Like David Harris, I refused to go to the war but the war came to me. When I became a conscientious objector from the Marines, I avoided killing Vietnamese but their killing by my countrymen has haunted me to this day. Unlike David, who was far more courageous than I, I didn’t go to prison, although I was prepared to do so. But I learned then, and have never forgotten, that my country is controlled by blood-thirsty vultures.
My title comes from a 19th century author whose name does not matter nor would it mean much if I…
PHOTO: GLEN BOWMAN “No one knows who will live in this [iron] cage in the future….” – Max Weber, The…
I am republishing this essay from five years ago since on this date fifty-two years ago – Feb. 3, 1971…
We are being subjected to a vast tapestry of lies told by the corporate media for their bosses, as the U.S. continues its doomed efforts to control the world. It is not Russia that is desperate now, but propagandists such as the writers of this strident and stupid editorial. It is not the Russian people who need to wake up, as they claim, but the American people and those who still cling to the myth that The New York Times Corporation is an organ of truth. It is the Ministry of Truth with its newspeak, double-speak, and its efforts to change the past.
“What they [regular people] need, and what they feel they need, is a quality of mind that will help them…
“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 joking?
From the 56 minute 30 December 2022 conversation (click to listen) I had with Kevin Barrett on his radio program:…
Like many people, when the New Year rolls around, I think of turning over a new leaf. The problem with…
On December 15, the night that the Biden administration released some of the remaining JFK files while withholding others with another half-assed excuse, Tucker Carlson, the most-watched cable news television host, delivered a monologue about the JFK assassination. It garnered a great deal of attention.
Although I don’t watch Carlson’s television show, I received messages from many friends and colleagues, people I highly respect, about his monologue’s great significance, so I watched that episode. And then I watched it many more times.