Bukowski Quits at the Post Office | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 8, 2014 “It began as a mistake.” With that audacious opening line did Charles Bukowski launch his first novel, Post Office (1971). Others h ...

Poetry as Spiritual Practice: An Interview with Alicen Grey | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 30, 2014 “Once upon a time, I was the goddess named She.” - Alicen Grey, from “the funeral” According to the Sufi mystic and poet, Rumi: “P ...

BOOKS: Occupy this Book (excerpt) | Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 17, 2014 "It’s a pleasure to be in the struggle with Mickey Z." - Cindy Sheehan, from her foreword to the book Preface: My latest book, Occupy this Book: Mickey Z. ...

BOOKS: Forging a Socialist-Islamist Alliance | William T. Hathaway

William T. Hathaway -- World News Trust Feb. 10, 2014 Review of Eric Walberg, From Postmodernism to Postsecularism: Re-emerging Islamic Civilization, Clarity Press, 2013 Most western Middle East expe ...

Return of the Space Bats | John Michael Greer

Jan. 22, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- "Some 17 notable empires rose in the Middle Period of Earth. These were the Afternoon Cultures. All but one are unimportant to this narrative, and there is little ...

BOOKS: Occupy This Book. By Mickey Z.

Activists: Get Up and Get Out with Expert Insights from Mickey Z.’s Occupy this Book, Now Available from Sullivan Street Press Occupy this Book offers all the insights and guidance needed to enlighte ...

BOOKS: The Real War Heroes | William T. Hathaway

From the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War. By William T. Hathaway "The Real War Heroes" is the first chapter of Radical Peace: People Refusing War, which presents the experiences of peace acti ...

The Karma of Empire Americana | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust March, 2013 There are many fine historical books by progressive authors describing what our nation has done to other nations, as well as to our own working sti ...

The Pleasures of Extinction | John Michael Greer

May 15, 2013 (ArchdruidReport) -- One of the wry pleasures that’s repeatedly come my way since the beginning of this blog seven years ago is that of watching a good many of my predictions come true i ...

BOOKS: Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain, by Gary Olson | Paul Street

Gary Olson, Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain (New York: Springer, 2012) April 5, 2013 (Z Communications) -- Think of the values and ideas we left progressives tend to identify wi ...

BOOKS: The Ugly Canadian - Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy. By Yves Engler | Jim Miles

The Ugly Canadian - Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy. Yves Engler. Fernwood /Red. 2012. Oct. 12, 2012 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- This is another well-supported compilation of information concerning t ...