This piece originally appeared on Neil’S personal blog Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, is a strange read and it is so for a number of reasons, not least being the fact that it was published in 1888 and is about the socialist utopia the writer envisages for the 20th century. In it he predicts […]
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Sleepwalking to the Abyss
This piece originally appeared on Allan’s website 2016 has been some year so far. A year in which Scotland once again failed to qualify for an international football tournament and 2 months into the new qualifiers already look out of the next one. A year which every celebrity is wondering if they will […]
Remember Ronald Reagan
Remember when Ronald Reagan opened his presidential campaign at the Neshoba County Fair, in the same community in which the three civil rights workers were murdered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1963? Remember when the week before Super Tuesday Ronald Reagan gave a “tough on crime” speech in Stone Mountain, […]
Chuck Hamilton Writing
News, Articles and Opinion Rise Up And Abandon The Creeping Meatball Remember Ronald Reagan Bisexuality, From A Bisexual Jesus – Guilty as Charged The Union Is Dissolved (Or Soon Will Be) The Meaning of Life, Part 1: Cosmic Perspective The Meaning of Life, Part 2: Ain’t no Power In the ‘Verse The Meaning of Life […]
Rise Up and Abandon the Creeping Meatball
Remember what Jean Shepherd said about creeping meatballism being the passive acquiescence of people who surrender to the demands of the consumer culture and collaborate in their own manipulation? In the Great Satan back in the 1960s, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and three of their friends founded the counterculture-oriented Youth International Party whose slogan […]
Debra Torrance Writing
News, Articles and Opinion Peace pipes vs pepper spray Strong, Stable and Unavailable Plastic Pleurisy The G Word No Place Like Home -But Where is Home When You’re On Wheels? Plastic Pleurisy Part Poo Wonders of the Fair Pride Glasgow 2018 Stop telling women what to wear and how to look! Reviews Glasgow Festival Review […]
Peace Pipes vs Pepper Spray
So for a while now I’ve been watching events in Dakota unfold. Protests against a massive pipeline for crude oil to travel across the United States, Canada and First Peoples Nations. My brother had a girlfriend from Vancouver, she was from the Kwakwaka’wakw tribe and shared lots of great and wise stories with our family. […]
Derek Stewart Macpherson Articles
News, Articles and Opinion The Greatest Financial Scam of All Time Derek from Dublin Lest We Forget: the Clydebank Blitz The Hitchhikers’ Guide To The 2017 Local Elections Left, Right and Centre Power: A Winter’s Tale Ursula K. Le Guin – A Personal Tribute The Battle of Hawthorne Town Hall Stop. Seriously, just stop. Now!
The Greatest Financial Scam Of All Time
First published June 7th 2014 Well, somebody has to say it, so it might as well be me. Privatisation is very probably the biggest financial scam of all time. It dwarves anything else I can think of. LIBOR? Fiddling small change. The original Charles Ponzi? Amateur! There has been renewed talk of privatisation recently, […]
The Silencing of the Lambs: William Blake, Elite Child Abuse and New Jerusalem
Everything that is good and pure and noble, all the great music, art, and poetry will, in time, by necessity, be subverted and perverted by the self-serving so-called elites. For they see us merely as units to be exploited and kept in perpetual darkness. However, from time to time a great voice […]