Articles by Edward J. Curtin, Jr.
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A Tuneful Irish Tale
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
14 Mar 2025 – The old man in the Irish cap sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his house across from ours. I would usually see him on my way home from school.
→ read full articleWhose Dog Was Being Wagged During Showtime between Trump and Zelensky?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
So if you sat with your mouth agape in shock at the dog and pony show in DC between Trump, the reality TV actor, and Zelensky, the comedian, who became Ukraine’s president and Trump’s apprentice in 2019 during Trump’s first term, let me suggest a bizarre possibility at a time when the bizarre has become commonplace.
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Hold the Applause for Trump, the “Peacemaker”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
I think extreme caution is advised when it comes to Trump’s plans to end the U.S. proxy war against Russia, which, following the Nixon-Kissinger script, seems to be aimed at splitting the Russian-Chinese partnership now threatening U.S. world domination.
→ read full articleMartin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, and Gaza
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
No doubt Satan will be laughing with delight as Donald Trump is sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I still wonder: Are the dead nostalgic? I hope so.
→ read full articleLucid Summations of Fundamental Issues
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote that ordinary people feel trapped and overwhelmed by the glut of information available. They have great difficulty to make sense of the connections between their personal lives and society, the links between biography and history, self and world.
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A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
I reviewed a film – Four Died Trying – about four men assassinated by the U.S. government because they opposed their wars: President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
→ read full articleEverybody Knows: Do They?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – When the polls closed on Tue 5 Nov, I was sound asleep. Every presidential election is a contest between two sides of the ruling monied elite, chosen to represent their interests. It is corrupt beyond repair.
→ read full articleSoul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
It is impossible to understand the United States’ full-fledged support today for Israel’s genocide in the Middle East without understanding this history. Israel’s genocide is the United States’ genocide; they cannot be separated.
→ read full articleThe Preposterous Nature of “Reality”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that seem randomly meaningless, leading nowhere. Thoughts that think us. To dismiss them, however, is a mistake.
→ read full articleOctober’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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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.
→ read full articleThe 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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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.
→ read full articleThe 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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