Where oh where are the critical thinkers around this fellow’s hatred of Putin, Russians, et al? The culmination of Noam Chomsky’s arrogance and condescension came in 2003, on a C-SPAN interview: The collapse of the Soviet Union is a small victory for socialism in my opinion. At odds with reality, Chomsky almost 20 yeaers ago, …
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. — Hunter S. Thompson, “September,” p. 413 Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 Imagine, just how programmed are …
the shifting baseline syndrome requires today’s people disavowing things written 10 years ago, even five years ago, but those books, articles, whitepapers and radio broadcasts are actually ahead of their time . . . And what is that expiration date for good, sound, righteous news and writing and broadcasting? I see more and more young …
Capitalism is the Monster/Ghost/Bioweapon in the Machine: Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen, China, Russia! Before the Nazi Showcase, let’s look at just ONE example of the decay of the USA, the Empire, the Savagery of Capitalism. Take one piece of news, and, well, in my book, run with it. Utilize it to demostate just how savage Capitalism …
Nigeria, Oh, Nigeria, Cry for me, Nigeria! So, good friend, Madu, who I met decades ago, at UT-El Paso. He was coming through buildings where part-time English faculty had offices. That big smile, that large voice, and an open hand. He was working the used/discount book gig: going to colleges to get books from faculty …
mother moves her body to feed the world by Paul Haeder / May 8th, 2022 happy mother’s day, one and all madres-mamas hands fold masa harinadried husks, softened in potsof water, sweat-love, pull-pushancient cereal, stone overstone, mother plants tomatoholds chili pods into sunlike Nudibranchia, colors of landmountain jungle plainmother holds caloric historysecretive recipes, honeydabbed on …
Even the Fatherless Become Fathers by Paul Haeder / May 30th, 2022 These Op-Ed’s I pen in Newport News Times are my reckoning with loads of travel, plethora of spiritual work, and in-the-trenches journalistic forays dredging unimaginable but potent “land.” I muck around with smalltown newspapers, even when the gig pays zero shekels, because I have a …
Not Just One of those Tales of Another Dead Indian Amanda, the woman whose ghost holds Yachats by Paul Haeder / June 5th, 2022 bloody feet dampen soilher DNA cleaved to earth, forced blind trekcalled “a march” yet she sees throughdarkness, earth torn for steelguns, rusty crosses, parchmentproof of broken treatiestears bleeding into windsignatures of …
Right after Malcolm X’s death, The New York Times editorialized that “The world he saw through those horn-rimmed glasses of his was distorted and dark. But he made it darker still with his exaltation of fanaticism. Yesterday someone came out of that darkness that he spawned, and killed him.” Who would’ve thunk the outré woke Times cancelled Malcolm X …
You don’t need old episodes of F-Troop to let you know how rotten a country is that utilizes death machines, mercenaries in uniform, entire budgets for bullets and bombs to annilihate people. We are talking about total integration of the war machine, war mentality, war budgeting, war propaganda, war mentality, war products/by-products into American, that …
