Paul Haeder, Author

writing, interviews, editing, blogging

I have heard this since, oh, the 1990s, from many different people in many varied arenas. Not all my warriors in the battle for justice — social, environmental, education, human rights, cultural, economic — who were long in the tooth made that statement: ‘The world is really screwed, and I am so glad I am …

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Reset #9 someone criesblood shortagedesperately emptycaches of plasmawhole bloodvampires in our midstGoldman and SachsVanguard and State Street gobs of trillionsthe price of nuclear warno need for transfusionsthese gated communityminds with privatecardigan-wearing armiesGates-Buffet-Soros-Murdochbloodless devilsunleashing their vampiresunleashing Mensa Madmentechnocratic necrophiliacsthe fire roils FIREfinance insurancereal estatePottersville wonderful livesshuttered insidelatchkey Zoom GenZ shut-ins byinvitation onlycheck body temperaturesa hundred and …

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U.S. commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, glibly remarked in January that the COVID-19 epidemic in China would be positive for the U.S. economy. Some cynical journalists believe Wuhan was a good spot for release because any genetic modifications revealed in its sequence could later be blamed on Wuhan’s biosafety level-4 lab, thus achieving plausible deniability – the CIA’s operational …

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we hold earth crush seeds then pull where leaves break down with bacterial love the whole parts connected through water this earth is boiling 9,000 degrees balled up center pure so much sun hidden cracks bring life death clouds love is capillary seeks leveling heights . . . finds pooling after crashing over cliffs rain, …

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Ahh, the failings of capitalism, the failings of the bread and circus, the days of Roman collesium crap. The stories just keep returning, and it is more than some bizarre Matrix groundhog day. In the news, today: An autopsy of former NFL player Phillip Adams has revealed Adams had “unusually severe” brain disease in his frontal lobe …

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Reset #8 sun-drenched heronthe cold stare of sealscrows wrestling crabseagles shaking iciclesagates crystallinejasper like eyes of squidendless beach jumpingskies magnificent kite worlddriftwood perfect cairns kids trapped up the hilldeath glow of fluorescentthrobbing Chrome booksGestapo-eyed principalschecking six-foot lineshunting down polyethylenemasks mid-mouthjanitors like Hannibaldisinfectants their pistols a few dogsmiddle-aged couplesthe lone crabber dug inno skiffs or outboardssmoking …

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Ha. The revolution will not be surveyed. Yeah, I’m 64, and, teacher par excellence, journalist (real, newspaper, small and mid-sized town), social worker for foster youth, developmental disabled, homeless substance addicted, even homeless veterans . . . Yah. Surveys man, and Commondreams, man. By any means necessary, bog us down, hit us with another survey, …

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