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“Choice”
Share your thoughts on the “choice” facing the nation in our General Election thread. JR Leach is a cartoonist,...
Fire in the Soul: Nick Lyons
Edward Curtin
With lilacs in the dooryard blooming a week ago, I was struck by a sense of synchronicity so strong...
REVIEW: The JFK Assassination Chokeholds
Edward Curtin
During my many years of teaching at different universities, nearly all my colleagues insisted that Lee Harvey Oswald alone...
WATCH: A Plague of Saints – Lessons from Alan watts
JR Leach’s latest video, based on his article from earlier this year. “In contemplating the propaganda of the past,...
Beijing McCafé
R Weiler
The people’s expectations have evolved in general from satisfying basic needs to improving the quality of life, and their...
“The World As It Was”: A Masterly Documentary Film
Edward Curtin
Here’s a film about the 1950s – “The World As It Was” – that will tell you a great...
Sick, and Sick of It All
Edward Curtin Sometimes it takes our bodies to return us to our souls. And our little pains to remind...
OffG Recommends…Wag the Dog
Kit Knightly “Why does a dog wag its tail? Because a dog is smarter than its tail. If the...
The Unexpected
Edward Curtin Despite calendars and clocks and all the mental gymnastics we use to control life and time, surprises...
An Immense Hunger
Edward Curtin “Standing there I wondered how much of what we had felt on the bridge was just hunger....
Four Died Trying: A Powerful, Riveting, and Masterful Documentary Series Begins
Edward Curtin It is hard for those who have not lived through the shattering political assassinations of the 1960s...
Daydreaming While Reading Jonathan Crary’s 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Edward Curtin “Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s...
‘The Great Reset: Biopolitics for Stakeholder Capitalism’ Book Launch
When the restrictions under which we lived for two years were largely revoked in March 2022, the Great Reset...
Have We Lost the Ability to Fall in Love?
Todd Hayen I really need everyone’s input on this one because it does scare me if it is true....
The Greatest Threat to World Peace? A Review of Daniele Ganser’s ‘USA: The Ruthless Empire’
Marilyn Langlois, via the International Center for 9/11 Justice If you regard the United States as perhaps flawed but...
Gods of Their Own Religion – REVIEW
Joanna Sharp How do free spirits endure a tyrannical technocratic order? Do they succumb to endless rules, or do...
Authoritarians Drunk on Power: It’s Time to Recalibrate the Government
John Whitehead “There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And...
“Peace,War, and 9/11”: A Cinematic Portrait of Graeme MacQueen, A Warrior for Peace
Edward Curtin It is one thing to read a review of this important and compelling film – a tour...
Waiting for an Apocalypse
Edward Curtin “Method, Method, what do you want from me? You know that I have eaten of the fruit of...
Chance Encounters as the Walls Close In
Edward Curtin “A treasure stumbled upon, suddenly; not gradually accumulated, by adding one to one. The accumulation of learning,...
