Phil Rockstroh, Author at Trebuchet Page 4 of 6

Austerity : The Colonialism of the Corporate

18/07/2015

The blood-sucking tyrannies of neoliberal austerity were inflicted on the Greek people by means of election ruses....

Small of Stature, Great of Nature

02/07/2015

The diminutive are spurned, scorned, defamed and relegated to the margins....

Bursting the pink bubble of partisan fantasy

17/06/2015

You do not actually believe that it is possible to vote away oligarchic rule and militarist/police state imperium… do you?...

Entrenched imperial orders do not die pretty deaths

04/06/2015

The angst, humiliations, and sundry degradations of working people that are inherent to capitalism are unbearable for the multitudes...

Obama Fills His Suit Only Too Well

22/05/2015

While it is tempting to label Barack Obama, as many have, an "empty suit." Fact is, the term is not only facile but inaccurate....

An extortion and shakedown racket. Which you elected.

09/05/2015

You accepted your economic betters' paltry bribes and transformed mass media consumer distraction into your mode of being...

A spurious god created by a corrupt elite – Capitalism

30/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcapfter one presents a cogent critique of capitalism, one is likely to hear the following as a reply from the propagandized, good...

Sane? That’s a Tough Goal in Insane Times

03/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcapuman activity (since the advent of the oxymoron known as industrial civilization) has been defined by the exploitation of human...

The Ecocidal Feedback Loop of Consumerism

24/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”E/dropcapcocide. Methane feedback loops. And perpetual, low-grade war for the planet’s resources that will render her hostile to human...

Negotiating Pain and Life’s Wounds

06/02/2015

How does one respond to the forces and circumstances that insult, oppress and torment one's soul?...

Pete Seeger and the Cop Problem

08/01/2015

The true purpose of a union was and remains: to bind the oppressed and exploited in solidarity - not act as agents of their oppression....

Hell Is Other People(‘s Stuff)

02/01/2015

We inherited the shaded glades and sunlight-dappled gardens of Heaven but we have made our world a burning hell....

Torture and the Tooth-For-Tooth Reflex

27/12/2014

The reality of having, without reflection, internalized the propaganda of the state constitutes an act of evil, in and of itself....

On Killer Cops and Reverse Racism

09/12/2014

Does one identify with and/or benefit from hyper-authoritarian power or does one empathize with the plight of the powerless?...

Veracity of Soul and Materialist Reductionism

26/07/2014

a person who believes they have no soul is as dangerous to our besieged planet, in their own way, as one who is out to save the soul of others...

Sedition and The 1%

31/05/2014

An inhuman system that has come to stand for little but the empty perpetuation of itself...

Politics as usual, Has Failed

27/05/2014

In our time, politics as usual has failed to address the most pressing issues of the age...

Patriotism and Silence

07/04/2014

How can the U.S. not be a haunted land? The country's blood-soaked soil chants songs of lamentation. ...

Dragons or Flies? The State Apparatus of Fear

31/03/2014

Meet your fears, look them in the eye, live among them for a time. Discern whether they consist of an insect buzzing at your windowpane or is a dragon on the roof...

Rejecting Capitalism’s Putrefying Paradigm

24/03/2014

Late capitalism's putrefying paradigm has but one remedy for the devastation reaped by the system... insanely, more production and more consumerism....

A picture of tankers by John Marakevelis

Walking in an Anthropocene Wonderland

13/03/2014

Although we have been graced with life - all its possibilities and abundance - it has become apparent, we have fallen in love with Extinction....

Fear in a Handful of Dust

03/03/2014

The times call for us to explore the soul's topography of exaggeration, and this is propitious because it is not possible to exaggerate the peril we face if we cling to the status quo...

Imagination in a Soulless Age

24/02/2014

Often a collapse, a breakdown, a depression—some sort of unsolvable crisis is required before the soul's message is heard. ...

Daring to Have Dreams

02/11/2013

All too many individuals had their dreams kicked out of them at an early age. We must come back to fantasy to keep a grip on reality....

Let The Liberals Drink Tea

20/10/2013

The liberal tradition has always been to place property rights above human rights...

Ecocide and the Soul of a Nation

20/07/2013

Estrangement from nature is estrangement from the landscape of the soul. ...

Fortune’s Fools

15/06/2013

When questioned by the youth of future generations about how you responded when the earth was burning, will you reply that you went to the mall staring at a glowing electronic box, engaged in...