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Posted On Januar 21, 2016By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumne

Thomas Adcock: „Onward Christian Suckers!“

 ‘Onward Christian [Suckers], Marching as to War’ Muslim-hating madness & daily massacres in Jesusland   By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2015 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America   On the morning of December 7, 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, precipitating American entrance into World War II. The Japanese sunk or damaged eight battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and a minelayer. More than two thousand Americans were killed, another thousand wounded. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declaredRead More

Posted On Dezember 5, 2015By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Kolumne: Thomas Adcock: Fear & Fascism

Fear & Fascism Repugnant Pursuit of the American Presidency Terrorism’s refugees as scapegoats du jour By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2015 – Thomas Adcock ‘TRUMBO,’ a newly-released movie about 1950s anti-communist hysteria, complements the début of television series based on the late Philip K. Dick’s novel of alternate history, ‘The Man in the High Castle,’ in which the United States is ruled by the German victors World War II. NEW YORK, near America  On Sunday evening the 15th of November, I telephoned a friend to warn him against wasting moneyRead More
Farewell, Pal – Robert Leuci (1940-2015) New York On those occasions when a mutual friend passed, my pal Bob Leuci and I would get on the telephone together or meet up somewhere to talk over the amusing and important things the dearly departed said, or did. Bob called such things “the music of an absent friend’s life.” Recollections exhausted, we then fell into companionable silence. Soon one or the other of us would grimly say, “The shots are getting closer, boy.” I am left alone now to write about the musicRead More

Posted On November 4, 2015By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumne

Kolumne: Thomas Adcock: American Empire, R.I.P.

‘Waist Deep in the Big Muddy’ – American Empire, R.I.P. ‘Waist Deep in the Big Muddy’ American Empire, R.I.P. By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2015 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK CITY, near America Wither the United States of America? Apparently, the linchpin of U.S. foreign policy is inchoate war; it seems hardly to matter where. And here at home, one-half the longstanding governing structure of two broad-based political institutions implodes before our eyes. As world history suggests, these may be heralds of an end to imperial America. Tellingly, the mostRead More

Posted On November 4, 2015By Redaktion CMIn Crimemag, Vermischtes

Bob Leuci: Abtrünnige

Bob Leuci – ein Tribut Thomas Adcock nimmt in dieser CrimeMag-Ausgabe Abschied von seinem überraschend verstorbenen Freund Robert „Bob“ Leuci. Fünf Leuci-Romane fanden den Weg in den deutschsprachigen Raum, sie sind lange vergriffen. Jürgen Bürger, der einige von ihnen ins Deutsche übertragen hat, will die ihm zugänglichen Leuci-Romane im nächsten Jahr in seinem spraybooks Verlag Bielfeldt + Bürger als eBooks herausbringen. Er hat uns freundlicherweise den Abdruck eines Kapitels aus „Fence Jumpers“ erlaubt, der 1998 von ihm übersetzt als „Abtrünnige“ im Schweizer Haffmans Verlag (Raben-Krimi Nr. 4) erschienen ist. ThomasRead More
TERROR-STRICKEN TABLOIDS Stop the presses! Bare-breasted buskers the ballyhoo of Broadway! The ‘Tit Squad‘ Cops Battle a Scourge of Naked Lady Parts …with help from pious pols & Officer Jesus    by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2015 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK CITY, near America Be warned, ye horny gents on holiday here, the Public Morals Division of the New York Police Department is watching you! Yes, you—all you drooling out-of-towners landed here to behold the promenade of semi-naked ladies in the so-called Crossroads of the World. The forces ofRead More
SCARY! The New York Daily News, fifth largest newspaper in America, devoted its June 17 cover page to Donald Trump’s declaration of presidential candidacy. (True! This page above is not photo-shopped.) NEW YORK CITY, near America How to explain The Donald, as Himself enjoys being called? Donald as in Donald J. Trump, that is—the billionaire boor and failed casino magnate who seeks the Republican Tea Party nomination for president of the United States. This man is many things, none of them attractive: glitzy real estate developer, golfer, impresario of “realityRead More

Posted On Juni 13, 2015By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Thomas Adcock: Bernie for President

NEW YORK CITY, near America The hands-down most appealing and forthright candidate for president of these United States is a wild-haired, mild-mannered, stoop-shouldered 73-year-old Brooklyn-born secular Jew who greatly admires Pope Francis. He hails from the farm state of Vermont, his bride is Irish-Catholic, and he calls himself a socialist. Fearful of scant advertising revenues from his barebones campaign budget—and little in titillation value: the candidate refuses to trade in traditional campaign slander—American corporate media insist that Senator Bernard Sanders, better known with respectful affection as just plain “Bernie,” hasRead More
As we know from the mountain range of sociological studies on the topic, men have a hard time making friends with their fellow men. This is especially true for white, heterosexual men; doubly true for shamrocks like myself, warned since our days in short pants to beware of the Dread Emotional Talk. Counsel thus given to a nascent borstal boy: No girly talk for thee, Tommy-boyo. None of that missy-missy, passion-soaked palaver. No siree! You must keep the chatter he-man, laddy-buck. Football and motorcars and power tools—that’s the stuff. UnlessRead More

Posted On Mai 20, 2015By Thomas AdcockIn Kolumnen und Themen, Litmag

Thomas Adcock: Free Edward Snowden

As I write, a deputation of White House operatives is secretly en route to the Moscow apartment where Edward Snowden has lived in forced exile since June of 2013, when he exposed gross illegality by the National Security Agency of the United States and was immediately set upon by Pentagon persecutors—the sort of folks who built American torture chambers in Afghanistan and Iraq, where homicides were not unknown. Apparatchiks for the Obama administration will make Mr. Snowden an offer they believe he cannot refuse: Sit tight here in Russia forRead More
NEW YORK, near America March 10th, and spring has come at last. On this Thursday, the scrivener’s search for the man he’s wondered about and worried about through the most terrible winter in memory is at a close. Maybe the only place to find him is in caring to know about someone else: a conundrum. The scrivener has poked around in the usual places where men on the margins are consigned to sanctuary: merciful soup kitchens that ask few questions of their patrons, and the sermonizing sort that dish upRead More

Posted On Januar 17, 2015By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Thomas Adcock: War Crimes: What, Me Worry?

War Crimes: What, Me Worry? ‘It’s Good to be the King’ C.I.A. torturers, killer cops & white supremacy By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2015 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Despite a chorus of demands for criminal prosecution, it is unlikely that anyone among the plotters, justifiers, and executioners of war crimes during the reign of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will ever see the inside of a courtroom—let alone prison bars. In the Potemkin democracy of America, fair-complexioned government élites are held no more accountable for sadismRead More

Posted On Dezember 13, 2014By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Thomas Adcock: American Thugs

American Thugs The Few, the Proud, the Repugnant High time to clean out the pigpens By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Be advised: the words that follow shall not be sweet. My heart is broken over what occurs in my city and country. I am troubled by the recent spate of deadly police violence in New York and elsewhere in the United States. I am white, and troubled by the ugly dimension of white racism in these crimes. Many Americans deny white racism.Read More

Posted On November 19, 2014By Thomas AdcockIn Kolumnen und Themen, Litmag

Thomas Adcock: Ach du Scheiße!

Ach du Scheiße! Welcome to Reaganistan Of Pugnacity & Pussycrats by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock New York City, near America Shocked to my bones by how colossally incorrect I was in forecasting victory for common sense over venality in the federal and state elections of Tuesday, November 4, I am at last able to creep forth from beneath the bedcovers and into the sun—finally to face up to you, dear readers. You, who undoubtedly took heart in my roseate essay of October 29, “Butt-Kicking Time.” Alas,Read More

Posted On September 20, 2014By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Thomas Adcock: Victory for the Filthy Rich

Victory for the Filthy Rich Old fools lie, young suckers die …Meanwhile, the One Percent goes shopping By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock EAST GREENWICH, Rhode Island U.S.A. Here am I in a postcard-pretty small town on the Atlantic coast, a proudly historical place where every Wednesday evening the lads of the Kentish Guard gather in Peirce Street. There, they take up old-fashioned fifes and drums and play a medley of martial tunes, to the delight of passersby such as myself. The idea is to commemorate aRead More

Posted On August 30, 2014By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Thomas Adcock: Singing the U.S.A. Blues

Singing the U.S.A. Blues The ‘banality of injustice’ An echo of the Battle of The Bogside by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK,near America How striking are parallels between the small city of Ferguson, Missouri, in this August of 2014, and the small city of Derry, Northern Ireland, back in August of 1969. How similar the sorrows, how kindred the festering tribulations, how obscene the homicides. We may call the inevitable violence in Ferguson the same as a recent chapter of Northern Ireland’s bloody history: “TheRead More
MONTEBANKS & USEFUL IDIOTS (clockwise from top left): Bill Kristol, right-wing dunce and shill for the U.S. armaments industry; Paul Wolfowitz, architect of the disastrous (first) Iraq war and creepy personal hygienist; Paul Bremer, clueless envoy to Baghdad in 2003; ex-Vice President Dick ‘Shooter’ Cheney, famous for firing buckshot into a hunting companion’s face; Fox TV harridan and gubernatorial quitter Sarah Palin; a posse of ‘ammo-sexuals’ on the march in Texas, with sweethearts slung over their shoulders; bumbling cocktail lounge habitué and Republican Tea Party headman John Boehner. ‘Descent intoRead More
American Terrorists & Their Cheerleaders ‘If you’re white, you’re all right!’ by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK CITY, near America Had he shouted Black Power! or Allahu Akbar! from the caged backseat of a police cruiser, where he sat cuffed and shackled in the wake of three murders in mid-April outside a Jewish community center and retirement home in suburban Kansas City, the American people might have recognized that something must be done about Frazier Glenn Miller and people like him. As it was, theRead More
Impeach U.S. War Criminals …With help from Hollywood, via ‘Reality TV’ (Better late than never) by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK CITY, near America In Hollywoodspeak, the term “elevator pitch” refers to hasty conversation between Scriptwriter with a hot concept and Studio Executive physically trapped into listening during the minute or so it takes to get from one floor to another. Due to the time constraint, and the famously short attention span of the average studio exec, brevity is the soul of a sale. FromRead More

Posted On März 29, 2014By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Thomas Adcock: Off with Their Heads!

Off with Their Heads! Peewees pucker up for the billionaires by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NORTH CHATHAM, N.Y., in America Next Monday, the ring-kissing season of American right-wing presidential politics begins with a pilgrimage to Las Vegas by four little men in search of a Big Man’s golden benediction. After performing their songs and dances in the fleshpot and slot machine capital of Nevada, the minikins will go their separate ways and variously roam the land to shimmy for two others of the opulent set. Oh,Read More

Posted On Februar 1, 2014By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Thomas Adcock: News Flash!

News Flash! Rich get richer, poor get poorer By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock UNITED NATIONS, New York They are in every city and every village of the world: live bodies fallen to a field scattered with dead-ended souls. It hurts us to look at them, and so we have made them invisible. We are nimble in sidestepping these men and women and children with nowhere to go for the simplest of privacies. We hold our breath, discreetly, as we pass them by; we mean no offense,Read More
Bluto for President?  by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near New Jersey Christopher James Christie, the bully-boy governor of New Jersey and potential Republican Tea Party presidential candidate built like a pink refrigerator that learned how to walk, is mired in a swamp of criminal suspicion that could land him in the Graybar Hotel for a number of years. Accordingly, Mr. Christie has retained a legendary Manhattan mouthpiece, about which I shall more to say herein. Prior to current scandals on the front pages ofRead More
DISGUST with the execrable U.S. House of Representatives, presided over by Republican Tea Party Congressman John Boehner, was caricatured in the New York Daily News cover page of October 1, 2013. The cynicism of Boehner-era Washington is likened to a bitter roman à clef—the popular television series “House of Cards.” ‘We won’t wait. We’ll do it now.’ Happy New Year! Exit the ‘Raw Deal’ in 2014 by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America According to my calendar, prognostications are in order for life inRead More

Posted On Januar 11, 2014By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Thomas Adcock: Who’s Afraid of a PAF?

Who’s Afraid of a PAF? Dead End for the Red Bogeyman by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Among the first card-carrying communists of my acquaintance was Arvo Kustaa Halberg—better known as Gus Hall, a name he was obliged to invent after being blacklisted from gainful employment due to his role in a bloody general strike by workers in Minneapolis during the spring and summer of 1934, a struggle that forced the city’s corporate establishment and its brutal police force to recognize labor unions.Read More

Posted On Dezember 7, 2013By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Thomas Adcock: Dangerous People

RED ALERT! Determined to summon the better angels of our nature, clockwise from top left: Bill de Blasio, alleged socialist as mayor-elect of New York City; Kshama Sawant, proudly socialist city councilwoman-elect of Seattle, by way of Mumbai; Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Christian trouble-maker, aka Pope Francis of Rome; Bernie Sanders, beloved socialist U.S. senator from Vermont, probable presidential candidate in 2016; Ty Moore, socialist trouble-maker of Minneapolis; and ‘Reverend Billy’ of the “Church of Stop Shopping.” Dangerous People  At the vanguard of times a-changin’ in America by Thomas Adcock CopyrightRead More

Posted On November 23, 2013By Thomas AdcockIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Thomas Adcock: Amerikanische Schadenfreude

THIS MAN is an unrepentant alcoholic crack-head from a family of drug dealers who has issued at least one death threat, knocked down a granny, and who consorts with the Toronto demimonde. Naturally, he seeks stardom in the world of “reality TV.” Amerikanische Schadenfreude? Toronto’s mayor is not an American—thank heavens Canada’s own Tea Party problem, eh? by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near Canada In the United States—home to so many of the world’s determinedly stupid and obnoxious public officials—we may now look northRead More