Category Archives: Politics

How Good it Feels to Protest!

Today I lay down in the street (outside Pret). Haven’t lain down in the street since performance art events in the 70s. Must say it felt very good! Young people are realising that protest is a bonding. It energises. Nippers … Continue reading

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Art and Anger

We seem to have entered into a time of lean years. I feel that the horrors of our time cannot be ignored. Seeking to deal with my anxiety in art, I created several slide-show videos using drawings I made with … Continue reading

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Matthew Hoh: Briefing to the UNSC March 22, 2024

Is this the speech of the decade, at the very least, as Matthew Hoh addresses the UNSC? “The permanent member veto must be abolished.”

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Of a Snake and a Stith

From Arthur Golding’s A Moral Fabletalk. Seems a bit like NATO threatening Russia. A “stith” is an anvil. A snake, being in malice with a stith, laboured to bite off a piece of it. But the more fiercely he bit, … Continue reading

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Gonzalo Lira on Victoria Nuland

A piece by the intrepid journalist Gonzalo Lira – murdered recently in a Ukrainian jail.  

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Colonel Douglas Macgregor on the state of the world today

Colonel Macgregor is to my mind one the most astute commentators on the state of affairs that exists in the world today, and this interview with a German site gives a very good introduction to his thought. Douglas Abbott Macgregor … Continue reading

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Twice as hard, thrice as hard, four times as hard.

“An eye for an eye” (Biblical Hebrew: עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן, ʿayīn taḥaṯ ʿayīn) is a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure. The earliest known use of the principle appears … Continue reading

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SAMSON – Suicide Terrorist

SAMSON – committed suicide in Gaza by bringing the Philistine temple of Dagon down on top of himself, killing everyone in the Temple.  See the Old Testament – Judges 13-16. Click here for  Sampson – suicide terrorist The link takes … Continue reading

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So who are the “settlers” in Israel?

This is a very well researched article – Race and Surveillance in the Settler Colony I found this article when trying to answer a question I had posed for myself: Do you have to be Jewish to settle in Israel? … Continue reading

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The Sexual Cycle of Human Warfare

The physiological vigor of an organism as manifested in its rapidity of growth, its height and general robustness, is positively correlated with the degree of dissimilarity in the gametes by whose union the organism was formed … The more numerous … Continue reading

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