By Neil Cosgrove Both the mythology surrounding the origins of modern capitalism, and the moral complacency that passes for “sanity” in the complex societies capitalism has wrought, are called into question by […]
Was Thomas Merton Assassinated?
By Joyce Rothermel Idling Intellect Whenever ‘conspiracy theory’ I hear I know that a brain has just gone out of gear. The common phenomenon again I behold. Of a person determined to […]
Cranking for Change
Photo by Bette McDevitt By Bette McDevitt During the Three Rivers Art Festival, I found my favorite at the Space Gallery; Marx@200, honoring the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. By the time […]
Wreck
By Angele Ellis no moon, no stars. the streetlamps as distant as Venus. i boarded the wrong bus— thought i had encompassing right. my membrane of safety slipped like a […]
White Supremacy and the 2nd Amendment
By Michael Drohan Review of book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, City Lights Books, 2018. This wonderful peoples’ history by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz follows her earlier book […]
Off Our Rockers and Into the Streets
By Bette McDevitt You may have seen us over the years. Raging Grannies, wearing hats salvaged from attics, shiny beads reminiscent of Mardi Gras, and buttons with slogans that catalog past causes […]
East End Community Thrift Communal Poem
By Shawna Hammond We left a notebook out to be discovered by shoppers, volunteers or any visitors to the store. On the page, a poem title was suggested with the invitation for […]
Think Like a Commoner: A Review
By Laura Quinn In a New York Times Book Review retrospective on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, novelist Martin Amis peevishly claims that “the chief demerit of the Marxist program […]
Art Saves Lives
(Photo provided by author) By Roy My Grandfather survived a genocide,”The Great Fire of Smyrna” of 1922. He fled to a nearby Greek island, Chios, losing a brother and parents. Occurring days […]
A Hellish Bargain
By Michael Drohan Review of book: Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green, 2017. Green’s book relives the events that catapulted Donald Trump to […]
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