ACTIVISM
Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on America
Fascists, historically, are surprisingly candid about the world they intend to create. Those they target, despite this transparency, are surprisingly obtuse about what is coming. The most ominous warning to date from our homegrown fascists is the latest Presidential memo, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.” It accuses any critic […]
A New and Darker McCarthy Era Descends with the Night
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see…What’s madness but nobility of soulAt odds with circumstance?…A steady storm of correspondences!”Theodore Roethke, In a Dark Time We are all obscurantists now, deep in crepuscular propaganda, looking for light. “It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there,” as Bob Dylan’s sings in “Not Dark Yet.” […]
When Political Violence Becomes a Signal
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a tragedy on several levels. It robs his family and friends of the time they would otherwise have had with Charlie, especially his young children and wife. It is a tragedy to Charlie—his life was cut prematurely short. And it is a tragic signal that the […]
Stop Playing The Loser’s Game
Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About… Everything I haven’t really been active on Facebook since the COVID era when it became pretty obvious to me that most of the people I grew up with or went to college turned into authority addicts and were thoroughly brainwashed by mainstream agitprop. They’re […]
The Two-State Solution Is A Western Liberal Fairy Tale
The Israelis are telling us this is the case themselves, right to our faces. It’s time to wake up. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The only real benefit to this latest western “recognition” of Palestine is that it drew out high-profile Israeli politicians to explain to […]
Why the Government Is So Loved by So Many
One of the most memorable passages in the memoir of the escaped slave Frederick Douglass is where he describes how one group of slaves would argue with another group of slaves over whose master was richer or stronger. Exhibiting a mixture of Stockholm syndrome with delusions of grandeur, these slaves, according to […]
Palestinian kids’ author: New York Times ‘put a target on my back’ with Grayzone smear
New Jersey area Jewish leadership described a factual Grayzone report about Charlie Kirk’s falling out with Netanyahu as “hateful, divisive, and antisemitic,” and weaponized it to cancel the book event of a Palestinian children’s writer who reposted the article on social media. The New York Times uncritically published the bogus […]
The Real Violent Extremists Are The Freaks Who Run The US Empire
I think it’s worth remembering this as the empire harnesses the emotional hysteria around Charlie Kirk’s death to whip up a moral panic about violent radical leftists in the United States in order to justify increased authoritarian measures to stomp out political dissent. Listen to a reading of this article […]
The Nonprofit Racket
[This is the foreword to the new book by Douglas French: When Movements Become Rackets (2025)] Dante Alighieri, in his book Inferno, places those who betray benefactors in the deepest circle of hell. If that is true, the place is likely overpopulated with the managers and executives of nonprofit organizations. In recent […]
Political Gaslighting: The Government’s Latest Playbook for Dismantling the Constitution
That was when they suspended the Constitution…There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.”Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale What we are witnessing is not a government of the people, by the people, and for the people; it is a government over the people. Call it what it is: political gaslighting—the regime says one thing while doing the […]
