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The Information Superhighway, The Feeling of Absurdity, Something is...
[Graphic: War of the Words by musicmistroandscetch.] By Edward Curtin Editor's NoteEdward Curtin presents an excellent and cogent discussion of something that has become so pervasive that it has wormed...
View ArticleThe Silent Cries of Hiding Children: Fifty Years After MLK’s Riverside Church...
[Photo: Syrian Child against the bombs (Mirian Raftery.)] By Edward Curtin Editor's NoteMany may find this essay, and the embodied poem, beyond uncomfortable. Perhaps because we hate to think of the...
View ArticleTrump Comes In From The Cold, Gets Media Respect
[Photo: “Obey” the power of money by Paul de Gregorio.] By Edward Curtin Editor's NotePlease save us from the insanely sick ‘patriotism’ that comes over the media, and too much of the populace, when...
View ArticleEscaping the Iron Cage of Hopelessness
[Photo: The “Milazzo Cage” by Sarah Rose.] By Edward Curtin Editor's NoteHave so-called “modern societies” trapped us all on the shifting sands of relativity with a false ends-means dilemma? Has...
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The “Deep State” Then and Now
By Edward Curtin Source: EdwardCurtin.com Editor's NoteWe are living in an incredibly complex time, and figuring out what is truth (or even real) is like trying to get a knot out of the line on your...
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A Passing Thought in the Age of Terror
By Ed Curtin Source: OpEd News Editor's NoteIn this poem Ed Curtin captures an experience that many (most? all?) have at some point. Something, maybe the evaporating aftereffects of some dream, sends...
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Slow Suicide and the Abandonment of the World
[Graphic: Barcode Evolution by RG Dart.] By Ed Curtin Source: OpEd News Editor's NoteIn this essay, Edward Curtin has captured an existential struggle that an increasing number of people in the United...
View ArticleThe Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
[Photo: Hiroshima shadows – child and pump.] By Edward Curtin Source: OpEdNews Editor's NoteSome atrocities are so big that it is difficult to grasp what they mean. It seems I run into this dilemma on...
View ArticleA Writer’s Last Port of Call: V.S. Naipaul
[Photo: V.S. Naipaul speaking in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2016 (Faizul Latif Chowdhury) ] By Edward Curtin Source: OpEdNews Editor's NoteI find it interesting how things come together in the world. It is...
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The Cell Phone and the Virgin (2018): A Montreal Odyssey
[Photo: ‘Home River’ by Paul Schullery.] By Edward Curtin Source: OpEdNews Editor's NoteThe chaos and vitriol seems to rise by the day. In its center is a chimera of the times; invested with extreme...
View ArticleThe Apocalypse Not Now
[Photo: Homeless Veteran in Boston. Matthew Woitunsski] By Edward Curtin Source: OpEdNews Editor's NoteIs the Trumpian apocalypse a false flag operation by the .01%? Where and how have you learned...
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Sometimes A Pair of Pants Can Give You Vertigo
By Edward Curtin As our minds constantly struggle with issues large and small, niggling doubts that sometimes lead to unexpected wonders, information and inspiration can come from the oddest of...
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The Fascinating Spell Cast by Weasels
[Photo: Truth isn’t truth: (Adam Zyglis August 21, 2018).] By Edward Curtin Source: EdwardCurin.com Editor's NoteWords; we are so surrounded by words that we lose the meaning even while they shape our...
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A Conspiracy Theorist Confesses to his Petty Crimes
[Photo: Nick Youngsten, CC BY-SA 3.0.] By Edward Curtin Editor's NoteI have been called a “conspiracy theorist” so many times in my life that I actually claim the title “Conspiracy Analyst”. The sad...
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Looking Through the Screen at the World’s Suffering
[Photo: Public Domain from MaxPixel] By Edward Curtin Source: EdwardCurtin Editor's NoteAcross the country people are struggling with loss of hope. This goes beyond political affiliation and to the...
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Once Upon a Time Never Comes Again: Bob Dylan, A Masked Man in Search of...
[Photo: by Ashutosh Sonwani on Pexels.] By Edward Curtin Editor's NoteEdward Curtin raises a problem that has plagued me for decades: separating the real from the make-believe, and from the...
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When Warriors Become Saints
[Photo: Sherwood Country Club gated community, Thousand Oaks, CA. (Le Grand Maison)] By Edward Curtin Editor's NoteEdward Curtin does an excellent job of bringing home the intricacies of class; not...
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Get To It
By Edward Curtin Editor's NoteCultures have an array of mechanisms for shaping our individual sense of identity and worth, our social placement within the group; how others see us and how we see...
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