The Nazi holocaust did not begin with The Wannsee Conference. Prior to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, representatives of the racial…
In our fascist dream scape we wander as if submerged in inky water – a slow moving, static, effortful environment, drowsy yet…
On Wednesday, August, 20, I go to protest – as I do every Wednesday at 6:30AM – at local arms profiteer, L3Harris.…
US military spending mocks global norms with such salacious excess that we might imagine our country as being in the throes of…
I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet…
The bombing of Guernica in 1937 unveiled weapons of mass destruction aimed at civilian populations. While Picasso’s famous painting depicting that event…
Immigrants and asylum seeking refugees are the political props that fascists exploit to seize control of all US government institutions. The white…
When we contemplate the dystopian landscape at this grim moment – the rotting corpse of liberal democracy, with its gaping death-head of…
You might survive a nuclear strike, but I won’t. I live on the Sharpie X that some foreign general scratched upon the…
Masculinism has always driven fascist ideals – alienated men have time and again become fodder for movements that idealize violence, conquest and power.…
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