Not fair on soldiers
Western Energy Supply Companies like BP, Amoco, Exxon, Unocal and Pennzoil have been involved in major joint ventures in Afghanistan for decades. The BBC broadcasted as early as 1997 plans by these major corporations to construct significant networks of new pipelines to carry oil and gas from the rich hydrocarbon reserves in Azerbaijan West to […]
Both believers & unbelievers think that war gives meaning to their lives
I am well aware of some of the ways in which social engineering is used by the media to condition people to believe in a shared identity, a collectivized humanity under one flag, to die for the myth of nationalism. The BBC war narrative is good at achieving these nationalistic goals. Every week they slip […]
More Textbook Violence
23rd Sept 2010 Mainstream Islam and Christianity have their spiritual roots in the Old Testament where a spirit of violence is portrayed as holy. The bad fruit of this can be seen in the way Christian and Muslim hierarchies throughout history have engaged in combat based on a system of belief that inherently antagonizes the […]
These are the heroes
17th Sept 2010 Private Bradley Manning decided to blow the whistle on one heinous crime (probably among thousands) committed by US Apache Helicopter Crews roaming the skies in Iraq to ‘blow away’ terrorists. The recorded conversations between command centre and crew reveals a chilling insight into the sociopathic condition of men trained to be hunters […]
OT rhetoric in Christendom
17th September 2010 An article written by Robert Koehler on AntiWar.com’s website also touches on the very real problem concerning the extremely worrying rhetoric of US military leaders claiming to be Christian Warriors. The language they use is not dissimilar from the language of radical jihad Islamic fundamentalists. The reason for parity in the type […]
Pope and Circumstance
17th September 2010 Bringing another take on Hitler. The regime that the German public supported in the 1930’s raised their hopes and aspirations for their place in a new prosperous and powerful nation. The social contract between citizen and State in Germany manifested its strength in numerous ways, that involved human agencies for national transformation […]