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Stand With Dignity: The Honor of Li Xouyin

by Kym Robinson | Aug 7, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Libertarianism

The ancient Chinese capital of Nanjing has become synonymous with one of human history’s most horrible acts of savagery. In 1937, it was a place where the soldiers of the Japanese government committed acts of rape, murder, and torture that were not in any way exceptions as to how such men have acted before or since. The Japanese soldiers, in their Samurai tradition worshiped the honor cult and as men of courage served a coward emperor whose great ambition was to be a Marine Biologist. Those who served him used him as a living god so that they could act in his name with blood lust and...

Anti-War Blog – Not Enough Paper Cranes

by Kym Robinson | Aug 6, 2024 | Blog

When I was in primary school we were taught about a little Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki and her paper cranes. She was one of the many victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast, dying after the initial detonation from radiation sickness. One of many thousands who would die painfully in the days, weeks, months and years following the bombs explosion. We learned that in the time before her impending death, she had set a goal of making 1,000 paper Origami cranes. She died at 644. We even learned a song, and a group of ten year old Australian sang and put on a play, pretending to be...

Anti-War Blog – What Will You Do On The Day After?

by Kym Robinson | Aug 2, 2024 | Blog

They did it, finally. The wisdom of the statists, the planet ruined. Desolation, misery, nature blackened to near extinction. The whispering legacy of civilisation. The educated mastery of science and technology used to destroy it all, everything. They called it defence. Hegemonic interests. The fruit of ideology, so poisonous that it’s only cure was for you to be poisoned more. You keep drinking it, gulping and eventually you main veined it right into your blood. Welfare, warfare, so very dependent on the state. You can’t imagine a world without it. A god. Your God. It’s not real, just an...

Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones…

by Kym Robinson | Jul 30, 2024 | Featured Articles

“Fire, Fire, Fire...” Christopher Hitchens says to his audience, a reference to Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes claim that by shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre one is misusing free speech. As Hitchens in his 2006 talk went on to explain, Holmes used this in his defense of the U.S. government’s arrest and jailing of writers of Yiddish anti-war pamphlets that challenged American entry into the First World War. A crisis, especially war, gives government and those who fear dissent or offensive opinions the justification to muzzle mouths and padlock a writer's keyboard. It seems absurd that...

‘Extremist Material’

by Kym Robinson | Jul 22, 2024 | Featured Articles

The South Australian police on the fourth of July arrested a thirteen-year old youth for possession of “extremist material." The content and nature of the material is unknown. The "autistic" boy was held in police custody; bail was set and his mother collected him, his electrical devices having been collected. Due to his autism it is alleged that he may be easily influenced by the material. The boy and his mother will go to court soon, where his condition shall be reviewed. Two years ago a fifteen-year old male was arrested for the possession and “distribution” or information that may be...

What a strange fetish it all is…

by Kym Robinson | Jul 20, 2024 | Blog

Is it a fetish? There are some fascinating memes and clips doing the rounds of Trump lately. The populist appeal has become silly. The trouble is that some supposedly serious people are unironically aroused by it all. Then again, maybe it’s just for the LOLs? Grown men reliving the great Tumblr vs 4chan war, now those veterans find themselves on X and TikTok waging battle against the evil globalists or lizards or satanists or deep state. The forces of Zuck, Obama and Biden. Only one man can save them, Donald Trump. When Shia Lebouf did his anti-Trump art piece, “he will not divide us!”...

The Family Will Never Get Over It – Anti-War Blog

by Kym Robinson | Jul 15, 2024 | Blog

The Middle East Eye reports of desperate screams as Muhammad Bhar, a 24-year old Palestinian man with down syndrome was attacked by Israelil military dogs. The IDF soldiers watched on as the animals mauled the helpless Muhammad. He was then left to die from his wounds. Those close to Muhammad said that he was mentally “one years of age.” To those who set their dogs onto him, he was just a Palestinian. Muhammad another victim of the Israel government as it executes its 21st century settler colonialism. Dogs mauling the innocent as their handlers watch on is not new, in fact it’s ancient. It...

Assassin Murders Bystander

by Kym Robinson | Jul 14, 2024 | Blog

Twenty Year old Thomas Mathew Crooks murdered a bystander and injured others in an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Trump suffered, a bullet injuring his ear. The killer was shot dead by a secret service counter sniper. The crowd cheered, “USA, USA!” once Trump raised his fists in defiance, proof of life. A relief for his supporters. Those shot and close to the dead and wounded struggled with life and death in desperate and confused moments. Though history will now relegate them as props to an event of significance, as human beings they lived a life. In...