Sound
Cracking Nuts Under The Apple Tree
Their music has an underlying groove combined with an earthy spirituality that makes you want to kick off your boots and dance around the nearest stone circle. (read more)
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Sound
Unleash The Tyraid
Underground Hip-Hop maverick Roqy Tyraid is returning to UK shores for a full headline run this August. So, what’s he got in store for this side of the Atlantic? (read more)
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Starcrawler, Grabbing Attention By The Bruised Throat
Trebuchet heads to London’s Garage to wave a camera at a real American nightmare – LA’s Starcrawler. (read more)
Society
A Taste of Dissent
Investigative journalist Abby Martin and the challenge of enquiry (read more)
News
A Whiff of Polonium, Or Smoke and Mirrors?
US economic and militarist aggression is to blame for Russian military posturing. (read more)
Society
Hypernormalisation & Modern Propaganda
Agents of truth and manipulation fight for posession of our soles Adam Curtis can help us understand the battlefield (read more)
Society
Guns, Firearms and (Don’t) Have a Go Heroes
Few among us can predict how they would respond in an eruption of violent, death-delivering madness. Better not to judge. (read more)
Society
Charting the Rustpiles and Ruins of America’s Dream
Tumbleweed and dust, neon and rust. Of such are mythologies made. (read more)
Features
Blended Dystopias, lovingly created nightmares
We have been imagining ‘Chimerica’ since Blade Runner in 1982 many years before the word was coined! The nightmare is made of the worst aspects of both worlds unbridled consumerism, industrial waste and authoritarian rule…er fantasy? (read more)
Society
SOTU 2018: Donald Trump Colonises America
Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech last week revealed many things and (surprise) more than a few echoes of colonialism. (read more)
Society
America, Whither Went the Dream?
On the hunt for the spectres of an American dream long departed (read more)
Society
Year Zero – Brexit and Nihilism
Sometimes we just have to state the obvious. Brexit is a bad idea. It has already split the country and gave voice to all manner of nasty beliefs once thought dead and buried. (read more)
Features
America, What Have You Done?
A photographic journey into America’s lost innocence (read more)
Features
America, Why Did You Stop Dreaming?
Chasing the ghosts of an American Dream (read more)
Society
Is Dubya a Democrat Now? Duopoly, Division and the Dunce
The majority of Democrats now have a positive opinion of war criminal George W. Bush. Why? (read more)
News
Drop and Roll: 3 Million Americans Carry Handguns
Most American gun-carriers are male, and cite protection as their primary reason (read more)
News
War? Famine? A Second Term of Trump? America’s Top Ten Fears
Chapman University releases 4th annual Survey of American Fears (read more)
Society
Mass Shootings Sell More Guns, So Don’t Expect To See Them Stop
Scared of guns? So get a gun! The unstoppable ‘logic’ of the firearm owner (read more)
Society
Opportunity Can’t Be Looted
Nobody loves a looter, but industrial-scale corruption is just fine (read more)
Society
Shake Those Chains – It’s Your Inalienable Right
In a society dominated by money and its protection, your only rights are to shout impotently (read more)
Society
Fire and Fury: Perpetual War = Perpetual High Dollar
The marriage of the high dollar to perpetual war becomes more blatant by the day (read more)
Society
Is Trump Getting Too Big For His (Concrete) Boots?
Elites have no issue with dead Muslims, but they will draw the line at presidential ineptitude (read more)
Society
Trump’s Antics Abroad Would be Scary – If He Held the Strings
Novelty Handshakes, Ketchup on Steak – Trump on Tour is Not Where the Power Lies (read more)
News
Take Two of These and Cold Turkey in the Morning: America’s Opiate Crisis
Researchers believe alternative pain management options should be integrated with inpatients, including acupuncture, tai chi and others (read more)
News
‘With Deep Regret’ (for about ten minutes): Teachers’ Resignation Letters
Teacher resignation letters paint bleak picture of US education (read more)
Society
Deep State, Media Vampirism and the MOAB Bomb
With the MOAB, High Dollar Despotism And Perpetual War show off their latest toy (read more)
Society
War Profiteering and the Business of Slaughter. Ker-Ching!
Let’s call the oligarchy of the elite what they are. Murderers. Cold blooded, remorseless murderers. (read more)
Society
Madam Hillary, Time to Go Home
In US politics, dignity is a rare commodity. Which doesn’t stop Madam Hillary burning what’s left of hers. (read more)
News
How Big is YOUR Busyness? Multitasking as Status Symbol
Lack of leisure: Is busyness the new status symbol? (read more)
Society
Affordable Care – For BigPharma. Time to Escape the Duopoly
The rubble of Trump’s presidency will form fertile ground for resistance – if we act now. (read more)