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Hovering in Cyberspace
e live in a fabricated reality where the visible world became nearly meaningless once the screen world became people’s “window on the world.” An electronic nothingness replaced reality as people gleefully embraced digital wraparound apparitions. These days people...
(Burying) ‘The Salt of the Earth’
The Rolling Stones created a great and meaningful song ‘The Salt of the Earth’ in 1968: I wanna drink to the hard working people Let’s drink of the lowly of birth I wanna raise my glass to the good and the evil Let’s drink to the salt of the earth. Say a prayer for...
Truth on Martin Luther King Day
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” MLK As Martin Luther King’s birthday is celebrated with a national holiday, his death day disappears down the memory hole. Across the country – in response to the King...
The ‘ Big Squeeze’ on Sanders
Now, get this straight. I am not a ' Democratic Socialist' or a supporter of the Democratic Party. Yes, I just changed my political affiliation here in Florida so I can vote for Sanders in the upcoming Florida primary. My ' short term' goal is to see this retro...
War, What Is It Good For?
Edwin Starr in 1970, had this hit song War. This was of course during the apex of the phony war in Vietnam. One line of the lyrics that resounded so well for this writer was : War Friend only to the undertaker War War War-Good God, now Now Give it to me one time now...
The Searching Life and Enigmatic Death of Albert Camus
Everyone wants the man who is still searching to have already reached his conclusions. A thousand voices are already telling him what he has found, and yet he knows he hasn’t found anything. Should he search on and let them talk? Of course.” – Albert Camus, “The...
Duck Soup
The 1933 Marx brothers film Duck Soup was meant to be a satirical look at Benito Mussolini, ruler of Italy. In the film the mythical country of Freedonia , ruled by the effervescent Rufus T. Firefly ( played by Groucho), due to an insult by the ambassador of rival...
How LOW Can You Go?
This writer has always been told, since childhood, that I was a ' funny guy'. I was, and is, able to bring humor to everyday occurrences. Having attempted at times to do ' Stand Up comedy' way back when, the thought of making a career of it always crossed my mind. In...
The State of USS Titanic
This writer is a manufacturer's rep for various products, one of which is selling sanding belts to Mom and Pop cabinetmakers nationwide. I do most of my sales via the phone, the ' old fashioned way'. Yesterday I was speaking to a former customer of mine in Iowa. He...
A Star Is Always Born
A Star Is Always Born By Edward Curtin It is no different now. The yearning still gnaws. The night dark, utterly silent, Sky stretched endlessly back Into an infinity beyond reach. And the fears, the tears Are they any different? It is no different now. Joy sometimes,...
Disconnected at Christmas… Bah Humbug!!!
John and Yoko Lennon's 1971 'Happy Christmas ... ' song begins with " So this is Christmas and what have you done?.... ". Well, this holiday season, replete with the usual suspects of mass consumer spending, massive traffic jams and accidents, mass pleas for all...
Three Ring Circus
published at Global Research, December 13, 2019 Remember when we all were kids and the circus came to town? Inside the ‘Big Tent’ or arena we would sit and view all the many goings on from the three rings in front of us. It was highly entertaining… especially for...
The Man in the Bathtub, December 1, 1940
The Man in the Bathtub, December 1, 1940: History of a Young Italian Who Emigrated to America in the Early 1900s was originally published on Global Research on November 25, 2017 He was born and raised in a little town just outside of Licata, Sicily. By the time he was...
Part of the Same Hypocrisy
In Godfather 2 there is a riveting ( in its bluntness ) scene involving Michael Corleone and Nevada Senator Pat Geary. At his son's confirmation party, in a private meeting room, the senator wants a hefty bribe to help with a new casino license. This new ' Don...
Gimme Shelter Too!
The Rolling Stones’ 1969 hit song ‘ Gimme Shelter’ kind of said it all: Oh, a storm is threat’ning My very life today If I don’t get some shelter Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away War, children, it’s just a shot away It’s just a shot away War, children, it’s just a shot...
Why I Don’t Have a Mobile Phone
In the late 1990’s I bought an early model Ericsson mobile phone. Travelling around the UK countryside visiting farmers, it seemed quite useful, in spite of the very intermittent signal availability of that time. However, I found the masts which transmitted the...
Violence is as Violence Does
Anyone remember the line from the film Forest Gump: ' Stupid is as stupid does' ? Well, now we have, each and every passing day, the bastard children of our violent empire. Yes, violence has always been with us, this the frailty and flaw of humanity. One would think...
Water Water Everywhere……
In April I interviewed former World Bank staff member and geopolitical analyst Peter Koenig via telephone at his home in Geneva. Koenig had just returned from South America , a place where he has travelled to many times . One of the issues that he is very passionate...
Peak Hubris
“Hubris” is defined as rash and foolish pride, a dangerous overconfidence, manifested with arrogance. The Deep State vaunts our “exceptionalism”, and since Reagan’s “City on a HIll” trope Americans have been assured by all succeeding Presidents that ours is the...
Homeland Insecurity. “Perpetual War”
Well, once again we have Veterans Day upon us. With it comes the preponderance of overt militarism and military propaganda. Tune into any sporting event on the boob tube and you get the camouflaged soldiers and ROTC students (if a college game) staring into the...
The Circus Never Left!
Remember, those who can, the utter joy of going to the circus as a child? It was quite an experience to walk through the sideshow, watching the clowns or viewing the main acts on center stage. This writer sat there, mesmerized by all this for the two hours running....
Spectators and Pragmatists… At Their Own Execution
The Military Industrial Empire has succeeded, ever since WW2. Our education system has incrementally been ' dumbed down' over these past decades. Our mainstream media is now a colorful prism of those terrible times during the Nazi and Stalinist eras. The use of ' fake...
Never had a Chance
It was 1956, Brooklyn , NYC, the year after our beloved Dodgers had finally won a World Series from those Damn Yankees. We kids on Dahill Road were ' The Children of Howdy Doody' , for that was the show that all five, six and seven year olds cherished each afternoon....
Apocalypse Now?
Every high school and college student, and all their parents and grandparents should watch Francis Ford Cappola's Apocalypse Now Redux. This is the 2001 re-cut and extended version of his 1979 classic of the same name. Set in Vietnam at the height of that war ( in...