Before You Embrace The Apocalypse
We are constantly reminded about the dishonesty of the Russian government with regard to the fallout from Chernobyl. But there is relatively little coverage of how …
Author: Richard Martin Oxman
Richard Martin Oxman has been an educator and activist for over half-a-century. Sadly the Oxman is no longer on this physical plane of existence, but his words live on.
The Challenge of Securing Authentic News
Why It’s Good Practice to Question all Narratives Pushed Down From Mainstream News and Corporate PR
You Must Change Your Life: On Obsolete Activism
The candle burns low for this business as usual broken system, and activism isn’t doing enough to reach escape velocity into something new.
Very Pathetic Bernie
Bernie isn’t a “radical” by any standards. But he’s not going to do much good either, if elected. As is the case with his present Democratic opposition.
Peace by Hook or Crook
“Each chapter I read made me more and more angry.” – Dr. Helen Caldicott, international leader of anti-nuclear and environmental movements, making reference to a …
Radical Rule for Activist Writing
by Richard Martin Oxman “It should be instructive to think about why so many writers on alternative sites go on and on.” — Rachel Olivia …
TOSCA in Tucson
“We are documenting, discussing, debating, demonstrating, diverting and delaying ourselves to death in lieu of doing something new in solidarity that stands to make a big enough difference in time.”
Standing by Truth Together
by Richard Martin Oxman “I loved that book you had us read.” — One of the author’s home schooled youngsters, commenting on James W. Loewen’s Lies My …
Argument for a New Paradigm in Socially-Conscious Activity: The Chess Analogies
by Richard Martin Oxman “He’s only a pawn in their game.” — Bob Dylan One of the great myths surrounding the game of chess is …
Putin Putenesca: Our New Man Need
by Richard Martin Oxman Spaghetti alla puttanesca (pronounced [spaˈɡetti alla puttaˈneska]; literally “spaghetti in the style of a prostitute” in Italian) is an Italian pasta dish invented …
Gandhi’s Change Rectified
by Richard Martin Oxman “Act as if it makes a difference. It does.” — William James Everyone knows the mantra respecting the importance of being …
Hopi Hope
by The Ox “We must call a shovel a shovel, especially when it’s being used to bury us with.” — 2006 comment by a home …
The Downer We’re On
by Richard Martin Oxman “A political system devoted to decline instinctively does much to speed up that process.” — Jean-Paul Sartre One does not have …
Where She Flies With Her Own Wings
by Richard Martin Oxman Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are – — from …
Undermining Weapons of Math Destruction
by Richard Martin Oxman and Crown Publishing colleagues We live in the age of algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives — where we …
You Go Congo, No
by Richard Martin Oxman “Habit is the great deadener.” — Samuel Beckett An intrepid investigative journalist recently produced six minutes and seventeen seconds of footage that …
Americans Must Crow Anew
by Richard Martin Oxman “But I just had no intention of living this way” — from the Counting Crows’ Raining in Baltimore The actions being taken …