Monthly Archives: November 2023

Part 3. Truth, the first casualty of war. It has long been a cliche that the first casualty of any war is the truth. This cliche applies to much more than military wars, but certainly military and civil wars contain … Continue reading →

Part 2. Elite interest quickly dissolves elite integrity. That sordid reality mentioned at the end of Part 1, is the fact that elite, self-interested commitment to having a share in the available and potential profitable resources of the globe is … Continue reading →

Part 1. Nationalism versus Humanity. For most working people, the dream of a benign nationhood has long been over. It now also looks as if it is over for the people of Palestine. The abstraction ‘nation‘ has always hidden far … Continue reading →

Two events in Ukraine and Palestine have come to dominate the year 2023, in the form of invasions of territory by powerful armed forces. Both have contained numerous instances of what can be defined as crimes against humanity. Both these … Continue reading →

Part 3. Stuck-in-the-box solutions. Unfortunately, a degree of intellectual confusion and even bankruptcy extends to the left in most of its reformist and anti-capitalist shades. The best solution to the Israel Palestine problem that can be suggested by those on … Continue reading →

Part 2. The dehumanisation of humans. There is a long history of hierarchical mass society elites using concepts borrowed from the world of other life forms to dehumanise human opponents so as to avoid accepting the truth of their intention … Continue reading →

Part 1. Recent History. In the last one hundred plus years there have been many crimes against humanity (civilians targeted and collective punishments) perpetrated on an extremely large scale. However, only five instances of them have been conducted on a … Continue reading →