May 14th, Just Another Day in a Collapsing Empire
May 14th was quite a day for the empire, the shit show on full display exhibiting lots of swagger in its death throes. The people …
Category: Essay
The Decree of the Capitalist God
Bow before thy lord of bling.
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 …
Theater Review: McResistance and the Government Shutdown of 2018
The 2018 government shutdown is now over but I’m thankful Democrats like Chuck Schumer got the chance to make announcements that expose just what the …
Debating Prevaricators
“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.” – Not Mark Twain Prevaricator: a person who speaks so as …
Just Say Yes to Conscious Awareness
Since its inception the war on drugs has psycho-actively altered the global perception of drugs and even the definition of what drugs are. The mental fog …
Mark of the Beast $$$
Money and the power it imbues atrophies the living daemon in all who are subjected to capitalist games. It is a manipulator of perception, a …
No One Dies for Their Country
by Valleria Ruselli “The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.” — Wilfred Owen drawing upon Horace’s Odes Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills, Forster’s Passage to India, …
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.”
A Litmus Test for Academia
Co-written by Rachel Olivia O’Connor. Valleria Ruselli and Annapurna Tosca Sriramarcel “And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man’s …
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 …
Ramblings: 5/22/17 – Being a someone, A Trump observation, and Social Media and Social Disconnect
Ramblings: 5/22/17 – Being a someone, Trump observation, and Problems with social media
Death of an Orangeman
How Trump shares the same salesman soul as Arthur Miller’s character in Death of a Salesman.
Utterly Unlike the Snow
by Valleria Ruselli “Across my home has grown the shadow Of a cruel and senseless hand Though in some strong hearts The love and truth …
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 …
We Are on Our Own Now
by William Hawes There’s an inside rumor of a beggar who got all that he needs in his hands He said he ain’t no good …
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 …
Myth of the Political Grey Area
There is no political grey area, there is only feigned pragmatism. Wet noodle-ism. The grey – the political middle in the American constituency, or what is …
Taking the First Step
What is the first thing that Leftists and concerned citizens should be doing, in the wake of Trump? The first step among today’s activists should …