'…a major destabilizing influence'
Remember the Vincennes? That’s the name of the U.S. Navy warship that shot down an Iranian airliner with missiles in 1988, killing all 290 people aboard that airplane. That shoot down, in which 60 children perished, was an accident, according to the U.S. Navy’s official report. However, many, including military personnel, considered that report a …
The recent protest outside Philadelphia’s Police headquarters – triggered by yet another instance of police racism – had an emphasis distinctively different from similar demonstrations during past decades against recurring police misconduct in the city that preens as the Birthplace of Democracy in America. While protestors demanded disciplinary action against the 328 individual officers responsible …
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I celebrate myself, / And what I assume you shall assume, / For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-washed babe …. and am not contained between my hat and my boots. – Walt Whitman, Song of Myself Members of the …
The most dangerous country in the world Has no clue that it gives people nightmares. It doesn’t know that its shadow is radioactive. It doesn’t know why it wakes in a cold sweat In a fetal position, gasping, With all the blankets lying on the floor. It cries out before it wakes up And shuffles …
Industrial sea Meets industrial river’s edge Things forever trapped in things Carbon footprint Industrial ice Time-trap-buzz Numbers in sequence Industrial spillway Bench with no view Land-full Wasted breath Industrial breath High up wind Forgotten codes Of industrial footprint Dawn breaks so what? Moon rises Industrial moon Waxing, waning Over posthistoric phrases On a brick wall …
[T]he culture rewards smartness with success because “smartness” is, definitionally, the ability to succeed in the culture. -Robert Hayman, The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and Law No one suggests Donald Trump is not “smart.” He has certainly figured out how to succeed in the corrupt culture we live in. But does that mean he …
Let every crack be a place for seeds to sprout, Let the forest return to this place! Let the rocks be done wearing our face, And may every fractured avenue lead out! Rome is crumbling. All of the magic That will save us is outside of Rome. Inside the empire Everything is falling. It’s a …
If you look out into the twilit landscape that you thought was so familiar This time prepare to see something tremendous that is rising to be seen. You won’t be able to deny that the landscape is much more than a landscape. It is more like the Aborigines say. It is something tremendous just beyond …
I’d build myself a city A big, quiet town, A city to call my own With an uptown and no down. Peopled by people Who don’t live in their heads, No one lives too high; All with homes and beds. It’ll be low tech, Nothing quite on time. Lots of coffee breaks No crime. Build …