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A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries

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“The old lie: Dulce et decorum est /Pro patria mori (It is a sweet and fitting thing to die...

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Everybody Knows: Do They?

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“Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain lied” Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” When the polls closed on...

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Patrick’s Endgame When Words Fall on Deaf Ears

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“I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything anymore, teach me others. Or let me...

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Soul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered

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It’s been a long time but worth remembering, if you can, that when the Twin Towers and Building 7...

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The Preposterous Nature of “Reality”

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It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that...

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The Free Soul of a Genius: Kris Kristofferson

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“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as...

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Another September 11th

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Rolling out of my crib before dawn today (I was in it long before the charlatans Harris and Trump...

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Mirages

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I am sitting on the beach at the National Seashore, a forty-mile long stretch of the Atlantic Ocean seashore...

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Something’s Coming, We Don’t Know What It Is But It Is Going To Be Bad

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“With a click, with a shock Phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock, open the latch Something’s coming, don’t know when but...

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The Ardent Pipe Dreams of American Voters

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To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything....

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Caged in Oligarchic Contradictions

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A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other.  Two examples are the word bolt, which...

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A Father’s Day Message to Rory McIlroy

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I’m easily old enough to be your father, and as I was watching and rooting for you when you...

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If The Wars Go On

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I suppose my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel Prize winning...

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Fire in the Soul: Nick Lyons

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With lilacs in the dooryard blooming a week ago, I was struck by a sense of synchronicity so strong...

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The Killer Instinct

We went to Rat Island to kill, but it was not rats we were after.  I was ten years...

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REVIEW: The JFK Assassination Chokeholds

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During my many years of teaching at different universities, nearly all my colleagues insisted that Lee Harvey Oswald alone...

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The Hidden Messages of the Power Elite’s Cultural Apparatus

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To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly.  It was a common form of execution in...

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The Immense Hunger

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Like all living creatures, people need to eat to live.  Some people, eaten from within by a demonic force,...

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The CIA Does “Soulful Work”

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Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a spate of books and articles extolling the word “soul” became...

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“The World As It Was”: A Masterly Documentary Film

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Here’s a film about the 1950s – “The World As It Was” – that will tell you a great...

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