Over a decade ago, the US and Western nations would feign concern for the loss of innocent life while they waged a war. Terms such as Collateral or Unintentional would be thrown around, even when all evidence points in the opposite direction. There was a need for benevolent war fighting, to satisfy the narrative for the domestic voting block, to package war and intervention in accordance with corporate spin but also to impress upon the rest of the world, that the killers are in fact the good guys. The West and the US now don’t seem to concern themselves with such perceptions. With Israel’s...

There is a surge among the liberal democracies towards a nativist conservatism. The United States experienced the lie of Donald Trump’s MAGA and the misplaced promise of an America First, once a dirty word, now a salvation for not only the war wracked planet but the debt addled empire of the USA itself. The age of liberal imperialism and big government was despised among many who had to suffer it, contrary to the establishment left and those in the comforts of East and West coast privilege, many common and hardworking Americans are forced to suffer and endure a coerced ideology that has done...

Kyle just finished printing out the form he needed to send to a client, an elderly woman who had just lost her husband. He felt empathy for her and really wanted to get it done as fast as possible. Searching the nearby desk, he could not find the stapler. He looked over and saw it sitting out in the open, on a distant desk. He reached out to grab it but was stopped by a voice. “Have you had your operators course updated?” the performance and adjustments teams communication and awareness support officer asked. “No, I didn’t know that I had to,” Kyle was unsure if she was joking or not, but he...

“From the river to the sea,” is an expression that has become illegal in Australia. An insecure nation with government often desperate to placate foreign interests and those who keep the politicians rich. And, in 2026 any thing that has been determined as ‘antisemetic’ is forbidden. Read, anything that is anti-Israel. Not, necessarily Jewish. Bonnie Carter, who was taken by the police and has not been charged at this time. Upset them enough to wear a shirt. What she wore, ensured that armed, mostly men could force her to go with them. Her fate in their hands, and the hands of their masters....

The special alliance of Israel and the United States have attacked Iran, again. How severe and protracted this war shall become, we do not know. The lapdogs of empire likely will support their masters, the usual coalition such as America’s Ghurkas, or Australia, what remains of the arthritic UK and the Gulf States built on slavery and bribery. The Coalition of the Killing. Iran has it’s friend as well, China, Russia, the Houthi’s and other members of the ascending BRICS. The war is almost a symbolic deathroe of the 20th century order, of Western might and exceptionalism at the expense of the...

I want to stay up late, drinking coffee while the moon stands high. Talking with friends or, strangers, why not both? Discussing philosophy, the stars, literature and art. Hearing and sharing thoughts of of our own. Not talking points framed by others or references to safe culture, pop themed entertainment lollies. I want to sit across from another mind, or minds, see their eyes warm with thought, feeling, passion. To feel their words, to know they mean it. I want to be there when dangerous things are said, when threads of humanity linger between sorrow, regret, to be puled back by joy and...