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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 …

Americans: We’re Number 1 (in our own heads!)

Covid Precautions Aren’t Primarily Aren’t for You; They’re to Protect Those You Ought to Care About

  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 I learned in my 40s after a stubborn case of viral pneumonia that …

First in a series, From the Bench

From the Bench with Grey Heron Fisher

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 …

'A story more provocative than Oppenheimer'

Robert Scheer interviews Steve James and Dave Lindorff about their film ‘A Compassionate Spy’

“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 …

Abusive policing across the Atlantic Ocean

French Fried Police Brutality – Outrage Erupts…Again!

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 …

Via CIA Website Project

Journalist Randy Credico Has Been Placed on Ukrainian Terrorist “Kill-List”

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 …