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Linh Dinh's Postcards from the End of America has just been published by Seven Stories Press. Tracking our deteriorating socialscape, he maintains a photo blog.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 30, 2017 Postcard from the End of America: West Scranton
Their coal seams exhausted, their factories gone, Scrantonians get by on dead-end jobs, cheap alcohol, pills and unaffordable heroin. In September of 2017, Lackawanna County sued pharmaceutical companies over the ever-deepening opioid crisis. "The line has been drawn," the county commissioner declared.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 19, 2017 Postcard from the End of America: Pennsport in Philadelphia
All the Christopher Columbus Boulevard big box stores, Wal-Mart, Target, Ikea, Staples, Home Depot, Lowe's and Best Buy, have destroyed most Pennsport mom and pops, but what are you going to do? Small businesses gone, the city tried to build casinos in Pennsport, but locals blocked the plan.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 4, 2017 Back to the USA
In Vietnam, I had shown her extremely sadistic "b*tch Better Have My Money" video to a friend. Aghast, he asked, "Why do Americans put up with this?!"
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 29, 2017 Dak Lak
So it's all about lebensraum, my fellow Nazis. One ethnic group encroach upon another, and as cancerous mankind, we merrily wreck this earth, making a mass die off inevitable.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 21, 2017 Vung Tau
With 92.7 million citizens and rising fast, Vietnam will be increasingly devoured and trashed by its insatiable humans. Already in each urban area, one can't take a step without being swarmed and swirled along, but in Vung Tau, there is still the serenity of a more eternal Vietnam.
SHARE Saturday, October 14, 2017 Hanoi Jottings
Always angry and humorless, totalitarianism doesn't tolerate word plays or any sort of verbal ambiguities. Outlawing witticisms, it insists on righteous bombast. Since Vietnamese must constantly amuse each other with words, they chafed under such an inhuman regime. With Communism's slackening, the Viet tongue is regaining its playfulness and vitality, and you can see this even on shop signs.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 7, 2017 Wombward
Vietnamese have never taken any internationalist ideology seriously, especially Communism, a nightmare dreamt up by rootless minds. Protective of family and race, of all those who came from the same womb, they've fought against the Chinese, Mongolians, French, Americans and even against each other, because, well, their foes were deemed as fraudulent Vietnamese.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, September 8, 2017 Empire Idiots
By now, only a cretin can fail to see that the American Israel Empire is working nonstop to deform the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and, frankly, the rest of the world. Until it implodes, we can neither see straight nor even be ourselves.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 6, 2017 History Contested, Courage Wasted and Perfidy Rewarded
The United States has a frightful record of sowing chaos and destruction in countless places, and though it has routinely failed to win wars, its military contractors always make tons of money, so all is well, according to the American ruling elite. War is America's main business.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 31, 2017 Marseille, Peak Travel and Peak Immigration
Have we reached peak immigration, or will the coming global economic, political and social turmoil send billions, Americans included, across various borders?
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 26, 2017 Florensac, Olargues, Pont-Sainte-Esprit and the CIA
Meanwhile, though, life is still beautiful in rural France, and it's precisely because it's not thoroughly poisoned by American bread, cheese and news.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 19, 2017 Siurana, Charlottesville and Barcelona
The more alert among us are catching on that there's a series of false flags designed to sow divisions within society, increase support for more surveillance and policing and, often, intensify hatred of Muslims. All these goals benefit the American Israel Empire, of course, so until this collapses, all of us will continue to be run over. Preaching love, they sow hate relentlessly.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 12, 2017 George Orwell and Mohammed Atta Were Here
Though I'm sitting in this sun bathed apartment, with palm trees just outside, dark plots are being hatched, apparently, for on the wall, there's a Putin calendar, and the music is the Algerian Cheb Hasni belting out "My Way," then "Saddam," an homage to the late Iraqi leader. Not quite believing my eyes, I stare at a plate of potato frittata and blood sausage. Oh, the endless terrors! The Mossad! The C.I.A.!
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, August 7, 2017 Peak White Man
where every stone tells a story, people are ardently loyal to their home turf. Shared history matters. Strip malls don't. Europe will only be saved if the American empire, with its corrosive ideologies and madnesses, collapses, and this will happen soon enough. There is hope.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 16, 2017 On Nationalism
Nationalism is simply the love of one's language, culture, history and heritage, one's very identity in short, but as wielded by an empire, nationalism becomes a murderous tool to violate one nation after another. The American empire is destroying the American nation.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 29, 2017 Doped Up Nation
What we have, then, are two problems 1) a society that subjects so many people to extreme psychological pains 2) a culture that solves everything with addictive distortions.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 28, 2017 Die Lugenpresse und der Lauschangriff im Mutterland
The end of the road is the super state, where we are told by officialdom what to do, what to think, how to behave, how to work and where to live, etc. It will resemble Ayn Rand's vision of a bureaucratic hell and also Schalamow's depiction of a brutal terror regime.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 16, 2017 Sam Adonis, El Santo and Donald Trump
Though American politicians are phonies, and American elections are farcically rigged, Americans continue to rabidly support their favorite political puppet, whether Obama, Hillary, Sanders, Trump or whoever. Going berserk over each cartoon savior or villain, most Americans don't even know they're being force-fed lucha libre.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, June 12, 2017 Enduring Mexico
With its relative social cohesion, pride in a shared heritage, family values and work ethics, Mexico is much better prepared for the future than us seething, bickering, smug, self-absorbed, alienated and righteous dopeheads. Do tell your kids and grandkids to learn Spanish immediatamente. A million Americans already live in Mexico. A vast majority of them are illegals. Mexico will need a border wall more than we do.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 6, 2017 The Great White North
Despairing Americans often threaten to move to Canada, but how many even know what it's like now? Many liberals assume that our northern neighbor is more progressive, while those on the right might think that it's, ah, whiter.