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.

A Modest Proposal: On the Windfall Owed to America’s Elders, and Other Logical Consequences of Personhood at Conception

Fanon’s Rainbow: The Lithium Under Appalachia

The Pope They Didn’t Want You to Notice: Race, Moral Authority, and the Audacity of JD Vance

“Mercy:” Judge Maddox Will See You Now

The Architect of Shadows: How Epstein Used Genius As Raw Material

Smile, You’re on Fusion Database: On Surveillance, Simulation, and the Final Frontier Between Your Ears

All Aboard the Secular Zion Train

The Mamdani Peace Dividend?

The Ugly Americans

Cover-Up: How One Reporter Spent 50 Years Exposing America’s Murder Inc.

The Rat Cage is NSPM-7: On Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5

Christmas 2025 Haiku

All the Pretty Koch Suckers

Corruption and the Tragedy of Carin

Don’t Mess with the Zohran

Murdering Journalists in Gaza

The Chaos of Creation: An Interview with Emmalea Russo

Three Steps Forward, 10 Steps Back: George Floyd’s Murder and Aftermath

Now It’s Dark: Alex Gibney How on Big Money Bought the American Political System

The Soft Propaganda of the Oscars

Remembering MLK, Jr. 2025

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