Category Archives: War

JETS OVERHEAD by Peter Nolan Smith

March 16, 2012 – 9:36 am

Falmouth Foresides was a quiet neighborhood in the 50s. Ships blew their horns leaving Portland Harbor and channel buoys tolled out their passing wake. At night I listened to the Celtics game on a small transistor radio from Japan. I set the volume to almost silence. My older brother was a light sleeper. My mother [...]

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PAINT IT BLACK / Animals

March 15, 2012 – 11:12 am
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Spoiling For A Fight

March 5, 2012 – 7:03 pm

AIPAC or The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is holding its annual meeting in Washington to pressure President Barack Obama into militarily backing the Zionist nation launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran. The Israeli Prime Minister met with Obama at the White House to discuss their differences in strategy. According to the BBC Obama was [...]

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Unfreedom Of Speech

March 1, 2012 – 12:25 pm

The US Constitution’s First Amendment guaranteed Freedom of Speech to all Americans. The restrictions on this liberty have been few. Treason, child pornography, and endangerment are considered beyond the frontiers of our inalienable rights. In truth we are free to say what we want as long as everyone else is saying the same thing. Governments [...]

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Eleven Years Later

February 27, 2012 – 10:50 am

Two week after 9/11 the wind shifted direction from a westerly to a southerly. The plume of smoke swung north to cloak the streets below Union Square with the BBQ fragrance of the massive funeral pyre. My apartment on East 10th Street filled with particles of dead people, asbestos, cindered paper, pulverized steel and ashes [...]

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