Karol S Olesiak

Karol S Olesiak

Karol Olesiak is a poet, writer, activist, and one of the founders of SFTC. Karol’s is published widely in poetry journals. Karol is a Wheeler Prize semi finalist, Saturnalia Books semifinalist, a Moonstone chapbook finalist and a Pushcart nominee.

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Reckoning of the Hacker Martyr
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Reckoning of the Hacker Martyr

It’s been over a week since the announcement that Julian Assange will be extradited to the US to be charged for espionage against a country he doesn’t have citizenship in. Assange is being indicted under The Espionage Act but the charges rely on conspiracy the Racketeer Influenced and

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By: Karol S Olesiak
Why Net Zero is Blah Blah Blah
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Why Net Zero is Blah Blah Blah

“I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.” Joseph Heller No, Greta Thorenburg is not referring to the internet service provider when she refers to NET Zero. The term comes from a military rooted initiative justifying environmental action

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By: Karol S Olesiak
Exclusive: USS Ronald Reagan UAP Encounter
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Exclusive: USS Ronald Reagan UAP Encounter

This article is a departure from our usual content. Most of the founders of #SFTC were the original crew members of the USS Ronald Reagan CVN 76. I was a plank owner meaning I was in the shipyard while my least favorite president’s namesake was constructed. There was a

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By: Karol S Olesiak
Movie Review: Outside the Wire (Stop Killer Robots)
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Movie Review: Outside the Wire (Stop Killer Robots)

Propaganda is subtle. Especially American propaganda written by the best and the brightest to glamorize the military industrial complex with an air of dystopian criticism. This movie makes it clear that its brand of dystopia is propaganda asset. Netflix feature: Outside the Wire, starring Anthony Mackie of Notorious fame, is

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By: Karol S Olesiak
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Opinion: Door-to-Door Jab

The Biden administration is rolling back it’s projections for majority vaccinations by July. The hope of Herd Immune Christmas, while emblematic, is not looking realistic with reports that two major vaccines’ effectiveness is halved against mutated strains. We need a new different way to vaccinate people that doesn’t

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By: Karol S Olesiak
Watch: The War at Home
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Watch: The War at Home

We are big supporters of Scott Noble and cannot recommend his films enough. Our recommendation would be to start at the beginning of his catalog available on his website www.metanoia-films.org so you can truly see how his documentary style has found a place of its own. When We

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By: Karol S Olesiak
George Floyd Had COVID
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George Floyd Had COVID

Crispus Attucks was the first American to die in the revolutionary war. It is debated whether he was a freeman or a runaway slave. Adding nuance to what motivated early colonists. Many revolutionaries were abolitionists; the marriage with the slave-owning South came later. George Floyd like Crispus Attucks was a

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By: Karol S Olesiak
When to Mask: A Personal Essay
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When to Mask: A Personal Essay

I was working in a corporate law firm as a file clerk in San Diego after I got out of the Navy in 2007. It was right in bourgie La Hoya where the drug dealer lived in the American version of the movie Traffic. It was mind numbing work — barely

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By: Karol S Olesiak
War is for Suckers & Losers
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War is for Suckers & Losers

In the closing scene of The Godfather Michael Corleone announces that he’s enlisted in the Marines and his brother says to him: “…only saps risk their lives for strangers.” You only die for your family. My conclusion after my enlistment is that war ends when we run out of

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By: Karol S Olesiak
Movie Review: Bombshell
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Movie Review: Bombshell

Outside of pedigree and nepotism, all that is left is the lewdness associated with shameful means of success. I imagine Roger Ailes was one of the masked men in Kubrick’s last film Eyes Wide Shut — bringing women from the newsroom as a commodity to the sons and daughters of

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By: Karol S Olesiak
Canceling Radical Evil
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Canceling Radical Evil

photo credit: http://www.epictop10.com/ We here at SFTC are a product of cancel culture.   We were canceled early on when Google took away our advertising in 2011 because we were criticizing the police and financial sector. Facebook is presently canceling on us by not allowing us to promote

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By: Karol S Olesiak
Cult of Arrest: Wall St. To HRC
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Cult of Arrest: Wall St. To HRC

When Paul from the bible wrote letters to the Corinthians he was aware that the Greeks had no cultural interest in life after death. The Greeks were interested in the punishment of the Romans for commodifying their culture and taxing them. The Jewish god smiting the Romans like a modified

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By: Karol S Olesiak

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