Fascism is advancing if not yet marching in the uniforms Mitt Romney once wore

There have always been warningsLipset Mills Goodman NisbetBut it is sufficient to note that when democracy itself is under attackFascism is advancing if not yet marching in the uniformsMitt Romney once wore and may still be wont to donYes when we see that democracy and tolerancehelpfulness and non-idolatryare the real values which underlie lifewe need merely look for their opposites to ,parse what we are up againstFOX Koch Rove GOP Congress RomneyWithin this complex we findIntolerance at all levelsThe open and defiant suppression of democracyAnd the rejection of helpfulness as weaknessWe find underlying this innumerable idolatrieswhich become obvious if we speak of the veneration ofmoney and power and corporatismand government in the hands of corporatismThe seminal warning is in the texts that somehow survive in our BibleMingled with the authoritarian utterance of those whoturned a way of peace and reconciliation into a creed whose sign was and remains war and deathBy their fruits you shall know them

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"Sto Perigiali" One of the Surpassingly Best Tunes Theodorakis Has Written

A Setting for a Poem "Denial" Beloved by the Greek People by the Nobel Prize Winning Poet Giorgos Seferis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhk0ckaCxDI
The remarkable video at the link above is of a performance of "Sto perigiali" Mario Frangoulis and Mikis Theodorakis in 2001.

Frangoulis and Theodorakis are joined by musicians, including two bouzouki players, and a very large audience that is completely familiar with the words. The audience joins in at Frangoulis' prompt.

This is my very favorite Theodorakis melody. Those who know Theodorakis only for his "Zorba" music are in for a treat. When I was in Athens in 1966, for a short period of study with Constantinos Doxiadis, I knew nothing of Theodorakis. But about five years later, my friend Irene Vassos sang "Sto perigiali" to us. I have never gotten the tune out of my mind.

Later, when Irene joined our group to form a travelling company performing "New Rain", I learned to pick out a …

Stephen C. Rose Bio

Stephen C. Rose (1936-) was born in New York City and raised there. He currently lives there. He was educated at Trinity, Exeter, Williams and Union Theological Seminary. He served in the Student Interracial Ministry in Nashville. He founded and edited the prize-winning Renewal Magazine in Chicago and studied with C. A. Doxiadis in Athens. His first books "The Grass Roots Church" and "Who's Killing The Church" established him as a prominent critic of American Protestantism and American religion. He was and remains a civil rights activist. He has interviewed and done in depth pieces on Saul Alinsky and Martin Luther King, Jr. He won awards for editorial courage and for two documentary films. He has written and published many songs and musical works including "We Are All Americans". During the late 90s and early 2000s he worked for UN agencies, most recently editing CHOICES Magazine at UNDP. Since 2000 he has written several books for distribution via K…

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