Today's Stories

April 17-20, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
Thin Ice From Here to the Horizon

April 16, 2009

Mike Whitney
A Bulletin From the Captain of the Titantic

Russell Mokhiber
The Top 10 Enemies of Single-Payer

Ronald Teska
From Iraq to Appalachia

Gareth Porter
Predator Blowback

Paul Fitzgerald /
Elizabeth Gould
Thinking Like an Afghan

Benjamin Dangl
Latin America Changes

Kevin Pina
Haiti: Obama's First Foreign Policy Disaster?

Robert Bryce
Another Ethanol Producer Goes Bust

George Wuerthner
See the Forest: the Value of Dead Trees

Paul Garon, David Roediger and Kate Khatib The Surreal Life of Franklin Rosemont

Website of the Day
Socialism and the Facebook Generation

April 15, 2009

Kathleen and Bill Christison
Solving Palestine While Israel Destroys It

Ray McGovern
W, the Torture Decider

Robert Sandels
Is There a Latin American Policy?

Heather Williams /
Paul Baker
Carbon Cap and Trade: How Wall Street will Game the Regs and Trash the Planet

Jack Willoughby
The Lessons of the S & L Crisis

David Swanson
Habeas at Bagram?

Paul Craig Roberts
94 Years of Serfdom

Sara Mann
Norman Rockwell and the Perils of Nostalgia

Kenneth Couesbouc
John Maynard's Martingale: How Keynes Got Rich

Binoy Kampmark
Tax Haven Hypocrisies

Kekuni Blaisdell, Lynette Hi'llani Cruz, George Kahumoku Flores, et al.: An Urgent Letter to Obama on the Rights of Native Hawaiians

Website of the Day
Taxa: the Paintings of Isabella Kirkland

April 14, 2009

Conn Hallinan
The Afghan Rubik's Cube

Mike Whitney
Why is Goldman Sachs So Scared of Mike Morgan?

Peter Morici
Taxing Grandma to Subsidize Goldman Sachs

Greg Moses
Economic Curveballs: the Laffer Posse

Fidel Castro
Obama's Cuba Policy: Not a Word About the Blockade

Robert Weissman
No Blank Check for the IMF

Rebecca Macaux /
Philip Primeau
Somali Piracy and American Foreign Policy

Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
The Dubious Revoution: Biofuels, the Next Generation

Dave Lindorff
Snatch-and-Jail Justice: the Ugly War on Immigrants

Walter Brasch
The Resurrection of Intolerance

Benjamin Day
Why Has the Press Failed Us in Reporting on Health Care Reform?

Website of the Day
The Appraisal Bubble

April 13, 2009

Patrick Cockburn
Iraqi Militia Fear Reprisals After US Exit

Uri Avnery
Our Dissonance

Jeremy Scahill
A Test Case for Habeas Corpus: Will Obama Prosecute the Somali Pirate in a US Court?

Martha Rosenberg
Suicide Syndrome: Are VA Protocols Behind Iraq Vet Suicides?

Karl Grossman
A Radioactive Extension for Aging Nuclear Plants

Nadia Hijab
Still Waiting: Obama and American Muslims

Sam Smith
America's Cultural Bear Market

James McEnteer
Peru's Shining Example

Sean McMahon
Globalizing Politicide: Israel's Strikes on Sudan

Namihei Odaira
Makota's "Campaign Against Poverty"

John V. Walsh
Bossnapping

Website of the Day
Declining IRS Audits for Big Financial Houses

April 10 / 12, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
Resurrection and Revenge

Chris Floyd
Hope Abandoned: Obama Protects CIA Torture Memos

Mike Whitney
"Liquidate the Banks; Fire the Executives!" Warren's Devastating Report to Congress

Saul Landau
How the Media Bought the Surge

M. Reza Pirbhai
Obama's Afghanistan Plan and India-Pakistan Relations

Franklin Spinney
The Art of the Scam: Wall Street and the Pentagon

Rannie Amiri
Iran's Elections: Why Arab Leaders Want Ahmadinejad to Win

William Blum
The Ideology of Barack Obama

Matt Vidal
Why Card Check Would Help the Economy

Jeff Howison
Death of the Square Deal

Jeff Leys
Resisting the Af-Pak War: the Creech Air Base Arrests

Dave Lindorff
America's Imperial Wars: Why We Need to See the Horrors

Ramzy Baroud
Israel Investigated: But Will It Repent?

Missy Beattie
The Grateful Dead, Wounded and Displaced

Fred Gardner
Fakes Left, Goes Right: Obama's Crossover Dribble on Marijuana Policy

Harvey Wasserman Another $50 Billion for Rust Bucket Nukes?

Suzan Mazur
A Revolution in Biology: an Interview with Nobel Laureate Paul Nurse

Bernard Umbrecht
German Capitalists Take Fire

David Macaray
A Word Clooney, Hanks and Baldwin Should Learn: Solidarity

Janet Kauffman
How to Starve (or Feed) a River

Ron Jacobs
Daring to Struggle, Failing to Win

Norman Solomon
Getting a Death Grip on Memory

Michael Winship
Let the Railsplitter Awake!

Richard Rhames
Empire, Ennui and Extra Cheese

Wanda Fucha
Brother, Can You Spare a Million Bucks?

David Yearsley
My Journey to the Heart of Rahman

Lorenzo Wolff
Getting Beyond the Black-and-White: Jason Isbell's Challenging New Album

Ben Sonnenberg
Rossellini's Louis XIV: "Neither the Sun Nor Death Can be Gazed Upon Fixedly"

Jeffrey St. Clair
Savage Incongruities: the Photographic Life of Lee Miller

Poets' Basement
Corseri and Corzett

Website of the Weekend
The Palestine Chronicle Needs Your Help!

April 9, 2009

Mike Whitney
The Decade of Darkness

Patrick Cockburn
What It Would Take to Mend Fences with Islam

Stephen Soldz
Caught on Tape: Diagnostic Abuse of Veterans

P. Sainath
The Rise of the Shoe-cide Bomber

Ellen Cantarow
Israel's Master Plan for Transfer

Gareth Porter /
Jim Lobe
Obama and Israel's Threat to Strike Iran

Jeremy Scahill
How Many Democrats Will Stand Up Against Obama's Bloated Military Budget?

Jerry Kroth
Saving GM From Bankruptcy--With the Stroke of a Pen

Binoy Kampmark
Fujimori Convicted: A Measure of Justice in Latin America

Fidel Castro
My Meeting with the Black Caucus

Website of the Day
Bird Song Radio

April 8, 2009

John Prados
The Af-Pak Paradox

Bill Moyers /
Michael Winship
Changing the Rules of the Blame Game

Winslow T. Wheeler
The Tooth Fairy and the Defense Budget

Russell Mokhiber
PBS Lashes Back

Kathy Sanborn
Depression Fury

Rev. William E. Alberts
If the Shoe Fits: Bush and Al-Zaidi

James McEnteer Rashomon and the Binghamton Shooter: the Rush to Interpret Jiverly Wong's "Statement"

Nadia Hijab
Olmert's Nightmare

Adam Turl
Card Check on the Ropes

Kevin Zeese
Escaping the Drug War Quagmire

Website of the Day
Walk Score Your Neighborhood

April 7, 2009

David Price
Counterinsurgency's Free Ride

Uri Avnery
Who's the Boss?

Chris Floyd
Talking Peace in Prague, Dropping Bombs in Pakistan

Winslow T. Wheeler Defense Cuts: Gates and the System

Marjorie Cohn
Prosecuting the Bush Torture Team: Spain Leads the Way

Dean Baker
Hands Off Social Security

Diana Johnstone
NATO, Strasbourg and the Black Block

Dave Lindorff
Politicizing Accounting

Martha Rosenberg
Life on HBO's Factory Hog Farm

Evelyn Pringle
Motherhood and the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Complex

Website of the Day
Gaza: Closed Zone

April 6, 2009

Michael Hudson
The IMF Rules the World

Andy Worthington Bagram: Guantánamo's Dark Mirror

Ray McGovern
Profiles in Cowardice: Eric Holder and Colin Powell

Deepak Tripathi
The Pakistan Enigma

Mike Whitney
Bernanke's Financial Rescue Plan: a Glide-Path to Destitution

Norman Solomon
Meet the New Escalators: the Democrats and the Afghan War

Jonathan Cook
Israel Railways Accused of Racism in Firing of Arab Workers

Judith Bello
Justice for the Developmentally Disabled

Deena Metzger Blackwater in Liberia

Dr. M. Kamiar
"There's No 'Eye' in Iran:" Obama's Pronunciation Problem

Website of the Day
Prison Talk

April 3-5, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
From Twin Towers to Twin Camelots

Kathy Kelly /
Brian Terrall
Getting a Closer Look at the Killer Drones

Sue Sturgis
Fooling with Disaster? Startling Revelations About Three Mile Island Raise New Doubts Over Nuclear Plant Safety

Peter Morici
Girding for a Depression

Kathy Sanborn
Homeless in Tent City, USA

Andy Worthington
Britain's Guantánamo: Fact or Fiction?

Rob Larson
Subprime Supreme Court: The Roberts Court Has Become a Powerful New Tool for Business

Saul Landau
Biden and Nixon: a Tale of Two Latin American Experiences

Steve Early
An Evening with Andy Stern

John Goekler
Was Gaza Israel's Waterloo?

Rannie Amiri
Arab League Reconciliation Summit a Bust

Dave Lindorff
Hooray for Juries! A Courtroom Victory for Ward Churchill and Academic Free Speech

Lee Ballinger
Sound Garden: Tom Morello at the Grammy Museum

Ron Jacobs
Artifacts for Survival

David Macaray
AIG Plays the Sympathy Card

John Wight
G20: Capital's New World Symphony

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Race in the Obama Era

Mychal Bell
Surviving Jena Six

Missy Beattie
Hoop Hopes, War and Peace

Reza Fiyouzat
The Iran/US Rapproachment Dance

Michael Boldin
The War on Drugs is a War on You

Christopher Brauchli
The Pope's Batting 50-50

Charles R. Larson
Too Much Stuff

Susie Day
Bernie Breakout Shocker!!

Stephen Martin
Gordon Brown's Chicken Run at the G20

Kim Nicolini
"Last House on the Left:" Vigilantes of the Bourgeoisie

David Yearsley
Homage to Moog and Mallards

Phyllis Pollack
An Interview with Legendary Rock Producer Chris Kimsey on Working with the Stones, Ronnie Wood, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh and Saint Jude

Poets' Basement
Foley, Valentine and Kozak

Website of the Day
The Corner Store

April 2, 2009

Robert Weissman
What If Obama Had Treated Detroit Like Wall Street?

Eric Toussaint /
Damien Millet
A G20 Meeting for Naught

George Bisharat
Israel's Impunity Must End

Russell Mokhiber
Something is Rotten at PBS

Franklin Lamb
Has Washington Lost Lebanon?

Gareth Porter
Settling Scores in Iraq: Maliki Draws US Troops into Crackdown on Sunni Rivals

David Macaray
Obama and the Ruling Class: "Only the Little People Pay Taxes"

Chris Genovali
B.C.'s Bloody Grizzly Hunt

Sam Smith
The Politics of Adulation

Suzan Mazur
Is Neo-Darwinism Dead?

Website of the Day
Fighting for Change in St. Louis

April 1, 2009

Chris Floyd
Surging Further Into the Afghan Abyss

Stanley Heller
Israeli War Crimes: Thank God, It Was Only Rumors

Mark Brenner, Mischa Gaus and Jane Slaughter Obama's Perilous Plan for Detroit: Restructure the Big 3, But Not With Bankruptcy

Jonathan Cook
The Slow Demise of Ehud Olmert

Eric Walberg
EU in Tatters: Only the Protesters Have Any Vision

Richard Morse
Why Haiti Can't Forget Its Past

Don Fitz
Guess Who Came to Dinner with a Match? Green Mayoral Candidate's Van Firebombed in St. Louis

Laray Polk
Texas and Evolution

Belén Fernández
12 Años de Soledad?

Harvey Wasserman
Cracking the Media Silence on Three Mile Island

Website of the Day
Pentagon Fraud Investigations Fell, While Contracts Soared

March 31, 2009

Uri Avnery
The Deception Tango

Peter Lee
Ghosts in the Machine: the World's Hottest Cyberwar Battlefield

Nicholas Dearden
A New Global Debt Crisis

Dave Lindorff
The Obama Betrayal

Joanne Mariner
"We'll Make You See Death"

Ron Jacobs
Obama's Pakistan Gambit

Wiliam S. Lind
Another Lost War

David Michael Green
Who Says the GOP Doesn't Have a Plan?

Benjamin Dangl
Beyond Elections in the Americas

Johnny Barber
Meditation in Orange

Dedrick Muhammad
Economic Inequality: the Foundation of the Racial Divide

Website of the Day
How the Obama Dems Took Over the Peace Movement

March 30, 2009

Michael Hudson
Financing the Empire: Do US Face G20 Mutiny?

Patrick Cockburn
What Next in Afghanistan?

Henry A. Giroux
Hard Lessons

Mike Whitney
Where's Eliot Spitzer Now That We Need Him?

Ralph Nader
Where's All the Money Coming From?

Paul Craig Roberts
Obama's War on the (Upper) Middle Class

Jeremy Scahill
The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq

Robert Bryce
The Cellulosic Ethanol Delusion

Jonathan Cook
Remembering Land Day in Palestine

Ray McGovern
Obama Bombs

Website of the Day
Hersh: Syria Calling

Weekend Edition
April 17-20, 2009

Globalization and Its Contents

Statelessness: the Final Frontier

By STEPHEN MARTIN

‘We were somewhere around an 18% unemployment rate on the edge of Fascism when reality began to take hold.  I remember saying something like ‘These Stateless Bastards want it all, nothing is never enough for their greed…’

Thus paraphrased, and with no apologies whatsoever to the late, great Hunter S Thomson, does one of my favorite ‘reads’ begin.

 This small article seeking to follow the spirit of ‘Gonzo!’; nothing being sacrosanct - or exempt from conscious, unacknowledged  outright plagiarism.

It will be a marvel if it ever makes it into ‘print’ indeed.

‘You either get it or you don’t’ as they say – and these days, if the schemes of Stateless Bastards go anywhere else other than agley, a lot more people are to get it in part of anatomy best associated with the forceful imposition of unwanted  attention by major pervert warranting incarceration,  and bringing in to consideration the merits of execution to more serious minded, though hardly as nubile demanded; form of  ‘Bring ‘em on! as The Stranglers sang, and ‘Dubya’ realised – ‘unwitting’ as ever, poorest bastard as Stateless thus far to wave flag red white and blue on world stage as  ‘Fortunate Son’?

‘Rape intellectual’ being a polymorphous thing, and ‘thus far’  being aspect of  ephemeral?

Warning to protect the the naïve: should you be easily offended then look away now.

Shut this page down by clicking on the nearest available hyperlink.

Read no further lest you be willing to expose yourself to  ‘unspeakable ugliness’.

Be thankful indeed you are not ‘on’ what the author of such ‘solipsistic masochistic’ material consumes; such as to make ether addiction look like mere beginning,  and as leads towards unusual turn of phrase in the integration of neurophysiology commensurate seen as ‘Warp factor’ in continuation of the play which ‘frontier’ so characterises?

‘Fear and loathing’ so known intimate as real orifice of ‘rape intellectual’  better appreciated as man in grip of ether binge be seen as rat in cage room 101(?),  and  ‘No Sir’, we do not talk scatological, but of ‘eye’ and ‘ear’, as in consideration of Stateless Bastard held up by short and curlies after being found under overturned stone in dark quarters recognised clear in such light as leading towards exclamation:

‘Lookee,  lookee, listen,  listen-  to what we got here!’

By the time finished, should the disposition of the ‘nervous’ so allow alongside that curious propensity of morbidity as to result in such statement as:

‘Mister, you realise there is a broken bone sticking out your arm?’

Repeated so as to prevail through the shock of intended audience so suffering, then hopefully as according to  phrase of ‘the man with no eyes’:

‘What we got here is a failure to communicate ’

will not be apposite. 

Or even appropriate.

Never can remember as to which one reflects being on knees the question - or is that ‘supplication’?

Give me a minute to squeeze my hand on a sharp object and it will be okay…..

Nothing clears the mind like pain, as is given as method of resistance of interrogation many a manual such as demanding to be read.

A lot of minds being so cleared these days…

Anyway, where ‘were’ we?

If you haven’t gathered it by now, author of these ramblings as would be not quite like the others; to be ‘trusted’ accordant?

‘In an  age of weirdness, the weird turning pro’?

So it goes.

Keep on ‘setting them up’, as would be ‘ripping them off’, as could Tom Waits sing, or was that ‘knockin’ ‘em  down’?

‘Statelessness: the Final Frontier’ as Gene Roddenberry could have written, were the main objective not to have been ‘pap’,  unmitigated as to not even demand ‘ repressive de-sublimation’ , fed to the masses in form of ‘chewing gum for eyes’, aka mainlining on the old ‘soma’; communal apropos of  reduction and constraint of capacity for wonderment virtue of  ‘medium being massage’.

Let me see you Marshall your troops against that one as representing Mr. Macluhan – to Galaxy Gutenbergian.

As said nothing sacrocanct; spirit of  Gonzo – did you know that a cannon can fire ashes?

‘Dust to dust’?

‘That there Vulcan got pointed ears and funny eyebrows, them Romulans got bulging foreheads…’

‘Star Trek’ – we cannot even ‘walk’ on our own planet as exploring the rich diversity of potentiality with head held level, let alone high, in form of obscenities such as War and Famine, or human sufferance being as of the past.?

Say nought of ‘lowest common denominator, or  ‘Las Vegas’?

‘In our Dreams’ ,  indeed, as would ‘nightmares’ be yet found?

Meanwhile; ‘back at the ranch’,  Stateless Bastards have been busy…

Everything as an ’orifice’ must be opened up, ‘forceful’ if necessary, to ‘privatisation’.

This a ‘fire sale’ where all must go, the incorporation of the store as Emporium being such as indeed as could have strap line:

‘From sunglasses for the continent to rubber pants for the incontinent’

Are you not so cognisant contemporaneous as to be full of fear yet as cannot ‘shit’ will soon learn -  for ‘fearing up’ is a ‘laxative intellectual’, as the ‘best’ exponents of ‘shock and awe’ in interrogation technique are so taught; way of ‘doctrine’?

No other country can ‘export fear’ like America -  they even have ‘special schools’ in it.

‘So good  they had to change the name’, indeed.

‘Fear’ going by many names, for example ‘laissez faire’, ‘neoliberal’, ‘free market system’,  ‘IMF’ or ‘World Bank’?

Life is ‘funny’, is it not, but for the genuine, unmitigated tragedy of such  genetic mutation as variant of sufferance particularly obscene precipitated by Depleted Uranium affecting gene pool of people in far off land as expression of warfare, or the extent of homelessness brought about by Economic Depression, or the distance of blood from hands in the machination as to perception of cleanliness of hygienic attire form of suit befitting Corporatist, or how  people suffer that through War ‘profit’ may be attained, and things so spun as ‘elbow being unable to be distinguished from arse’, and hope given as audacious act to stooge of the Stateless - as  in form of turkey voting for early Thanksgiving?

Or indeed, the mass suicide of farmers in India, as  ‘death by money lender’?

Not so much a mere ‘pound of flesh’ as the whole body?

Never promised you a rose garden?

Is it so funny as when you are so fearful as every dollar is prisoner; as when such fear is the key of  Stateless Bastard as would in the turn be seen as ‘screw’, in  having you and yours in ‘concentration camp privatised’, as when the ‘State’ you ‘live’ in as ‘United’  be shrunk as 401; as when ‘Welfare’ means nought should you not have the requisite insurance as to be ‘dumped’ such the ‘pump’; as when foxes get in charge of chicken run  feathers begin to fly – and there is the quiet disappearance of truth to dominance of lie?

Is it so funny as when you fear to speak up lest the screw be turned further, when you think of what could be done not only to yourself, but to yours as progeny?

Is it indeed so funny as when, under 1st Amendment, such as this is allowed to be published only in so far as to lead to the belief that there is yet Democracy?

‘Paranoia elaborate’ form of delusion?

- Well let’s push the envelope Brother and Sister.      

The system in America is inhumane, born in sense of being taken over by small minority as would be be ‘Masters of the Universe’.

The stench of corruption of ideals being twisted by the reality of pragmatism is such as ‘stinks on ice’.

The lies are unbearable, the depravity boundless.

The profiteers of War have taken over, and matters engineered such as that the greater the pain of the division of humanity, the greater the profit.

 It is all about ‘squeeze’, and we are as the pips as would so ‘squeak’ thereby, as obscene sound of sufferance?

Are there none but millionaires who would so represent the majority who are so far from same in sufferance seen?

Life is more than dollar and dime.

These are the dying days of epoch of Stateless Bastard ultimate; those who would indeed block our ‘trek through the stars’ as expression of ‘onwards and upwards’!

‘Per adua ad astra’  : destiny as would be aborted’ as form of  denial of life?

Let me be so bold as to attempt to delineate the ‘etymology’ of  mine  loathing; only fear being as that  Stateless bastard would delay further the inevitability of their losing in the furtherance of their inhumane scheming.

For lose they will, as they already have, but know it not.

‘Statelessness’ is no matter as to geography, as place of birth, or nurture, or even sense of belonging as in looking out on planet wondrous as ‘home’ felt such profound and mysterious resonance as ‘spiritual’.

There is no such aspiration as resonance to the spiritual possible for those whom abandon themselves to quantifiable status as possession ‘of’ - though  ‘by’ more apt? - of gold as would have their lives as lie be not seen  -as part of illusion as hegemony ;  such be the ‘spin’?

Such are ‘bastards’ because of  their illegitimacy in the selling out of life; the rich irony indeed being as that which should remain private become public – ‘ironic’ because these very same bastards would have public become private, in sense of the wilful and deliberate undermining of ‘State’ as capacity to share,  the summation of  such shrinking as greater part ‘taking’ rather than  ‘giving’, expropriating rather than sacrificing being the norm for small minority as ‘oligarchy’ so content to do and to ever greater extent accordant their degenerate greed as illegitimate of the Humane, regardless of the misery and sufferance thereby engendered?

Stateless bastards have forfeited their lives such sense, as can no longer love, as can no longer feel, as can no longer see light glorious in the wondrous diversity of the creation as is life.

They have enjoined death in such absence, as become as object.

There is to come a Time, a Glory indeed, when all Humanity shall rise up against these Stateless Bastards as would turn man against man, destroying as they would communities, looting  and plundering in the ‘triumph’ of lie over illusion, bringing hate and division; misery and sufferance,   a Time to come soon when  Love as Truth shall be more closely cleaved unto as the body of Humanity so seen.

There will be a time when Stateless bastard is ‘named and shamed’ by way of history; as when the price of ‘success’ so seen as illusion, as when infamy be so realised.

Truth will out.

This is true hope, as is in no way ‘audacious’.

It is real and transcends illusion in the manner that substance transcends form, in the way ontological as existence precedes essence.

Humanity is a brotherhood eternal and real such sense regardless of race, creed, color or religion as means of division, or illusion.

All else as to realisation, seen historic,  is mere ‘interregnum’.

For a long time now in the personal sense, I’ve wondered why it is that when man is basically Benign, or ‘Good’, or ‘Functional’, how is it that the world is so full of acts of inhumanity, or evil, or dysfunctional.

The answer is the ruthless cunning of Stateless Bastards; those who make of dream as scheme the triumph over Humanity;  will do what it takes to so ‘triumph’, by way of lying and cheating, by way of propagating  illusion over truth for mere gain of gold.

They as would sink to the depths of depravity to find their ‘heights so twisted and perversely distorted their ‘vision’’; whom play a different game, by different rules as give unfair advantage, as life ‘abandoned’.

In such shadows they ‘live’ and ‘take’ but enough is as never enough - and thus is to be brought about their own further destruction to point of ‘terminal’.

For such Stateless Bastards are nought but parasites who demand a host of Humanity, in getting man to accept the saddle of their illusion pecuniary as cynical, - confidence trick played  seen  as ‘successful’ and ‘measured’?

There shall be a roll call of shame to parallel that of the roll call of glory..

It ‘stops’ one sense for Stateless Bastard the moment Humanity realises such ontogeny of illusion; of belief misplaced; whence there is a  waking up to the smell of  sulfur.

Man does not worship the boot as would stomp his face when all around the blood and flesh scattered of life so disfigured, cannot believe any more in ‘the lie’ as would be told by Stateless when so evident the reality of sufferance?

The ‘American Free Market experiment’ has been a salutary lesson such sense; as final frontier of the Stateless denied, as Heraclitean flux of the transition to opposite, as enantodromiata as caste psychological by Jung – indeed ‘as never darker as just before light to dawn’ in colloquial vernacular or homily.

Or when as answer to proposition of Stateless Bastard – be they politician, businessman or merchant of spin:

As would be dogma accepted unquestioned, as would be in hope as audacious so spun as by mere confidence trickster as ‘same game, different name’ would go on:

‘You can trust me, I’m not like the others’

Hunter S. Thompson.

Answer being:

‘Yes,  indeed you are, and we are having no more of it, for enough is enough. You are more to be pitied than scorned’

The Emperor has no clothes as so seen, as Stateless Bastard be revealed as mere profiteer from war and sufferance; and so reviled.

Thence can our ‘Star Trek’ be so furthered -  as to really begin?

Thence indeed:

‘Per adua ad astra’?

Stephen Martin can be reached at: stephenmarti@yahoo.com

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