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The Wigan Pier of the Periphery

by Kym Robinson | Apr 11, 2024 | Blog

I just finished some work in the city. I was working with a pair of carpenters, men in dirty clothes with splinters in their hands. As we worked the nicely dressed office class ignored those building the world around them, the delivery drivers, the cleaners, the homeless picking tobacco from pieces of spent paper. I was among the people in the periphery, the insignificant to the important careerists of the government and corporate class who rode elevators up towers of glass to sit through a day where taxation and monopoly fees keep them paid. The conversations among us dirty men is usually...

Triple Tap Murders…Oh Look, a Cat Video

by Kym Robinson | Apr 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Recently the Israeli Defense Force murdered an aid convoy. A group of international aid workers who had coordinated with the IDF and who were travelling on an IDF approved route. When the aid workers came under attack, they contacted the IDF. Three assaults were launched by the IDF, killing seven World Central Kitchen aid workers. The term "triple tap" has been used. The IDF will investigate itself. The outraged, the shocked, and the indifferent alike watch as children die daily in Palestine. The aid workers' bodies were mutilated by weapons likely supplied by the United States.And in...

A Home into a House

by Kym Robinson | Apr 9, 2024 | Blog

It’s a modest house, a unit trapped inside of a suburb within a suburb. Mostly elderly live here. A woman in her late seventies greets me, “I’m Rosanne, the neighbour.” She takes me through the house and shows me what needs to be carried out. Heavy furniture and the boxes too heavy for others to lift. The house is stripped down to its bare bones, dust and remnants of a home barely linger. I load my ute, Rosanne watches, disappears and returns with a cup of tea for me. We share idle chit chat, the weather, never having enough time and eventually how lovely the person whose belongings I am...

Five Chimneys of Gaza

by Kym Robinson | Apr 8, 2024 | Blog

Millions and thousands become empty numbers when scaled in the context of history. As a scale of human life taken, those numbers are tragic and can seem unreal. A life balanced against policy, allowed to suffer and die beneath a wider context that is expedient or abstract skewered by passions and contemporary politics. A life that destroyed, punished and tortured by complete strangers with such certainty, despite innocence. At best guilt by association in the most remote attachment is the only grounds for culpability. With ideology, the authority of law and the language of justice, the...

$5400

by Kym Robinson | Mar 27, 2024 | Blog

One of the terrorist-murderers captured in Moscow claimed that he was paid the equivalent of US$5400 to kill innocent people. In his native Tajikstan that is no doubt a lot of money. His willingness to kill for money is not new, the mercenary trade is one steeped in romance but also be despised. Usually depending on any given historical perspective. Though these men were murderers. Spree killers, motivated by the ideology of terror and money. While other spree killers the world over may do their terrible deed with a vicious thrill these men are now heroes to some, because the crime is...

Collateral Murder 2.0

by Kym Robinson | Mar 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

When the footage of Reuters journalists and civilians were Wikileaked to the world, there was outrage. A shame exhibited by some in the American government caused them to reel from the crime that had been exposed, to downplay the prevalence of such murders, and ultimately to shift the blame to Julian Assange and Wikileaks itself. It worked in the end: Assange is locked away in judicial purgatory, the wider world has mostly forgotten what Wikileaks has revealed, and mainstream media continues to be a predominantly homogenized mouth piece for power. Now, we see another moment of an execution...

Greetings

by Kym Robinson | Mar 26, 2024 | Blog

The big boss man has said that we can blog, chat and rant about whatever we wish. So, expect to see as much from me here. I most likely will keep most things about the liberty and anti-war sector but I was thinking about sharing short stories, training advice, anecdotes and other tidbits that would not ordinarily go under the category of article. Also, as I am blogging here directly forgive my English, English rather the Yank version that the good editors here have to convert from my ramblings often. To which I commend them for being supremely awesome.With that in mind, all the best and...

The Principled Cannot Convince the Irrational

by Kym Robinson | Mar 20, 2024 | Featured Articles

No matter how brutal an event, there will be those who can justify, rationalize, or spin a positive narrative. Real and imagined injustices inspire reactions that lead to more injustice, creating a spiral of revenge. Or a group can decide that it is superior, righteous by default, and has the right to claim territory in order to thrive. Outside observers can grapple with favoring one party over others, claiming that it was a "lesser evil." Despite any pretense or deceptions, most violent actors do the irrationally vile for little reason other than self service or with inhuman distance....