Another Iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated. Juxtapose this with the recent, comical allegations against an Iranian-American used-care salesman–that he plotted with some drug traffickers to kill some Saudi ambassador or something! The media’s tacit acquiescence with the former, and hysteria for the latter.

United States, for whom Pakistani civilians are “Bugsplat”–drone fodder–and Iraqi dead are not worthy of counting, murders and terrorizes with impunity. But it is the complete apathy of its citizenry that stands out! After all, the empire’s evil is nothing new, and the nuclear arms race was only one example of its terrorizing of the planet. But almost the entire US population acts at-ease with what goes on outside their borders.

One day, we should be paraded past the devastation we have caused.

This is the last stop, for removed suffering; the terminus of the alimentary canal of the fed; the detritus of progress. One kick, and I ascend. Away from growth’s tumours, above plenty’s destitutes, beyond water’s poisons, through the foul breath of civilisation, and past the dying rays of sunshine, I swim into the still void.