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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,...
The Tyranny of Cause and Effect Scientism
Todd Hayen The rape of the natural world is the phallic-like invasion of scientism. With its intent to rip...
REVIEW: America on the Brink
Elizabeth Woodworth Author of more than 50 books, Dr. David Ray Griffin has been compared to Mahatma Gandhi and...
Rehearsed Lives and Planned History
Edward Curtin “The technical achievement of advanced industrial society, and the effective manipulation of mental and material productivity have...
Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod
Edward Curtin We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is...
REVIEW: The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
VN alexander In Martin Amis’ The Zone of Interest (2014), set in a Nazi death camp, the Commander, Paul Doll, has...
Notes to Poetry: Or, defending freedom for the future
Simon Elmer Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling...
