Category Archives: Brian’s Blog

Armistice Day Has Morphed Into Veterans Day* – “Thank You For Your Service!”

November 11, 2013 – 8:54 pm

“Thank you for your service.” For more than the three decades that I have publicly acknowledged being a veteran, I continue to hear over and over this professed appreciation. Recently I was admitted to the Portland, VA hospital and once completing her medical intake interview the attending physician made sure she thanked me for my […]

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Examining US Rhetoric, Patterns, & AWOL – the Wool IS Our Eyes (not pulled over our eyes)

August 16, 2013 – 12:01 pm

PROPOSITION: The USA is a relatively recent nation-state culture. It is an over-sized imperial monster, irredeemable, unreformable, and vertically anti-democratic, enabled by popular obedience & cooperation, even if reluctant, of the vast majority of our non-autonomous population who deeply believe in and materially benefit from manifest destiny, maintained at any cost. Original wool IS in […]

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Developing Nonviolent Bioregional Revolutionary Strategies

August 16, 2013 – 11:49 am

Basic Premises: I. Industrial civilization is on a collision course with life itself. Facilitating its collapse is a deserved and welcomed correction, long overdue. Collapse is inevitable whether we seek to facilitate it or not. Nonetheless, whatever we do, industrial civilization, based as it is on mining and burning finite and polluting fossil fuels, cannot […]

By brian | Also posted in Brian's Blog, Envisioning Nonviolent Revolutionary Alternatives, Challenging Traditional Patriotism | Comments (0)

SLOW AND SMALL ARE BEAUTIFUL (9/6/2011)

July 21, 2013 – 12:46 pm

Modern human travel assumes faster is better, signaling “progress,” which assumption is result of the one century blip of the fossil fuel revolution burning stored sunlight (carbon) that took millions of years to form in the ground. The blip will NOT repeat. This assumption is riddled with delusions: (1) that these energy “resources” are infinite. […]

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Close Guantanamo Event, Portland, OR, August 1, 2013

July 11, 2013 – 10:17 pm

Veterans For Peace Chapter 72, Portland, Oregon  July 11, 2013             The Grotesque Injustice of Guantánamo: An Insiders’ Account The illegality, immorality and inhumanity of the U.S. Naval Detention Center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is the focus of a special presentation on Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM in the Buchan […]

By brian | Also posted in Brian's Blog, The Most Dangerous of Rogue Nations: The United States, Terrorism & Homeland Security | Comments (0)
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