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 Protest Poetry posted by penn, 2006-07-23 06:13:21
The USA has forfeited any claim it may have had on moral leadership as a result of its failure to respond in a timely and appropriate fashion to the Middle East crisis. It has also lost the initiative in all matters international. Other nations have been forced to respond to the crisis in the face of U.S. incompetence. The following poem is an expression of disgust at the cold-blooded callousness and disregard for human life openly displayed by the USA and Israel. It is dedicated to the U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. (full story and 1 comments)
prose/poetry / international
  Slow Motion Diplomacy: Rice and Matza Balls posted by peptide, 2006-07-21 10:43:05
Condoleezza Rice (finally) announced that she would visit the war torn Middle East in the near future – let’s not rush to the assistance of innocent civilians and perhaps even prevent a humanitarian disaster! Rice also dismissed any hope of brokering an immediate cease-fire. She added that negotiating a cease-fire would be counter-productive at present! The international community has noted America’s lethargy and unwillingness to act in the present circumstances. The world is aware however that Israel would not have pursued its present hostile course without prior consent from Washington; Rice’s inaction and firm dismissal of any hope of a brokered cease-fire spells very clearly the relationship between Washington and Tel Aviv. (full story and 2 comments)
peace/war / international
 Shifting Values and the New Barbarism posted by finn, 2006-07-19 15:55:38
The attention of the world has once again been drawn to the Middle East, to a group of warring tribes. Today however, we witness a ‘new’ warfare, a type promoted by the Zionists Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz. This new warfare is a composite ‘solution’, an amalgam of the permanent revolution/war doctrine of Lev Bronstein (Trotsky); the tactics of Henry Kissinger (carpet bomber of three million innocent Indo-Chinese civilians) and Leo Strauss, whose exclusivist/elitist philosophy lies behind the events of 9/11, the anthrax letters and the rise of ‘terrorism’ – the new public enemy designed to replace the defunct bogeyman of communism! (full story)
peace/war / international
The Concept of Innocence in Today’s World posted by finch, 2006-07-17 19:20:00
This short paper does not pretend to a thorough analysis, however, it is hoped that the few indications would suffice both to verify assertions and to indicate a rich direction for further research.
Innocence implies a lack of guilt or blamelessness; the images humans readily associate with the concept of innocence are those of infants, suckling babes, children and the newborn. A species tends to identify and place value on itself. In contrast to instinctive emotions we have the superimposition of cultural values/demands. Religion is the traditional repository and medium of constructed/cultural values. A cursory analysis would reveal that cultural values are not usually compatible with strong instinctive emotions. The value placed on the lives of defenceless children, infants and the newborn will be the criteria utilised to easily prove our assertions. (full story and 2 comments)
social equality/unity / international
Order of The Day posted by gan, 2006-07-15 08:24:15
Gone are the days of a fair fight and a ‘just’ war – whatever that insane expression is supposed to mean – today we have the actions of the ‘might is right’ ideology of barbarism. This ‘new’ primitivism is evident in the actions of Zionist Israel and the Zionist influenced USA. Today’s wars are the most inglorious wars in human history. How proud we should be of our achievements when we allow idiotic differences and greed to escalate into bloodshed. What a ‘noble’ race of ‘civilised’ humans we are! View this planet as a visitor and be thoroughly appalled. (full story)
social/political / international
Semiotic Sequences and Cultural Appropriation posted by peptide, 2006-07-12 17:07:40
I have recently discovered that donning a cleaner’s garb or waiter’s apron is a passport to a wealth of knowledge. A very rich harvest of information is available to every non-descript person in a service industry. A typical but dated example (I do not wish to compromise my current activities) would be an overheard conversation between two bankers regarding the then new strategy of reducing (their) costs while simultaneously narrowing the options/freedoms of the population. The banks and other large financial institutions decided that it would be far more expedient and profitable to run their businesses utilising a strategy of perpetual debt rather than temporary debt. ‘Joe and Josephine’ citizen were about to become perpetual debtors or economic slaves. (full story)
philosophy / international
Cultural Debasement posted by chris murray, 2006-07-12 05:56:27
The systemisation of the words we use to describe "things" is part of our cultural debasement. (full story)
social equality/unity / national
Cultural Debasement: Collective Identity and Capitalism posted by Chris Murray, 2006-07-11 09:08:41
The Irish State has passed, since 2002 a raft of legislations that are anti-citizen and anti-community. This has resulted in community and ecological activists taking a frontline defence aginst the incursion of capitalism. The issue for us as a community now is protection and stewarding our environment or bowing to what has been exposed as a form of cultural debasement wherein the state and elitists have attempted to divorce community from their heritage that is rich with stories, ideas and poetry. No where is this more obvious than in the ongoing battle to save the Tara-Skyrne Valley from destruction. (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
 The Weevil and the Prick posted by finn, 2006-07-09 18:23:09
The impatient Australian treasurer Peter (supercilious prick) Costello has finally done it; he has openly exposed the Australian Prime Minister as a bald-faced LIAR. Costello did however attempt to take the high moral ground by stating he would never have made certain comments if others hadn’t done so first, his comments were to set the “record straight”, he said. Costello confirmed that a deal existed to turn the Leadership/Prime Ministership over to him after Howard served one and one half terms in office. Costello’s statement bluntly contradicts the statement of the Prime Minister who is on record as stating that neither he nor the treasurer had entered into any deal regarding a hand over of power. [Déjà vu, Bob and Paul – there is no intoxication like the intoxication of power!] (full story)
social/political / national
Top 10 Power Brokers of the U.S. Religious Right posted by via anon, 2006-07-08 07:47:06
What follows is a list of the nation’s Top Ten Religious Right groups, as determined by publicly available financial data and political prominence. Additional information describes the organizations’ leaders, funding and activities.
By Rob Boston, Church and State. Posted July 7, 2006. (full story)
social/political / international
Missile Crisis in a Teacup posted by dingo, 2006-07-06 11:50:12
A considered and balanced view of the media event presently saturating the airwaves, the “North Korean Missile Crisis”, would reveal an hysterical, farcical over-reaction! The Korean so-called long range ICBM explodes on launch – good one, Kim! But notice how quick the coalition of willing criminals are to utilise anything to draw the public's attention away from the criminality of Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Camp Bond Steel (occupation base in the Balkans which utilises the services of East European child sex slaves to service American troops). THIS IS AMERICA, policeman of the world, welcome to ‘freedom’, exploitation and the pollution that is American culture. [The world needs the USA like it needs a hole in the head!] (full story and 2 comments)
social/political / international
 A Preponderance of Rosas posted by Inana, 2006-07-04 22:48:28
This piece was prompted by an image of the 'Rosa Cherie' published in the Guardian International Newspaper a couple of weeks ago.
It indicated a full colour photograph of the Rosa Cherie, a new hybrid developed for the Birmingham flower show that looked like a vulva. It was juxtaposed with an image of a mitre, indicating the ongoing Episcopalian schism over a female bishopric.
Cherie Blair was photographed veiled and in conversation with Benedict the 16th precisely a week before, to discuss the decline in the European birth Rate. At the time of seeing both these images and the positioning of this woman as some sort of a Rosa Mundi, an example to western women of the stability of the capitalist ethos, in the light of her spouse prosecuting an illegal war against a soverign nation and giving conscience and voice to U.S imperialism, I felt the need to protest. (full story)
social equality/unity / international
The Starving Millions and “Kylie Minogue’s Ordeal” posted by finch, 2006-07-04 07:28:04
It’s called distraction, shifting focus, drawing attention away from the real issues that beset the majority of humans on the planet. We are all anticipating another round of distracting emotive images on our televisions; things are not going well for the powers, it’s time for another ‘circuit’ of abuse awareness commercials, always topical and a guaranteed mind-shifter. The public consciousness is a well-managed resource – never doubt it! (full story)
mass media / international
The Gaza Strip and Jewish Ideology posted by nano, 2006-07-01 18:31:31
Whether you love them or hate them, Jews are nothing if not consistent. The first detailed record of genocide (committed by Jews) is in the Old Testament. As recorded in Jewish Scripture, the Jew Joshua claimed that Jehovah instructed him to slaughter the innocent civilian men, women, children and even babes on the tit in Canaanite cities and towns. These acts of barbaric atrocity were not problematic for the Jews of history or today’s Israeli Jews it would seem. One Jewish hostage, Gilad Shalit, and the State of Israel declares war – is this an over reaction or just cultural consistency? (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
![BANKSY -- Justice [sword and scales vandalised]](attachments/oct2006/justice.jpg) Illegal: US Supreme Court’s ruling on Torture Bay posted by gade, 2006-06-29 08:23:54
The US Supreme Court ruled today that Guantanamo Bay detention/torture centre was illegal (by implication) and the kangaroo military commission established to try the detainees is in breach of the Geneva Convention, well duh! Expert international lawyers stated the plain facts – illegality – of the matter from the start. Who could accuse the ‘slow to see daylight’ US court system of bias? Surely the principal pillars of American ‘justice’ could not be influenced by Bush or his neo-cons? (full story and 3 comments)
injustice/law / international
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