** "Of course it's a dilemma about whether you're going to close doors because you say what you say - but I sleep easy knowing that I've tried to keep as vocal as I can about what's happening in the world..."

The Stoic: A Conversation With Jason Flemyng. A strange political confession from the repeat offender screen villain UK actor, turning up in Guy Ritchie and George Romero crime thrillers, and his Jekyll and Hyde in The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Along with his latest, as the mysteriously mystical and philosophically contradictory Good Samaritan assassin in The Stoic.

But Flemyng has been an activist as well, as a Young Socialist London youth, and later expelled from the Labor Party for selling The Militant newspaper. And starring as a victim in the 2021 small screen series '13 Seconds In Kent State,' about what went down back then, when the Ohio National Guard fired 67 rounds in 13 seconds - murdering and wounding students protesting the Vietnam War. Flemyng takes a look at all of that and more, including what he's up to phoning in from the jungles of Malaysia...

** "May you live in interesting times, a quote attributed to the Chinese - and that wasn't meant as a positive thing..."

It's transition time in the US Empire in a few days - and will Trump like Biden really be in charge. Pacifica Host Garland Nixon sorts it all out. With connections to sledgehammers, individualism, black magic, Mike Tyson, Venezuela oil, the ruling elite, and pillow fights... 

Judge Holden, Finland Artist Ohto Oinaanpaa. 

** "Imagine if a Renaissance sculpture came to life and read too much Nietzsche, with a man who has somehow rebranded himself from the guy who made Paypal to the closest thing we have to a modern day Bond villain - he is everywhere and nowhere, both a man and a meme..."

UK Desk. A political, historicaland surreal faceoff on the show. Channeling seemingly unrelated forces of chaos, Zuckerberg, and cactus needles as a late afternoon snack. Stay tuned and all will be revealed...

** "It's happening again..."

Bro On The Global Literary Beat: The Dark Ages Return. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe detects evidence of Red Scare threads in his latest Harry Palmer mystery thriller. turning up today.

And what all of that may have to do with David Lynch, Dalton Trumbo, genocide, war on three fronts, banks, campus repression, and 'all an excuse to purge progressive and working class modes of thought from the Hollywood screen...'