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Banksters: A Story of Debits and Credits
During the “Great Recession,” which was brought on by the banksters themselves who usually take the money and run, I wrote an article titled โBurn Down the Banks?โ It was prompted by the financial crisis of ...
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Social Forces and Me
When my beat up 2009 Jetta with 70, 000 miles was stolen on the street in front of the apartment building where I live, I felt isolated, alone and a victim. It was the big impersonal ...
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Eric Garner, the Informal Economy, and the System’s War on Those Who Depend On It
When Eric Garner was murdered by New York City police in July 2014, the cops had targeted him on suspicion of selling โloosiesโ โ single cigarettes taken from illegally untaxed cigarette packs. Witnesses claimed that Garner ...
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Michigan Deluge? Capitalist Catastrophe
For all that donโt know, and most outside of the region (Detroit, southeast Michigan and mid-Michigan) donโt know because the national media has had little to no coverage, we were hit really hard by a serious ...
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Frozen in the Heart of Texas
Here in Houston, we are no stranger to natural disaster. Our addiction to the petrochemical industry should qualify us as masochists. I lived through Tropical Storm Allison, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Harvey, and countless flood events in-between. ...
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On Bruce Springsteen and his Super Bowl Ad…Two Short Essays
“Against the Middle” By John Garvey Thereโs a chapel in Kansas Standing on the exact center of the lower forty-eight. It never closes. All are more than welcome To come meet here, in the middle. Itโs ...
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How Reddit Fight Club Pissed Off Wall Streetย
โMy barber made $28Gs on Robinhood,โ my brotherโs best friend texted me early Thursday morning. A minute later, I received another ping but this time from my brother. โReddit took down Wall Street. David versus Goliath,โ ...
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Ho Ho This!
Christmas is here and if you live in America you know this because the bombardment starts on Thanksgiving.ย The television commercials are a dead giveaway, plus the specially named shopping days, โBlack Fridayโ or โCyber Monday.โย ...
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On the Current Crisis in South Africa
Hard Crackers has reached out to a South African independent social justice publication called New Frame Magazine.ย New Frame describes itself as such:ย We are dedicated to a pro-poor, pro-working class focus that aims to report ...
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Class on Crack
This is a story about crack, and everything that cracks underneath its weight. For the uninitiated, some exposition is warranted. The genre of the gonzo drug abuse romp has had its day, and neither is this ...
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