Just think what all those dead young men could have done in the years after 1918. Think of the advances in Art, Literature, Music, Science. Think of the leaders who might have steered their countries into a better new age. And think of the potential of their descendants, never born. Because politicians, and Generals, thought […]
Watching Trump gradually putting together the framework of a Fascist state is like seeing a re-enactment of Hitler putting together the framework of Nazi Germany.
Strange how some event which is a “wake-up call” leaves everyone sleeping just as soundly as ever.
If you don’t get qualifications when you are young you will find yourself working for idiots. If you do get qualifications you will find yourself working for more highly paid idiots.
Americans, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, believe they have the “world’s greatest democracy” (whatever that means). What is undoubtedly true is that they have the worst electoral process of any western democracy. * And establishes electoral boundaries, and decides on voter ID, and sets up polling places, and uses electronic voting,
Doesn’t matter who votes, it’s who counts the votes* Read More »
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Lament for a lost planet Read More »
Every election, everywhere, since politics began, has been invested with a rich mix of hooes and fears. Fears seem to be winning more often, lately.
All over the world, religion and fascism are, separately or together, driving the people of the world collectively insane.
When Rupert Murdoch looks at Donald Trump, and the return of Fascism around the world, and the now irreversible destruction of the planet, is he capable of feeling shame?
I had thought the rule was that America simply hated socialist countries and did its best to destroy them in case people elsewhere might discover that there was an economic alternative to American controlled capitalism in their countries. But that doesn’t explain the hatred of people like Trump and Bolton for Iran. So a more
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