They lived in holes, trenched in desperation before the newest WMD—the German Machine Gun. The German bunkers were well-built and well-supplied. German soldiers sat, waited for an English head to pop up, just for a peak, and then…
Tags: #CBDissertation, Bivona Dissertation, War, War Culture, War EconomyThe imaginary “Tea Party” drives the American conversation to the absurd nationalistic, xenophobic hard right.
Tags: Koch brothers, WisconsinBy Charles Bivona | I was supposed to be following my breathing. I was supposed to stare at this white wall—“the emptiness of it”—and silently “count my breaths.” Simple Zazen: Breath in and count one. Breath out and count two. When you reach ten, begin at one again. I was supposed to sit on this hard buckwheat pillow, legs in a half-pretzel pose, and learn to ignore what the Zen Master called my monkey mind—“always fidgeting around!”
Tags: #CBDissertation, Bivona Dissertation, Vietnam, Vietnam War“Were you ever involved in a dysfunctional threesome with two other guys?” My friend David spit his Heineken on the bar. He was choking and laughing. “Um, no!” he replied. “What kind of fucking question is that?” David has never gotten used to me. We’ve known each other since college. He became an architect. I became a professor, writer, activist, song-and-dance man. David calls me his “Crazy Gandhi friend.” Seriously, he introduces me that way. He says he loves me because I can still make him shake his head, smile, and wonder…
Tags: #CBDissertation, Bivona Dissertation, Cairo clashes, Cairo Egypt, cairo looted, Cairo protest, Cairo riots, demo, demonstration, Egypt clashes, Egypt crisis, Egypt protest, Egypt riot, Egypt riots, El Baradei protest, fierce, footage, Hosni Mubarak, Mohamed ElBaradei, Paula Slier, Revolution, RT, Tahrir Square, tear gas, Threesome, Tunisia raw video, Twitter, Violence, violent, القاهرةحسني, مصر, مباركI’m no political pundit. I’m just a poet who became a cultural historian by accident. Seriously, I tripped into this life. And from my perspective, the U.S. seems poised to make the same mistake it made in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. Our government is poised to focus more on U.S. financial interests than on the will of Egyptian people—the families on the streets of Cairo. We are poised to be the bad guys on the wrong side of history, again. But we do have a choice.
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