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When A Man’s Life Becomes a Bargaining Chip

by Kym Robinson | Jun 3, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

How much longer must Julian Assannge suffer? Locked inside a process of BS legal limbo, Assange has committed no crime (even under the U.S. government's own determination) and yet he is a prisoner in the United Kingdom's harsh Belmarsh prison where he is treated worse than any rapist, murderer, or terrorist. Even the most heinous of criminals have rights; not Assange, however. Julian Assange is a political prisoner of the empire. His health is diminishing and in the English tradition, he may remain locked away in a dungeon for a long time. The American empire wants blood, and whether Assange...

Around Us the World dies in hate (poem thing) -Anti-War Blog

by Kym Robinson | Jun 1, 2024 | Blog

In the time that the smoke ate the sun, Poison that blinded my eyes washed by tears, Tears that fall from fear because we shall never have years, Maybe days or if so lucky weeks. The sirens yawn more than we can sleep, The birds have left though the sky is filled with the flying things, Fireballs glow brighter than any sun, A sun lost beneath ash. Around us the world dies in hate, Painful rage that fills the oceans with blood, I sail on them to you with love as my wind, No hate for us, just us and love. Climbing mountains of stone, Jagged cliffs of destruction, My shoes...

Radicalism for the Young – Anti-War Blog

by Kym Robinson | May 29, 2024 | Blog

Radicalism is for the youth, but drips away over time. Generation X watched their hippy parents become corporate and government stooges, gorged on real estate and careerism. The Pump up the Volume teenagers became parents, lost the radicalism to care about the world, feeling it wane away as the mortgage swelled. Many of the youth today are finding an outrage over a genocide that their parents may not care about. On social media exists keyholes into other parts of the world that legacy media omits. The tragedies of war that everyone knows exist, just the radicals care about has spurred an...

The innocent dead of Rafah, have you no shame?

by Kym Robinson | May 27, 2024 | Blog

Footage from the Israeli Military assault on Rafah has again revealed the gruesome reality of war. A reality that tends to be omitted by the censors of the legitimate media, footage of headless babies. Their young bodies, limp, held by rescuers and loved ones in one final desperate embrace. We usually see this sort of evidence of war when it is conducted by a pariah power or is spun in such a way that it’s rare. The natural collateral consequence of warfare. Civilised nations must wage wars, murder the innocent to accomplish policy or achieve goals, it’s the done thing. Their Headless babies...

British Moralism, ‘Video Nasties,’ and Our Right to Watch Movies

by Kym Robinson | May 21, 2024 | Featured Articles

There was a time when one would have to wait for a theatrically released movie to appear on television before it could be seen again. Only certain movies would be available and then often edited for run time and censorship concerns. Then came the video tape and movie rentals. Suddenly all sorts of titles, even those not originally shown at the cinema, were available on home video. And inevitably, government stepped in to prohibit and regulate which videos a person was allowed to view. In Great Britain a panic emerged: it was known as the "Video Nasties," and the Conservatives and religious...

The heroic Robert Fisk would be rolling in his grave!

by Kym Robinson | May 20, 2024 | Blog

The West, Inc prides itself on the rhetoric of individual rights. We know this not to be true, collectivism reigns supreme! War and foreign policy, the collectivists delight, where racism and every -ism is validated and enforced. You see, Palestinians right now are officially evil. They are all "snakes", terrorists. Remember the Islamo-Fascists? Well they are located in the enclaves known as Palestine, even the Christians and atheists among them are all Islamic Jihadi "Mohammedan" killers we are told. Many across the globe can watch genocide occurring, able to find evidence of children...

Product of a Spectacle, ramblings from a has been fighter

by Kym Robinson | May 19, 2024 | Blog

The barn stank of manure and diesel, men stirred in their waiting, the few women present clung to their man. I was nineteen, I had sparred, been in scraps and ‘challenged’ martial artists to matches inspired by the Gracies, except I didn’t have the money to call it a “challenge”. Alone I walked towards bushy beards, bellies, tank tops and every second hand filled with a can. The feral energy had it’s own aroma, unwashed men covered by Brut and beer. The voyeurs and would doers watched on from the outside. Dirt was the arena, barrels, a single wood post, hay bails, a woman most likely named...

How Will Australia Respond to Its Series of Stabbings?

by Kym Robinson | May 13, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

A person's right to defend themself is sacred. It is only through the arbitrary magic of government that we create a set of standards that determine what a person is allowed to do in the moments of frightful violence. In Australia, for example, government arbitration decides whether a person is allowed to carry something to protect themselves. This is not just limited to firearms but includes mace, knives, clubs, or any item that may have the intent to be used for self-defense. The individual is then made dependent on the regional monopoly, a public service that has deemed itself the sole...