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Finding Ukraine in the US
I have not been alive, until now, for an invasion of a country in which I personally know dozens of people. I didn’t work or live in Ukraine as an adult; my relation to it resembles ...
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Talking Late-Capitalist Kenophobic ‘Post-Pandemic’ Blues
I had finally googled it sometime in lockdown – ‘kenophobia,’ or a fear of open spaces – subtly different from agoraphobia (the fear of leaving the house for a public space of any kind – a ...
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Isandlwana, The Mother of All Battles
This particular written project got percolating in my head when one of my co-editors, John Garvey, told me this. John recently asked his granddaughter whether she had Columbus Day off from school. She corrected ...
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After Memorial Day
Once when I was a kid, my father took me to a Memorial Day Parade in Manhattan. I had no idea why he decided to do so. I remember feeling uncomfortable during the parade and wondered ...
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Varkie (Piglet)
Varkie hailed from Kuruman, in the arid Great Karoo on the Ghaap Plateau. Before he was drafted into the army, Varkie was hired by the South African Railways (SAR), the government owned institution that ensured employment ...
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Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory – Two Short Essays
More Confusion – No Wonder! By Mike Morgan If there was a board game in which the winner would reveal the official historic and current U.S. position towards most of the Far East peoples and their ...
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Myanmar Micks
Let’s put this upfront and made clear, the Myanmar military junta is a murderous regime. It has seized control of the entire political apparatus, rounded up opposition politicians, and launched a war against everyday people around ...
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What a Waste!
Today’s NY Times has a flattering profile of Shannon Kent, a 35-year old woman in the US Navy, who was killed last month in northern Syria: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/shannon-kent-military-spy.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Apparently, much about her military career has been kept ...
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War Against War, Part II: The World is My Country
Long Live Peace–Richard Muller and the Revolutionary Shop Stewards There were already police informers at the dance-hall so they decamped to a pub in Sophienstrasse. There, a man with thick round glasses and a toothbrush moustache ...
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War Against War
As I’ve written previously, 2018 is the hundredth anniversary of the end of the bloody First World War. It’s received a good deal of attention in the media. Not surprisingly, one aspect of the war has ...
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