Between the turn of the screw And the twist of the knife Between the the Twist of the twister And Dylan’s simple twist of fate There sometimes arise opportunities To own the life that was given us by our mothers To make headway against The semi generated wind of the highway of the one-way life. …
Connecting dots
Dot one The United States is at war With itself. (It is also at war with Russia By proxy in Ukraine. It is also at war in Congress. It is at war in townships And states From sea to shining sea.) Maybe in its heart too. Maybe in its soul. Do you get what I’m …
WWACHBD?
No room at the Texas Inn
One thing you can say about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: He has no sense of irony or timing. Bad enough that this smug Christian fundamentalist lacks any sense of human empathy, choosing to take “the least among us” — that being penniless immigrants fleeing crime, poverty and oppression in their countries–7900 of whom he …
Judge Clemon’s chance to “Make some good trouble”:
Will She Have the Guts on Xmas to Free Mumia or Grant Him a Hearing on 6 Long-Hidden D.A. Crates of Evidence?
Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Lucretia Clemons is a model of a black woman from a very underprivileged background in racist, segregated and former slave state Mississippi, overcoming tremendous odds to succeed in a challenging career. Her grandfather, the youngest boy in a family of eight children, was compelled at the age 8 had to …
Is History Repeating Itself? And Who Will Be Today’s Ted Hall? An Interview with the Principals of “A Compassionate Spy”
Interviewer Ron Ridenour holds Ted Hall’s posthumous Nobel Peace Prize in the form of a Peace Lily as film director Steve James makes a point with Joan Hall and journalist-producer Dave Lindorff. [Source: Photo courtesy of Jette Salling] [In this piece, Ron Ridenour interviews Steve James, the director of A Compassionate Spy, and Joan Hall, Ted …
Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets to the Russians After World War II Be Considered a “Good Guy”? New Film Says Yes.
New Documentary Reveals How A Teenage Army Physicist Named Ted Hall Saved The Russian People From A Treacherous U.S. Sneak Attack In 1950-51—And May Well Have Prevented A Global Nuclear Holocaust The provocative documentary “A Compassionate Spy” tells the amazing but almost unknown story of a “near-genius” Harvard physics major, who at age 17, was selected to …
Analysis of a festering injustice
Judicial Persecution Corrupts The Case Of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons is the latest addition to an odious list of appellate court jurists who craftily construct legal barriers specifically to bludgeon evidence that undermines the corrupted conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the acclaimed writer/activist who millions worldwide consider a ‘political prisoner.’ The 1982 conviction of Abu-Jamal, for killing a Philadelphia …
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The used book store
When I stepped into that old used bookstore With the entrance just two feet behind me I knew there was no turning back Until I chose a book or a book chose me. The proprietor was perfectly cloaked By his energy field To the point of only reluctantly appearing When he saw me at the …
America's robed ayatollahs overstep:
Let’s Hear It for ‘Justice’ Sam Alito!
Let’s make a collective raspberry for the biggest loser of this off-year Congressional election: Supreme Court Justice and easily the most grouchy and sanctimonious jurist on the High Court bench Samuel Alito. It was Alito who led the charge to finally accomplish what the vast majority of male Republican members of Congress and state …
How watching “Till” was like striking a gong
Yesterday I had a thought That resounded like a gong. It vibrated through my bones. And there was a halo around it. Overnight it became a story, A story of how I can still save myself From being steam-rolled by the status quo. It was a movie that struck this gong. The movie was “Till”. …
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