Category Archives: war

Imitative Israel

Posted on June 20, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

Luciano Borzo Zios want to erase all trace of Palestinian identity . Ironically , they must admire them otherwise why steal EVERYTHING from them from the garments, koffiye to the food …pretty soon it will be the dabke dance too … Continue reading →

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Edward Field

Posted on June 7, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

Edward Field is 99 years old today (7/6/2023)x In my opinion one of the most significant American poets of his time. Why? Because he is one of the first poets to “tell it how it is”. No frills. A sane … Continue reading →

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Poetry of Protest

Posted on April 5, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

  Anthony Howell says: UPDATE – Unfortunately I have come down with a really horrible flu, so I have had to cancel my reading tonight. But please go and support the other readers on my behalf.   I am glad … Continue reading →

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TIGER TOPIA – for Julian Assange

Posted on March 28, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Marry your lover too soon after your husband has passed away And you could die of tiger fright. They have these unfathomable eyes. Their lean stripes, imagine them. How they slide between Poles. Shaman-masked, marked with ancient writing. x … Continue reading →

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Conflict with the Eyes Closed

Posted on March 24, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal
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ACCORDING TO PLINY

Posted on February 26, 2023 by anthonyhowelljournal

The dragon, ever at war with the elephant, Is itself of so enormous a size, As easily to overwhelm the elephant, Seize it in its clutches and encircle Its legs in its coils. x The contest is equally Fatal to … Continue reading →

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How Different Countries View War

Posted on November 7, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

Andrei Martyanov (SmoothieX12 on Youtube) cites the movie Come and See when he explains in the second part of a post called Economics of Military Industrial Complexes in Russia and US how the Russians conceive of war and how the … Continue reading →

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Two Versions of Truth

Posted on September 26, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

Here is Patrick Lancaster reporting and here is the BBC Within hours of each other, covering the same event. The door to door voting is for convenience and safety, not for intimidation. Why is the BBC so partial? The news … Continue reading →

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Martyrdom

Posted on May 22, 2022 by anthonyhowelljournal

Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Caravaggio My article on martyrdom down the ages – and reflections on Ukraine – published here by The Fortnightly Review in May 2022. And here is my poem for Shireen Abu Akleh, a martryr in … Continue reading →

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Dick

Posted on January 6, 2017 by anthonyhowelljournal

DICK Eight days after the invasion we were dealing with a country That could actually finance its reconstruction by our own Reconstruction contractors. A decade later, and we have a failed State which is relatively easy to exploit, and that … Continue reading →

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