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.

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.

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?

Often I am awed by the impressive human rights work & writings done by many activists among my FB friends. This important article is by Freny Manecksha titled “Lethal injuries from ‘non-lethal’ weapons” about India’s use of pellet munitions in Kashmir. Their use is so destructive, including to small children, that we must help educate far & wide about this monstrous human rights crimes.

Pellet guns are also used against protesters in Bahrain. If we don’t campaign to stop them in Kashmir & Bahrain you can count on it that they will be introduced as “non-lethal” weapons against protesters around the world. This really is an illustration that “an injury to one is an injury to all.”

This drawing is titled “Drifting” by Rollie Mukherjee. Whilst Kashmiris mourn their dead & tend to thousands seriously injured, our minds should never be far from them. Whilst they stand firm against the brutal occupation, we should never turn away a moment from standing with them nor especially be distracted from rendering solidarity.

Disappointed in Tim Kaine as Clinton’s running mate? Hoping for something more dynamic than another conservative hack? Wait till she appoints her cabinet & advisors.

When Obama was elected, I spent hours vetting the resumes of each of his appointees. They were, to a person, establishment, old-guard, reactionary minions of the ruling elite, beginning with Larry Summers. Wall Street all the way. And those will be Clinton’s choices also, as they were her husband’s before her, Bush’s, & Obama’s.

Presidents don’t run the US. They are not free agents. Their function is to administer the policies of the ruling oligarchy who like to remain hidden behind their minions so we think we really do live in a democracy.

Media is really trying hard to link Orlando, Nice, & Munich to “Islamic terrorism” but it’s very clear the gunmen were apolitical, socially isolated, depressed & deranged macho men into militarist gun culture.

A CBS report actually noted that the Munich mall was only a short distance away from the 1972 Olympics venue where Palestinians took Israeli athletes hostage. That’s like saying the Iraq war is 3,000 miles from my shoe laces. It’s a political non sequitur to identify derangement with terrorism & pretend it has nothing to do with militarism.

Fortress Earth: the dystopian, rightwing vision of security or what Drumpf proposes for “law & order.”

These half-baked advocates of open carry are patrolling the streets of Cleveland, Ohio with assault weapons during the Republican convention. Meanwhile thousands of schoolchildren, mothers with prams, people bustling to work go about their business unarmed.

Even as gunmen take to shooting & running down people in malls, schools, nightclubs, & public streets, is this the answer? Or is it possible to consider militarism & machismo gun culture as scourges to be addressed?

This is a section of the Israeli apartheid wall closing in the West Bank. The people in the scene are part of Netanyahu’s security personnel & entourage after a media briefing.

Curious thing about that apartheid wall: it only closes Palestinians in but not Israeli settlers out of the West Bank.

A similar version of this monstrosity crawls along the US border with Mexico. Drumpf wants it higher & more impenetrable. There are versions of this wall all over the world made of cement, razor wire, steel & monitored with drones, high-tech surveillance equipment & border guards. It’s become a planet of barriers between human beings & against human rights & democracy.