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Author, former peace prisoner, journalist, candidate.

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55 Articles

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
2008 DNC Remembered: Interview with Daphne Webb
It was intense to witness first hand what a police state looks like. They were traveling in packs - no less than three together at any time, but the norm was over five - everywhere they went. Our common theme was this: We will not surrender the fight. We have to do something. It takes courage to do this under a false Orange Alert, with fifty cops in riot gear all round you.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008
JFK & The Unspeakable
(3 comments) Review of the book by James W. Douglass.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
"No Innocent Bystanders," by Mickey Z
Mickey Z's newest book is in your face. Get it. Put it in your hands, in your mind, your heart, before it's too late.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
"Cost of Freedom" Tour/Day 15
In northern California amid the bears, the beers, the bait, and the Bigfoot.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
"Cost of Freedom" Tour/Day 8
Old home week in west Texas at La Tuna federal prison.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
COF Tour/Day One
The Cost of Freedom Tour hits the road, headed south, turn right.

Friday, February 29, 2008
Another Big Book Tour
Palecek gets ready to go driving around again, with books in hand.

Sunday, November 4, 2007
The Ten-Point Norwegian
(4 comments) Any real man believes in the right to arm bears.

Saturday, October 13, 2007
You Talkin' To Me?
"Cost of Freedom" - the peace book that is sweeping the nation. Why doesn't anyone know about it yet?

Sunday, September 30, 2007
Doo Doo Doo
Looking out my side window.

Sunday, September 23, 2007
"Cost Of Freedom
If you are enjoying your freedom, thank a protester.

Thursday, August 30, 2007
Wake Me In October
"There were three of us, Judy, Jane, me. We stood out there for an hour, in front of the new Mexican food store, across from Kum n Go, Hardee's, A&W. Mostly we got smiles and honks and thumbs-up. Some dumb guys hollered, but that's what dumb guys do."

Monday, August 27, 2007
For God. For Country. For Honor.
Introducing the Iowa Fifth District Congressional Ten-Point Plan.

Friday, August 24, 2007
A Good Democrat
(1 comments) Diogenes has been sighted walking the dirt roads of Iowa at night with a lantern, searching for One Good Democrat.

Friday, August 17, 2007
I'm A Terror Watcher
The Total Information Terror Surveillance squad serves the people.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007
"Live At Five-OH!-Five!"
If you are enjoying your freedom, please take time to thank a member of the Homeland Broadcasting Company.

Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Bridge To Nowhere
If you are enjoying your freedom, thank a member of the Homeland Bridge Inspection Crew. That's me and Carl. ... over here ... in the rowboat.

Thursday, August 2, 2007
Hood on the Scarecrow
If you are enjoying your freedom, thank a member of The Homeland Scarecrow Network.

Monday, July 30, 2007
Senor Salsa
I am here in the Mexican Foods Aisle, securing your freedom, looking for illegal persons, terror-types. If you love your freedom, thank a small-town grocery detective.

Saturday, July 28, 2007
Securing The Perimeter
I'm here for you, guarding you. If you love your freedom, thank a water tower sitter.

Friday, July 27, 2007
County Fair Time
If you are enjoying your freedom, thank a sheep judge.

Friday, July 20, 2007
Iowa RED ALERT!
(2 comments) We're sitting here on the Group W Bench outside the Main Street Cafe, looking for them terrorists. And we can't see shit!

Monday, July 16, 2007
Wake Up & Die Right
With our boots on? Isn't that the American Way? We are likely to pass on in the night with a whimper and a sigh, just glad it's over.

Saturday, July 14, 2007
Welcome To Iowa!
We've got the strongest anti-war movement in the country, but we've also got Rep. Steve King.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007
The Cost Of Freedom
(1 comments) The troops are not protecting us. Joe & Jane Protester in Shitstorm, South Dakota are the ones who deserve all our thanks, our parades, our fireworks.

Friday, July 6, 2007
The Devil & Daniel Berrigan
(4 comments) I'm sure Daniel Berrigan has helped many people over the years. I was one of them. Thanks, Dan.

Saturday, June 30, 2007
Underground Radio - Blast It From The Mountaintops
(1 comments) Imagine telling the truth on the radio and having that come out the little machine on the kitchen table or in the kitchen window, for all the cows to hear.

Monday, June 25, 2007
And I Laugh
There's a photo on the Internet that makes me laugh. A little brown boy holding a silent scream forever in four-color. Ha.

Friday, June 22, 2007
Johnny Carson vs. Jim Garrison ... and me
(2 comments) Hey Johnny! Just between us Nebraska guys - what the f--- is going on!

Monday, June 18, 2007
Keep A Clean Nose - Watch The Plain Clothes
(1 comments) Does the Weather Underground provide an example for the resistance of the United States in 2007?

Saturday, June 16, 2007
I Do Not Support The Troops
(12 comments) Hate the war but love the soldier? Nah. That is crazy talk. Thou Shall Not Kill.

Saturday, June 16, 2007
You Say Musk Ox Dung, I Say It's Horse Hockey
(1 comments) Everybody lies. What if Matt Lauer, Katie Couric, Peter Jennings [RIP], Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw did not work for the goverment? This would be a very different country. Would not you say, Moose & Squirrel?

Friday, June 15, 2007
You Say Musk Ox Dung, I Say It's Horse Hockey
(2 comments) What's the difference? Between the U.S.S.R., the former Soviet Union newshounds and Katie Couric and Matt Lauer?

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Is This Heaven?
(6 comments) Palecek column. Is God a hoax? How about the Catholic Church? Please make the sign of the cross before reading.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Is This Heaven?
(1 comments) Column by Palecek

Friday, June 1, 2007
Is This Heaven?
Column by Mike Palecek

Saturday, May 26, 2007
Is This Heaven?
(1 comments) Column by Mike Palecek.

Thursday, May 17, 2007
#21 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
Anti-American Fiction writer Mike Palecek brings his tour into dry dock, to regroup, set sail again next spring. So it goes, huh, Dude?

Monday, May 7, 2007
#19 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
Palecek lands on/in Staten Island.

Monday, May 7, 2007
#18 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
Palecek gets shut out in NYC, heads to the Ganas Community in Staten Island, eats a bagel with humus and watches the Ferry.

Friday, May 4, 2007
#17 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
Palecek visits the Center For Inquiry in Buffalo, oggles Nancy Pelosi and heads toward Rochester.

Thursday, May 3, 2007
#16 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
Palecek visits Claddagh Irish pub in Pittsburgh, and sees a big lake and trees and shit.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
#15 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
Palecek is headed toward Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Rochester, NYC.

Monday, April 30, 2007
#14 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
Palecek is in Cleveland, headed for Bloomington, Pittsburgh, Buffalo.

Sunday, April 29, 2007
#13/The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
Anti-war novelist Palecek stops in Ann Arbor, headed to Detroit, Cleveland, Bloomington, trying to bring out the truth about the Bush government's involvement in 9-11.

Thursday, April 26, 2007
#12 The American Dream Book Tour
Palecek slips out of Chicago, enters Indiana, Michigan, and encounters people -- every-effing-where-he-goes -- who are going to save America. Really. It is going to happen. The forces are in place.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007
#11 The American Dream Book Tour
(1 comments) Palecek goes to Madison, Milwaukee, headed toward Chicago.

Saturday, April 21, 2007
#10 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
Anti-war novelist Mike Palecek, after being kicked out of Canada, slips into Wisconsin, taking refuge in an undisclosed hot tub, set to surface in Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago.

Thursday, April 19, 2007
#8 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest
Palecek is watching the Twins play the Mariners from the port city of Duluth while drinking Coors Light, eating Saltine cracker,s and thinking about shit.

Thursday, April 19, 2007
#7/The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
Anti-war novelist Mike Palecek is on a tour around the U.S. He has just come from Iowa City, Minneapolis, and right at this moment sits in Jitters, a coffee shop in Duluth, trying to figure lots of things out, like where is he parked and which way is Winnipeg.

Friday, April 13, 2007
#6 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
Anti-war novelist Mike Palecek visits Rochester, Minnesota, heads toward Des Moines, Iowa City.

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Part Five: The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA

Sunday, April 8, 2007
America. It is big and it will kill you.
#4 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA American novelist on book tour across American to fight the Bush government, calling for impeachment and prosecution of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld for carrying out 9-11, and war crimes against humanity.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
Second installment of novelist Mike Palecek's column as he begins his book tour and send his protest letter and crossed-out tax form the the IRS.

Friday, March 23, 2007
The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA
U.S. anti-war author takes book tour around the country this spring, and drops a protest letter to the IRS in the mailbox on the way out the door.