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Barbara Kruger’s “Anti-Retrospective” at Art Institute of Chicago

22/07/2021

Opening in September, the delayed solo exhibition will be the largest and most comprehensive presentation of Kruger's work in twenty years....

Self-Medication or Self-Anesthesia: It’s No Wonder We Tune Out

15/12/2017

Beneficiaries of the system promote their lies; the sane seek solace where they can get it...

The Many Uses of Dead Baby Whales

29/11/2017

Blue Planet II's weekly reminder that you are a sh*t...

Darkness at the Edge of Town

13/11/2017

Mass shootings are a reflection of a culture that used guns to create itself...

Winter? Embrace Your Depression, It’s The Soul’s Defiance

20/10/2017

Depression, seasonally affected or otherwise, may be the soul shunning the collective madness...

Shake Those Chains – It’s Your Inalienable Right

18/08/2017

In a society dominated by money and its protection, your only rights are to shout impotently...

Tune in, Turn On, Don’t die with your novel still in you.

08/08/2017

One man's wisdom is another man's trite platitude, but who wants to spend their life guarding dust?...

The Better Part of Valour. On Leaving the USA (or Anywhere)

29/06/2017

Sometimes the best thing to do is up sticks and go...

We Don’t Need New Politics, We Need New Gods

15/06/2017

What deities should be placed before the God of Money?...

Trump’s Antics Abroad Would be Scary – If He Held the Strings

01/06/2017

Novelty Handshakes, Ketchup on Steak - Trump on Tour is Not Where the Power Lies...

Speak. Or Forever Hold Your Peace?

05/05/2017

Constant communication communicates nothing. Would it help to stop and think?...

Deep State, Media Vampirism and the MOAB Bomb

18/04/2017

With the MOAB, High Dollar Despotism And Perpetual War show off their latest toy...

Affordable Care – For BigPharma. Time to Escape the Duopoly

23/03/2017

The rubble of Trump's presidency will form fertile ground for resistance - if we act now....

A Nuremberg Rally of One

27/02/2017

No book burning is required when the masses of the consumer state do not read books....

Anti-Trump Protests? Yes Please. Pro-Democrats Protests? No Thanks.

26/01/2017

Anti-Trump protests will lead nowhere if allowed to be channeled into the service of the Democratic Party. ...

Neurocinematic Testing: Will It Make You Scream?

24/01/2017

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcap t is always hard to predict the response of a massed audience, and almost impossible to objectively assess creative works. In the...

To Mow a Meadow (Green Scythe Fair)

12/01/2017

Remember where your food comes from. Remember the hands that toiled for you....

Two Faces, One Evil: The Bi-Party Sham of US Democracy

14/12/2016

Clinton, Trump, Putin - Put any one of them in the White House, the rich still get richer...

Queasy Democrats – Make Your Wound a Womb

11/11/2016

Only an honest appraisal of the situation will prove of benefit for Democrats yet to come...

Deplorable Lives Matter : Why Sneering at Proles Doesn’t Work Either

05/11/2016

Angry alienated American whites are not a Trump invention, and patronising them won't make them go away...

Fear and Fascism: Tools of the Trade

05/12/2015

To persist, the capitalist order demands submission to ruthless authority and must peddle fear of an alien other....

The Carnival of Consumerism and its Tawdry Trinkets

03/10/2015

How sensation replaces experience in the Late Capitalist Empire...

Delighted! On Bernie Sanders Congratulating Jeremy Corbyn

21/09/2015

Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn may use a similar rhetoric, but there it stops....

Lauding Republicans (reluctantly). US Election Hyperbole and Hypocrisy

30/07/2015

McCain is not a war hero. Heroes do not drop bombs on civilian targets from tens of thousands of feet...

Small of Stature, Great of Nature

02/07/2015

The diminutive are spurned, scorned, defamed and relegated to the margins....

On Killer Cops and Reverse Racism

09/12/2014

Does one identify with and/or benefit from hyper-authoritarian power or does one empathize with the plight of the powerless?...

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...

Empire’s Halloween Pt 1

27/10/2012

The US Empire is dead meat. We should lose the imagery of a noble and lofty bald eagle: rotting road kill should be proclaimed our official national animal....

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