Poem

Our faith in government, once based on trust Has now irrevocably turned to rust. Oh yes, there are a few whose loyalty us is true. But countless others felt the need To attach themselves to corporate greed. You think the president calls the shots? Then it’s you who don’t connect the dots. The corporate elite, […]
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Qu’est donc la mémoire Si ce n’est des couches de souvenirs innombrables Stratifications invisibles et furtives De l’empreinte magique du temps Souvenirs fragiles et éphémères Tels des chateaux de sable Sous l’assaut des vagues et du vent Qu’est donc la mémoire Si ce n’est l’impossibilité de trouver La paix dans l’oubli du silence Telle une […]

I could not believe my ears on this day When Doctor Steve Turley had something to say about racists gone mad, saying everything’s bad that Dr Seuss is a racist and our kids have been had.   But watching this video t’was clear from the start that the people who called Seuss racist weren’t smart. […]

[Prefatory Note: At this age, having exhausted prose options, I indulge myself during holidays, by sharing poems that seek also your indulgence. I searched 2019 forsome glimmers of good news, and felt stymied. Of course, here, there, everywhere there were glorious private exceptions, yet hovering over the public marketplaces ofthe world I cringe beneath menacing storm clouds and below chaos and misery, and catastrophes waiting to happen.

• [Prefatory Note: I took part in a stirring program here in Berlin earlier this evening in support of three activists from Palestine and Israel
• who face criminal charges for disrupting a meeting featuring Zionist denials of Israeli crimes against humanity. Two of the three who face these charged are Jews born in Israel, and one a Palestinian born in Gaza, whose family was in audience, including his father who was in an Israeli

Not If but When … When you have lost your head, and those about you Are casualties of violence brought by you When you betray a trust, so others doubt

The Saudis have 'reduced' a man's sentence from beheading to 800 lashes and 8 years in prison for writing love poems.
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This story is of a Canadian woman who prefers to stay anonymous:  ………………………………………………..                  My story:  First, let me explain the whole matter from a personal viewpoint simply because my awareness of Palestine and the …

In their endeavor to beautify occupation and killing the children, to legitimize the Gaza siege and starving a whole people of ethnically cleansed refugees (over 73% of the peopole living in Gaza are ethnically cleansed in 1948), the zionists are …