Devondb
Devon DB is 28 years old and has a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University. In addition to the blog What About Peace, he is the Politics and Government Chair at The Hampton Institute and heads the Institute's podcast A Different Lens.
He was a staff member at The Progressive Playbook, been published and cross-posted on sites such as Global Research, Foreign Policy Journal, 4th Media and Global Policy Forum, has been on the radio show Speaking Truth To Empire, hosted by Dan Yassen on KFCF 88.1, and been published in a special issue of a the academic journal QED: A Journal in GLBTQ World Making.
His writings concern political happenings in the US and around the world, with analysis that aims for a critical, in-depth examination of events with the purpose of looking past headlines and going into detail to give a greater context and analysis of what is going on in the world.
For comments, questions, and inquiries, Devon DB can be contacted at [email protected].
MY BLOGS
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What About Peace?
http://whataboutpeace.blogspot.com/
The writings concern political happenings in the US and around the world, with analysis that aims for a critical, in-depth examination of events with the purpose of looking past headlines and going into detail to give a greater context and analysis of what is going on in the world.
For comments, questions, and inquiries, Devon DB can be contacted at [email protected].
LATEST ARTICLES ( 173 )
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The Citizen's Dilemma
Image Courtesy of Caffienatedthoughts.comWhile the 2014 Senate elections are several months away and the 2016 Presidential elections are even farther off into... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
On Bearing Witness
Image Courtesy of Hurt 2 Healing MagazineSeeing the bombings, killings, and general injustices committed in the US and around the world are extremely... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Seeing Racism in a Colorblind Society
Image Courtesy of Psychology TodayAll over the place people have been saying time and again that they want a ‘color-blind’ society, to not have to deal with... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Political Language of Torture
Image Courtesy of The Liberty HubTorture is known as the use of physical force to extract information. It is consistently thought of in that manner, physical,... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Politics of the 21st Century
Image Courtesy of Global ResearchThe New Politics of the 21st Century: Global Resistance and Rising AnarchismA number of occurrences have taken place of the pas... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Weapons, Money, and Diplomacy
Image Courtesy of Washington NoteWeapons, Money, and Diplomacy: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian ConflictThe following is the transcript of a recent... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Getting Personal
: Looking Beyond Macro OppressionSexism, racism, homophobia, and transphobia are all something that most of us have learned about or are currently in the proces... Read more
Posted on 13 November 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Question of Civilization
Originally posted at the Hampton Institute Civilized. It is a word that has come to mean cultural norms, the manner in which governments rule, and how people ac... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Debt Slavery
: The Forgotten History of Sharecropping Originally posted at the Hampton Institute Image Courtesy of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign After the clos... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Cruel Irony of Austerity
Given the current government shutdown, impending battle over the debt ceiling, and the horrible effects of sequestration, I thought that it would be relevant... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Did The Rebels Use Chemical Weapons: The UN Report and the Evidence
Image Courtesy of The Age The long-awaited UN report on the usage of chemical weapons in Syria has been released. While the White House[1] and the New York... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Interventionists: Embracing the Logic of Empire
Image Courtesy of Black Agenda Report The call for intervention in Syria has gone to a massive battle cry in just a couple of days following the chemical weapon... Read more
Posted on 05 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Danger of Forgetting Chelsea Manning
Image Courtesy of the Washington Post I am worried that we will forget Chelsea Manning. Currently the verdict has been rendered and the spotlight is on her but... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Breaking Through The Barrier
Image Courtesy of Church In Toronto This is a follow up to The Other Matrix Breaking Through The Barrier: Creating Alliances In The Alternative Media The... Read more
Posted on 21 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Beyond Drones
Image Courtesy of North Jersey Beyond Drones: Combating the System of Militarism and Imperialism “When machines and computers, profit motives and property right... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Revolutionary Love
Image Courtesy of Queer Women Of Color This can be considered a follow-up to Revolutionary Freedom. When we think of love, we often think of the dictionary... Read more
Posted on 11 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Breakdown of The Rule of Law
Image Courtesy of Sodahead The Breakdown of The Rule of Law: America's Descent Into Authoritarianism From early in one’s life, an American is taught the law... Read more
Posted on 03 July 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
DOMA, the VRA, and the Supreme Court
Image Courtesy of Salon Recently, the Supreme Court has passed down a number of extremely important rulings, two of which are quite close to me. Read more
Posted on 28 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Dangers of DNA Databasing
Image Courtesy of Scientific American Earlier this month, the Supreme Court passed down a ruling stating that it is legal to take DNA swabs from arrestees... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The War Comes To Syria
Image Courtesy of The Guardian It has recently been announced that the Obama administration has decided to go ahead and arm the Syrian rebels on the grounds tha... Read more
Posted on 16 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY