Category Archives: Lit Review

“… the United States Government perpetrates outrages in Santo Domingo and Haiti of the same nature.” Teaching Liberty to Santo Domingo – Emma Goldman (1917)

“That the spirit of perverse cruelty to persecute and humiliate human beings for no other offence except that they lead their own lives, is making itself felt even today, no one familiar with the activity of our moral censors can possibly deny.” Our Moral Censors – Emma Goldman (1913)

This article tracks the transformation of beagle dogs from a common breed in mid-twentieth century American laboratories to the de jure standard in global — Read on link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-021-09649-2

When you are with an extraordinary person, you soon realize that extraordinary things are going to happen. And keep happening. That is when the fear begins. That is when it really begins. I remember the first time we went dancing. I gave her an ultimatum: you either meet me at the Five Spot (no notContinue reading “At The Five Spot with Jane”

Los Angeles has long served as a proving ground where the counterinsurgency tactics later adopted by police throughout the United States were first domestically deployed. Ever since the nation’s very first no-knock SWAT raid on the Black Panther Party headquarters at 41st & Central and the CIA-facilitated, “crack cocaine explosion”that was first unleashed on South Central to moreContinue reading “The LAPD: Not Your Model Police Department”

us sensitive to each other touching as we shouldget together get to itbefore it all’s over sometimes desperation. is just a fact. sometimes railway station. don’t know how to act. suck me suture me fuck me future me touch me torment me tenement loverlyso what she saysit’s all gravy sometimes desperation. is just an act.Continue reading “sometimes railway station”

baby if we have it apart we’ll have it together, don’t you think so? can’t see us as two powers nullifying baby if we have it together we’ll have it apart, isn’t that the promise of love?with(out) laches lingerings of ruinbaby if we do together we’ll have forever, that’s what u told me when youContinue reading “together”

That cat would remain our last proof that we were on the same planet as her, even as she sometimes glanced at us from above the fence without crossing it. — Read on http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02690055.2024.2315734

I don’t know that we can say with clarity that arguing for the application of the term “terrorist” to certain individuals is actually useful. Theirs and Ours: Terrorism’s “Inclusivity” Argument

Terrorists change. The terrorist of yesterday is the hero of today, and the hero of yesterday becomes the terrorist of today. This is a serious matter of the constantly changing world of images in which we have to keep our heads straight to know what is terrorism and what is not. But more importantly, toContinue reading “Terrorism: Theirs and Ours”