John Kendall Hawkins

John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelancer based in Australia.  He is a former reporter for The New Bedford Standard-Times.

The Old Country New Again: Revisiting Keith Jarrett

At the Cusp of a New Epoch

On and Off in Life and Death

Questioning My Sanity After the Election Results

Overshot and Kaput: Humankind Wears Out Its Welcome

Halloween: Five Flash Fictions

The Founder Who Electrified Paris

December 11, 2024:  A Day That Will Live in Infamy?

OpenAI Closes Its Mind and Opens Yours

The Poet as Lived Experience Expert

Julian is Free

The Clown Must Die: a Review of Rushdie’s Knife

Death Camp: The Holocaust Hangman’s Humor

The Still and Moving Center

Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves

Time To Plant An Acorn

So Long, Good Night, John Pilger

Darkness at the Break of Noon

The Black Gold God That Dirtied Us All

Poem: It’s 9/11 Day

Chile: The Aussie Connection, An Interview with Clinton Fernandes

The Contested Americas: Strait Talk

Sophie’s Choice: Don’t Be Evil or Don’t Be Good

We Don’t Want the Smoking Gun to the Head of Civilization To Be A Mushroom Cloud

The Church Committee Hearings: Losing Our Religion

The Deep Dark State We’re In

Daniel Ellsberg: Master of War, Champion of Peace

Is Reality a Winner?

My Short-Lived Life as an LEE

The Gang That Couldn’t Snoop Straight

Kissinger at 100 (A Prose Poem)

DARPA is God and Nature

Three Ways We Can End the World Quickly Using AI

The Timeless Thelonious Monk

Australia and DARPA’s Quest for Mind Control

On Anarchism: An Interview with Glenn Wallis

Chomsky and Me: an Interview With Bev Boisseau Stohl

Safety in Numbers

Letter to an Old Poet

The Primordial Fires of Our Earth

Clever Country Blues

Frank Kunert’s ès Cuisine Photographic Art

One Last Chance to Boot the Nothing Matters Blues

Need for Greed: Payback

MLK

An Interview With Jefferson Morley on the CIA, Nixon and the Assassination of JFK

Hollywood Jazz Trio

Boston Housing Project

The Black Gold God That Dirtied Us All

The Rise and Rise of Artificiality