Category Archives: Fighting your Adversary

Shakespeare on the Growing Suspicions about 9/11

“Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne’er so tame, so cherish’d and lock’d up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.” (King Henry IV, part 1, act 5, sc. 2) Comment. Almost 12 years after the event, we should think that Read More

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Shakespeare and Useless Expectations on Education and Everything Else

“…the raven doth not hatch a lark” (Titus Andronicus, act 2, sc.3) Comment. Comes a point when whatever is said (on the current national-international conditions) terribly sounds as deja-vu, or to be more accurate, deja-dit, not only by the  redactor of this site but by just about everyone else. Take the case of the so-called Read More

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Shakespeare on Improbable Fiction and Incredible Reality

“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” (Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 4) Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the one to whom the Pope said in person, “Thank you for helping to keep the world safe” (!!! – see blog of Jan 20, 2013 or search for Read More

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Shakespeare on Murder as a Game

“… And look upon, as if the tragedy Were play’d in jest by counterfeiting actors” (King Henry VI, part 3, act 2, sc. 3) Comment.  As they say and as the picture shows, the wheel has come full circle – killing virtual people with a video game has turned into killing real people with a Read More

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Shakespeare on King who had a dream and Obama who has a drone

IAGO. Will you hear me Roderigo? RODERIGO. Faith, I have heard too much; for your words and performance are no kin together. (Othello, act 4, sc. 3) Martin Luther King is a cultural icon who, these days, must be used sparingly by the apparatkit. Obama did not mention him in the original inauguration speech. It Read More

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Shakespeare on Anger and Rampant Injustice

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, Or else my heart concealing it will break.” (Taming of the Shrew, act 4, sc. 3) Few people know about Lynne Stewart, as the corporate media is adroitly quiet about such scandals, while busy to publicize sex gossip and to advertise horror shows, pills and junk Read More

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Shakespeare, Murder, Anniversary of Wounded Knee, Freedom and Democracy

“Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural” (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 5) Comments. Dec 29 is the 122nd anniversary of the Massacre of Wounded Knee. The story has not been forgotten among what remains of the American Indians. It is interesting to read what the then Read More

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Shakespeare on Courage and Julian Assange’s Christmas Message

“Courage mounteth with occasion: Let them be welcome then, we are prepared.” (King John, act 2, sc. 1) Comments. Of the many forthcoming or already pronounced “Christmas” messages, the truest to the spirit of the season and the temper of the times comes from Julian Assange, holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy, besieged by the Read More

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Shakespeare on Europe’s Shameful Slavery to the Empire

 “I thought ye would never have given out these arms till you had recovered your ancient freedom: but you are all recreants and dastards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility” (King Henry VI part 2, act 4, sc. 8) Comments. The Obama administration has already declared war on Syria, even if it Read More

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Shakespeare on Confusion, Law, Terrorism and Terrorist Experts

 “… confusion’s cure lives not In these confusions.” (Romeo and Juliet, act 4, sc. 5) Comments. Sometimes interesting revelations are found when and where they are least expected – in the instance by the ruling by the New York Court of Appeals, in the criminal case of People v. Edgar Morales, last week. Morales, after Read More

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