The Crisis Winter 2026

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Call it “The Crisis,” but which one do you mean?

the crisis here or the crisis there? Though there is no steadfast distinction;

here is there and there is here, except in the number of casualties; imperialism

raises its syphilitic head everywhere, the stinking climate is everywhere;

we’re all on the same wildly spinning planet, though it’s far hotter there

then here; hotter in every way, with nearly everything rising except the static

stock market, barrels of oil roiling across seas of blood, war lords in the capitals,

citizens in the streets, whose side are you on now?

Jonah Raskin is the author of Beat Blues, San Francisco, 1955.

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Imperial Blowback and Communal Rebellion

What We Do in the Election Booth is Not the Same as Activism

In Search of Liberation: From Leonard Peltier to Nick Tilsen

Tells the Facts and Names the Names

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