I remembered it as 'Age of Destruction' (well, it was a long time ago, and my memory has seen better days, and I was looking for a way to tie it in with my previous post), but in fact it was 'Eve of Destruction'. It is a song, an anti-war song, penned in the Vietnam... Continue Reading →
Past The Age of Be- Through The Age of Re- Entering The Age of De-
Twilight of humanity... The final generation of growth... The final generation of 'old people'... No more great grandparents... No more grandparents... ... There are 24 started but unfinished posts sitting in the edit section of this blog. This is one of them. I hope to finish it now. I wrote the words above the ellipsis... Continue Reading →
Civilised Man?
What effect has modern civilisation made on its denizens (that's us) for good or ill? There must have been some progress, some shifting from barbarism and bestiality to more 'humane' behaviour, surely? Some softening from the necessarily 'hard' shell honed for survival in a hostile world? Some growth and maturation of culture, appetites and outlooks... Continue Reading →
The Myth of the Kurdish YPG’s Moral Excellence
I'm reblogging this as a rather cleverly constructed exposé of the true Kurdish situation. A quite larger dilemma than what the current focus on its intrusion into the war in Syria might suggest. Not that I wish to belittle or deflate the significance of that intrusion, since it carries a much greater impact in that... Continue Reading →
“Bye Bye America” – Part 2
You can't, with any hope of retaining much in the way of credibility, say on one day "Bye Bye America" - a story of societal collapse - and on the very next day say "Is America Really Collapsing?" - another story of societal collapse with a note of hope at the end. Yet this is... Continue Reading →
“Bye Bye America”
America, as I have long and often suggested, is in a state of social collapse. Is that down to Donald Trump? No. The process has been going on for decades, as Umair Hague maintains in his latest piece 'Bye Bye America' on Medium's 'Bad Words'. "One bad leader didn’t make all of this true — decades... Continue Reading →
American Exploits
The American dream was always an unreachable and unworkable myth. Yet some Americans still cling to the idea and other Western nations still attempt to emulate that mythos. For fuck's sake, why? The dream could never become reality without exploitation. It needs an underdog to be trampled on, robbed and taken out of the picture.... Continue Reading →
‘The State Cannot Convict Itself’: Operation ‘Gladio’ & the Crimes of U.S. Empire
I have long held the view presented in this excellent, re-blogged article and encapsulated in this quote from it: "Given post-WWII history and our current state of affairs Western governments and institutions clearly exist as criminal entities which function outside the rule of all recognized morality and law, domestic and international." ...and so I am... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 