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Caged in Oligarchic Contradictions

Edward Curtin

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

Edward Curtin

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”

Edward Curtin

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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Alexei Navalny’s Death and Curious Well-Timed Coincidences

Edward Curtin There is propaganda by commission and propaganda by omission, the former often serve to conceal the latter....

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The Unexpected

Edward Curtin Despite calendars and clocks and all the mental gymnastics we use to control life and time, surprises...

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Biden in Rags

Edward Curtin “You used to be so amused At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used Go...

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Why the US National Security State Assassinated MLK

Edward Curtin “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous,” warned Rev. King, “than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”...

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An Immense Hunger

Edward Curtin “Standing there I wondered how much of what we had felt on the bridge was just hunger....

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Jesus, Gaza, and the Murder of Useless People

Edward Curtin Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem.  He grew up in Nazareth and was executed as...

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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...

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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...

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The Life and Public Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the CIA

Edward Curtin What is the truth, and where did it go? Ask Oswald and Ruby, they oughta know “Shut your mouth,” said the wise old...

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JFK 60 Years On – Inside OffG’s Archive

Kit Knightly Today marks 60 years since the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States,...

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