Doug Anderson: Poetry, A River
If you set out on it, raft or riverboat, if you sound your way through the sandbars and submerged barbed wire, if you watch the crows riding the floating corpses … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Choosing Life
The animal agriculture industry is an integral part of the corporate state. The corporate state’s exploitation and impoverishment of workers and its poisoning of the environment, as well as its … Continue reading
Video: Is Milk Good for our Bones?
For decades, Dairy Councils sponsored by state governments across the United States have carried on aggressive ad campaigns and educational programs promoting the practice of drinking milk to ensure we … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: The Traveler
another gray road a homeless veteran stands at attention — You consider your obligations. You drive on. There is a running man, a shabby man. It would be easy to … Continue reading
Eduardo Galeano: The Right to Bravery
. In 1816 the government in Buenos Aires bestowed the rank of lieutenant colonel on Juana Azurduy “in virtue of her manly efforts.” She led the guerrillas who took Cerro … Continue reading
Christine Rhein: Drone Pilot
He changes into his flight suit, goes to war each morning— just a twenty-minute drive from Vegas, his wife and kids. He doesn’t talk much about the base, the windowless … Continue reading
W. J. Astore: A Nixon Quote Explains the Root of So Many U.S. Foreign Policy Blunders
On 30 April 1970, 45 years ago this month, President Richard M. Nixon ordered an invasion into Cambodia. Explaining his reasoning for widening the war in Southeast Asia, Nixon declared: … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: New Kansas law picks the pockets of the poor
New Kansas law picks the pockets of the poor while humiliating them in the process. When Republicans support or pass a law to address a non-problem, they usually have an … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Take a Giant Step
All the out of business auto body shops on this slow highway, all the abandoned buildings with peeling paint, the vacant lots overgrown with junk trees and weeds bounded by … Continue reading
Video: “Strange Fruit” sung by Billie Holiday
. Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed “Lady Day” by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, … Continue reading
Sarah Browning: Petworth, Early Evening
A man is stabbing women in my neighborhood. Most poor people in my city are Black and because of the warnings of 400 years I assume the man stabbing … Continue reading
Adrian Blevins: Portrait of my X
I met him nearly twenty years ago in an early morning college yard and in all this time he has changed very little. Nothing about being alive exasperates me more … Continue reading
Video: A Virtual Tour through Ancient Rome in 320 C.E.
In this virtual tour, we discover ancient Rome, guided by renowned “virtual archaeologist” and overseer of the Rome Reborn project Dr. Bernard Frischer, professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. … Continue reading
Jose Padua: A Brief Meditation on the Days as They Rise
The other night my wife and I were talking about the murder of Walter Scott when our eleven year old daughter asked, “Why?” And she looked at my wife and … Continue reading →