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Buy cars of many colors, Drive back and forth at top speed. Farm cattle in giant feedlots All over the world. Feed them crap that makes them burp Until the atmosphere fills up with methane. Keep burning oil And drill for it in pristine places out of sight out of mind, And off shore …
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Someone else’s dam has burst Someone else’s children are shooting Someone else’s war is escalating Someone else’s soup is burning Someone else’s misery is measureless Someone else’s eyes are sad Someone else’s words have fallen on deaf ears Someone else’s success has surpassed all expectations Someone else’s ‘s garden is going to waste Someone else’s …
I’ve never thought of myself as someone who needed special consideration. Not even when I ended up spending a year on crutches or a walking in a stiff full-length plaster leg cast following a nasty ski accident at 19, or when ai learned in my 40s after a stubborn case of viral pneumonia that …
Somebody poked a hole in my dream and found me They didn’t even have a wand They were just trying to get out of the big dream Of the f__ked-up world And blundered into mine With their war-like mentality Their hamburger breath And their angry hurt red eyes of blame and fear and hate And …
He said It’s time to be willing To die for the motherland And stamped my papers But I want my daughter to live in peace! Men are born to fight, he said Don’t be a wimp Then he got gloomy and looked at the floor I thought of my friends Who electrocuted toads I thought …
I sat on the bench watching sinking sun spectacle. There she was, as so often in the twilight poised on her favorite rock resting in the shallow bay just 50 paces from me. Grey Heron standing still. She raises her pointed head; legs stretch out; neck unfolds halfway. Serious eyes slop downward. The bay before …
“I’m surprised you were able to make this film.” — Bob Scheer, host of KCRW’s “Scheer Intelligence” The world has somehow reached a moment where the use of nuclear weapons has possibly never been closer and the interest in nuclear weapons has possibly never …
I was reading about Italy’s weather turmoil in the midst of southern Europe’s continuing hellish heat wave and unprecedented storms and then I read this: “The minister for civil protection, Nello Musumeci, wrote on Facebook: “This is one of the hardest days in Italy’s history . . . Climate change has hit our nation and …
Editors note: The following essay is written by renowned activist/journalist Julia Wright – a resident of Paris who is the daughter of legendary African American author/activist Richard Wright. This essay provides insightful views rarely reported in news coverage in American media. By Julia Wright Two days ago, my client told me he was thinking of …
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Friends Are Urging Credico to Go Underground Advisers are suggesting Randy Credico to lie low—keep out of sight—because too many journalists, activists, academics and dissidents placed on this hit-list coincidentally wind up dead, sometimes only days after being listed. Once killed, the Ukrainian word ЛИКВИДИРОВАН (“LIQUIDATED”) is plastered across their pictures in big red letters—as in the …
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