When you see death more than one time
When you lose all your memories, life and friends
Continue readingWhen you see death more than one time
When you lose all your memories, life and friends
Continue readingLaws are made by people
And people can be wrong
Once unions were against the law
But slavery was fine
Women were denied the vote
While children worked the mine
The more you study history
The less you can deny it
Say a rotten law stays on the books
‘Til folks with guts defy it
___Tal Mitnik, 2023
Most of us are blessed to enjoy the safety from freedom. We get up to follow our routines, we go to sleep hoping to wake up the next day, nicely relaxed inside our safe homes.
Continue readingI grant you and the little ones refuge,
the little ones now asleep like chicks in a nest.
They don’t walk in their sleep toward dreams.
They know death lurks outside the house.
__ Hiba Abu Nada. Palestinian poet, novelist, and teacher killed by israel’s air strike, at Gaza, Oct10th, 2023
Protean Magazine published this translation of “I Grant You Refuge”, one of the last compositions by the Palestinian poet.
By Ramzy Baroud
15 Nov 2015
“Then they came for the French, a day after they blew up the Lebanese, and few days after the Russians, and before that the Turks and the Kurds, and during all of that the Syrians and the Iraqis. As for the Palestinians, they are murdered in installments. Continue reading
The role of the US hegemony is over. Washington no longer controls the world by charm and force. It’s a multipolar planet with countless centres of power. Wouldn’t this be something to celebrate?
In theory, yes. But then, all of a sudden, in a long session of the United Nations Security Council, an Australian from Sydney is appointed to the new position of head chief to manage an unruly earth. Unlike the Secretary General, this individual wields real power to bring change. Continue reading
– let’s help them to save their homes please…
I hope this image turns the world … Continue reading