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Edward Curtin is a widely published author. His new book is Seeking Truth in A Country of Lies - https://www.claritypress.com/product/seeking-truth-in-a-country-of-lies/ His website is http://edwardcurtin.com/
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 23, 2022 The Assassination and Mrs. Paine
This is a review essay about a very important new documentary film about the assassination of JFK. Its focus is on a woman who was the chief Warren Commission witness against Lee Harvey Oswald. It was in her home that Marina Oswald lived and Lee visited on weekends
(18 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 15, 2022 The Subtleties of Anti-Russia Leftist Rhetoric
The right-wing and the neocons are obvious in their pernicious agendas, nothing is really hidden therefore they can and should be opposed but many leftists serve two masters and are far subtler.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, December 17, 2021 Mr. Blue and Maria: A Musical Dream
Music and movies have a way of casting spells on us. They can set us dreaming like little else. They draw from us the deepest and most celestial yearnings. This is a musical dream.
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(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 19, 2021 U.S. Terrorism 101: The Bert Sacks Story
That the U.S. government is a terrorist state has been shown over and over again. The case of Bert Sacks is an exemplary one in that it shows how one person can change others and prove by its own laws that the U.S. government considers itself above the the law and can kill and maim with impunity while calling others terrorists.
SHARE Wednesday, November 10, 2021 A Quest for Wisdom: Inspiring Purpose on the Path of Life
This is an illuminating book filled with essays about one man's search for wisdom. Not well known to Americans, its author David Lorimer is a gem well worth discovering
SHARE Thursday, June 10, 2021 The Etymological Animal Must Slip Out of the Cage of Habit to Grasp Truth
In today's computer-driven world, one thing that people have been told for decades is to be vigilant that their computers do not become infected with viruses. This meme was slipped regularly into popular consciousness. To avoid infection, everyone was advised to make sure to have virus protection and here we are.
SHARE Monday, May 24, 2021 Bob Dylan at Eighty: A Masked Man in Search of Redemption?
Dylan, the spellbinder, has, through his public personae, hypnotized his followers with his tantalizing and wonderful music. "Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me," wrote D.H. Lawrence in his poem, "Song of a Man Who Has Come Through." This sounds like Dylan's artistic credo.
(21 comments) SHARE Friday, May 21, 2021 Second-Stage Terror Wars
The road from 9/11 to the corona crisis connects familiar faces and much more. Twenty years have elapsed and the links tell us that the war on terror needs an update and new opponents. Philip Zelikow pops up again.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 9, 2021 Walking with Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., a Criminal for Peace
Today is Fr. Daniel Berrigan's 100th birthday. Although he died five years ago, his spirit lives on to inspire so many. This is a reminiscence of how he once came into the life of a young man to deeply influence his life.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 2, 2021 Between Us
Maybe he was asking the wrong question. He felt in a flash that he knew the answer but couldn't say what the true question was. But it didn't seem to matter now. He felt as he walked ahead he was heading back to find his future in the present.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 4, 2021 The Assassination and Resurrection of Martin Luther, King, Jr.
This year, the anniversary of the murder of the Christian prophet and martyr, Martin Luther King, Jr., falls on Easter Sunday, April 4, which gives rise to doubly deeper thoughts that cross religious boundaries... for very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the United States' celebrated civil rights icon.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, March 29, 2021 Rise Up, Say the Birds to the Bread
There are profound reasons why birds and bread have held such important places in people's spiritual lives and imaginations for thousands of years. They symbolize our human solidarity in the breaking of the bread and our need for freedom in the winged beauty and song of birds in flight.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 25, 2021 The Pine-eyed Boy Escapes from the Belly of the Dark Night in the Fish's Tale
Life is dangerous; we can end at any time. We can also be swallowed by the inarticulate, find ourselves tongue-tied in the face of simple truth, especially the personal kind and how our small-world stories are intertwined with the larger social ones. How there is no escaping that.
(16 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Opening the CIA's Can of Worms
To denounce censorship, as they have done, is admirable. But now Greenwald, Taibbi, and Hedges need go up to the forbidden gate with the sign that says - "This far and no further" - and jump over it. That's where the true stories lie. That's when they'll see the worms squirm.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 10, 2021 The Invincible Green Stick of Happiness
Have you ever heard of the green stick of happiness? It exists, but you usually only find it when you aren't looking for it. It is a revelation when it finds you.
(20 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 3, 2021 A Review: Greg Poulgrain's Book "JFK vs. Allen Dulles"
The book by Greg Poulgrain that I am about to review is extraordinary by any measure. The story he tells is one you will read nowhere else, especially in the way he links the assassination of President Kennedy to former CIA Director Allen Dulles and the engineering by the latter of one of the 20th century's most terrible mass murders.