Some asleep, some awake, all Dreaming in the blue-green breeze. The dancing leaves the music Floating through the twisted Branches…
What follows is a revised and updated version of an essay from my 2020 book, Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies.
Even though it isn’t a nut, reality is especially hard to crack these days. But if you closely observe daily…
“To me, they [Palestinians] are like animals, they aren’t human.” Eli Ben-Dahan, Israeli Politician, 2013 – They’re stripping all the…
That the United States of America is controlled by a criminally perverse, two party ruling class should be obvious to…
It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. All night the storm raged…
As a result of recent conversations, my life-long closest friend Diego wrote the following. If you’re lucky as we are, you have such a friend whose interests and thoughts match yours so closely that it seems that you were separated at birth in a dream. We both felt from the days of our youth when chance brought us together that, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, it was not he, she, them, or it that we belonged to, or that we would ever gargle in the rat race choir for those who make the rules to terrorize humanity.
“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s…
Men who burn children alive are not rejected outright, but are found to have redeeming qualities by their political supporters. Something so inconceivably terrible is happening in full view, but what it signifies about Biden and Trump, the Democrats and the Republicans, is let slide, as if genocide were just a minor foible.
James Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) On the Romantic poet John Keats’ tombstone in the…