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May 14th, Just Another Day in a Collapsing Empire
Essays

May 14th, Just Another Day in a Collapsing Empire

by Jason HollandMay 15, 2018May 26, 2018

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 …

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Transmute Anger
Poetry

Transmute Anger

by Jason HollandMay 9, 2018July 16, 2018

Abuse creates anger in the abused. The anger percolates if left in an undigested state, and the abused lash back at all of creation feeling …

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The Decree of the Capitalist God
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The Decree of the Capitalist God

by Jason HollandApril 10, 2018September 10, 2021

Bow before thy lord of bling.

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Reasonbowl: The News Zone 3/15/18
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Reasonbowl: The News Zone 3/15/18

by Jason HollandMarch 15, 2018March 15, 2018

In a cliched homage to the gran-daddy of karmic flavored sci-fi anthology series, I present to you the News Zone. As spooky headlines portend climate …

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Peace by Hook or Crook
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Peace by Hook or Crook

by Richard Martin OxmanFebruary 16, 2018September 10, 2021

“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 …

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Theater Review: McResistance and the Government Shutdown of 2018
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Theater Review: McResistance and the Government Shutdown of 2018

by Jason HollandJanuary 23, 2018September 10, 2021

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 …

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Debating Prevaricators
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Debating Prevaricators

by Jason HollandJanuary 22, 2018September 10, 2021

“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 …

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Essays Worth Repeating: Minorities versus Majorities
Art

Essays Worth Repeating: Minorities versus Majorities

by Jason HollandNovember 18, 2017November 18, 2017

Emma Goldman’s writing is as valid now as it was a hundred years ago. A testament to the fact we are still ensconced within the same socioeconomic issues.

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Radical Rule for Activist Writing
Art

Radical Rule for Activist Writing

by Richard Martin OxmanNovember 1, 2017November 4, 2017

by Richard Martin Oxman   “It should be instructive to think about why so many writers on alternative sites go on and on.” — Rachel Olivia …

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Path
Art / Poetry

Path

by Jason HollandSeptember 28, 2017

Transmogrify. From rage, to depression, to surrender, to heal, to grow, to reason, to empathy, to dulcet whisper, to song, to dance…to be. To exist.

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Just Say Yes to Conscious Awareness
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Just Say Yes to Conscious Awareness

by Jason HollandSeptember 25, 2017September 10, 2021

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 …

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Mark of the Beast $$$
Essays

Mark of the Beast $$$

by Jason HollandSeptember 20, 2017September 10, 2021

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 …

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Essays

No One Dies for Their Country

by Valleria RuselliJuly 30, 2017September 10, 2021

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, …

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TOSCA in Tucson
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TOSCA in Tucson

by Richard Martin OxmanJune 10, 2017September 10, 2021

“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.”

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A Litmus Test for Academia
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A Litmus Test for Academia

by Valleria RuselliJune 6, 2017September 10, 2021

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 …

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Essays

Standing by Truth Together

by Richard Martin OxmanMay 24, 2017September 10, 2021

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 …

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Go All The Way
Art / Poetry

Go All The Way

by Jason HollandMay 24, 2017May 29, 2017

Charles Bukowski’s poem Roll the Dice tells of the freedom that comes from putting yourself on the line, and holding a line. Go all the …

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Ramblings: 5/22/17 – Being a someone, A Trump observation, and Social Media and Social Disconnect

by Jason HollandMay 22, 2017May 29, 2017

Ramblings: 5/22/17 – Being a someone, Trump observation, and Problems with social media

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Death of an Orangeman
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Death of an Orangeman

by Jason HollandMay 19, 2017September 10, 2021

How Trump shares the same salesman soul as Arthur Miller’s character in Death of a Salesman.

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Essays

Utterly Unlike the Snow

by Valleria RuselliApril 27, 2017September 10, 2021

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 …

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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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