Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/us-lawmakers-say-student-loan-forgiveness-will-hurt-military-recruiting ❖ Nineteen members of the US House of Representatives have written a letter [PDF] to President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin cautioning that the partial cancellation of student debts can have the unintended consequence of reducing military
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/biden-keeps-pledging-direct-us-war-with-china-over-taiwan ❖ The president of the United States has once again committed the US military to direct hot war with China in the event of an attack on Taiwan, a commitment that was once again walked back by his White House
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/our-mortality-should-unite-us ❖ “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.” ~ Charles BukowskiA jet airliner opens
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-profit-motive-is-crippling-humanity ❖ The US military has seven branches of service:Army Navy Air Force Marines Coast Guard Space Force Mainstream Media❖ It's hard to grasp just how badly humanity is handicapping itself by excluding all solutions that can't generate a profit. There's
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-trouble-with-western-values-is-that-westerners-dont-value-them ❖ Have you ever noticed how those who shriek the loudest about tyranny in foreign countries are always the same people calling for the censorship and deplatforming of anyone who criticizes the western empire?It's a ubiquitous mind virus throughout western
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/untitled-3 ❖ Brian Stelter went from a mainstream media gig to a gig at Harvard. Jen Psaki went from a gig in the Biden administration to a gig in the mainstream media. Mike Pompeo went from a gig in the Trump
Listen to a reading of "Lizzy's Face":https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/lizzys-face ❖ Lizzy's face on the papers blowing in the wind Lizzy's face on the screens Lizzy's face on the street billboard with a homeless man leaning against it.Lizzy's face on the Jumbotron Lizzy's face on the defense industry tweets Lizzy's face on the arrest warrants for
Listen to a reading of "Look With Nature's Eyes":https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/look-with-natures-eyes ❖ Look with nature's eyes, with atomic eyes, with Eden eyes, with primordial eyes.Stand on nature's feet, on terrestrial feet, on stardust feet, on Big Bang feet.Touch with nature's hands, with sapling hands, with reverent hands, with unprecedented hands.Think with nature's mind, with undomesticated mind, with wild mind, with ineffable
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/in-this-disaster-we-are-all-ultimately-innocent ❖ Whenever I talk about the way our species is sliding toward annihilation via nuclear armageddon or environmental disaster I always get a few people saying something along the lines of, "Good, humans are horrible. The planet will be better
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/having-a-queen-was-stupid-having-a-king-is-too-stupid ❖ I can't stop laughing at the fact that we have a King now. "Hello I am the actual, literal King. Please bow to me and put a crown on my head."It gets funnier and funnier the more you think