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We've Stared Down The Barrel of Neoliberalism's Economic Sawed Off Shotgun, For So Long, We Forgot How To Live.
During the last week of each month, insomnia visits my bedroom.
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Canada Day In The Before Times When Workers Were Permitted Leisure.
I still haven't disposed of my dad's ashes, along with my mother's, and a share of my brother's dust.
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2025 Has Much In Common With The Rise of Fascism In The 1930s.
In part, this substack is about an odyssey through the hostile badlands of capitalism by those I loved the most, my family.
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NATO Protects America’s Military Industrial Complex, Not Democracy.
There are only a few swigs of June remaining, but the dregs of it- taste brackish.
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The World Ends Not With A Bang. But With A "Thank-You For Your Attention To This Matter."
The West is deep into the weeds of wars Israel conducts against Iran, Lebanon and Syria because they benefit our imperialism and theirs.
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We Forget Our Working Class History At Our Peril.
Harry Leslie Smith was an ordinary man who lived through extraordinary times.
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During A Live Streamed Genocide, World Refugee Day Feels Like A Farce
It’s World Refugee Day, but the majority of folk don't care because the corporate news media had them suckling on hate and ignorance for so long that…
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The Greatest Generation's Revolution Must Be Our Inspiration For Revolution.
It’s not bad news, but it felt like it when my oncologist phoned yesterday about my recent CT scans.
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Father's Day-And The Awfully Big Adventure..
The last Father’s Day I spent with my dad was June 2018.
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Harry Leslie Smith never forgot or forgave what capitalism did to workers during the Great Depression.
Since 2010, I have been living with some form or another of Harry Leslie Smith's The Green and Pleasant Land because that was the year my Dad began his…
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Capitalism Is The Arsonist Lighting The Fires Now Burning Down The Planet.
The night before last, I forgot to close my window. So when I woke yesterday morning, my lungs felt as if they had smoked 2 packs of filterless Camel…
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Can Cuba Outlast America's Dying Empire or Will It End As A Murder Suicide?
The early 1990s were Cuba's "special period", and it was misery for anyone not well connected to black marketeers or apparatchiks of influence.
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