Edward Curtin The world has been haunted by human violence since time immemorial. There are untold millions (billions?) of people all over the world who have been scarred by...

Edward Curtin “The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.  One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Really?  Or was he...

Edward Curtin The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It’s just the way it is. I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself”...

Julien Charles “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a...

Edward Curtin This is a fascinating and beautiful book, one of those gems you serendipitously discover and shake your head at your good fortune.  Although it is new and...

Ed Curtin There was a time when time was time and space and speed had some human meaning, for people lived within the limits of the natural world of...

Edward Curtin After a night of haunting dreams that flowed as if they were written like running water, written on air, as the Roman poet Catullus once said, in...

Edward Curtin In lieu of writing reviews of their own books – with the exception of Walt Whitman, who did that with Leaves of Grass – writers often write introductions or...

Edward Curtin “Two categories of propaganda must be distinguished. The first strives to create a permanent disposition in its objects and constantly needs to be reinforced. Its goal is...

Edward Curtin Everyone wants the man who is still searching to have already reached his conclusions. A thousand voices are already telling him what he has found, and yet...

Edward Curtin To give up beauty and the sensual happiness that comes with it and devote one’s self exclusively to unhappiness requires a nobility I lack. However, after all,...

Edward Curtin The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.” Karl Kraus, Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you...

Most suicides die of natural causes, slowly and in silence. But we hear a lot about the small number of suicides, by comparison, who kill themselves quickly by their own...

By Edward Curtin Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved” Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and...

by Edward Curtin, from Global Research Few people at this hour – and I refer to the time before the breaking out of this most grim war, which is...