NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has called on members of the US-led military bloc to adopt a ’wartime mindset’ and significantly increase defense spending, citing supposed threats from Russia and other nations.
War profiteers in the military-industrial complex, politicians and press barons who invest in the war complex form a cartel to create conditions for war. In the meantime, a war psychosis in the population is created.
According to the International Press Institute (IPI), a total of 100 journalists were killed in 2010. This figure is only marginally lower than the previous year when 110 were slain. The year 2011 figures were much higher and have been soaring ever since with the deadliest zones being Jewish Occupied Palestine, Pakistan, Iraq and Libya.
The painting depicts an exhausted German soldier returning from war, resting his weary head in the lap of a young woman. She is portrayed as young, beautiful, and pure, symbolizing the personification of Germany.
A SHILLING FROM HIS PAY . When poppy seeds and sweetheart’s tears, Are falling till the May; Then who’ll replace the young men, Who have fallen in the fray? Will young men’s eyes be passion filled? Bright lit by lies absurd, Oh, what’s a young man left to […]
I SAW A YOUNG MAN WALKING . The youth I met today was old, A child of early times, Much water had passed under bridge, How oft’ those church bells chimed. One hundred or more years, I’d say, They stood at young man’s grave to pray, And yet […]
As Henry Labouchere, the 19th century English Liberal MP and outspoken journalist put it: “We are without exception the greatest robbers and marauders that ever existed on the face of the globe.
STRIKE AGAINST WAR: The little girl in this photograph is Ruby Crane. From the age of 3-years-old Ruby walked blind soldiers around a rehabilitation center called St Dunstan’s at Brighton in Sussex. Ruby’s Father was the head gardener. She knew they were blind and had recently returned from […]
THE FIRING SQUAD . Lost in time his mother’s words, When but an arms-held boy, Remembered sweet the lullabies, That brought the infant joy. . The years of boyhood, river stream, Wherever youth will pause and dream, To pen their true love’s sweet word verse, As posies fall […]
ONCE BITTER FOES . Companions now, once bitter foes, Sleep together, friends, Destiny and Fate conspired to bring to bitter ends. Men who once were bitter foe, Struck to earth by a mortal blow, By men whom they might never know, But comrades once again. In slumber how […]
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