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The Right Tool for the Job
For Michael: Physician’s Assistant, FMLN guerilla, jungle surgeon He picks up from the tray Surgical scissors, forceps, a gauze sponge His work heals the body The tools become the work Become his hands Become him In El Salvador in la selva he was a guerilla To heal the body of a country To bring el pueblo Dignity Victory Sovereignty His hands picked up from the dirt A Tokarev pistol An AK-47 rifle A grenade These tools became the work Became his hands Became him All the while he dreamed of...
Bronze Cymbals the Size of Mountains
No, it’s not possible, They said. You cannot stop the Hegemon, they said. It will devour each one: Russia, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, China… And then it will devour you. There is nothing to be done. We answered, Perhaps that is true. But we know who you are. And what we know Will eventually destroy you. If not you, then your successors. If not your successors, Then their successors.
Democracy is on the ballot
Democracy is on the ballot this year but some things will not be: climate catastrophe; our holocaust in Palestine; our direct and proxy violence in Africa, Latin America, Eurasia; our seige-by-sanctions against a third of the world’s people. Also not on our ballot are some things at home: health care for all; the right to choose; fixing crumbling infrastructure.
Two, Three, Many Holocausts
How close we could look into a bright future should two, three or many Vietnams flourish throughout the world with their share of deaths and their immense tragedies, their everyday heroism and their repeated blows against imperialism, impelled to disperse its forces under the sudden attack and the increasing hatred of all peoples of the world! — Che Guevarra, Message to the Tricontinental, Havana, April 16, 1967 “Two, three many Vietnams,” said Che.
On the Perpetration of Mass-Death Events
The holocaust now visited on Palestine by US-Israel is unique in many ways. Rates of killing and maiming exceed those of previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the perpetrators announce their genocidal intent with unusual frankness, and Western media and official apologists are especially shameless. But in a world under centuries of West European domination, this particular intentional genocide/mass-death event ought to seem familiar.
Spherical Splendor, Part II: My Chinese Spy Balloon
The Pentagon admitted that a Chinese balloon that crossed into US territory in February was not spying; it was likely blown off course by wind. — Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy Report, September 20, 2023 My Chinese Spy Balloon has been Posthumously busted to weather balloon, A mere meteorological device, Something that rose from the mind Of an aerial engineer, In between her daydreams At a desk in Zhuzhou, Hunan.
Uncle Sam’s Yom Kippur
“[T]he prehistory, formation, expansion, and global ascendancy of the U.S. Empire have required endless holocausts at home and abroad….
Some Jobs Not Eliminated By AI
For Ned Ludd Saint Sinner Dogmatist Blasphemer Romantic Cynic Dreamer Pragmatist Altruist Misanthrope Revolutionary Reactionary Introvert Extrovert Melancholic Euphoric Infant Child Adult Elder Corpse Roger Stoll lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and has published articles, book reviews and political poetry in Black Agenda Report, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Internationalist 360, Jewschool, Marxism-Leninism Today, MintPress News, MRonline, New Verse News, Orinoco Tribune, Popular...
Western Tales About China are Just Tales
Introduction Western media never stop warning us of China: it menaces Taiwan, threatens its neighbors and shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and sticks military bases on Cuba. China, we are told, spies on us by the most devious means, through TikTok, Huawei 5G, and weather balloons. And China, say our media, ensnares Africa with debt traps. Meanwhile, the US government and its media-echo decry China’s abuses of its own people.
I See a Great Moon
The doctors let us in to see her. The room was bare, Only a mattress on the floor. They’d bound her hands. She looked up at the ceiling As if she could see the sky. Something about her made us reverent. We waited for her to speak.
The US and Never-ending War
John Rachel, in his book The U.S. and Perpetual War: Interviews and Commentary (Independently published, May 16, 2023, available at Peace Dividend/Books and Amazon) has compiled a unique, concise and astonishingly compelling collection of leading left, liberal, conservative and heterodox thinkers each answering the same fifteen precisely composed questions. The questions concern the current nature of the US empire, putative US democracy, and, most important, what is to be done.
The Narcoleptic Beauty
by Roger Stoll / May 21st, 2023 I I heard her magic tale: a spindle-prick, then frozen in time for a century, her castle ringed by an impassable forest of needle-sharp briars, poison snakes, carnivorous plants, and stiletto-fanged beasts. Only a death wish would call one into these forbidding woods, littered with the bones and crowns of princes just like me. Naturally, I went. Yet it wasn’t hard to get through. The forest parted before me. Beasts, snakes, and all, gave way.
72% of the UN Security Council (by Population) Backed Russia’s Call for a UN Investigation of the Nord Stream Bombing
72 percent of the UN Security Council (by population) Backed Russia’s call for a UN investigation of the Nord Stream bombing (libya360.wordpress.com) International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one. — Ambrose Bierce, The shadow on the dial, and other essays, (ed. 1909); p. 302 in the Gutenberg edition.
73% of the World’s Population Did Not Call for Russian Reparations to Ukraine
On November 14, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution (A/ES-11/L.6) calling for Russia to pay war reparations to Ukraine: [The General Assembly…] Reaffirms its commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine and its demand that the Russian Federation immediately cease its use of force against Ukraine and that the Russian Federation immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the...
55% of Humanity Does Not Reject the Accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
by Roger Stoll / October 21st, 2022 On October 12, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution rejecting the accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions in Ukraine. The resolution is titled, “Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Defending the Principles of the Charter of the United Nations.” It reads, in part: A majority of the 193 countries of the UNGA voted IN FAVOR of the resolution.
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