Welcome to Evergreene Digest This Week, June 23, 2018.

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Feature Article | The Democrats' "Blue Wave" ... of Accommodation and Collaboration, Revolution Newspaper / OpEdNews

(Image by RCP Publications)

• The Democratic Party is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Voting for the Democrats and their so-called "blue wave" is not voting to stop the great crimes the Trump/Pence regime is carrying out. It's a vote to continue these crimes, accommodate to fascism, and legitimize the whole putrid system that carries out monstrous crime after monstrous crime, and gives rise to fascists like Trump and Pence.
• The "blue wave" isn't the answer. It's a poisonous polluted wave of slime and sh*t that will only leave people drenched in disappointment, accommodation, and complicity.
• Related: Wrong-Way Democrats: Will a 'Blue Dog' Blue Wave Pave the Way for Future Disaster? 

Publisher's Choice | First They Came for the Migrants. Michelle Goldberg, New York (NY) Times

Men from Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras being detained by Border Patrol officers north of Penitas, Tex., last week. Credit Lynsey Addario for the New York Times

What is happening is the sort of moral enormity that once seemed unthinkable in contemporary America, the kind captured in the Martin Niemöller poem that’s repeated so often it’s become a cliché: “First they came …” There is no reason to believe that undocumented immigrants will be the last group of people deemed beyond the law’s protection.

Of Special Interest | How the Corporate Media Enslave Us to a World of Illusions by Jonathan Cook, Jonathan Cook,  Common Dreams / Rise Up Times

Palestinians protest inside the open-air prison that is Gaza during long day demonstration against the Israeli occupation on June8,2018 in near Nahal Oz, Israel. (Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images)

The Great Western Narrative is there to perpetuate power by legitimizing it, by making its unbalanced and unjust distribution seem natural and immutable.Our planet and our children’s futures depend on us liberating ourselves, seeing the ghosts in the machine for what they truly are.

Bloggers & Columnists | Chrish Hedges, Noam Chomsky

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Books, Literature, & Ideas

Special Report | The Coming Collapse of the US Empire, Compiled by David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

• Part 1: Noam Chomsky: The Decline of the U.S. Empire
• Noam Chomsky on the decline of the U.S. empire in an interview with teleSUR.
• Part 2: The Coming Collapse by Chris Hedges
• It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion.

Peace & Non-violence

Special Project | Veterans Need Your Help to Save the VA! Stop VA Privatization. Compiled by David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

• Part 1: Do not privatize VA medical care
• Veterans For Peace is fighting back to “Stop VA Privatization, Fix, 
Fund & Fully Staff the VA.” And you can too.
• Part 2: The Veterans for Peace "Save Our VA" Work Group Needs Your Help!
• There is a lot to do and a variety of ways to get involved!
• http://evergreenedigest.org/content/special-project-veterans-need-your-h...

Race & Ethnicity

Check Your Knowledge of White Supremacy: Take Our Short Quiz. Sharon Kyle, Justice Not Jails

• Check Your Knowledge of White Supremacy: Answers and Additional Resources
• Related: Special Report | How the White Problem Got Made

Religion & Spirituality


The end of the affair? 'Humanae Vitae' at 50, Michael G. Lawler, Todd A. Salzman, National Catholic Reporter (NCR)
Natural family planning paraphernalia, circa 1983 (NCR photo/Arthur Jones)
 

Document further fueled the post-World War II culture wars over the meaning of sexuality.
 

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