The Statue of Liberty weeps into her un-
Bombed harbor. She cries, “Send me your
Double-amputee orphans. Your newborn babies—
Burned to the bone. Your occupation tortured teens.
Your breastfeeding mothers and atrophying elders.
Send me your surviving
Read more…Gaslighting, The All American Pastime
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Several years ago the word gaslighting was added to the American popular lexicon. Gaslighting is defined as: psychological control and abuse, manipulating someone into questioning their ow
Read more…S.M.A.R.T. = Post Humanism
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Our culture is inundated with the concept of S.M.A.R.T. technology but few of us actually know what it means. We’re not fully aware of its growing impact on our lives and what it portends for the futur
Read more…What Is The Significance of Fourth of July 2024
Junious Ricardo Stanton
In 1852 an escaped slave, orator, abolitionist and newspaper publisher named Frederick Douglas was asked by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society from Rochester New York where
Read more…The Empire Is In Deep Trouble
Junious Ricardo Stanton
I watched the Presidential “debate” last night, it was bad. America is in trouble. The world is either in total shock or laughing their behinds off at the display of feeble-mindedness and narcissis
Read more…Sun drenched morning. Silver bullet-loaded, matched gold-plated
Glocks gleam above gilded dress swords. Above bump-stocked
AR-15s, strapped across slumped shoulders of two 1% men of
Limited vision. Mediocre men brandishing usurped Peoples’ Power …
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The West Is Trotting Towards War
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Several weeks ago I wrote a commentary entitled Sleepwalking Into More War which provided insights into the West’s maniacal support for the wars raging in Gaza and Ukraine. As time passed the sle
Read more…Are False Beliefs Setting US Up For Destruction?
Junious Ricardo Stanton
As we look around the world today we discover challenges to our reality, our belief systems and the values we profess to hold dear. America says it stands for freedom, justice, li
Read more…Implications of the Lawfare Against Trump
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The legal travails of former President Donald Trump are real life real time Deep State political intrigue, fodder for media pundits and topics of conversation for people who support him,
Read more…Sleepwalking Into More War
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Over the past few months we’ve witnessed the United States collaboration with a brutal campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine specifically Gaza and Rafah. Israel’s heavy handed respons
Read more…“It is dangerous to be right in matters on
which the established authorities are wrong.”
—Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV, 175
Hearing! Hearing! Hearing!
Sheep-shearing/job-fearing/fictioneering—
Chalk white, snow white, lily white, bone
White nois
Read more…Live With Intention
Junious Ricardo Stanton
In our last commentary I questioned what I could do to remedy an environment where I don’t feel safe within an immoral hierarchical society. Henry David Thoreau also wrestled with the same conundrum. The nin
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Writhing—tossing, turning—
Furious about a
Flashback
making me sit up in bed … trembling with anger!
Furious about a flashback! Flashback of a
Freedom fighter framed, chained and gagged!
Choking, grunting muffled anti-fascist phrases—
Cruel, as u
Read more…I Don’t Feel Safe
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The power dynamics and hierarchy in this country are truly fascinating. In America the myths of egalitarianism, equal opportunity and protection under the law still prevail; but in reality they are just that; m
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Censorship Is Metastasizing
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The First Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits Congress from establishing a state religion, prevents abridging the exercise of free speech, provides for the freedom of the press, guarantees the
Read more…"The policeman isn't there to create disorder;
the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”
—Richard J. Daley
Scholasticide? Pedicide? Infanticide? Ecocide?
Genocide? Clear which side they’re on, they
Study war no more— And refuse to cave under
Weig
Read more…“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” |
—Honoré de Balzac
I’m not a nuanced
Negro
Complicating,
Contextualizing, centering,
Unpacking, drilling down
Inter-sectionally into
weeds beneath capitalism’s
‘Hood …
Yet, point blank,
full stop—
Read more…What’s The Lesson Here?
Junious Ricardo Stanton
For the past several weeks the media has focused on the protests and demonstrations roiling on major university campuses across the country. It started at Columbia University in New York City as did the
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