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This Might Become a Collector’s Item
Continue ReadingA Catastrophic Fall from Power Near the bottom of our faded billboard, Arabic letters spell out (right-to-left): Mohamed Hosni Mubarak. The flattering illustration depicts a heroic man in the prime of life and solidly in control — the undisputed modern Egyptian Pharaoh who had ruled his kingdom twenty-eight years. Two years after I made […]
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Intersecting World History
Continue ReadingTo those who would bear the hopes and future of the people, let the voice of their guns express the words of freedom. Death to the Fascist Insect that preys upon the life of the people. (Rallying Cry of the Symbionese Liberation Army) “Greetings, my comrade sisters and brothers, all love, power and freedom […]
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An American Refugee
Continue ReadingIn the 19th Century some historical roles were reversed. For instance: the United States — and not a Middle Eastern country — had an industrial Civil War in progress, killing soldiers and uprooting civilians. A million-and-a-half military casualties occurred in less than five years in the USA, including men dead in battle and those suffering […]
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