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Since I first started commenting on drones, in November, and started the first draft of this post, in early February 2012, the number of articles on drones have increased. So, like many other drafts, it languished on the side. Let’s see if I can get it started, somehow! Pakistan is the silent Iraq. It happens [...]

Vietnam: American Holocaust

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“…if the wind blew the tree, they chopped down the tree. If the cow moved, the cow got shot…And the chicken, duck, pig–anything alive was murdered.” Quoted in the documentary. The documentary “Vietnam – American Holocaust” is from Linux Beach Production, produced by Clay Claiborne. It is a great documentary, with contemporary relevance, which raises [...]

The documentary “Bhopali”, directed by Van Maximilian Carlson, now being shown on RT, covers some of the events since the tragedy of Bhopal. Union Carbide has, so far, gotten away with the birth defects, the diseases, the negligence, the disregard for the locals’ lives, and the remaining and increasing ground pollution. IIRC even the Indian [...]

“When you close your eyes, you see unheard pain.” And untold horror. Loss that tears into me, and leaves me empty. The unbearable pain that does not kill. There are creatures which live on our eyelids, and demons which live beneath; every night, they crawl out. We go on, with a full view of each [...]

The documentary “Hong Kong: Mainland Invasion“, on the Al Jazeera progam “101 East”, covers the view of some Hong Kong residents with respect to the medical/birth tourism of the mainland Chinese. They feel invaded, and use the term “locusts” to describe the mainlanders. I can’t help but think of the Australian fear of the “Asian [...]

GMO, patents, farmer suicides, Monsanto, Documentary.

YouTube – Modern Nomads – Mongolia. Another people subjugated. This video outlines the changes happening in Mongolia, turning nomads into factory workers. The absence of subtitles is a problem, but it is still worth watching. Just what is being offered to them? The security of submission, away from the hazards and uncertainties of freedom. Now [...]

Agents’ Orange

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Vietnam, Ukraine and Orange Aid to Revolution.