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.

We, the People Did Next To Nothing

Columbus Day Sonnet

Every Body’s Talking at Them: an Interview with Jon Lieff

Australia’s Asian Pivot Towards War

Wow, Space is the Place After All

An Interview with Dr. Rick Staggenborg, Soldiers for Peace International

Who Should Forgive Who?

The Color of Suffering: Black and Blue

The Rise and Rise of Homo Tempus: An Interview with Richard Yonck

Capitalism Won’t Fix the Climate Crisis. It Will Also Not Survive It.

Ed Snowden’s Ayn Rand Connection

Australia’s Pine Gap: Eyes From the Sky

Sympathy for the ‘White Devil’?

Thanks, Bill

Humanizing Julian Assange

It’s Not Dark Yet — Oh Wait, Yes It Is!

The Mark of Cain

George Carlin: the Triumph of Bullshit

Black Sufferance / Insufferable Whites: An Interview with Reverend Dr. James Henry Harris

Sonnet for Independence Day

Every Picture Tells the Same Story

I Was the Walrus, but Now I Am John: Neo-liberalism’s Dead and Gone

The Assange Animus and the Spy Trial Ahead

Another Take on American Pie, 50 Years Later

The Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World

The French Revolution as Dinner Theater

Un-Amending the Deuce Our Forefathers Dropped

Christopher Steele’s Replacement Theory

Tales from the Cryptic ‘60s: an Unauthorized Interview with Judy Gumbo

Who’s the Father?

Philip Goff: Panpsychic Ponderments

Q and A with Carey Gillam of The New Lede

Watching the River Flow: Siddhartha 100 Years On

Sonnet: Earth Day April 22, 2022

The Coming US Elections: An Interview with Greg Palast

The Lies, Damned Lies of War – and the Statistics to Prove It

The Better Angels Book

Did Biden Eff It Up?

Sonnet: I’m Maddy As Hell

Hulu’s Catherine the Great: Huzzah!

Where is Edward Snowden?

Down Under Flash Flood: 5 Easy Pieces of Fiction

Bob Dylan’s Ukrainian Uproots and the PEN America Happening

Sunday Colloquy: We, the People, and Our Wars (Ukraine, Edition)

An Interview with Larry “Ratso” Sloman

The Clowns of War Risking It All

Goin’ Forward: An Exegesis and Maybe an Exodus

Talkin’ World War III Blues…Again

The French Dispatch: The Wild Writers and Their Subjects Bash

Race Relations and the Natures of Our Beasts