“In the U.S. system, land itself — not just what was produced from the land, such as agriculture, mining, logging, grazing, and so on — was the most important exchange commodity for the accumulation of capital and building the natural treasury. In order to comprehend the apparently irrational genocidal policy of the U.S. Government towardContinue reading “Unsettling the Old Planters: Roger Conant and the First Enclosures of New England”
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My Father Was an Anti-Fascist Too
I might’ve been eight when I first asked my father if he’d ever killed anyone. “No,” was all he said. But I asked again, and again, in spare moments, and the more I asked, the more he didn’t say. It was the 1970’s and I had an obsession with WWII. I built model planes andContinue reading “My Father Was an Anti-Fascist Too”
Observance: Demons in the Shadowland of Autocracy, or Fear is the Mind Killer
Photo credit: yours truly Feb 25, 2025 Yesterday while I was at work and my first grader was at school, my partner’s phone rang and seconds later my partner ran into my office screaming, breathless: “They took our child! They have our child!” The phone rang again and on speaker I heard my daughter’s voice,Continue reading “Observance: Demons in the Shadowland of Autocracy, or Fear is the Mind Killer”
Observance: Letter to a MAGA Friend
22 November 2024 Since the Trump election, the zeitgeist in my media-sphere* — call it the liberal media if you have to – is all about taking-a-long-hard-look-at-ourselves-as-a-nation. There is the very real dread and the democratic soul-searching and the data-mining and poll-questioning, and the finger-pointing and the circular firing squads and the group therapy sessions,Continue reading “Observance: Letter to a MAGA Friend”
The Watering Hole :: Jeff Conant 