Below the elevated platform at the Astoria Boulevard/Hoyt Avenue N train station, my neighborhood plays host to Columbus Square — which is actually shaped like a warped triangle. Let Manhattan have its mundane Columbus Circle, we in Queens are far more geometrically sophisticated. It’s a square triangle for us. Naturally, a statue of Christopher Columbus […]
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[This is the transcript of a talk I gave to Bath Friends of Palestine on 25 February 2022.] Since I arrived with my family in the UK last summer, I have been repeatedly asked: “Why choose Bristol as your new home?” Well, it certainly wasn’t for the weather. Now more than ever I miss Nazareth’s […]
Despite a climate of continuing mask confusion and deviantly “variant” COVID-19 strains: “It’s Tourist Season Again in the United States of America!” Now, if you’re traveling across the USA this Summer, you may encounter a startling sight known as the St Louis “Gateway” Arch as you navigate which Interstate Highway will best deliver you to […]
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Sometimes, when a new dynasty began in ancient Egypt, the new Pharaoh would have his predecessor's name chiseled off statues and Temple wall carvings. More recently, when authoritarian governments fall, either revolutionaries have pulled down the statues of tyrants or incoming governments did it. It's an anomaly of history not just that rebel leaders' statues have remained standing in the U.S.
Learning from Others: Germans and White Supremacists
Generic drugs, monumental decisions and zombie butterflies + this day in history w/the Halifax explosion and our song of the day by The James Hunter Six on your Morning Monarchy for December 6, 2017.
While the list of statues that leftists want removed grows, opponents call for the removal of historical monuments honoring Democrats who were racially biased, Vladimir Lenin and former President Bill Clinton. [...]
This week on the show the ACR Brain-Trust is back with another meeting of the Social Reject Club in the No Friends Left Zone and the gang is discussing the aftermath of the Charlottesville protests and subsequent vehicle incident that left a woman dead. We examine the media psyops which aim to hoodwink the public into believing that there is a large force of racist neo-Nazis that consist of anyone right-of-center in the political spectrum and to tie them to President Trump.
More Manson, less religion and May Day Beltane + this day in history w/Port Arthur massacre and our song of the day by Brett Dennen on your Morning Monarchy for April 28, 2016.
