“… And oft is seen the wicked prize itself(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
“If that the heavens do not their visible spirits(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
“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
Sit down awhile;(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
“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
“When beggars die, there are no comets seen;(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
“If circumstances lead me, I will find(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
“…O, forfend it, God,(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
“… Stars, hide your fires!(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
“The second property of an excellent sherris is, – the warming of the blood, which, before cold and settled, left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice: but the sherris warms it, makes it course from the inward to the parts extremes. It illumines the face: which, as a beacon, gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man to arms.”(King Henry IV, part 2., act 2, sc. 3)
Comment. In the first part of this long quote (see the article of March 27 – Shakespeare and the Medicinal Good Effects of a Good Wine), Falstaff extols the power of wine to sharpen the wit. Today we would say that spirits contribute to the enhancement of natural, hidden or cultivated power of communication and audience empathy.
In the second part of the quote Falstaff expands Continue reading