italy. The hour I was born, according to my older brother Lewis, a US warship, the USS Renegade, shot off its cannons in my honor due to the fact that my father was the US … Continue reading

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The utter exhaustion of the metaphor “jihad”…

The Prophet defined jihad as preeminently the struggle against the “nafs”- the ego; it is only secondarily (but importantly) a reference to the struggle of  the early Muslim community to secure itself against militant opposition. Now, 1,400 years after the … Continue reading

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