LINK TO RECORDING:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uco39j3725k My earliest school memory: I was at nursery school, 5 years old It was only October,but I had convinced my mother to let me wear my older sister’s black leather ski boots with stubby toes. At the end of outside time, I climbed a mound of dirt. crossed my arms, and surveyed the whole yard, my domain. “I’m going to be a robber!” I said aloud to no one.  Only recently did I recall what may have inspired this vision: Basil Rathbone’s retelling of the Robin Hood story on a 78 recording that I listened to over and […]

The genocide in Gaza is the primary contradiction in the world today. The international capitalist class is viciously united against the global south. Gaza is their message that they will do anything to stay in power.  What we have to do is make taking money from AIPAC and voting for funding Israeli genocide the kiss of death to candidates running for re-election, democrats in particular. We can’t afford to turn our back on the Democratic Party; instead, we need to redouble our efforts to raise the pro-Palestine, anti-genocide movement beyond the ridiculous antisemitism charge. We need to do sit-ins in Schumer’s, Buttigieg’s, […]

The core collective of humans (The Temple of Isis) in my forthcoming novel, Thoth and the Cosmic Orgasm, postulates a strategy of uniting, through the internet, all the people in the world who agree with these three points of unity, Stop all wars, Save the earth, Share the wealth. I plan to raise this idea at the Socialism Conference in Chicago over the 4th of July. If you are interested in helping develop this concept — especially if you have technical skills — let me know in Messenger.  I asked Chat GPT the following question: How would you set up an online organization […]

The DEI – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – initiatives that are such a bane to the white supremacists, are a lame substitute for Affirmative Action, itself a lame substitute for Reparations. I have a practical plan for how genuine Reparations could be implemented, but first I want to argue that Reparations for slavery and subsequent discrimination of Black Americans is powerfully in the interest of white Americans as well. Here are the main reasons: The U.S. Census Bureau reported that in 2020 that white households had a median wealth of $250,400, while Black households had a median wealth of $24,520, […]

I’m in Mexico for a couple months, which gives one a perspective outside the mendacious reach of the MSM.  It’s not about money. It’s not about greed. It’s about stark terror. The billionaire class can count. They know their days are numbered. The degree of economic inequality that they have perpetrated is utterly unsustainable. It’s only a matter of time before the ginormous international working class gets it together and overthrows capitalism, a system that has egregiously outlasted its usefulness.  Will they go so far as to halve the world’s population by nuclear war in order to stay in power? […]

The cause of Trump’s literally stunning victory is all of our failure to defeat white supremacy. Here’s one example: Many of us in the upheaval of the sixties and seventies huddled together with like minded folk in congenial enclaves on the coasts, abandoning the people, our relatives and former friends, of what we so unlovingly call flyover country. We didn’t take up arms when the slavocracy reinvented itself as it ended Reconstruction and established fascist regimes throughout the south before the word was even coined. We stood by and failed to make lynching illegal nationally until 2022. We apologized for […]

A Cautionary Tale A Short Story Souls on ICE Henry Hitz They weren’t the best neighbors, Jorge Rodriguez, his wife Mercedes, and their three kids. The three-year-old Jesus screamed a lot, especially at night when it was time to sleep, as if their houses were too close together. Valarie, eleven, seemed relatively together in her blue and white Catholic school uniform, but she was a serial litterer, leaving candy wrappers and empty Dorito bags strewn along the sidewalk as she walked home from school. And then there was Alberto, sullen but mature at 15, with what looked to Mike like […]

We need to ensure that the children of Gaza haven’t died in vain. Their deaths and the brutal genocide that caused them is inspiring an international movement to end the cynical nonsense of war. We might be approaching a revolutionary moment. Is it 1904 in Russia? The people lost that war the next year but established the foundation of their victory in 1917. Biden and his ilk have seriously fucked up, exposing their beloved capitalism as a genocidal monster. You see what he’s saying in Gaza: to maintain our imperial hegemony, we will do anything, no matter how horrendous. Biden will lose […]

No. Go ahead and mourn. We need to mourn the magnitude of Israeli genocide. But we need to get beyond lamentation. As the leader of the US ruling class, Biden is showing us just how far they will go to keep their imperial hegemony. It’s not a new message. They repeated it in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Korea, Vietnam, South and Central America, Iraq, Libya, Afgahnistan. It doesn’t matter that the US “lost” those wars, it’s the message of utterly cynical committent to genocide. Linden Johnson said it best in his address to the troops in Vietnam. “They want what we got, […]

YEMEN MARCHES FOR PALESTINE Thomas Friedman wrote a column in the New York Times this week entitled “A Titanic Geopolitical Struggle is Underway.” The column clarifies the neoliberal imperialist view of Israel’s Gaza genocide, as well as the Ukraine war. Before reading it, my conclusion was that it Bibi must have pictures of US politicians on Epstein’s island for Biden and his Democratic colleagues to pursue a policy of supporting genocide that will almost certainly cost them the election in November.  But Friedman puts the genocide in context. The “titanic” struggle (will it sink too?) he describes is between what […]