Oops! Wrong Country: Watching the World Cup in a Bolivian Gutter
Rejected at the border on a pilgrimage to the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, I end up in the Bolivian Amazon basin, frantically searching for a TV to watch my beloved Socceroos.
Surviving San Francisco: Absinthe, Haight-Ashbury, and D.J. Lebowitz
Wandering drunk around San Francisco can find one in situations more surreal than fiction, more absurd than socialist policy.
The Collective Will to Exit Plato’s Cave is Feeble
Despite its crumbling foundation, the current global narrative is not the final consequence, and is but one component of a scripted soap opera designed to cloak the hand of evil.
The Sadistic Role of Lucifer in the Age of Aquarius
As proclaimed in the Book of Isaiah, the five prophecies of Lucifer will come to fruition in many forms, and is presently revealing its machination as a tyrannical global technocracy.
Where Eagles Dare: Interview With an International Fugitive
Upon a chance run-in with a member of the Mexican Mafia, Chuck Hagen sets up a rare interview, in Mexico, on a mountain, in a cave.
Zapatista Rising: The Ugly Truth Behind the Village Veil
In southern Mexico, a century-old war rages on, between the mountains and the sea, between the wealthy and the poor, between freedom and government oppression.
Could Radical Drug Reform Allow a Decaying Society to Thrive?
In 2001, the European nation of Portugal implemented a radical drug policy that vastly improved the lives of the citizens. So why doesn’t this happen elsewhere?
The Being and Nothingness of the Darién Gap
Dividing the Americas, the Darién Gap has long been considered a fortified abyss. However, amid the darkness, lies an promise rich in spiritual ascendance.
Serpent Mythology: The Power and the Secrecy
Used to portray both the harmonising influence and sinister machination of man, the serpent has cultivated a rich history of duality, enlightenment, and secrecy.
Backpackers Will Steal Your Milk and Poets Will Steal Your Coke
Uruguay’s Cabo Polonio is both a stunning hellhole and a hideous wonderland, rife with thieves, drugs, poets, and hippy backpackers just aching to steal your milk.
Beauty and Ruin: The Exquisite Tragedy of Philadelphia
The beautiful juxtaposition of Philadelphia is reminiscent of a Greek tragedy filled with love and hate, danger and safety, and beauty and ruin.
The Perennial Upsetter: Wilhelm Reich and the Orgone Energy Saga
From raising the ire of Hitler, to poking the Big Pharma bear, to countercultural antihero, psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich was a crucial figure of 20th century discourse.
The Case For Ted Kaczynski’s ‘Industrial Society and its Future’
Despite his psychopathic tendencies, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto displays a slew of accurate prophecies regarding the technocratic chokehold of present day.
The Virtue of Selfishness: Ayn Rand’s Model for a Better World
Over the past six decades, Ayn Rand’s largely misunderstood ‘The Virtue of Selfishness’ essay has both awoken and angered a society hellbent on black and white tribalism.
The History of Motherf*cker and its Impact on Pop Culture
Despite the all-purpose expletive being diluted of its magic, motherfucker still helped propel jazz, blues, rock, punk and rap into the cultural zeitgeist.
How a Tiny Mediterranean Nation Rescued a Flailing Music Industry
During the Great Depression, recording giants HMV teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. Enter Malta, the nation credited with reclaiming the music industry from obscurity.
And Justice For Some: Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Final Days
After four decades served in maximum security for a crime he did not commit, activist Mumia Abu-Jamal faces the biggest challenge of his life.
The Entropy Element: Water’s Role As a Natural Bioweapon
Whilst H2O is crucial to continuance, a lesser-known element called deuterium suggests that our potable water may provide diminished returns because of isotopic entropy.
Reefer Madness: The Emperor is Still Butt Naked
Over a century since the implementation of the Harrison’s Narcotics Act, many are still perplexed why cannabis was made illegal in the first place.
The Silence of Sound: How God Spoke the Universe Into Existence
The theory of God speaking the universe into existence lands squarely in the subject of cymatics, the meticulous study of sound wave phenomena.