by Mark Linnhoefer A foul stench in professional journalism… …is slowly creeping up the nose of anyone in the field that has followed the events of the past few days. The horrors of Paris are still haunting the media landscape, the wounds are still fresh, and the question the seems […]
by Lawrence Weschler from Salon.com Back in the days of Occupy Wall Street, David Graeber, the anthropologist-author of “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” and one of the movement’s principal catalyzing theorists, got a whole lot of things exactly right and at least one thing (as far as I was concerned at […]
by Alex Severino Violent thoughts and satanic ambitions; branding skin with marks of malevolence. Sounds of the scream replace the composed voice. Staccato syllables conjure visions of death, depression, and deceit. Sexualized scenes of lyrical synapsis; tales of talismanic possessions utilized as weapons to destroy the accuser’s adversary. Censorship of […]
By: Mark A. Linnhofer I came across the Transatlantic Trade And Investment Partnership on one of those hung-over Sunday mornings where everything just seems kind of shitty through the haze of pain killers, weed, and the remaining blood-alcohol-level. I was unsuspectingly skimming through a variety of news, when a commentary […]
by Christopher Joyce Taken from Chapter 6, Ginger Gone Bitter, out of Canal Days… (a Celebration of Counterfeit Dreams…), I celebrated my eighteenth at home with Ginger, Haddie, Jack, and Jordan. It was supposed to be a quiet party, just Haddie, Jack, Ginger, myself, and good old fashioned weed, beer, […]
from Rolling Stone The conservative wave of 2014 featured an unlikely, progressive undercurrent: In two states, plus the nation’s capital, Americans voted convincingly to pull the plug on marijuana prohibition. Even more striking were the results in California, where voters overwhelmingly passed one of the broadest sentencing reforms in the […]
from the New York Observer Jan. 10. 2015 Robert Crumb is considered by many to be the single best cartoonist America has ever produced. The creator of counter culture icons like Fritz the Cat, the Keep On Truckin guy and Mr Natural, Mr. Crumb was inducted into the comic book […]
from Democracy Now Art Spiegelman is renowned American cartoonist, editor and comics advocate. In 1992 he won a Pulitzer Prize for “Maus,” considered one of the most important graphic novels ever published and one of the most influential works on the Nazi Holocaust. Spiegelman also founded the comics magazine RAW. […]
from popularresistance.org On Jan. 22, journalist, activist and author Barrett Brown, 33, is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay in Dallas for threatening an FBI agent, hiding evidence during an FBI raid, and attempting to negotiate on behalf of a person wanted by the FBI […]
by Jeremy Hammond for the Guardian Here in prison, I am asked a lot about hacking and especially about Anonymous, because of course there is interest in new technologies like Bitcoin for money or darknets for fraud. After all, convicts – like hackers – develop their own codes and ethics, and they […]
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