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Mike Tyson, a private redemption?

Occasionally mass media gets to me and I have to process it, and while pro-sports is something I can usually resist, the grande bizarre…

Nov 16, 2024

Mike Tyson, a private redemption?

Nov 16, 2024

Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdel Hamid and Tahseen Ahmed

These three students were gunned down by what very much appears to be a homicidal xenophobe.

Nov 27, 2023

Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdel Hamid and Tahseen Ahmed

Nov 27, 2023

Manufactured Discord: Memetic interruption of the social determinants of health.

The world as it is When Lee Stawicki walked into Cafe Racer and killed my friends Joe and Andrew, he was not a right wing mass shooter. He…

Feb 20, 2023

Manufactured Discord: Memetic interruption of the social determinants of health.

Feb 20, 2023

On the aeternal flame of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

Quite often I am confronted with people who feel the need to discuss how “MLK would have a different view of things if he were around…

Feb 20, 2023

On the aeternal flame of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

Feb 20, 2023

Why do I dance?

A short prose for my former ballet teacher Katherine… with love.

Aug 23, 2020

Why do I dance?

Aug 23, 2020

Recon SitRep of Capitol Hill (insert weekly name to make cool acronym)

Really quick Sit Rep folks… no time to mess with typos. Just read. K?

Jun 15, 2020

Recon SitRep of Capitol Hill (insert weekly name to make cool acronym)

Jun 15, 2020

Haunting reflections from our first Fireside chat in Cabiria

Last night I had the pleasure of visiting a number of long term supporters of our artistic mission. The Cabiri has begun presenting…

Jun 10, 2020

Haunting reflections from our first Fireside chat in Cabiria

Jun 10, 2020

Confronting Memetics in 20/20

Are you even you anymore?

Jun 6, 2020

Confronting Memetics in 20/20

Jun 6, 2020

The American Revolution is not over.

(a draft)

Jun 3, 2020

Jun 3, 2020

False Flag Memetic on 5–30–202 : ”From a good friend who was in the streets in Seattle today”

The below is a rapid dissection of the current false flag memetic that is circulating after the terrible events that occurred on the…

May 31, 2020

May 31, 2020

Acultural Shock:

I see the coming Storm

May 17, 2020

Acultural Shock:

May 17, 2020

To be where I have been…. Sit with elders of the gentle race

Ziyarat Lalish bikē

May 17, 2020

To be where I have been….
Sit with elders of the gentle race

May 17, 2020

Sobering Thoughts on the Blood in Rojava

It is sobering to remember… That this battle is not the first battle … And our history shows it will not be the last….

May 17, 2020

Sobering Thoughts on the Blood in Rojava

May 17, 2020

The Story About Mosul Everyone Needs to Hear

During the March 17th clearing operations in the neighborhood of Jadidah in Western Mosul, several families were killed when an American…

May 17, 2020

The Story About Mosul Everyone Needs to Hear

May 17, 2020

Looking for an ATM I stumble upon a war crime

It all starts with a bank machine.

May 16, 2020

Looking for an ATM I stumble upon a war crime

May 16, 2020

“I have a very important story for you.”

When I arrived in my first base of operations the first thing I experienced was the gut wrenching sink in the stomach of seeing one of the…

May 16, 2020

“I have a very important story for you.”

May 16, 2020

In His Fathers House

In my surrogate home town here in Iraq, my anchor is my dear friend Salem Daoud. When I first arrived, I was somewhat dazed and confused…

May 16, 2020

In His Fathers House

May 16, 2020

A Time of Strife, Travels in Kurdistan in the time of ISIL

Zivistan be min diyarbun vîdja jiwân…

May 15, 2020

A Time of Strife, Travels in Kurdistan in the time of ISIL

May 15, 2020

The Call

In 1996, I was a biochemist working in cancer research in the burgeoning tech industry in Seattle. During this time, I was working in an…

May 15, 2020

The Call

May 15, 2020

On Performative Mythology

Performative Mythology — A Manifesto

May 15, 2020

May 15, 2020

John Murphy

John Murphy

John is a folklorist and ethnographer that directs The Cabiri, a Seattle based performance company. He also operates the advocacy/outreach organization DuSarea.

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