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John O'Kane

  • Publisher, Editor, Professor and Journalist, Freelance
Los Angeles
As seen in: BBC, HuffPost, Substack, The World from PRX, WNYC (New York, NY), CounterPunch, The Evangelist, Smarter Lawcast with Hall & Wilcox
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Blowback

Blowback

HuffPost — We owe the way we know the world to school-masters droning over the map of the day, blurbing stories of how empty space gets magically replaced with god's country, experts slurping fables into tables that don't chart our manifest destiny, newsreaders gleaming stars and dirty laundry in high deaf digitalis instead of clean scoops on the freedempire, streaming a banter of body counts that don't add up instead of countdowns to the last twilight.
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Democracy, Literacy and Authoritarianism

Democracy, Literacy and Authoritarianism

Substack.com — Securing voting rights is crucial, but is that enough? The voting rights legislation that's apparently now down for the count in Congress---titled "Freedom To Vote: The John R. Lewis Act"---was a spiritually correct initiative. But to overhaul our very limited version of democracy will require much more than securing free choice on the ballots that currently exist.
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The Unmaking of the President, 2020

The Unmaking of the President, 2020

AMASSMAGPRESS.com; Amazon.com. — Appearing originally in CounterPunch, Huffpost, ICH, and AMASS Magazine, the opinion-editorial essays in this book comprise a running commentary on many of the controversial issues of the day as they relate to the national election cycle that began just after the 2018 midterms. They are a bit lon...
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Imperial Blowback...

Imperial Blowback...

Substack.com; Musing the Masses — John O'Kane Chalmers Johnson's notion of "blowback" is crucial for understanding the crisis in Ukraine. In his 1999 book of the same name, he argued that the US's aggressive policies abroad were provoking negative reactions from many of the governments and populations subjected to our imperial overreach, the symptom of all empires in their declining phase when they've tried to extend their zones of influence.
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Storylandia 46: A Venice Quintet

Storylandia 46: A Venice Quintet

amazon.com; Wapshott Press.org — Storylandia 46: A Venice Quintet [O'Kane, John, Mayerson, Ginger, Marcus, Dan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Storylandia 46: A Venice Quintet
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Amass Magazine | The Archives

Amass Magazine | The Archives

Amass Magazine — Welcome to Amass Magazine. Here, you can view our archived issues in a handy, PDF reader format. You can also learn more about us, read our blogs, and reach out to us. We would love to hear from you!
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The Argonaut Newspaper - March 3, 2022

The Argonaut Newspaper - March 3, 2022

issuu.com; The Argonaut Newspaper — Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu's millions of monthly readers. This current issue includes an interview with John O'Kane about the release of his new book, A Venice Quintet. It appears in The Argonaut, a newspaper based in West Los Angeles.
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Openness to Place: John O'Kane's "A Venice Quintet"

Openness to Place: John O'Kane's "A Venice Quintet"

Los Angeles Review of Books — In this compact collection, John O'Kane brings his intimate knowledge of Venice, California to five stories that explore the lives of the seaside suburb's residents. What strikes the reader about this collection is O'Kane's close observations of people. His portraits include street people, artists, intellectuals, women young and old - the kind of quirky people that you could encounter in Venice.
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Toward Election 2020: Cancel Culture, Censorship and Class

Toward Election 2020: Cancel Culture, Censorship and Class

amazon.com; AMASSMAGPRESS.com — Appearing originally in CounterPunch, Huffpost, ICH, and AMASS Magazine, the opinion-editorial essays in this book comprise a running commentary on many of the controversial issues of the day as they relate to the national election cycle that began just after the 2018 midterms. They are a bit lon...
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A People's Manifesto

A People's Manifesto

amazon.com; SPDBKS@gmail.com — This book is about what ordinary citizens, those with limited power and resources, think about the big Recession of 2008 and its aftermath. It investigates how non-experts and outsiders without access to the "facts" make sense of these times and pass along knowledge--not mere information--that ca...
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Venice, CA: A City State of Mind

Venice, CA: A City State of Mind

amazon.com; AMASSMAGPRESS@gmail.com — This book is a reminiscence that celebrates Venice, California's heyday as an alternative community and what survives from it in the present. Many wonder how much longer this city's creative state of mind can persist as gentrification threatens to transform this legendary bohemian Mecca into mere...
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Democracy and Authority

Democracy and Authority

amazon.com — Democracy and Authority [O'Kane, John] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Democracy and Authority
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A VENICE SEXTET|Paperback

A VENICE SEXTET|Paperback

www.barnesandnoble.com — "John O'Kane, with his radiant sentences, has captured Venice's sun-drenched paradise, artists seeking new forms, surfers, lost ones who came looking for community. His sense of the environment, the creative ones & those close to madness is uncanny. An empathetic, humane sextet about the ghosts...
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Freaking-Out Delirious - Surrealism to Venice Beats

Freaking-Out Delirious - Surrealism to Venice Beats

beatnotbeatwave.blogspot.com — Beat Not Beat originates with poet and editor Rich Ferguson, + the blog widens the community of artists informed by + screwing on the beat tradition.
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Fertilizing the Wasteland: A Retroactive Conversation With Philomene Long by John O'Kane

Fertilizing the Wasteland: A Retroactive Conversation With Philomene Long by John O'Kane

beatnotbeatwave.blogspot.com — Beat Not Beat originates with poet and editor Rich Ferguson, + the blog widens the community of artists informed by + screwing on the beat tradition.
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AMASS Magazine #89

AMASS Magazine #89

AMASSMAGPRESS — latest issue of a quarterly magazine
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