by Jeff Stookey | Oct 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
History Conspiracy theories are not new. In the 1920s the KKK spread the doctrine that Catholics and the Pope were trying to take over the US government. This is one of the threads that weaves through my trilogy Medicine for the Blues. As proof that such conspiracy...
by Jeff Stookey | Sep 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
A recent article in The Nation magazine states that QAnon is “closer in spirit to terrorist organizations like the KKK, which had ties to political elites but also instigated extrajudicial violence.”...
by Jeff Stookey | Aug 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Racism, nationalism, and religious differences all contributed to prejudices of thought in Elizabethan England—very much like in the present-day USA. In the Beginning Queen Elizabeth’s grant of Letters of Patent to: “…our trusty and well-beloved servant Walter...
by Jeff Stookey | Jul 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
George Washington (left) – Thomas Jefferson (right) The Founding Fathers The recent protest movement against police brutality toward unarmed black people under the banner “Black Lives Matter” should force Americans to re-examine our history. Part of...
by Jeff Stookey | Mar 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
We live in a world that is being colonized by giant multinational corporations—from Giant Oil to Big Tech—and it is our duty to decolonize our minds and our actions. With the topic of colonization in my thoughts, I recently read The Wretched of the Earth,...
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