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Column: The Migration Crisis
The world is currently witnessing human migration on a massive scale, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean and in Europe. According to The New York Times, the population of asylum seekers in...
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Column: Indigenous Struggles in California’s Bay Area
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Column: The Fire Is Here
Five people protesting the police killing of Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old black man, are shot and injured by a group of white men in Minneapolis. A candidate for the United States Presidency says that a...
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Column: War and the Wild Hunt(s)
In January 2014, Pope Francis—the Pontifex of Rome—released a pair of white doves after a prayer for peace in Ukraine. The doves were immediately attacked by a crow and a seagull. It doesn’t take a...
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Column: To Make the Voice of the Criminal Audible
Jean Genet’s text “The Criminal Child,” previously unavailable in English, was translated and published in December 2015. An anonymous commentary on the text, included as an afterword within the same...
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Column: Pantheacon 2016
Pantheacon is an annual “conference for Pagans, Heathens, Indigenous Non-European and many of diverse beliefs,” which is held on the unceded land of Tamien Ohlone-speaking peoples in the city of San...
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Column: 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising
“All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.”—W.B. Yeats Easter Proclamation of 1916. [Public domain.] On Easter Monday (April 24) of 1916, the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Citizens’ Army...
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Column: Dionysos
At the keynote address of the recent National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach, the director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, Thomas Jordan, warned that the southern San Andreas Fault...
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Column: Against Leviathan
The massacre in Orlando was an act of war, but how are the sides of the war delineated? Donald Trump, who declared in March that, “I think Islam hates us,” frames the war as Islam against the West....
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Column: Warriorship, Gods and State Monopoly of Violence
I write this as a devotee of war gods with the purpose of examining various theories about the State’s monopoly of violence, counter-insurgency and warriorship. This essay is written in the aftermath...
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Column: Black August
The dog days of summer are here, marked by the rising of the star Sirius in the morning sky, “the star they give the name of Orion’s Dog, which is brightest among the stars, and yet is wrought as a...
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Column: Tupac Amaru Shakur
Twenty years ago, on Sept. 7, 1996, the rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur was shot in Las Vegas at the age of 25. He is reported to have died in the hospital six days later, on Sept. 13. Conspiracy theories...
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Column: Antifascism and the Dionysian Spirit
[Heathen Chinese is one of our talented monthly columnists. Monthly he brings you insight and analysis about issues coming from within or affecting our collective communities. If you enjoy his work,...
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Column: The Tiger’s Leap
In 1940, Walter Benjamin wrote, “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ’emergency situation’ in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at a concept of history which corresponds to...
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Book Review: The Tao of Craft
The Tao of Craft: Fu Talismans and Casting Sigils in the Eastern Esoteric Tradition by Benebell Wen. Published by North Atlantic Books (600 pages) The Tao of Craft, by Benebell Wen (also author of...
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Column: Resiliency and the Spirit War
“6-3-6: The concept of politics has then become completely absorbed into a war of spirits.” —Nietzschemanteion The Star, Tarot de Marseille, Jean Noblet. Public Domain. Or as Diane di Prima wrote,...
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Column: Animism and the Eternal Recurrence of Myth
The fourth century C.E. Neoplatonist Sallustius, a friend of the Roman Emperor Julian (who revoked Christianity’s status as state religion and attempted to revive polytheist worship), wrote in On the...
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Column: Loki and Dionysos
“Have I been understood? Dionysus against the Crucified!” —Nietzsche, final line of Ecce Homo Drawing by Hans Olde [public domain]. On Jan. 3, 1889, Nietzsche witnessed a horse being whipped in the...
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Column: A review of Star.Ships
Gordon White’s Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, published by Scarlet Imprint in 2016, challenges the overly materialistic shortsightedness of both academic and “ancient aliens” theories...
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Column: Whiteness is Dead
Whiteness is dead. James Baldwin proclaimed it back in 1972, prophesying ominously that there would be “bloody holding actions all over the world, for years to come.” The holding actions have gotten...
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