My father’s father played his violin in the attic Where no one could see his tears. My great aunt (my father’s mother’s sister) kept Nubian goats And two squirrel monkeys in her sunroom That she would diaper and release when we visited. There is nothing like the sensation Of those tiny fingers searching your hair …
Tens of thousands of dumps line the US coastlines, most sitting at or near sea level
Coastal Landfills Are No Match for Rising Seas
Fae Saulenas knows that before long she’ll have to abandon the place she’s called home for decades. Nestled by a coastal wetland north of Boston called the Rumney Marsh Reservation, her house is a short walk from the Atlantic Ocean. In recent years, thanks in part to the climate emergency, king tides and storm surges …
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How Much Socialism Will US and Peru Allies Allow?
Peru Finally Gets its First Socialist President, Pedro Castillo
Free Peru supporters show their glee during the victory announcement of their candidates. Foto: John Reyes / La República Peru’s National Electoral Jury (JNE) finally announced, July 19, socialists Pedro Castillo, 51, and running mate, attorney Dina Boluarte, 58, of the Free Peru party as the presidential and vice-presidential just nine days prior to …
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The tipping points to a dystopic future are arriving:
A Nighttime Walk without Bugs or Bats
This past Thursday evening, not having done my usual run because of the heat, I waited until later when things had cooled down a bit. It was still quite humid and even faintly misty and not wanting to get all sweaty I opted to walk the four mile circle through the exurb north of …
Don't lie to us Joe, tell the truth!
After 20 Years and over $2.26 Trillion, the US Has Lost Its Longest War in Afghanistan
Another lost war! Another denial! The US actually began its war on the people of Afghanistan back during the presidency of Jimmy Carter, who foolishly followed the advice of his Russia-hating, rabidly anti-Communist Polish emigre National Security Director Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski, in mid-1979, successfully convinced the gullible Carter to launch Operation Cyclone, a $20-billion, 10-year …
America the Greatest
Hate filled eyes stare at me. Does he not like the way I look? Is it because I’m telling a bar patron how awful the world we live in is? All this hatred spewing forth like the sweat dripping from armed, fanatic patriots training to fight the omnipresent enemy, making and keeping America the …
Legal rights mask moral wrongs
Cosby’s Release: The Rapist & The Racists
Smoke from the firestorm that erupted after Bill Cosby’s release from prison obscures a unique twist in the traditional roil around rape, race and racism. A jury convicted Cosby in 2018 for a 2004 incident where the Black celebrity drugged and sexually molested a white woman inside his mansion located in a suburb of Philadelphia, …
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Quoting myself on this 4th of July
Here is a poem (And it was f—king hard to write) Because I’m back from the island Where we go To get away from it all Where When we are there I write lots of poems Because my mind begins to clear And I begin to accept the ebb and flow Of life on an …
Western media jgnore new evidence
Key Witness Admits Lying about Julian Assange in Major US Extradition Case Setback
Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, a pathological liar, key U.S. witness exposed. MYND: SIGTRYGGUR ARI Julian Assange committed no crime of hacking or seeking access to telephone recordings of Icelandic MPs. This revelation comes from the witness who lied about that, in order to please the United States prosecution against the publisher in the extradition trial, in …
The grand bi-partisan scheme to privatize Medicare
Medicare Advantage is No Advantage
(This article was funded by paired assignments and a joint publishing agreement with Counterpunch.org and Tarbell.org. It was inspired by a suggestion from Ralph Nader.) When you want to know if the US government, or the political party in charge, is pulling a fast one on the public, look at the name they give …