John Hawkins

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | John Hawkins

Andrew Fowler is an Australian award-winning investigative journalist and a former reporter for the ABCs Foreign Correspondent and Four Corners programs. and the author ofThe Most Dangerous Man in the World: Julian Assange and WikiLeaks Fight for Freedom. This is an updated edition of his 2011 account of the rise and political imprisonment of Assange. Much of that account explained how Assange seemingly inevitably moved toward an adversarial positioning against American imperialism abroad.

Dec 13, 2024 | counterpunch.org | John Hawkins

Back in the mid-70s I had a friend who attended the New England Conservatory, a school for future musicians of all ilks — jazz, classical, guitar, sax, orchestration, composition, etc. My friend, Mark, was an Army brat whose father was a colonel stationed at Ft. Devens just 40 miles from Boston. He had shown great promise as a child of cultured parents who pushed him to excel in music.

Nov 22, 2024 | counterpunch.org | John Hawkins

Less than a year after the American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett put out his latest collection of quality ruminations on his life, titled I Was Thinking (2023), he died of interstitial lung disease in a bed at Maine Medical Center in Portland on April 19, 2024. He surely had an intimation of his nearing demise, as he spends some time in the Preface of his memoir, describing his recent visits into unconsciousness and the pull of death.

Nov 8, 2024 | counterpunch.org | John Hawkins

The re-ascension of Donald J. Trump to the presidency of the United States of America for which we stand and salute the flag raises some serious questions about the legitimacy of democracy in the 21st century. A guy twice impeached, including for anti-democratic behavior, and convicted on 34 felonies, allowed to swear again he’s uphold the law of the land, hand on the bible for a god that’s dead. We bought in. MAGA can pray all it wants, but the God of dollar bills is dead. Trump will fix it instead.

Nov 6, 2024 | counterpunch.org | John Hawkins

When Noam Chomsky deflected questions about 9/11 — refused to speculate like a common theorist of conspiracies — but, in short, directed us to the Truth: We have bigger fish to fry and have to get to it ASAP.  No doubt, he wouldn’t deny that there were such men in the world who would be happy to be Insiders with sticks of dynamite. That shit built the world we know.