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The ‘ White Makes Right’ Continuance
In September of 1962 James Meredith, a 28 Year old Air Force veteran, and proud black man, enrolled in the segregated University of Mississippi. All hell literally broke loose. In David Talbot’s great look at the Kennedy years, aptly entitled Brothers ( 2007 ), we see...
Gods of the Sky
An interesting film to watch is Gavin Hood’s 2015 Eye in the Sky. It captures the tremendous tension of a joint US/UK drone missile ‘ Kill ‘ mission in Kenya. The movie had to make the targeted terrorist cell look extremely dangerous. The two most dangerous ones were...
The Deadliest Pandemic
Among the infinity of unknowns about Covid 19 there is one incontrovertible fact: It is not another Black Death or Spanish Influenza. Deadly as it is, it will not kill a third of Europe’s population or 100 million people worldwide. Contingent on that fact is an...
It Can’t Happen Here? The Roots Run Deep!
Sinclair Lewis wrote an important novel in 1935, It Can't Happen Here. In the fictitious book, based on the threats at the time of fascism taking root in the USA, we see how this virus spread. As with Philip Roth's 2004 novel The Plot Against America we see how...
They Massage Horses Don’t They?
It's been over 25 years since that glorious warm , blue sky summer day at Belmont Park Racetrack. I not only remember it so well , but I can almost inhale that special racetrack smell, the combination of disinfectant merged with horse manure. The moment you walked...
Four Dead in Ohio- Feeding the Beast
Singer/Songwriter Neil Young wrote the song ' Four Dead in Ohio' for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Four Dead In Ohio Lyrics Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'. We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drummin'. Four dead in Ohio. Gotta get down to it. Soldiers...
Memories of Old Brooklyn: The Man In the Yard
He was standing there, in the middle of the school yard,...alone. At first I envisioned him as a pitcher, standing on the mound with a field full of players, some behind him, and some facing him, in the middle of a game. No, he was standing all alone, dressed in an...
Jackie and Me: A Brooklyn Thing
We have memories, like flashes of lightning from afar- now we see them, now we don’t. Yet, one can almost call upon them at will, these bits and pieces of our lives, once so vivid, once so real, filed forever as nostalgia. So it is for me, fifty years after the fact....
Time For UBI is NOW!!!
A man struggled in the desert heat with his mouth as parched as sandpaper. He was fading fast from lack of the basic essentials to exist, number one being water. Someone hands him a giant bottle of water and he is so appreciative. He drinks the water, but hours later...
Jesus of Nazareth. Time for Reflection and Understanding
Trump is But The Tip of a "Dangerous Iceberg First published on Good Friday 2018 As I write this column it is Good Friday, the most somber day in the Christian religion. This is the day that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. It is a time for reflection and...
The Truth in the Garden
The night was still... so very silent... ominous for that matter. It seemed at first, or rather smelled, the similar essence of any evening in Spring. The air had about it that perfumed scent of the garden, the trees and the flowers, now so awake and alive by the...
The Four Horsemen of the ‘ New’ Apocalypse
From the ' Book of Revelations' in the New Testament God sent forth the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( White Horse, Black Horse, Red Horse and Pale Horse ) or as Ezekiel lists them: " Sword , Famine, Wild Beasts and Plague". Well, this NEW set of Four Horsemen are...
Crocodile Tears
This writer is not one to always single out certain members of our Embedded in Empire mainstream media. To me, they are all sellouts. Why? Well, let's look at what transpired just last evening on Anderson Cooper's CNN news talk show. As a preface, we know that...
Good Karma, Bad Karma… Always Karma
The old adage should say : Nothing is certain but death and taxes... and Karma. Karma is as real as it gets. The various holy books made sure to state that ' What ye sow so shall ye reap' AKA ' What goes around comes around.' Karma has many flavors, but the end...
Fool Me Once…..
Shame on YOU. Ok, one need not be a financial genius or economist to know that in 2008-09 Uncle Sam gave away the store to the failing Wall Street banks and investment corporations. We paid for it, you and me working stiff taxpayers, to the tune of well over one...
Dylan Sings Truth About the JFK Assassination
The CIA’s assassination of President John Kennedy in 1963 is the foundational event in the invisible government’s takeover of the United States. Some of us have been repeating this for years, only to be dismissed with the CIA-coined term “conspiracy theorists.” Bob...
Time to Rein In the Super Rich
The question is how long can working stiffs, who make up perhaps most of the 99+% of us, tolerate the other, almost as potent virus called ‘The Super Rich’? Does anyone realize that these ‘less than 1/4 of one percent of us are mega millionaires? It used to be, like...
The Real ‘Sports of Kings’ … Not for Us Suckers!!
Borrowing from the moniker of horseracing as the ‘Sport of Kings’ this writer is going further into the sewer of media hype. I love sports and acknowledge that I am a fan of many sports, with even some teams as my favorites. Methinks that in the past few years I have...
Four! More! Years!
Nothing is certain but death. Taxes used to be, too, but recent legislation proved they’re not, if you have enough money. So, it can’t be said with total confidence that Joe Biden will be the Democrats’ nominee to scrum with Trump, but after the last massacre it’s...
Money for Something
Isn’t it funny how whenever Uncle Empire needs to find some of that green to solve a problem THEY deem vital, they find it. When they DON’T deem it necessary they don’t! Go back 12 years or so when the villains covered in Aaron Glantz’s fine new book Homewreckers...
The ‘ DemonCrats’ Gift to Trump
Since we are the only major industrialized nation to have but two political parties with any clout, the corporate masters can control everything... and they do! You have the DemonCrats and of course the RepugnantCans, neither the ' Party of FDR' or ' The Party of...
Two Other Pandemics: The Lemming and Apathy Viruses
Of course, the worst pandemic of the 21st century is out and about us. Italy is now in a 'lockdown' state and throughout most of the world people are in a panic mode. And why not? Viruses like this Corona Virus can kill. Yet, in the world of politics there have been,...
DEMOCRATICIDE
Natural disasters come barreling out of nowhere, unforeseen. Before they occur, cataclysms and catastrophic events of the physical world–tidal wave, earthquake, wildfire, eruption–are inconceivable. They blindside us utterly. Human-caused calamities are quite...
Banana Amerika: The Fix Is In!!!
This writer has watched countless boxing matches over the years, and has seen how in many instances ' The Fix is in'. The powers that be want a certain prospect to move up the ranks, they ' Fix ' it. With boxing all you needed was two judges and maybe the referee, and...