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Mechanical Mikey and the Theater of War

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If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gurgling from the froth-corrupted lungs […] My friend, you...

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Out of Time

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“If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream...

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REVIEW: Martyrs to the Unspeakable – A Luminous Tapestry of Truth

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To weave a magnificent tapestry like the one James W. Douglass has created with Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations...

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The Masks Have Come Off

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If you believe what is written on those hats worn in the Israeli Knesset – “Trump the Peace President”...

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A New and Darker McCarthy Era Descends with the Night

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“In a dark time, the eye begins to see…What’s madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance?…A steady...

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Spreading My Ashes in the Twisting River

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“You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for” Billy...

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Language, Mind Control, and 9/11

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“An example that shows the radical devaluation of thought is the transformation of words in propaganda; there, language, the...

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Trump’s Contronymal “Peace” with Russia

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“They didn’t act like people and they didn’t act like actors. It’s hard to explain.”  J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in...

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The Silent Singing Bird of Flamboyant Plumage

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Whenever I get the infrequent opportunity to walk the wild deserted Cape Cod outer Atlantic beach in the early...

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Trump Said It: “There’s No Better Word Than Stupid.”

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For anyone who still thinks Donald Trump does not represent the interests of what is called “the deep state”...

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Real Holes in Neverland

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Even though it isn’t a nut, reality is especially hard to crack these days. But if you closely observe...

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Do Trump, Netanyahu, and Their Ilk Believe They Are Virtuous?

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That the United States of America is controlled by a criminally perverse, two party ruling class should be obvious...

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When Fate Knocks at the Door, Take It By the Throat

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It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. All night the storm...

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Fathers and Sons

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“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.” Friedrich Nietzsche Early June. Dawn brings mist covered mountains...

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Memorial Day: It’s Not About the Dead Soldiers but About Glorifying War

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Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is,...

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Let Me Now Praise James Agee

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On the Romantic poet John Keats’ tombstone in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome are these words, which he chose:...

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Gatsby Meets Nietzsche on the Train to Town

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“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past....

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At the Lost & Found

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My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me...

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Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine?

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We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming...

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A Tuneful Irish Tale

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“Accomplished fingers begin to play. Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.” WB...

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