Meditation on the Fear and Fact of Death
But reading this will make you feel very much alive.
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Evolving: A Poem
A poet can make beauty out of the ugliest things on earth.
Stages: A Poem
A poem that evokes the poignancy of a short-lived illusion.
Sony’s Christmas Gift & the $14-Million-an-Hour Bill: Dec. 23, 2014
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Holiday Gifts of Magic and Mayhem by Milicent Cranor If you are repelled by the aggressive commercialism of the season, and bored with the ritual giving of the usual mass-produced items from predatory corporations—then keep reading! We have some ideas for unusual gifts that could not only give enormous pleasure but […]
Time Marches On, Free Trade Flies & the FBI Fumbles: Dec. 31, 2014
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Great Quotations on the Mysteries of Time by Milicent Cranor As 2014 slides into 2015, we pause for a moment to ponder this mysterious thing called time. You can’t hold it in your hand. You can’t stop it, slow it down, or speed it up. You can’t see it any more […]
MLK’s Nightmare: Jan. 19, 2015
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy MLK Also Had a Nightmare by Milicent Cranor In honor of Martin Luther King Day, WhoWhatWhy looks back through the history of American racism, at the kind of hatred and atrocities that spurred King into action. Rather than the stuff of dreams, much of it was from a living nightmare. WHO […]
Indelible Images of Memorial Day & the CIA’s JFK Files: May 25, 2015
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Memorial Day in Images by Milicent Cranor In honor of Memorial Day, we present works of art depicting scenes from various American wars of the last two centuries. WHO US Military and Civilians are Increasingly Divided This Los Angeles Times special report explores the deepening demographic divide between the less than 1% […]
Book Excerpt: “Syria Burning”
If you want to know the who, what, why of how things got so bad in the Syria (and, in some ways, the rest of the Middle East)—read this excerpt from Syria Burning by Charles Glass, a book so beautifully written you will hardly know you are reading. It is more like seeing.
Published by OR Books, New York and London, 2015.
The Ferguson Report. Part 1: Breathing While Black, and Other Offenses
It has been said that African-Americans are often arrested for “driving while black.” In fact, African-Americans seem to be arrested for walking, talking—or just breathing—while black. Here we present excerpts from The Ferguson Report, an astonishing catalog of grinding daily harassments, humiliations—and worse—by a police department intent on keeping a people “in their place” while earning revenue for the city by writing as many tickets as possible.
The Ferguson Report. Department of Justice Investigation into the Ferguson Police Department. US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. The New Press, New York, London. 2015
Historical Backstory to Those Fleeing Syrians
If you want to know the who, what, why of how things got so bad in Syria — and, in some ways, the rest of the Middle East — read this excerpt from Syria Burning by Charles Glass.
Published by OR Books, New York and London, 2015.
JFK Assassination Plot Mirrored in 1961 France: Part 1
Part 1 of this 3-part series is about the many reasons why the CIA and the French right wing want to bring down Charles de Gaulle. It is also about the deep connections of the CIA to France’s own intelligence agencies and government, and why de Gaulle wanted to purge his country of these insidious ties.
JFK Assassination Plot Mirrored in France: Part 2
In Part 2 of this 3-part series, Kennedy learns of Dulles’s involvement in plotting to overthrow de Gaulle, and assures the French of his support for de Gaulle, while warning them, “the CIA is such a vast and poorly controlled machine that the most unlikely maneuvers might be true.” But not even the CIA, with all its right-wing allies, was any match for the millions of French who stood up for de Gaulle.