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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...
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...
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.”...
The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s is the Story of Our Times
A Quasi-Review of A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy...
News and Propaganda by Omission: The Suppression of a Major Spy Study
While there is much talk these days about “fake news” and an enormous amount of claptrap following the collapse...
A Conspiracy Theorist Confesses to his Petty Crimes
I am not referring to the conspiracy theories of George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, Donald...
The Fascinating Spell Cast by Weasels
Edward Curtin Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of...
Counterpunch Shadowboxes and Loses
Edward Curtin In a fair boxing match, opponents enter the ring with similarly padded gloves and battle under the...
No More Bullshit: Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill
Edward Curtin Growing up Irish-Catholic in the Bronx in the 1960s, I was an avid reader of the powerful...
The CIA Then and Now: Old Wine in New Bottles
The Nazis had a name for their propaganda and mind-control operations: weltanschauungskrieg – “world view warfare.” As good...
We Need a Martin Luther King Day of Truth
As Martin Luther King’s birthday is celebrated with a national holiday, his death day disappears down the memory hole....
A Gentrified Little Town Goes to Pot
Edward Curtin In my little town/ I grew up believing/God keeps his eye on us all.” Simon and Garfunkel,...
What Are We Working For “At Eternity’s Gate”?
Ever since I was a young boy, I have wondered why people do the kinds of work they do....
A Spiritual Special Ops Team’s Christmas Gift
It was snowing hard in the days before Christmas in 1972 as I sat at my writing desk looking...
Sometimes A Pair of Pants Can Give You Vertigo
It is a dastardly habit no sane person should inflict on oneself. To rise from one’s night...
Phil Ochs and the Crucifixion of President John F. Kennedy
Edward Curtin They say they can’t believe it, it’s a sacrilegious shame Now, who would want to hurt such...
AUDIO: “It’s the Empire Stupid”, Episode 37 – Edward Curtin
In this episode of his podcast, Philip Farruggio talks regular OffG contributor Edward Curtin about the current relevance of...
Spooks and the Masked Media
There are innocent and guilty actors populating the American stage. Unlike the naïve children who joyously revel in the...
The Apocalypse Not Now
Edward Curtin It was balmy and breezy by the bench where I sat outside a public library east of...
Showtime in America: Idiots’ Delight – A Quasi Review
Edward Curtin The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.” Karl Kraus, Half-Truths &...
