Observations on the human condition
Last night, I was asked to join a conversation on PressTV about the expansion of the conflict beyond Gaza into Lebanon. This is an edit of my contribution to the discussion. PressTV 2024.09.26 Hezbollah launches new retaliatory attacks against Israeli targets (video 16 minutes 15 seconds) Ten days earlier, I was asked to comment on … Read more
I’ve been asked to participate in discussion of the atrocities in Gaza within the last few days. When participating is such discussions, I try to contextualise events and issues, to show that while at one level armed resistance is justified and understandable, conflict and killing will not save the Palestinians’ nor any others from abuse, … Read more
Vijay kindly reposted Gulag Academia on Twitter/X; I came across a “like” in my notifications while pondering how to frame this article. As explained in previous articles, we are in the midst of a paradigm shift of millennial proportions. I’ve been drawn into conversations with many who take their cue from mainstream narratives and find … Read more
On Tuesday, 30 April 2024, I was asked by Hidayat TV to contribute to an online discussion on the recent student protests in the US and Israel’s influence on UK politics. Perspective On Palestine – Israel (video 19 minutes 3 seconds)This is an edit of my contribution. For the full discussion with perspectives from other … Read more
Eddie sent this through today; it is well worth a read. For a growing number, the article’s assertion is irrefutable – we are lied to continuously. By the time reality reasserts itself and even possibly acknowledged in the media that formerly ridiculed or attacked those pointing to information that revealed the truth, the spectacle has … Read more
This is where we are… the transition KINGDOM – Animated Short Film (video 13 minutes 55 seconds)Can art reveal, transform, and inspire? What does it take to redeem a culture left in ruins?KINGDOM is an audio-visual experience that serves as a template for empowerment. It models the path of awakening in the face of adversity, … Read more
I’ve been quiet here for a while because my life has been through a bit of an upheaval since Maggie died in May last year, not least my being reluctantly hospitalised for a week with pneumonia in February. I’m now pretty much recovered and feel ready to re-enter the fray – i.e. able to write … Read more
Our overriding problem when discussing anything with most people, particularly within mainstream media, is that their psyches are informed by the wrong stories. This first video is my attempt to tell the real story behind the creation and expansion of Israel on Press TV’s Spotlight programme. I was asked why Israeli soldiers are willing to … Read more
I was asked to comment on the recent developments in Scottish and UK politics. Politics is theatre, a distraction, like most everything else that is put in front of us in both mainstream and alternative media, provoking excitement and consternation – fear – all round. We manifest what we focus on which is why our … Read more
How long will it take for sanity to return to the global collective of men and women? Scott, who I met recently at a local PHA health hub day, raised this question this in an email: “I was on a group call last weekend with awakened friends and we were discussing that it could take … Read more
Eddie sent the following video: when technology is upstream of culture…..James Corbett, Richard Grove (video 58 minutes 44 seconds)edit of Grand Theft World Podcast 055 | Take the Rhodes Pill November 21st, 2021 This threeway conversation between James Corbett, Richard Grove and Tony Myers struck me as very important on so many levels that I … Read more