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 […]
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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 […]
Steve McAuliffe Writing
News, Articles and Opinion The Silencing of the Lambs: William Blake, Elite Child Abuse and New Jerusalem On Liberty and Dissent Poetry On Poetry Silence Like A Roar Create Your Own System Liberty Death of a Vampire Rejecting Soma BLOOD MOON Vampire Limousine Fiction and Satire Blake’s Wake Chequers: Last Days of May My […]
Neil Scott Writing
News, Articles and Opinion Videodrome Looking Back Tracks of my years Bits of kids Club Trumpicana Tweet for a Fairer World! Sinéad O’Connor…My Danny Boy Why Tracey Ullman, Blackpool, and I ruined utopia Weesht for Indy – Not Being Wrong… Being Wrong 2: The Irrational in Politics…Who Makes the Tea? Downfall Redux […]
Amber Poppitt Writing
News, Articles and Opinion Racism in the UK Trump What Does Pride Mean to Me? Acknowledging the Big Picture
Racism in the UK
“We’ve had enough of your kind, take that off your head or join Isis”. These were the words spat at 20-year-old Hannah Moustafa by an angry elderly gentleman earlier this month. His “reasons”? She was wearing a hijab. Nothing more. In may of this year, Daniel Way, 37, was found guilty of racially aggravated assault […]