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Big But Quiet News Buried
Behind the News of White House Rubble By Matthew Fox 10/27/2025 |
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inadvertently dropped during the copying from blog to email format. It is bolded below. We regret the error. -- The DM Team Last week we were thunderstruck to watch the entire East Wing of the White House reduced to rubble, with no permissions asked and no warnings given. In fact, the US president had promised the nation that the existing structure would not be touched—“it won’t interfere” and will “be near but not touching it,”
he proclaimed. His big, beautiful ballroom project would pay “total respect to the existing building which I’m the biggest fan of.” So much for presidential promises. Or memory. Or both. |
An archeologist who spent years documenting the recovery of ancient artifacts looted and destroyed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, contrasted Trump’s “authoritarian” destruction of the White House to the cultural vandalism ISIS committed “to destroy the past to paint one side of a story.”* |
Since Eleanor Roosevelt’s time, the East Wing has housed the office of the First Lady. Here, former First Lady Jill Biden is interviewed in that office by Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski, January 10, 2024. Photo by Erin Scott. Wikimedia Commons. |
Equally disturbing was the cost of the project, which jumped overnight from $200 to $300 million. The promise that many of the president’s corporate buddies would pay for it, is not a clear plus—what is the cost to American democracy? What quid pro quo from these billionaire benefactors lurks behind the scenes? Will we ever know? Meanwhile, an unprecedented shutdown of Congress continues unabated—even while the government itself is shut down and not paying its bills. Every other time there has been a government shutdown, Congress convened to try to work through it. Not this time. A White House and congress literally in shambles. Thom Hartmann calls the congressional shutdown “the coup that finally worked,” and argues speaker Mike Johnson “succeeded where the insurrection failed.”** The coup of January 6 didn’t reach its objective, but now we have a Congress that, by erasing health care and food stamps, can kill millions of Americans. To
its credit, the Democratic party is standing tall in resisting this murderous consequence of the so-called “big, beautiful budget bill.” Meanwhile, something profound and historical occurred this week when King Charles III, head of the Anglican church, visited the Vatican to pray with Pope Leo XIV, marking a
religious reconciliation after 500 years of separation. |
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| This event signals a positive sign of our times—the coming together
of world religions. It is time that religions, under the joint stresses of global warming and potential nuclear war, get their basic acts together around shared fundamentals of belief: Peace, Justice, Compassion, and |
Forgiveness such as Jesus taught, and other spiritual traditions teach. While respecting their historical, cultural and spiritual diversity. A new book, Interspirituality: The Heritage is being published today that commemorates this same movement of Deep Ecumenism or Interfaith, edited by Kurt Johnson. I was
privileged to write a Foreword for it and |
to share the cover with an endorsement from the Dalai Lama. The future of humanity—if humanity has a future—is to practice more simply and surely the teachings of its inspired spiritual and religious founders. To call forth from deep within humans our better angels—our capacity for passion
and compassion, fairness and justice, and celebration of life—biophilia therefore, that trumps necrophilia in all its expressions including war, hatred, cruelty and selling democracy to the highest bidders. |
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Yesterday, I saw a film I highly recommend called Truth and Treason. It was very well done and based on a true story of resistance to Hitler in the Nazi times by three teenagers, in particular Helmuth Hubener, who at 16 years of age used his considerable writing skills and intelligence—and conscience—to spread word about truth in opposition to Hitler’s lies that had taken over a
nation. |
The court scene from “Truth & Treason.” Video by Angel
Clips. | He, unlike other church members and his bishop pastor, had the courage and wit to do something
to resist the onslaught of sadism and hatred that fed the Hitlerian machine, and that so many older adults supported. He paid a price not unlike that of Jesus, who taught him to stand up for truth. |
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timely and urgent story for today, where courage is so rare in Congress and elsewhere. And holding up the young for their leadership in acting on their outrage at injustice and sense of right and wrong, that seems so lacking in their compliant elders. |
Queries for Contemplation Do you agree it is time for deep ecumenism? And conscience? And courage and
resistance? |
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