And now when I see you shake your head at the “intolerance” of “professional Anarchists” and the “paid protesters” of the Left, whom you regard as duped minions of some grand political conspiracy just waiting in the wings
Literature/Poetry Alex Sack Feb 20, 2017
It’s 2:45 in the PM and I’m rolling a Citizen’s Cab spare, 2402, down Fillmore fresh from a fruitless jaunt through Pac Heights. As my day shift winds down, I’ll continue working these well-off commercial strips
Politics Jesselyn Radack Feb 16, 2017
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, famously coined the Orwellian phrase “alternative facts” when pressed about flat out lies told the previous day by White House press secretary Sean Spicer regarding the…
News Disinformation Feb 14, 2017
The Forbidden Book, a novel by Joscelyn Godwin and Guido Mina di Sospiro, was already topical in 2007, when the first of its nine editions in different languages first appeared. Islamic terrorism and immigration…
News Wei Ling Chua Feb 14, 2017
I have stopped reading anything written by John Garnaut after I caught him red-handed and challenged him directly on several of his articles
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@brianctaylor
Feb 13, 2017
The majority of Americans are victims of a living system that has been hijacked to make the rich richer, by defying nature. Unfortunately, it’s only the extremists that are aware of this reality.
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Literature/Poetry
Alex Sack
Feb 13, 2017
As I cruise past the bustling crack and meth scene on 16th Street here, mixed in amongst a seemingly endless sprawl of tents, tarps and bicycle parts, I roll down into the Mission, on a mission…
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Politics
Norman Solomon
Feb 10, 2017
The momentum to impeach President Trump is accelerating. On Thursday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) filed a “resolution of inquiry” that amounts to the first legislative step toward impeachment. A new poll shows that registered…
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There are weird times, unsettling times, and then times that make you wonder if the entire universe hadn’t slipped into the grasp of some gibbering Chaos god content to cause widespread destruction and upheaval for the simple pleasure of moving things around.
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Christopher Dale
Feb 7, 2017
No group is more intimately familiar with necessary pain than recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. Addiction takes us on downward trajectories until a point, unique to each, that is simply unacceptable. Nothing motivates like total desperation.
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Politics
Yoav Litvin
Feb 6, 2017
Dystopia On January 20th 2017, surrounded by family and the usual suspects, the real-estate mogul, sexual-predator and conman Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Now…
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Art
Christopher Ian
Feb 6, 2017
Many contemporary art galleries have become confectioners of art culture. That is to say, often the works of art hanging on the white walls of your typical contemporary art gallery have no…
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Literature/Poetry
Alex Sack
Feb 6, 2017
It’s Monday here in Citizen’s Cab world, my first day back on the job after a crazy weekend that saw the entire world protesting Herr Presidente’s Muslim ban at many of the major airports. Taxi drivers in New York (comprised of many a Muslim) were on strike over at JFK.
Read MoreNews Charles Farrier Feb 1, 2017
On 27th January 2015, then Mayor of London Boris Johnson signed an order increasing the data collection capability of the Metropolitan Police Service’s (MPS) number plate camera network by 300%. He achieved this without adding any cameras.
Politics Gods and Radicals Jan 31, 2017
DURING THIS STRANGE and difficult time, I have, as a spirit worker, attempted to draw connections between the past, present, and future, connections which could shed light on how things got this way. In the process I came across the following reflections. I would like to share with you my thoughts on how occult forces can emerge in the human psyche , and how that can have political implications.
Podcasts Srsly Wrong Jan 31, 2017
The internet has been ablaze in the past week with talk about punching nazis, ever since white nationalist Richard Spencer was clocked at Trump’s inauguration celebrations. While ethicists interviewed by Mic, and philosopher…
Literature/Poetry Alex Sack Jan 30, 2017
By the grace of God, and/or Mother Nature, I’ve been doing quite well working Citizen’s Cab 1015 over the last couple of weeks, what with all of the cold and rain that’s descended over the Bay Area.
Politics Norman Solomon Jan 30, 2017
When Rachel Maddow finished a 26-minute monologue that spanned two segments on her MSNBC program last Thursday night, her grave tones indicated that she thought she’d just delivered a whale of a…
Art Yoav Litvin Jan 23, 2017
The unfettered version of American capitalism, in which public welfare is privatized and inequality is at record levels is to blame for the current climate of hatred and scapegoating.
Entertainment Alex Sack Jan 23, 2017
I’m traversing the streets, en route to the Citizen’s Cab lot to pick up my taxi, out on the industrial edge of town. And there is torrential rain, downed trees and flooding… BAD!
News Gods and Radicals Jan 19, 2017
You can’t miss either of the two operative buzz-words being bandied around like so much meaningless noise in the last few months. The media rails about it, politicians whine over it, activists shout it….