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Monthly Archives: June 2014
SCOTUS Strikes Again
Well it was fabulous day for the right wing as the corporatist packed Supreme Court handed down a couple of more decisions designed to hurt real people and “protect freedom”. Right. The first case was Harris v. Quinn – the … Continue reading
St. Vitus Day – June 28, 1914
A re-post for the 100th anniversary Such a warm and pleasant Summer’s day for a leisurely ride on down the Quai the top was down on the Graft und Stift that glorious June St. Vitus Day Breezes ruffled feathers green … Continue reading
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Tagged 1914, a wrong turn, ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary, Auustria, Bosnia, coincidence, crossroads of history, death of millions, Dual Monarchy, gavrilo princip, Grand Duchess Sofia, Hapsburgs, history, poetry, Sarajevo, Schiller's Deli, Serbia, St. Vitus Day, unforeseen developments, world war I, world war II, wrong place wrong time
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Syrian / Libyan Refugees Head to Sicily
Sicily and the off shore island of Lampedusa have been on the receiving end of a massive influx of refugees fleeing the chaos in Libya, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Syrian war. Last Saturday alone more than 1,800 were rescued by … Continue reading
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Tagged boat people, exodus, Germany, Italian navy, Italy, Libya, mare nostrum, refugees, Sicily, SPAR, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sutera, Sweden, syria
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Armed Resistance to Fascism – 1922
Guido Picelli – Leader of the Resistence The workers of Parma were socialists to the core; among them a sprinkling of anarchists, syndacalists, communists and the left wing Catholic Workers Party. In 1922 Fascism was delivering the counter-revolution, after two … Continue reading
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Tagged 1922, black shirts, counter-revolution, Farinacci, fascism, Guido Picelli, history, Italo Balbo, Italy, Mussolini, Parma, punitive expeditions, socialism, urban warfare, worker resistance
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And What About Syria?
So with ISIS on the scene (Islamic State of Iraq and SYRIA) why is no one talking of Syria? Is Syria not also under attack by ISIS extremists? Yes, I know Bashir el-Assad is a villain right up there with … Continue reading
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Tagged Bashir Assad, civil war, Ghadaffi, insurgency, Iraq, isis, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, lesser of two evils, Libya, Nouri al-Maliki, Saudi Arabia, Shia, Sunni, syria, Wahabists
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Quo Vadis?
Therefore we commit his body to the ground earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust And his tears fell like the rain as he embraced his wife and younger son touching his lips to the casket of his … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged bible church, closet, coming out, gay?, intolerance, loss, poetry, sorrow, suicide. teen gay suicide
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The Iraq War is Over! Did We Win??
(I originally posted this piece in October 2011. Geez I’m smart!) Ok. President Obama announced the the Iraq War is now officially over and our troops will be home for the holidays. Did we “win”? We did get … Continue reading
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Tagged "winning the war", Bathists, civil war, dismemberment, Hashemite King, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi Monarchy, Kurd, Lebanon, Ottomans, Palestine Mandate, Shia, Sunni, Sykes-Picot Treaty, syria, world war I
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The Rains Are Coming
The rains are coming to parched deserts washing away the foot prints of the invader. After the deluge all will be as if the foot prints never were. They lost lives, the invader a limb, a foot, an eye for … Continue reading
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Tagged all for nothing, casualties, Fallujah, insurgency, Iraq, Mosul, occupation, poetry, Ramadi, unwarranted war
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Wasting Lives and Making Enemies
Mosul So yesterday it was reported that “insurgents” in Iraq had seized control of Mosul – Iraq’s second largest city. They had already occupied Ramadi and Fallujah, two places where Americans died ousting the “insurgents” in the first place. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Alawite, casualties, destabilization, exceptionalism, Gulf states, insurgent financing, Iraq, Libya, lost wars, Mosul, new enemies, Saudia Arabia, Shia, Somalia, Sunni, unwinable wars, war cost, Yemen
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