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US Interference with Venezuela Is the Pinnacle of Hypocrisy
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US Interference with Venezuela Is the Pinnacle of Hypocrisy

by Jason HollandFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 2019

America’s involvement with Venezuela is not based on humanitarian grounds, it’s about oil, always about the oil.

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You Must Change Your Life: On Obsolete Activism
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You Must Change Your Life: On Obsolete Activism

by Richard Martin OxmanFebruary 27, 2019May 17, 2021

The candle burns low for this business as usual broken system, and activism isn’t doing enough to reach escape velocity into something new.

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The Green Old Deal
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The Green Old Deal

by William HawesFebruary 25, 2019February 25, 2019

There are a lot of things to like about the Green New Deal. However, there are very serious problems with the language of the resolution.

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Very Pathetic Bernie
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Very Pathetic Bernie

by Richard Martin OxmanFebruary 20, 2019September 10, 2021

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.

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Houston Police Murder Family Using No Knock Warrant
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Houston Police Murder Family Using No Knock Warrant

by Jason HollandFebruary 20, 2019September 10, 2021

Reason Bowl Radio: Police use no knock warrant to terrorize and murder a Houston family. Policing and tyranny are synonymous, and the constitution is a near worthless document that does little to nothing to protect people from said tyranny.

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The Indispensable Radical Left
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The Indispensable Radical Left

by Jason HollandFebruary 18, 2019April 7, 2024

“White collar conservative flashin’ down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I’m gonna …

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Capitalism, Empire, and the Infernal Gloom Machine
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Capitalism, Empire, and the Infernal Gloom Machine

by Jason HollandNovember 28, 2018September 10, 2021

The depressing nature of living in the limitations of a capitalist empire.

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The Call Is Coming From Inside the House
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The Call Is Coming From Inside the House

by Jason HollandNovember 16, 2018September 10, 2021

The terror lies within, and it’s our own minds.

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Don’t Wait Too Long
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Don’t Wait Too Long

by Jason HollandOctober 28, 2018October 28, 2018

People wait their whole lives to live, all too often by the time they fully comprehend their time here is limited and of great value …

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The Least Important Election in History
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The Least Important Election in History

by Jason HollandOctober 24, 2018September 10, 2021

The US midterm elections are almost upon us, but this is a needless bit of inconsequential trivia. It really doesn’t matter, all the Republicans can …

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The Most American Holiday: Columbus Day
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The Most American Holiday: Columbus Day

by Jason HollandOctober 8, 2018September 10, 2021

Everything about Columbus day resonates with the zeitgeist of the American empire that exists at present. Columbus was about torture, rape, theft, slavery, and genocide …

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Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Cuomo? Inconceivable!
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Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Cuomo? Inconceivable!

by Jason HollandSeptember 19, 2018September 10, 2021

Why the two party system will never do anything but keep the status quo in place.

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She’s Not There
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She’s Not There

by Jason HollandSeptember 1, 2018September 10, 2021

“Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a …

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A Small Reminder to Everyone Trapped in Capitalism – The Money Ain’t Fuckin’ Real.
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A Small Reminder to Everyone Trapped in Capitalism – The Money Ain’t Fuckin’ Real.

by Jason HollandAugust 28, 2018September 10, 2021

It may sound ridiculously simple, but that’s exactly what it is, and that is to know all your money problems and worries around money can …

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A People’s Definition of Capitalism
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A People’s Definition of Capitalism

by Jason HollandAugust 24, 2018September 10, 2021

A brief definition of capitalism from an awakened working class perspective.

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The News Zone: The Finest News and Social Commentary, Like, Ever
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The News Zone: The Finest News and Social Commentary, Like, Ever

by Jason HollandAugust 21, 2018August 21, 2018

It’s time for another treat, it’s time to venture into that cosmic wonderland of boring horror known as the news. If capitalists are going to …

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Breaking the Illusion of Power: There Is No Spoon
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Breaking the Illusion of Power: There Is No Spoon

by Jason HollandAugust 20, 2018August 20, 2018

At the height of empire a boundless stream of lies are told through euphemistic abstractions. These abstractions are but illusion, they obscure perceptions by never directly dealing with the real physical reality, instead an interface is placed over the existing reality for purposes of control.

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Is Sharing Ethical?
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Is Sharing Ethical?

by Jason HollandJuly 30, 2018September 16, 2024

Hear me out. I realize the idea of sharing may seem like a vulgarity to the sophisticated American mind and could rile a few people …

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American Rage
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American Rage

by William HawesJune 13, 2018September 10, 2021

“The Bonaparte dynasty represents not the revolutionary, but the conservative peasant; not the peasant who strikes out beyond the condition of his social existence, the …

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The Tao of Anarchy
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The Tao of Anarchy

by Jason HollandMay 22, 2018September 10, 2021

The Tao Te Ching, arguably one of the most profound works in philosophy, arrives at some rather anarchist sounding ideas. There is wisdom in these …

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“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
― Lao Tzu


“They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machine and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.”

-George Carlin


Spanish proverb: honra y provecho no caben en un saco (Honour and money are not to be found in the same purse)


 

“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground


 

“A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t it is of no use.” – Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda


Hunter S Thompson on the 60s & Bay area from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:

“There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”


“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” – Marcel Proust

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