My first career was in the Army. My second career is writing. I am married, with four children - one biological. I am a grandfather.

The central preoccupation in my life outside of family is politics.

My politics is heavily influenced by Marxism, feminism, ecology, and revolutionary Black nationalism, and I am opposed to dogma in any of these.

I am also strongly influenced by my military experience, where I learned a deep distrust of abstractions and a keen appreciation for the fact that social power is acted out on living human bodies.

I have written three books, two published and the last in draft - still editing as I begin this blog.

First book; “Hideous Dream - A Soldier’s Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti,” a personal account of the 1994 US intervention.

Second book; “Full Spectrum Disorder - The Military the New American Century,” a collection of sketches about the dangers associated with the decline of the American empire, and the error of ‘moral imperialism.’

Third book; “Sex & War,” about gender in the imperial military.

I am not employed in the conventional sense, so I chase a few speaking gigs for modest honoraria in order to do my real work, which is organizing with particular emphasis on turning military communities against the war, and on Haiti.

I also write the infrequent “Military Matters” column on Freedom Road’s web site.

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Here are links to interviews:

with Derek Seidman
with Katrina Wilcox
with Rachael Elliott
with M. Junaid Alam
with Anthony Fenton
with Mike McCormick
more with Derek
with Jennifer Van Bergen
another with Jennifer
with Sonali Kohatkar