Everyone seems to be keeping an "enemies list", replete with biting invective for the miscreants therein. This one, described as a Self-Hating and/or Israel-Threatening List (which produces the charming acronym SHIT), was brought to my attention by activistgirl at Twitter. If you are lucky enough to get on to it – and you have to be Jewish or sort-of Jewish to do that – you will find yourself in some pretty illustrious compan… Continue

The above piece, presented for the edification of "boys and girls", is from the October 5, 2009, edition of Challenge Weekly – a New Zealand Christian rag that often runs articles about missionaries taking the "light" of Christianity to the benighted heathen. It reminds me of material one finds in Boy's Own annuals from the 1920s, which never say anythi… Continue

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given free rein


having skimmed the rim of existence
listened from the edge of the universe
for the last breath of a dying star

you bring back star-dust

from un-peopled space

collide with lives adrift in the ether

waiting to begin again



having lost all but yourself

you wander for years in a personal desert

to find yourself again in a cave

where a whirling trance spins you outside

confines of mind, beyond ev… Continue

An increasingly uncommon sight in the US: grazing cattle.

"Food, Inc. exposes America's industrialized food system and its effect on our environment, health, economy and workers' rights," the film's website says. It's a film that everyone should see, even if they don't live in the US. Chances are, the food business in your country is heading in this directio… Continue

The following article, by John Kaminski, was published by CommonDreams.org on Friday, November 9, 2001, under the headline The new USA Patriot Act: Are you a patriot? I'm reproducing it here for reference purposes, as passage of the Act dealt a body blow to the rule of law and inevitably led to the many of the outrages we have witnessed during the past eight years.


The USA Patriot Act, now passed and the law of the land, has eliminated the Constitutional guarantee of probable cause when… Continue

The following is a New Zealand Press Association report that was published in the Manawatu Standard on October 31, 2001:

Innocent New Zealanders will be arrested if a new anti-terrorism law is passed, says activist and lecturer David Small. Dr Small, a senior education and development lecturer at Canterbury University, said authorities in his case and others had not differentiated between political and criminal behaviour. This meant that giving authorities more power was dangerous.

The Terrori… Continue

Winston Peters

The following is an excerpt from a speech made by former New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters at the New Zealand-Israel Trade Awards in Wellington on February 17, 2006:

"We were saddened to hear of Prime Minister Sharon's sudden illness and have conveyed to him, his family and the people of Israel, a message of sup… Continue

I have just added the Palestinian flag to my avatar at Twitter. To do the same, go to http://twibbon.com/join/Free-Palestine.

"While I don't necessarily wish to draw analogies or parallels, we might still have Hitler sitting in Berlin if we'd been afraid of civilian casualties. It's not meant, it is not intended, it is not targeted, but it is almost inevitable that someone will be in the wrong place at the wrong time." – New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark on the bombing of A… Continue