Fingers of light peel away the hiddenness of badge-wearing sadists and Apache helicopter war crimes.Fingers of light peel away the lies of the dust-faced gargoyles on screens in dark rooms.Fingers of light peel away the dead writings of dead men from healthy brains made of
Every year around my birthday I like to write an article outlining my overall perspective and what's driving my output on this little platform of mine. I do this primarily in the interests of transparency: I believe that all journalists and commentators have biases and
Hi welcome to the timeline where people call you a crazy radical extremist for saying your government should stop committing acts of mass murder. ❖ When they say a withdrawal from Afghanistan should be contingent on certain conditions being met, the "conditions" they really mean are puppet
There are creatures the size of mountains swimming beneath the ice.There are babies laughing at things you can't see.That quiet old woman there, sitting in the corner: she has seen some shit, man.The lushest plants have their roots in shit, and the lushest people, too.They do not
The Biden transition team responsible for ushering in the nation's Return to Decency™️ is as packed full of military-industrial complex lackeys and imperialist sociopaths as you'd expect, with one such manipulator being the Obama administration's "chief propagandist" Richard Stengel.The Grayzone's Ben Norton has a new write-up on
I've got a new poetry book out!❖ Show Me An Old Rebel Do not show me a young rebel, whose eyes are bright and whose tail is bushy.Young rebels are fine and good, but they are merely doing what the young are meant to do.Show me an old rebel. One who keeps punching when
Any violence arising from the US election or its aftermath will only benefit the powerful, will be used to justify authoritarian agendas which serve the powerful, and will in all probability have been instigated by the powerful.There are plenty of arguments to be made for
The opposite of life is not death.The opposite of life is habit.One who moves from cradle to grave in the flip book illusion we call time without deeply attending to this cavalcade of miracles is one who never lived.Lifeless are they who live by habit, who walk by habit, who
Zen Buddhism is full of stories about practitioners staring death in the face in order to cut through their mental habits and force a direct confrontation with the fundamental matter. Monks doing zazen on a cliff's edge to keep themselves alert, rōshis telling frustrated students
We set out to prove the bank boys wrong, to prove the nihilists wrong, to prove the preachers wrong, to prove our mothers wrong, to prove our brain gremlins wrong. We took with us only our saturated dreamcatchers and the slugs from our gardens and a sack full of clanging sounds and the