Saturday, April 20, 2024

The Struggle for Merdeka in West Papua

“The Indonesian elite ensures that West Papua is relatively isolated from media scrutiny, access to international agencies and diplomats (even though many western states are well known to oppose any indigenous struggle for self-determination, given it would only raise questions about their own subjugated indigenous populations).”

The anti-empire report #157: Unpersons

In his desperation for approval, our dear president has jumped on the back of increased military spending.

Tackling the ‘Impossible’: Ending Violence

Whenever, in ordinary circumstances, the subject of violence comes up, most people throw up their hands in horror and comment along the...

The Anti-Empire Report #145

“Can it be imagined that an American president would openly implore the nation’s young people to fight a foreign war to defend ‘capitalism’?”

Norvergence: Climate change fueled Syria’s civil war

“Until now the main cause of civil war is a wealth of the nation in few men hands but Syria showed us...

Feeding two birds with one hand

“Nuclear weapons are always in the wrong hands.”

The Donald’s bastard children

It is going to take more than just 'Soul Searching' by Trump's Bastard Children to set things right.

Ending Human Violence is a Task for Each of Us

The simple reality is that violence will only end when each one of us is committed to ending it. Are you?

Winning and lying

Winning in this society has become a meta-political illusion, a dream world, that rationalizes political and lawyerly anti-social behavior as “greatness”.

Stop Trump movement

Time to reach out to each other. Hello?