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We first have to understand, in a darkly humorous way, just how far down the rabbit hole the Trump Regime has fallen. I take it back, it is NOT so humorous at all folks! Looking how 'Life imitates art' we  should watch Don Siegel's 1956 film Invasion of the Body...

It was '85 and this writer had been divorced for going on four years. I had my two young sons, 10 and 7, living with their mom and her boyfriend in Canarsie Brooklyn. I lived in this quaint attic apartment a half hour away from them in Elmont, Long Island, not too far...

Chris Hedges just wrote a powerful column on the great Scheerpost site entitled Grand Illusion. He calls America, our nation, a dying empire, similar to what transpired in most past empires. He mentions the vast Roman Empire and the 20th century Nazi Germany one. The...

We have always lived in a society that hinders mental health care instead of enabling it. Now, this writer is surely not a psychiatrist, but I did spend a night in a Holiday Inn Express. My experiences as a patient of Freudian psychoanalysis  40 years ago taught me,...

Just about this wintery time of year this writer can almost inhale the memories of 50+ years ago. Actually, it was January of '69 and we college students needed bread AKA money, moolah or dinero. Being 18 and single, vibrant and seeking female companionship always...

It was Christmastime 1984. He had been separated for three years and divorced one. It was a Saturday, and he always spent Saturday with his two sons. The oldest boy was nine and the younger one but six. He would drive in from his apartment forty minutes away and take...

Taking a bit from the 1974 hit movie Chinatown this writer can see comparisons that can almost blind you. Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski, with a Robert Towne script and starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, reveals so much about the power of the super rich....

She’s a little lady, 70 something, with this cute, addictive smile. Drives an old bomb of a car, replete with Peace and End the Occupation type stickers on it. She’s a nurse, still works, doing home care for very ill folks with that special Mona type TLC. I first met...

In Francis Ford's Coppola's brilliant 1979 film Apocalypse Now we have the CIA ordering the assassination of a renegade colonel. Colonel Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, rambled 'Off the reservation' and simply went too far, even for the genocide loving US government...

You're eighteen, second semester at Brooklyn College (a tough school to get into) and always looking to make a few bucks spending money. I mean, you live at home and college tuition costs only $32 a year. Ah, the good old days of free tuition at the CUNY ( Ciy...

 Remember the famous line by Claude Rains as Captain Renault in Casablanca? After being told by his Nazi handlers to close Rick's Cafe he responded to Bogart's question of why are you shutting me down? He simply answered 'There's gambling going on!' as he then took...

Back in my Brooklyn NYC of the 50s and 60s we used to call the neighborhood luncheonette 'The Candy Store'. In my Ave U neighborhood we had at least one such store every few short blocks. The one I will  focus on was ' Moe's Luncheonette' on Ave U between East 24th St...

The trickster was always what he is now. For decades he had conned too many of the public, the business world, and of course the government. Years ago the trickster, being influenced by his role model Roy Cohn, gave his money to both of the two empire's political...

Imagine how all those wonderful (yeah, right) good and devout MAGA Christians just love Jesus. After all, they say he is the Son of God (or is it lately their new King Donald?). One wonders if any of these folks ever took the time to read The Sermon on the Mount from...

I just love it each year at this time in November. All the flags waving and ceremonial heads hung  down in honoring our ' allen Heroes' and 'Brave Warriors'. Hogwash! Take the time and go onto You Tube or wherever and watch the 1971 Winter Soldier Hearings. See actual...

    With his storm troopers...oops, his ICEMEN, rambling into a town like a pack of ghosts, replete with no faces. With his navy, My **** navy, blowing up speedboats outside a sovereign nation (Venezuela) with no evidence of drug dealing or terrorism. With...

Well, what we got in 2016 was the most terrible president in my baby boomer lifetime. And that took a lot, because just about all of them before him did nothing to help working stiffs. In 2020 the big money Democratic machine pushed, in my estimation, the worst...

On April 4th, 1967, almost one year before the empire took him out, Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous anti Vietnam War speech at Riverside Church in NYC. Please note that after this remarkably written and given speech, many of his political, media and wealthy...

Ask yourself this: Knowing what horrific genocidal revenge that Israel has dished out since Oct, 2023, why have both the Biden and now Trump 2 regimes enabled it? I mean it is one thing to simply ' Look the other way' to remain somewhat neutral, but to continually...

Oh boy, 1970 was a crucial year for this writer. Nineteen years old and just baptized into activism on May 5th, with no celebration for Cinco de Mayo that year. My campus at Brooklyn College was closed down by the mass of students like myself who were pissed off at...

I have spent my entire life since the age of five as a sports fan ( standing in our living room watching Johnny Podres finish off the Yankees for the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers' world championship on a tiny black and white TV). Played four years as a wide receiver at...

In 1961 Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted experiments on obedience. Basically, he set up a fake testing office whereupon two volunteers would be participants each time. Actually, there was only one volunteer each time, as the other was a...