Nassan Hazrallah the militant leader of Hezbollah (you would have thought it would be unnecessary to describe a Hezbollah leader as ‘militant’ really) has warned Israel that his group are ready for “open war” with Israel after the killing of one of it’s leaders in Syria. Imad Mughniyeh was killed in a car bombing in [...]
Archive for the ‘Non-Violence’ Category
Posturing and Threats, and who loses?
Posted in Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Non-Violence, Political, Violence, War on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The plain sick, The Woebegotten masses and the failure of imagination
Posted in Belief, Disillusion, Non-Violence, rant, Violence, tagged Feeling Miserable on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well folks looks like people are still at it, and when I say that I mean looking for peculiar things on the internet, this time the lucky phrase was ‘handicapped giving blowjobs’. De gustibus non est disputandum I guess and with that I’ll leave it well alone. Taking some time out last night and unable [...]
Nothing has changed
Posted in democracy, Non-Violence, Political, Violence, World on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of course it won’t, an abitrary deadline which should in some strange and indefinable way make everything new and cause the world to change certainly wouldn’t be one in which people drink themselves stupid and act like petulant children. The assassination of Benazir Bhutto on the 27th of December was what I had always viewed [...]
Debts unrepaid
Posted in Anti-War, Iraq, Non-Violence, Political, UK politics, Violence, War on November 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here in the UK we’re gearing up for Armistice day and Remembrance Sunday, and on most people you’ll see a poppy. Talking to the volunteer as I bought my Poppy I was reminded as I always am in such situations of what a difficult, dangerous and largely unappreciated job that service personnel actually do, and [...]
