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Death of a Salesman – Harare Style

16/06/2014

In Zimbabwe... relationships are still alive, still important. They’re the only thing that carried so many through such trying times....

Politics as usual, Has Failed

27/05/2014

In our time, politics as usual has failed to address the most pressing issues of the age...

Patriotism and Silence

07/04/2014

How can the U.S. not be a haunted land? The country's blood-soaked soil chants songs of lamentation. ...

A picture of police by freedigitalphotos and digidreamgrafix

Black Police Good For Comedy Value

01/04/2014

'many United States citizens are not ready to accept an African-American in a serious authoritative role'...

Dragons or Flies? The State Apparatus of Fear

31/03/2014

Meet your fears, look them in the eye, live among them for a time. Discern whether they consist of an insect buzzing at your windowpane or is a dragon on the roof...

Avoiding Cold War with Texan Vodka

21/03/2014

Distillers are producing at least 17 Texas vodkas....

Fuel Your Truck With Alligator Fat

18/03/2014

Animal fats, including those from alligators, could give an economical, ecofriendly boost to the biofuel industry...

A picture of Les Claypool's Duo De Twang album

Les Claypool’s Duo de Twang : Four Foot Shack

17/03/2014

There will be someone out there, bored by the usual, willing to listen to a bluegrass barn-dance inspired acoustic record that contains covers of the Bee Gees and Alice in Chains....

A picture of tankers by John Marakevelis

Walking in an Anthropocene Wonderland

13/03/2014

Although we have been graced with life - all its possibilities and abundance - it has become apparent, we have fallen in love with Extinction....

Fear in a Handful of Dust

03/03/2014

The times call for us to explore the soul's topography of exaggeration, and this is propitious because it is not possible to exaggerate the peril we face if we cling to the status quo...

Imagination in a Soulless Age

24/02/2014

Often a collapse, a breakdown, a depression—some sort of unsolvable crisis is required before the soul's message is heard. ...

Death on the Fault Line

10/02/2014

Torture, blood sacrifice and sinister messages extracted from Beatles lyrics. The final surges of the California Death Ray. ...

Football, Freedom, America

08/02/2014

Last Sunday, America played America in the most American football freedom thing you can ever watch because AMERICA....

Macklemore’s Grammy Gold

01/02/2014

After pop rapper Macklemore took Grammy gold, many are crying cultural appropriation. ...

Cleantech Crash? Why Government Should Go Green

11/01/2014

The government has a definite role to play in the promotion of new green technologies and energy sources, no matter what budget hawks like to think....

Bombino : The Magic Hat [Live]

24/12/2013

This is the music of the desert, the kind played around a fire while the stars shine brighter than anywhere else in the world....

Spooks in the Machine : The NSA and Gaming

21/12/2013

While the leaks continue to prove the extent to which American spy agencies are willing to circumvent and undercut civil liberties, what is more shocking is just how paranoid and out of touch spy...

666 Degrees of Separation

20/12/2013

Manson has lost some of his ability to exercise the media for his own sinister purpose, but still retains the sanguine air of a devil in temporary chains....

A picture of Venice Beach by Freedigitalphotos.net/Damien Brandon

Valley Girls : Is This a Question?

08/12/2013

Uptalk is a part of southern California English that transcends gender boundaries, and several other boundaries as well...

Detroit : How Good is it Really?

03/12/2013

Get in while the dirt and the grime is still a part of the city. You can’t understand Detroit without it, and once it’s gone, the city will be that much poorer....

A picture of surfers walking on a beach in the sunset. By Sean Keenan

Ride the Wild Surf

27/11/2013

California is quite simply projecting the dreams of a dying Sun God into the ether...

The Broken Circle Breakdown [Film]

25/11/2013

The Broken Circle Breakdown is truly a moving piece of work at points, its expert direction neatly sidestepping the possibility of melodrama...

A False Sense of Security

16/11/2013

Two years ago, I left the US for Europe and Africa. Upon my return, I found a nation that had traded away vaunted ideals for a false sense of security....

Daring to Have Dreams

02/11/2013

All too many individuals had their dreams kicked out of them at an early age. We must come back to fantasy to keep a grip on reality....

Let The Liberals Drink Tea

20/10/2013

The liberal tradition has always been to place property rights above human rights...

Portraits of American Bikers [Interview]

11/10/2013

It's about people keeping their word, helping one another when in need and always showing a certain amount of respect for individualism, without judgment....