Chronicles
“If you think it’s about you, it probably is.”
by David Franklin The fact that all varieties of English now dominate the world of international communications is practically indisputable. Whether we are involved with international trade, diplomacy, aviation…
By David Franklin I’m proud of my Aryan brothers and sisters. A small band of people who spread out from western Central Asia to conquer far and wide. The Aryans have left their DNA, languages, and cultures onto…
It’s a life or death situation! News headlines, whether in print, online or on some form of TV, choose the crisis mode to deliver their message. Humans are conditioned to respond with high alert to situations which…
Revolution only begins when you eliminate your corrupt masters and free yourself from the yoke of servitude. The White Tiger is a film with a message that could not be any clearer. Evil is everywhere. Even you, the…
Comparing one Great with another Great Although the comparison I’m going to make between the recent ruler of the Empire of the United States and an ancient ruler of the Roman Empire is mostly based on the Anecdota or…
A different kind of poem for the start of the Biden & Harris presidency The Face of Madame Liberty on the Statue of Liberty The Golden Door you work each day like a chain gang slave earn just enough to buy an early…
And some comments about infrastructure renewal during Covid-19 Below this rather longish introduction, you will find my translation of an article from the Hamburg Tenants’ Association – yes, we have such things here!…
That’s the title of a poem I wrote back in the 1970s when I was living in Los Angeles and aspired to be part of the post-Beat Generation. In those days I had read all the good guys, Proudhon, Bakunin, Max Stirner, Orwell’s books about being down and out as well as his sojourn in […]
Narcissistic personality disorder as a national trait The Mayo Clinic describes NPD as: a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and…
25 November 2020 Now that the transition, like an old Model-T, has finally sputtered to a start and people are beginning to assume there are enough committed honest electors to guarantee Biden will be voted in on…
Out of the trenches and into the What? Yesterday there was a moment of euphoria when Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election. I’m not denying that moment. My partigiano endorphins celebrated their…
Archive dot org, which I’m sure many of you are already familiar with, has been able rescue films that record history, like the films shot during and after both of the World Wars, and of course it has rescued countless…
Mashhad is a big city. After spending so much time going through semi-desert landscape and the dusty bare towns of Kandahar and Herat, it was disconcerting to be back in what was definitely civilization. And it wasn’t…
One of the things I have realized since I began writing about events that happened almost 50 years ago, is that memories slide into each other and compress. During a seven or eight hour bus journey, not all moments are…
Forty-four songs from one of the best songwriters in country music. http://www.atmanrecords.de/danny-antonelli/songs-by-danny-antonelli.html You can listen to all 44 songs on the player that is embedded in the link above.
The ride up through the Khyber Pass to Jalalabad was, as I said, frightening, but at the same time awesome, in the old meaning of the word — it filled me with awe. What kept hitting me along the way every time I dared to look out the window of that bus was the sheer […]
From the Pakistani side of the border, I took a taxi to Lahore. It’s about a half hour drive and it was hot and I was tired and after talking with the driver for a few minutes, I fell asleep. I was sitting in the front seat, with my olive green backpack between my legs. […]
ROCK music, with a heavy guitar touch and lyrics that mean something, as usual. Listen New album released on 01.01.2016 and available from all the usual digital outlets for download or streaming, including iTunes…