Edward Curtin a complete list of all posts in this category. You can also try the search option in the menu.

A Star Is Always Born

Edward Curtin It is no different now. The yearning still gnaws. The night dark, utterly silent, Sky stretched endlessly...

read more >>

Impeachment, the Left, and the Deep State (Keep going, Toto!)

Bill Martin Dear Off Guardian readers, Warm greetings, my name is Bill Martin. You can read a little about...

read more >>

Unspeakable Memories: The Day John Kennedy Died

Remembering in all its emotional detail the day John Kennedy died has been a long and cold journey for...

read more >>

The Metamorphosis of the Deep State

Edward Curtin It gets funny, this shallow analysis of the deep state that is currently big news. There’s something...

read more >>

Ms. Pumpkin Head for President: A Nightmare

Edward Curtin A few weeks ago I had a terrifying nightmare, so gruesome was it that I awoke screaming...

read more >>

The Deep State Goes Shallow 2.0

Edward Curtin

This article was first published on February 21, 2017, one month after Donald Trump was sworn in as president,...

read more >>

Why Does Chris Hedges Hedge His Bets?

Revelations about the machinations of the so-called “deep state’s” conspiracies often conceal deeper truths that go unmentioned. This is...

read more >>

Will NPR Now Officially Change Its Name to National Propaganda Radio?

Back in the 1960s, the CIA official Cord Meyer said the agency needed to “court the compatible left.” ...

read more >>

A Do Nothing Anti-Labor Day: A Modest Proposal

Edward Curtin In a country with a Mount Rushmore that celebrates the ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it might...

read more >>

Jeffrey Epstein and the Spectacle of Secrecy

Edward Curtin When phrases such as “the deep state” and “conspiracy theory” become staples of both the corporate mainstream...

read more >>

The Canaries That Sang “Things Suck”

Edward Curtin Don’t get me wrong. I am not foul-mouthed or in any way vulgar, having been trained in...

read more >>

When Warriors Become Saints

Edward Curtin As I sit on the small balcony on the top floor of an old house in the...

read more >>

Much Ado About Nothing: Asking Who Won the Political Debates

Edward Curtin

It amazes me that alternative journalists would spend even a minute writing about the ongoing Democratic Party debates. They...

read more >>

Happenings in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave

Edward Curtin There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear.” Buffalo Springfield The Sunday newspaper had been...

read more >>

Once Upon a Time Never Comes Again

The lobby of the temple of time travel called the Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts was suffused with...

read more >>

Speeding into the Void of Cyberspace as Designed

Speed and panic go hand-in-hand in today’s fabricated world of engineered emergencies and digital alerts. “We have no time”...

read more >>

Answering the Mysterious Call of An Artist’s Spiritual Vocation

Edward Curtin Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.” Kabir, To Be a Slave of Intensity Strange...

read more >>

Looking Through the Screen at the World’s Suffering

Most people on this earth live on the edge of an abyss. Life is a daily struggle to stay...

read more >>

Between Yes and No, Heaven and Earth with Albert Camus on a Spring Morning

Edward Curtin To give up beauty and the sensual happiness that comes with it and devote one’s self exclusively...

read more >>

A Marriage of Conscience: Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning

Edward Curtin “About suffering they were never wrong,” wrote W. H. Auden in the poem “Musée Des Beaux Arts.”...

read more >>