Deep Blade Journal

This website is maintained by your host, Owl, a long-time peace & social justice activist from the Bangor, Maine area. Posts are all written by your host unless otherwise indicated. I am hoping some very, very good writers I know will one day finally decide to post here and elevate the conversation.

What is Deep Blade Journal?
The blog version of Deep Blade Journal began in August 2003. The archives slowly will be built up, eventually to include all of the posts back to that date. There was a predecessor Deep Blade that was a static website called Deep Blade News. I put it up just prior to the Iraq War because it was so obvious that the public was being sold down the river by a disingenuous, out-of-control administration and its big-media enablers. Some sort of correction felt to me to be necessary. All of those posts will also be available here too under the February2003 and March 2003 archives.

Deep Blade seeks to make some sense out of current events and the behavior of the United States as a powerful state in the early 21st century. And the name suggests what the material within both will often do: cut through the propaganda, misdirection, and obfuscation in order to expose the deep heartwood of U.S. policy.

Many truths about U.S. policy and its implementation are hidden from broad public consciousness. U.S. citizens, while not alone in the arena of marketing and public relations, have become so heavily propagandized in recent years that we have developed an extreme propensity for violence, devaluation of other human beings, and a destructive approach to nature in general.

The trouble now is that our ruling class has become a serious and dangerous plague with tools of death and destruction that are far too powerful to be in the hands of men with weak consciences, like U.S. President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney. This Journal along with the original website will try to draw out the root issues we need to address if we are to have any chance to stop the onslaught of these badly misused weapons and and the warmakers that produce and use them.

This blog is more archive-centric than many others. I do not feel the need to post every day. I like to produce longer topical pieces that often refer to the extensive archives. Everything I write here is supported by good jounalists, by academics, or by my own analysis. I produce material recording the history of various peace circles in which I now travel and have known over the years.