Onward, Christian Soldiers!

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๏ปฟA few weeks ago I received two letters in the mail. They were addressed to me by name and sent to my address on Washington Island, WI. One was from former Vice President of the U.S., Mike Pence. The other was from Edwin Meese, former Attorney General in the Ronald Reagan Administration who is now …

Reflections from January 26th in Dallas

This piece is also posted on Haters Cafe. โ€œA bunch of people just felt free for the first time,โ€ was the immediate reaction of a seasoned comrade to a protest on January 26th, 2025. The demonstration was organized by two Latina high school girls to support migrants against the escalating deportations and racist policies coming …

The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly

Review: Conor McCabe, ed., The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly: 1889-1898 (Iskra Books, 2024) โ€œThe election of a Socialist to any public body at presentโ€, declared James Connolly in 1894, โ€œis only valuable, in so far as it is the return of a disturber of the political peace.โ€ Born in an Edinburgh slum …

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In Otero

Emilien Bernard and Pauline Laplace are two alternative free-lance journalists working for the Marseille critical monthly CQFD, which has a substantial French global distribution (about 10, 000 copies) and argues for an anarchist perspective. CQFD means Ce Quโ€™il Faut Dรฉmontrer. The two journalists travelled to the USA to report about the southern wall.  A special dossier โ€œUSA: droit dans le murโ€ …
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Reading Pan-African Revolt

โ€œI mean, weโ€™re talking about the last twenty years. Thatโ€™s most of our lives. Maybe even all of yours!โ€ Tentative silence. Itโ€™s always hard to gauge how this kind of direct appeal will go over. Then again, itโ€™s hard to know what works on a Monday morning in a classroom of college students. In November. …

First as Tragedy, Then as Slop

…I think itโ€™s safe to identify MrBeastโ€™s primary schtick as the fusion of two favorite ultra-rich past times, philanthropy and decadence. MrBeast is far from the first tycoon to master these crafts. However, his Frankenstein brand of philanthropic decadence is the novelty that has propelled him to the top of YouTube, becoming the first โ€œbillionaire YouTuber.โ€

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Stick-up on Rikers Island

It started with the phones. A few minutes before 9:30 on Saturday morning, mid-conversation with wives, children, friends, and lawyers, the lines all went dead. This was March 22nd. Visits had been suspended a week prior, so the phones had become our only real link to the outside world. Of course, the underlying frustration had …

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Indigenous Peoplesโ€™ Day โ€“ 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. ย  John recently asked his granddaughter whether she had Columbus Day off from school. ย  She corrected him,ย  โ€œGrandpa itโ€™s Indigenous Peoplesโ€™ Day.โ€ย ย  Now that the script has been adjusted to fit the current politically self-righteous …

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