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
Read more…Things That Make You Go Hmmm?
Junious Ricardo Stanton
As the demonstrations and protests for peace and against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the United States’ unconditional support of this unjust war spread around the country and the world, it is
Read more…Student Protests Are Spreading Across US
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Since Israel’s heavy handed response to Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attacks there has been a growing antipathy towards Tel Aviv’s ethnic cleansing and genocide. People of good realize the Zi
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Metallic music of shovels; Abrasions again on bare hands
Digging, digging, digging through twisted bones and
busted bricks of buildings. To backpacks, blankets, baby
body parts to rescue tiny arms and legs emitting whispers…
Obese bulldozers mu
Read more…We Need To Get In The Game
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“Largely the problems we are confronted with today as Afrikan people in America flow from our powerlessness or our inappropriate uses of power. We’ve been made to think that to even talk about and
Read more…Our Village Is Not Well
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“Crime and criminal behavior regardless of temporal or cultural definition, occur not in a vacuum, but within a complex matrix of interpersonal, social, intergroup relations and other eco-psychological f
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