Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ I don’t desire a future for humanity like the ones imagined by our culturally designated future-imaginers. I don’t want humans living in Elon Musk Mars colonies or Jeff Bezos space cylinders. I don’t want us to fly out into the stars…

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Michael Parenti has said that “Poor countries are not ‘under-developed’, they are over-exploited.” The west tends to look down on the rest of the world for reasons that either directly or indirectly relate to the poverty in those nations, which is…

I’ve been doing a lot of oil painting lately. Here are some of the ones I like: ❖ Julian Assange.

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ One of the most under-discussed topics in the world right now is how governments have been incrementally pacing the public toward accepting the use of police robots that kill people. The city of San Francisco has voted to legalize the use…

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Every year around my birthday I’ve been tapping out an explanation of where I stand and what I’m trying to accomplish in this humble little slice of the digital universe here. As a crowdfunded writer it seems important to be fully…

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ NATO has doubled down on its determination to eventually add Ukraine to its membership, renewing its 2008 commitment to that goal in a meeting between the foreign ministers of the alliance in Bucharest, Romania this past Tuesday. Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp writes: …

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Guardian has joined The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País in signing a letter from the five papers which collaborated with WikiLeaks twelve years ago in the publication of the Chelsea Manning leaks to call for…

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Facts: There are Chinese people with real grievances against their government. The US empire’s propaganda machine will spin current protests in China to advance imperial agendas. Western intelligence agencies will become more and more involved in these protests the longer they…

I have a new book out called Lao Sue And Other Poems, available in paperback or on PDF/ebook.