It would be better Amnesty India remain silent & be thought cowardly than open its mouth in support of nationalist barbarism. For shame Amnesty. You have a mandate for human rights which you just pissed all over.
Daily Archives: July 25, 2016
On Debbie Wasserman Schultz: isn’t it fun to watch the powerful & corrupt fall with a thud? It makes a revolution so appealing.
The Democratic convention starts today & loath though I am to stoop to carnival for politics & entertainment, it may be necessary. After all I am running against them.
It isn’t fruitful for supporters of lesser evil politics & of Clinton to take umbrage at our differences & come campaigning for her on my wall. Believe me, I’m old enough to know–& if you’re over 10, you should be too–that there is no point in that except to whip up adrenalin. Why waste life energy on defending two-bit hacks?
My experience is that it’s only a few sentences before the denunciations & scurrilous accusations start & that’s when my trigger finger starts to twitch uncontrollably (this is Texas after all) & I hit the block button rather than blow your head off.
Saw this quote on Facebook: “I don’t give a fuck if you don’t like Hillary Clinton. Hold your nose & vote. There’s a Nazi at the gate.”
That’s what US politics comes to when too many ignore principles & vote expedience. US electoral “democracy” is ending with such bathos & a whimper when the fraudulence should be opposed with a roar.
Drumpf is elevating petulance to a political genre in a peculiar combination with fascist ideas. Clinton masks the same ideas behind sentimentality & love jive. The difference is only style. Otherwise it’s the usual shell game of two-party lesser evil politics.
Has the world abandoned Kashmir?
Social media is full of the reproach that the world or “international community” is turning a blind eye to the military siege in Kashmir. If by “world” one means the governments that sell armaments to India, those with lucrative trade deals with India, those with corporate investments in India’s neoliberal economy, then yes, the world is turning a blind eye.
If by world one means the UN or human rights groups like Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch, then yes, they’re no where to be found right now in exposing or denouncing the siege.
If by world one means human rights activists in India & around the world who are coming in large numbers to understand the character of India’s occupation & organizing forums & rallies against it, then no, something there has fundamentally changed in favor of justice.
As for that “international community” stuff, such a thing has never existed, especially since the hegemony of capitalism which is a competitive system recognizing no affinities between human beings if they cannot be exploited.
(Photo of Kashmir from Twitter; photographer unidentified)
Advise me if I should be paranoid: I successfully linked my Facebook posts to Twitter so I could save time. We don’t use the metaphor “kill two birds with one stone” on my wall since as a bird lover that would be just too damn ugly.
Most posts are transferring with no problem but my posts with photos, which now have to do with Kashmir, are not.
Any possibilities for a technical glitch? Or should I scream bloody murder about censorship?