Doomsday prepping for a nuclear winter: A North Korea explainer
Mainstream western media has been having a field day following North Korean missile tests earlier this year and the subsequent responses from US President Donald Tr …
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile announce new LP Lotta Sea Lice
With their strangely successful blend of folk and blues Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile are back with their joint new album Lotta Sea Lice. Barnett and Vile have …
Milwaukee Banks – New single release ‘The City’
Following on the heels of a very successful 2016 for Milwaukee Banks, including the release of their Deep into the night album, earning them nominations for best Hi …
Trading honest and objective analyses for facile explanations
In the wake of yet another vehicle-ramming attack on the streets of a European city, I could no longer ignore some of the glib commentary following the horrific inc …
Not only willows are weeping
Not that there’s anything wrong with trees. They provide oxygen, which is always handy, and it is hard to deny they do have a certain serene beauty. Nevertheless, …
Travelling Soldier
The Dixie Chicks once sang about the travelling soldier. The song is an expression of the fleeting affection received by small town American girls from the deeply e …
Unreconciled: reopening wounds in Bougainville
The backlash against Taylor Swift’s 2015 music video ‘Wildest Dreams’ threw into the pop-culture limelight the cruel realities of modern-day colonialism. The …
Street harassment: fighting back with ingenuity
“Really?” we responded in incredulity. This was a ninth-grade personal development and health class and our teacher had just told us that catcalling, wolf whist …
Fatal Wounds: Chomsky and Hitchens on Bosnia and Iraq.
I recently had the pleasure, during one of my many late-night YouTube binges, of stumbling upon a 1995 video of two of America’s most lucid, compelling, and influ …
Nectar of the travelling gods
The world is currently a rapidly changing landscape. It has become the embodiment of humanity’s own identity crisis. There are always going to be teething pro …
