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Rights for the Synthetic

by Kym Robinson | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

"The future of human-AI coexistence depends on acknowledging the potential for sentient machines and reevaluating responsibilities towards them. It's crucial to consider the ethical implications of creating beings that may possess their own interests, desires, and will, and to ensure that their 'existence' is not solely defined by servitude to humanity."- Meta AI What happens when Number Five does come alive? In the coming years we will be confronted with a reality that was once science fiction: co-existence with artificial intelligence. To most human users current AI is a novelty to chat...

They Kept Sending Us Bombs…Anti-War Blog

by Kym Robinson | Jun 4, 2024 | Blog

As I saw the photos of US politician Nikki Haley scribbling on an Israeli shell bound for Rafah, it’s metal splinters and high explosives likely to rip a small child too pieces, it had me thinking. I once saw a clip of a US Air Force man who was asked why they were bombing neutral Laos, his response was simple, “They Kept Sending Us Bombs.” Haley is auditioning for the Vice Presidency, it helps her cause to show that she celebrates war as is the custom of the great Western empires. War is not just the imperial realisation of government but it’s a ‘job provider’, those boots, bombs and bully...

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...

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