Exclusively in the new print issue of CounterPunch
WHY MORMON MEN CAN’T BE TRUSTED — A ex-Mormon woman looks back at the Church. PLUS It’s fifty years since the Port Huron statement. Alexander Cockburn on the origins of SDS and one of the crucial documents of the 1960s. PLUS Two ounces of oil + a fishing boat + Homeland Security Incident #995038 = the onward march of totalitarianism in America. Read Captain Knutson’s story.
HST
Fear and Loathing
Did Hunter know his time was over?
How could he exaggerate
the venality of George Bush?
while drifting over circus tent surrealism
of screwball entertaining insight
cause Dubya’s his own caricature
who wears lies
without disguise.
with painful vibrations of loss
Gonzo once proclaimed,
"I miss Nixon."
STEW ALBERT runs the Yippie Reading Room. His memoir, Who the Hell is STEW ALBERT?, is just out from Red Hen Press. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com