JR Leach I had this vision back last spring, When the land was ruled by corrupted kings, And greed was fuelled by hoarding things, But things that one could touch. The vision spoke of melted gold, The value of the world resold, “The price for life” is what we’re told, By men who own too …
Edward Curtin In his new, six-part, seven hours plus documentary – “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World” – the celebrated English documentary filmmaker, Adam Curtis, who has worked for the BBC for decades, tells us that nothing makes sense anymore and it is… pointless to try to …
Christine E. Black I want to be the child In my neighborhood, Kicking a ball down a wet street, Dirty snow and ice crusting cars, Paint-chipped wagon And a pile of bikes in the yard, His little brother And a gang of more children, Trailing behind. One bangs a stick On the ground, all their …
This powerful short film from British teenager Liv McNeil tells one story of millions, of how lockdown is punishing children by denying them education, social contact and generally a normal life. It comes out amid new research highlighting the toll the “pandemic” response has taken on the mental health of children, with surges in self-harm …
Edward Curtin It’s hard to say where things begin, but they do, as do we, and we are somehow in them and they in us, and a story begins. Then the story gets silently disclosed as we live it, even though most of us don’t tell it until later, if we can find our tongues. …
Edward Curtin After a night of haunting dreams that flowed as if they were written like running water, written on air, as the Roman poet Catullus once said, in the depth of a dark winter morning, I decided that I would take a walk in the afternoon, hoping that the sun would then appear, and …
Sometimes something is just so unfair you have to take a moment to correct the record: Gina Carano didn’t say anything racist, and was not fired for saying anything racist. She was fired for being just a bit of an outsider. For thinking for herself, and expressing those thoughts.
Edward Curtin Before I digress slightly, let me state from the outset that 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 …
2+2=5 is an award-winning Iranian short film written and directed by Babak Anvari. First released in 2011, but arguably never more relevant than today, it is a beautiful concise and powerful rebuke of totalitarianism. Free speech and free expression have perhaps never been so threatened by groupthink as they are today. Watch and share widely. …
Ian Fantom Ludwig van Beethoven was baptised on 17 December, 1770, and so was probably born on the 16th. I remember the fuss made by the mainstream media on the occasion of his 200th anniversary just 50 years ago, but where are the mainstream media now? I’ve heard nothing from them so far in the …
