Max Parry Eighty years ago last month, the Axis powers invaded the former Yugoslavia during the Second World War. A new Serbian film, Dara of Jasenovac, depicts the systematic extermination of Serbs which followed under the Nazi-puppet government of the Independent State of Croatia. Despite consultation with reputable historians during production and a screenplay based …
This Sunday morning we want to greet our readers with something beautiful for our Covid Positive section. This poem was sent to us on Facebook is perfect antidote to the constant stress of what we call the real world. Take a day off everyone. When despair for the world grows in me and I wake …
Darren Allen This is an extract from Self and Unself, Darren Allen’s new ‘philosophy of all and everything’. Some of the terms herein — consciousness, self, ego, etc — may appear somewhat mysterious or abstract as they are explained in earlier sections of the book. Self produces manifest culture, and then that culture shapes self. …
Edward Curtin The road led up the hill between houses until it came to the lake where it ran between the lake and the woods and the thought of people disappeared if he was lucky. He was sick of people, especially those he saw in masks because of their obsessive fear of death. They ran …
Darren Allen Humans are incapable of looking after, organising, protecting or ruling themselves. They need someone or something in power to do it for them. This creed emanates from every pore of the owner, the professional, the state, the institution and the egoic, unconscious parent. Often the message is an explicit exhortation, or order, to …
Thomas Harrington They are the stewards Of the whole universe Masters by force Commanders without laws. […] They eat everything They eat everything They eat everything And leave nothing. José “Zeca” Afonso, “Os Vampiros” (1963) Fifteen years ago, a good Uruguayan friend said to me, “Tom, we are at the end of an era, not …
Korvus Korax TAKE 1 In the bread and circuses phase of an empire’s waning days skillfully framed spin-riddled reports devised and arranged to shape not reflect reality are fed to the orderly hordes of hoped-for unquestioning simps by undercover PR pimps and whores by soldiers and officers in a …
TE Creus “Hi, dude!” “Oh. Hi. How are you?” “I’m good. How do you like my shoes?” “Nice. Are those…” “Yeah. The original Nike Lil Nas X Satan’s Shoes, version 2030.” “Wow. But don’t those cost a fortune? How can you afford them, with just the Universal Basic Income?” “Well, duh. I didn’t buy them, …
TE Creus The vaccine was a resounding success. Yes, there had been a final death rate of 10% among the vaccinated, but this was mostly among the elderly or the already ill, so it was probably not the vaccine’s fault, and if it was, no one could prove it one way or another, and even …
Alison Banville I wanna break lockdown with you Look what it’s turned me into… Fuck Thursday clapping! I’d rather a nap Than perform like a seal in a zoo I wanna break lockdown with you I’m cooking for one, not two Got no other half And no bloody staff So what is a girl to …
