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The Difference Between LGBT and Queer is a Revolutionary One

Joe is a gay man. A real swell guy who parts his hair down the side, says his prayers, and pays his taxes. He just so happens to suck cock. Well, one...

11.06.2026 7

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An Anarchist Defense of the Cuban Revolution

” a libertarian foreign policy program for America must be to call upon the United States to abandon its policy of global interventionism: to...

04.06.2026 10

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Iran in Vain: Rooting for the “Bad Guy” is No Vice When Your Guy is Worse

If you have no earthly idea what in the hot fuck is going on with the Iran War right now, then you are probably paying attention because the Trump...

28.05.2026 10

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Mental Illness May be a Myth, but Trauma is a Societal Crisis

“In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.” -Thomas Szasz In the beginning, there were shamans; wild eyed wiseman...

21.05.2026 10

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What Makes a Man Shoot Serial Killers: On Refusing to be Shocked by Political Violence

So, another motherfucker took a shot at the president; another bored kid with a gun and an iPhone looking for immortality in all the wrong places. The...

14.05.2026 10

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America is the Bad Guy in This Movie

“We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster’s whim and the...

23.04.2026 10

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Lebanon, Iran, and the Forgotten Plight of the Shia “Infidel”

As a badly battered Middle East hangs off the edge of a cliff by a string with a temporary ceasefire between the United States and Iran, peace or...

16.04.2026 10

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The Art of Coping with Unfathomable Rage in Infuriating Times

A wise man once said that rage is merely depression turned outward. I don’t know what that motherfucker’s name was, but I’d like to rip his...

26.03.2026 20

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The Ghost of Ali Shariati Dances with the Epstein Empire

Trump has seriously fucked up in the Middle East this time, and even he knows it. In the first two weeks alone of Bibi and Donald’s latest savage...

19.03.2026 20

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Queer Requiem

If it’s February, then some liberal white dude is probably telling you about Black history and he’s probably totally missing the point, going on...

05.03.2026 20

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It’s the Epstein Files, Stupid: Using Empire to Distract from Vice

One might be forgiven for assuming that the man in the White House is a lunatic and Donald J. Trump certainly couldn’t be confused with the picture...

20.02.2026 60

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From Greenland to the Great Lakes, Secession is Our Best Hope for Escaping Tyranny

“We will have everything we want; we’re getting everything we want, at no cost!” the President of Babylon barked triumphantly over his latest...

13.02.2026 30

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We All Need to Have a Serious Conversation About Revolution

Well, it’s official dearest motherfuckers, America has become the world’s largest third world dictatorship. If the first two months of 2026...

09.02.2026 20

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Palestine Doesn’t Need Another Oslo: Could Hamas Become the New Fatah?

It stuck. Donald Trump nailed it. The impossible peace deal that will remake the Middle East in his own gawdy gilded image. After just over two years...

26.11.2025 20

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You Don’t Have to Be a Lefty to Stand with Venezuela

Once upon a time, not so long ago, I was a goddamn commie, and I’m not talking Bernie Sanders here. I’m talking hardcore, blood-red,...

14.11.2025 30

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A Samhain Message to an Embattled Trans Youth

Thousands of years ago, on the sacred rock from which my ancestors fled, this season of the year was celebrated as Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival...

07.11.2025 20

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Harsh Lessons Christian Nationalists Could Learn from Folk Horror

Christianity is back and it’s more violent than ever. I speak, of course, of the late capitalist tent house revival of Christian Nationalism amongst...

24.10.2025 20

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The Project for a New Israeli Century

In case you haven’t noticed, Israel seems to be at war with pretty much fucking everybody right now and they show little sign of slowing down...

26.09.2025 20

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American Radicals Cannot Afford to Ignore the Epstein Scandal

Not long after Donald Trump had the Department of Justice unceremoniously torpedo its own investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the President’s...

05.09.2025 30

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Youth Rights Are Queer Rights

2025 has been a hard year to be Queer in this necrotic empire but it has been a downright horrific year to be a Queer kid and tragically, in many...

27.06.2025 20

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Why I Can’t Celebrate Pride This Year

If you’ve read more than a few of my rants, then you are probably already painfully aware that I am a Queer person and that I take this identity...

20.06.2025 20

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Meet the New Pope, Same as the Last Pope (…and the Last Pope)

Ana Maria was a nine-year-old girl from a little town called Chiclayo, Peru in 2007 when the Catholic Church robbed her of her childhood. She didn’t...

23.05.2025 10

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Panarchy is the Universal Peace Deal

The winds of March are roaring and everywhere you look peace is in the air, or at least that’s the impression you might get from eyeballing the...

04.04.2025 10

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