Tag: Horror

Trump

A Ghost in the Machine – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The infection, nonetheless, continues to spread through the American body politic. Down in Arizona, a former TV news reader who is running for the U.S. Senate, told a rally crowd the “next six months will be intense” and we need to “strap on a Glock,” an automatic weapon that can kill with great proficiency. A stylish celebrity, she sounds like the former president but with different hormones and an even more refined disregard for facts. Her politics were formulated by searching for the shortest line to public office and the radical right was dramatically lacking in gender diversity. The language spreading across the right has not stopped suggesting that violence will be essential to win elections and take offices. The Arizona TV lady clearly does not care what happens as long as she gets attention and glory and money and public office. None of her thinking is original and comes from the Adderall addled mind of a future Riker’s Island inmate. Global geopolitics, meanwhile, are on a knife edge and Americans are fixated on a low-intellect ex-president on trial for money and sexual promiscuity.

Our future may be as uncertain as his.

Source: A Ghost in the Machine – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel

Witness to horror upon horror, I scream underwater – Pearls and Irritations

A general view as Palestinians inspect the damage at and near Al-Shifa Hospital after the Israeli army withdrew from it following a two-week military operation, in Gaza City, 01 April 2024. An Israeli army spokesperson reported that Israeli forces completed operations at Al-Shifa hospital with about 500 affiliated suspects arrested and 200 eliminated. More than 32,700 Palestinians and over 1,450 Israelis have been killed, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), since Hamas militants launched an attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October 2023, and the Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank which followed it. Image: AAP/EPA/MOHAMED HAJJAR

I feel like I’m screaming underwater. Why aren’t the other 193 countries in the world screaming above the water line as they witness this horror right in front of their eyes? Why aren’t more leaders made of strong moral fibre which should naturally be horrified by the actions of the U.S. and Israel?

Source: Witness to horror upon horror, I scream underwater – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

The Horrors a Rafah Invasion Would Bring

An Israeli invasion of Rafah will not alter the battlefield in favor of the Israeli army, but it will be horrific for the displaced Palestinians, writes Ramzy Baroud.

Source: The Horrors a Rafah Invasion Would Bring

Israel

Horror in Gaza and the shallowness of Western civilisation – Pearls and Irritations

Palestinian mother Asmaa Naser, mourns the bodies of her twin children, Ahmed and Jihan Naser Palestinian mother Asmaa Naser, mourns the bodies of her twin children, Ahmed and Jihan Naser, who were killed as a result of an Israeli air strike on Nuseirat camp, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on December 29, 2023. Image:Alamy / Ali Hamad apaimages Dair El-Balah Gaza Strip Palestinian Territory 291223_Dair_El-Balah_AH_009 Copyright: xapaimagesxAlixHamadxapaimagesx

Modern Israel has existed for 860 months, yet the past 5 will define its culture, its values, and the very basis of its religious inspiration before the bar of history for generations to come.

Either way, without a “change of heart” in the most Biblical sense of the phrase, Israel will remain an armed fortress, a failed pariah state, and a liability to Western civilisation.

Source: Horror in Gaza and the shallowness of Western civilisation – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

Conscious and Unconscionable: The Starving of Gaza – » The Australian Independent Media Network

If Israel’s intention had been to demonstrate some good will in averting any insinuation that genocide was taking place, let alone a systematic policy of collective punishment against the Palestinian population, little evidence of it has been shown. If anything, the suspicions voiced by South Africa and other critics aghast at the sheer ferocity of the campaign are starting to seem utter plausible in their horror.

Source: Conscious and Unconscionable: The Starving of Gaza – » The Australian Independent Media Network