Shakespeare and the Hard Road of Justice

Posted on May 14, 2013 by jimmie

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the world o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.“ … Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the world o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.”

(Hamlet, act 1, sc. 2)

Comment. A victory, or even a partial victory for justice are uneasy accomplishments in the age of unrestrained imperialism and unrestrained capitalism. Therefore the occurrence of even a partial victory is an occasion for celebration. And, as King Philip of France would say,

“To solemnize this day, the glorious sun
Stays his course, and plays the alchymist;
Turning, with splendour of his precious eye,
The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold.” (King John, 4,3)

A Guatemalan court has sentenced former US-backed Guatemalan dictator Continue reading →

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Shakespeare, Assange and How to Purchase a Coup d’Etat

Posted on May 10, 2013 by jimmie

In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft is seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law.“…  And oft is seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law.”

(Hamlet, act 3, sc. 3)

Comment. Julian Assange is a prisoner in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Meanwhile governmental agencies from various “democratic” countries are deploying a vast array of resources to destroy Wikileaks and to arrest its founder, the said Julian Assange. Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and Zionism

Posted on May 6, 2013 by jimmie

It will come, Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep“If that the heavens do not their visible spirits
Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,
It will come,
Humanity must perforce prey on itself,
Like monsters of the deep.”

(King Lear, act 2, sc. 2)

Comment. The relentless and continuous crimes of the Zionist state cannot but excite the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind is not totally darkened by religious or racial prejudice.

Albert Einstein, for one, wrote extensively about Palestine, Israel, Zionism and Judaism. And he said, “The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi [way of living] with the Arab people.” Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and the Extreme Madness of Imperialism

Posted on May 3, 2013 by jimmie

Mad world! mad kings! mad disposition!”“Mad world! mad kings! mad disposition!”

(King Lear, act 2, sc. 2)

Comment. Some visitors of this web-site may have already viewed the horrifying and tragic video of the military Boeing 747 that crashed after take-off in Afghanistan.  The plane was loaded with (4) armored vehicles that were to be flown to Dubai, the destination of the flight. It appears that the load of the armored vehicles suddenly shifted, altering beyond recovery the flight attitude of the plane. The video (link at ‘image source’ below), should be viewed in somber thought towards the victims and their families – but it should be also viewed as a macro-example of the bottomless wastefulness of imperialist wars. Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and the Suspension of Belief

Posted on April 29, 2013 by jimmie

Sit down awhile; And let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our story…Sit down awhile;
And let us once again assail your ears,
That are so fortified against our story…

(Hamlet, act 1, sc. 1)

Comment. There is a common theme in American history that is impossible to ignore and it affects the most extraordinary events. Namely, the nation has the most state-of-the-art, expanded, expensive, capillary,  massive, ubiquitous security, police, intelligence and military apparatus in the world. And yet macro-disasters and assassinations occur because the agencies involved with the apparatus have “failed to connect the dots”. A notion that, rather than a  metaphor, has become an indictment of the gullibility of those who believe it. It started with Kennedy, assassinated Continue reading →

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Shakespeare, Thatcher, Chavez,Two Funerals and One Abyss

Posted on April 26, 2013 by jimmie

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”

(Hamlet, act 4, sc. 3)

 

Comment. Nothing can better represent the chasm, the divide, the dichotomy and the abyss between the classes of the 1% and of the 99%  than the difference between the  funerals of Margaret Thatcher and Hugo Chavez.

Thatcher was honored with the same pomp, circumstance and ceremony as Winston Churchill, almost 60 years ago. But the British public supported Churchill’s farewell ceremony. He had been the leader a national unity government at a pivotal point of XXth century history. In contrast, Continue reading →

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Shakespeare, Boston, Texas and a Tale of Two Tragedies

Posted on April 23, 2013 by jimmie

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes“When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes”

(Julius Caesar, act 2, scene 2)

Comment. The April 15 bombing in Boston continues to dominate the American corporate media. The blasts killed three people and injured over 170.
However, a much more deadly explosion, the West Fertilizer Company in Texas on April 17 has virtually dropped out of the news. The blast killed 14 people and wounded 200, some critically. It destroyed 50 homes, made rubble of a five-block residential area near the plant and severely damaged a school and a nursing home.
The reason for the unprecedented state of siege imposed in Boston Continue reading →

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Shakespeare, the Boston Bombing and Truth, Hidden or in Plain View

Posted on April 21, 2013 by jimmie

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre“If circumstances lead me, I will find
Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
Within the centre.”

(Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2)

Comment. It is too early to know the whole story behind of the Boston bombing – if we will ever know. But from a minimally logical consideration, “it must follow as the night the day” that the massive pomp, circumstance, fanfare, ritual, pageant and grandeur of the “Homeland Security” apparatus has proven essentially useless.

The citizenry is routinely subject to sexual harassment in order to board a plane. But one Continue reading →

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Shakespeare, Indignation, Orwell, Doublethink, and Corporate Media

Posted on April 18, 2013 by jimmie

…O, forfend it, God, That in a Christian climate souls refined Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!“…O, forfend it, God,
That in a Christian climate souls refined
Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!”

(King Richard II, act 4, sc. 1)

Comment. To add adjectives to the Boston horror is useless. That beings supposedly human be capable of such an act voids the very meaning of humanity. Sociologically speaking, however, the event lends itself to some considerations. Continue reading →

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Shakespeare, Macbeth, Power, Greed, War on Drugs or War on the Poor

Posted on April 15, 2013 by jimmie

 Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires“… Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

(Macbeth, act 1, sc. 4)

Comment.  Deciphering the motives of the attitudes of men is as interesting as to determine the characteristics of a mineral or a plant.
To instill an attitude into the crowd, the “monster with uncounted heads”, assault it with an unending relentless repetition of a few words, irrespective of their topic significance. In this article we talk about the “war on drugs”, but it could well apply to the endless strings of advertising words whose very sound hides their true meaning, which is: Continue reading →

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