“Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies is a dazzling journey into the heart of many issues — political, philosophical,…
Israel’s war crimes are U.S. war crimes. If the U.S. wanted to stop Israel’s genocide and expansion of war throughout the region, it could do so immediately, for Israel is totally reliant on U.S. support for its existence – as they like to say, “It’s existential.”
It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that seem…
By Sophie Michel I realized recently That If you look up at a pine tree From a certain angle With…
I wrote this essay about Kris Kristofferson on September 21, a week before he died on September 28. In the intervening week, I was surprised to receive a message from one of his children who had read my tribute and was showing it to Kris whom I was told would appreciate it. I am very sad this morning, but also glad that I wrote it when I did and that Kris may have found comfort in knowing that someone was listening and knows “he beat the devil” as he “fed the hunger in his soul.
As another October approaches, the beautiful season of colors begins here in New England. Call it October’s Surprise Party. The…
Rolling out of my crib before dawn today (I was in it long before the charlatans Harris and Trump began…
In a country with a Mount Rushmore that celebrates the ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it might be a bit…
Thoreau made it very clear that one should not lend oneself to the wrongs which one condemns, such as the Israeli genocide of Palestinians or the US/NATO war against Russia through Ukraine that is leading toward nuclear war. By voting for the so-called “lesser of two evils,” one is voting for evil and lending oneself to the wrongs one condemns. It is blatant hypocrisy and a vote for the warfare state.
“With a click, with a shock Phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock, open the latch Something’s coming, don’t know when but it’s…
This article is from my last book, Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies.(Nov., 2020). Although it was written in…