Edward Curtin We’ll know our disinformation is complete when everything the America public believe is false.” William Casey, CIA Director, February 1981 All propaganda succeeds because it satisfies needs...

Edward Curtin “A house constitutes a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of stability.” Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space There is a vast and growing gulf...

Edward Curtin Sixty years ago this summer, on August 7, 1961, President John Kennedy signed the bill creating The Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts. It consists of forty miles...

Edward Curtin It’s been raining incessantly for three days. It is a cool early morning in the beginning of July and I have just made a cup of coffee....

Edward Curtin Once upon a time in my youthful naiveté, I would mock those who said they believed in out-of-space aliens and flying saucers. In my hubris, I even...

Edward Curtin After fifteen months of assiduous reading, study, observation, and research, I have come to some conclusions about what is called COVID-19. I would like to emphasize that...

Edward Curtin It is difficult to talk to addicts about addictions and it is even harder to do so when their embrace of the drug of choice has dire...

Edward Curtin Etymology – from Greek, etymos, true, real, actual (the study of roots) Life is full of slips. Words slip out of our mouths to surprise us.  Thoughts...

Edward Curtin “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” William Casey, CIA Director, Feb. 1981 It is well known that the endless...

Today is a day to celebrate the prophetic voice and witness of Fr. Daniel Berrigan, the non-violent anti-war activist and poet, whose life and witness has touched so many...

Edward Curtin The road led up the hill between houses until it came to the lake where it ran between the lake and the woods and the thought of...

Edward Curtin In March of last year as the coronavirus panic was starting, I wrote a somewhat flippant article saying that the obsession with buying and hoarding toilet paper...

Edward Curtin It was early morning on St. Patrick’s Day and I was sitting in the kitchen eating a few slices of delicious Irish Soda Bread.  My wife had...

Edward Curtin You’ve heard of them, no doubt, the U.S. rulers who can’t rule too well and are always getting surprised by events or fed bad advice by their...

Edward Curtin In his new, six-part, seven hours plus documentary – “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World” – the celebrated English...

Edward Curtin It’s hard to say where things begin, but they do, as do we, and we are somehow in them and they in us, and a story begins....

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 “The CIA and the media are part of the same criminal conspiracy,” wrote Douglas Valentine in his important book, The CIA As Organized Crime. This is true. ...

Ray McGinnis Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies is a selection of essays. They reveal what stirs author Ed Curtin’s heart, his mind, and his path toward clarity....

Edward Curtin Before I digress slightly, let me state from the outset that the book by Greg Poulgrain that I am about to review is extraordinary by any measure....