Articles by Edward J. Curtin, Jr.

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October’s Surprise Party
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

28 Sep 2024 – As another October approaches, the beautiful season of colors begins. Yet as November nears, I think we might expect what for many will be the unexpected. A Black Swan event or the expected?

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The Free Soul of a Genius: Kris Kristofferson
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

21 Sep 2024 – Kris Kristofferson, a man of deep soul and poetic genius, is eighty-eight years-old, an elderly man who has come a long way down life’s road. His songs keep echoing in my mind, and I am sure in the minds of millions of others.

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Mirages
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2024

30 Aug 2024 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. let his justifiable hatred of the Democratic Party, their undermining of his presidential campaign, and their pro-war and genocidal agenda get the best of him.  His trust in Trump is naïve in the extreme.

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The Ardent Pipe Dreams of U.S. Voters
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

4 Aug 2024 – No matter how obvious it is that the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy, the ardent pipe dreams of a new face in the White House go to their heads every four years.  It can only be explained by a combination of intellectual ignorance, the acceptance of propaganda, and the embrace of illusions.

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Caged in Oligarchic Contradictions
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

19 Apr 2024 – A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other.  Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee, and clip, which means to attach and to detach.

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If The Wars Go On
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

30 May 2024 – It’s a long hard road, this anti-war business.  During the first Cold War and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the early sixties when Kennedy and Khrushchev narrowly avoided blowing the world to smithereens, Bob Dylan put it right.

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The JFK Assassination Chokeholds That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024

Here is an excellent book that, if they would read it with open minds, would, as its subtitle says – inescapably prove that there was a conspiracy – and if Jack Ruby had not killed Oswald and he had been given a fair trial, Oswald would have been acquitted.

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The Hidden Messages of the Power Elite’s Cultural Apparatus
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

2 May 2024 – To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly.  It is generally associated with Rome’s killing of Jesus and carries profound symbolic spiritual meaning for Christians.  It also refers to many types of suffering and death inflicted on the weak by the strong, such as the ongoing genocidal slaughter of Palestinians by the Israel government.

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