“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.” – Thomas Carlyle Today is Memorial Day in …
Last night I dreamt that we were going to some kind of summer camp in the mountains. A bunch of famous people were going with us, including Martin Luther King, Jr. – despite the fact that even in my dream, he was dead. Malcolm X might also have been there. …
Richard Biggs, an actor I greatly admired, died five years ago today. And I still can’t get over the feeling that that really wasn’t supposed to happen; that something went wrong in the universe. Because I think he would’ve been my ideal actor; he would’ve been perfect for my films. …
Well, today’s my birthday (and Mr. T‘s). I was going to post about all the cool presents I got (including Christopher Lee’s autobiography Lord of Misrule, An Other Cup and Star Maker) but then I read that the US Senate has voted to block the closing down of Guantanamo. The …
“I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” – Malcolm X Today is the birthday of one of the bravest and …
“Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.” – Karl Marx More later. Have to do some boring work now.
JONAS: Do you think we’ll have a thunderstorm? VERENA: Definitely. JONAS: It kind of looks like it, but I haven’t heard it rumble at all. STORM: (mischievously) *rumble* VERENA: Looks like it heard you. JONAS: I think I’ll go shut down my PC now.
Read this and weep. In another graphic instance, a former Iraqi general was beaten by U.S. forces and suffocated to death. The military officer charged in the death was given just 60 days house arrest. “Abed Hamed Mowhoush [was] a former Iraqi general beaten over days by U.S. Army, CIA …
Today is Verena’s birthday. Yesterday we went and took care of the final registration of our marriage – it is now officially happening on the 23rd of July. Much yayness and birthday-ness. Presents shall be given shortly. And tonight we shall go see Star Trek. (We saw Wolverine yesterday, and …
From: Military investigations whitewash Israeli war crimes IDF Commander of the northern troops Gadi Eizencout first described this strategy in an interview with Yedioth Aharonoth last October. He explained, “What happened to the Dahiyah neighbourhood of Beirut in 2006 will happen to each village from which Israel is fired on. …
