I wrote this piece under severe duress, duress from my own self. I wanted to ignore the whole issue, but my conscience would not allow it; I could not sit by and ignore buffoonery, white supremacy and bias from the corporate media and their spokespersons to go unchallenged. What was...
Just as the Israeli settler state is engaged in fierce warfare with Palestine’s Native people, director/co-writer Felipe Gálvez’s has produced a timely film called The Settlers, which offers an unsettling look at the colonization of Tierra del Fuego in Chile circa 1900. The film features a British soldier Alexander MacLennan...
In a 1952 song entitled “Bye Bye Big Brass,” anti-war singer Woody Guthrie dreamed up a scenario in which he is shipped off to the Korean War and, rather than kill a Chinese soldier he encounters, sits and talks with him by a campfire, hides out with him, and...
On the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, many in Hawai’i, the 50th territory to “join”/acquire U.S. statehood, decided not to celebrate. When you better know the history of how rich and greedy U.S. citizens, many of them descendants of the missionaries from the 1830s, conducted a coup that...