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Death, But Not As We Knew It

Sinéad Murphy

On Saturday 21st September, my neighbour collapsed and died while walking the hills of Northumberland. The coroner’s report confirmed...

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Salty Tires

Sylvia Shawcross

The person next door to me built a monster-like home. It towers over me like a deep purple, well…...

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The Danger Is Real: The Deep State’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working

John & Nisha Whitehead

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out … without...

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Straight Pride

Todd Hayen

As it is, I am not allowed to be proud of my heterosexuality. In truth, it is not something...

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Brace Yourselves: A Tsunami Approaches

John & Nisha Whitehead

“What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to...

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The Evolution of Convenience

Todd Hayen

Are humans headed for extinction? When we stop evolving both physically and psychologically, where will we be? It is...

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A flare for the traumatic

Sylvia Shawcross

It was too cold. That’s all I’m saying. It has been a long and rather temperate summer and these...

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Disinformation Isn’t the Problem. Government Coverups and Censorship Are the Problem

John & Nisha Whitehead

“What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed;...

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Social Pathology

Todd Hayen

We, as a society, are rotting away, and most people don’t even know it, and if they do, they...

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Only Whales should be in Pods

Sylvia Shawcross

And so, I had my cup of coffee and the cat was fed and the morning looked grimly cloudy...

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There Be Dragons

Todd Hayen

I’ve lived most of my long life asleep. I was 8 years old when JFK was assassinated. It wasn’t...

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“Overthrowing the Constitution”: All Sides Are Waging War on Our Freedoms

John & Nisha Whitehead

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but...

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It’s All About the Story

Todd Hayen

I am beginning to realize it is a dangerous assumption to think that people actually want to know the...

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The New Normal Right

CJ Hopkins

OK, this will be one of my non-satirical essays … or mostly non-satirical essays. It will serve as a...

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Remember when Matt Taibbi Called 9/11 Truthers “Hopelessly Stupid”?

VN Alexander

I came out as a truther in 2015 with my 9/11 novel, Locus Amoenus. It wasn’t an easy decision. I...

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Children of Big Brother: What It Means to Go Back-to-School in the American Police State

John & Nisha Whitehead

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in...

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Why It Matters

Todd Hayen

I have always considered myself a rather apolitical person, even to the point where I didn’t bother myself with...

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Self Reliance

Todd Hayen

I was first introduced to the brilliance of Ralph Waldo Emerson when studying the principles of Science of Mind over...

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The Joy of Defiance

Todd Hayen

Born free, as free as the wind blows. As free as the grass grows. Born free to follow your...

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Of Cabbages and Things

Sylvia Shawcross

Now, I was looking at the cabbage. It was $7.29. It is true. The cabbage, a tiny little thing...

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