Tag Archives: conflict

Ukraine ‘on the menu’ ?

Posted on August 9, 2025 by borderslynn

From a Ukrainian viewpoint, Lev Parnas writes (on Substack); And I ask: Is a newly broken America on the Putin menu too?

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged broken America. mob, conflict, corruption, Europe, fossil fuels, gangsterism, petro-funds, tariff- game, ukraine, war | Leave a comment

Growing consensus on Gaza

Posted on July 20, 2025 by borderslynn

Read the full interview at: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/17/omer_bartov I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It”: Prof. Omer Bartov on the Growing Consensus on Gaza StoryJuly 17, 2025

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Restacked on Substack: America once promoted its ‘melting pot’ of well integrated Americans, drawn from across the world. Now we have the “Big Beautiful Bill” which heralds a windfall for ICE (not the UK’s Institute of Civil Engineers, but America’s … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged asylum seekers, climate change, conflict, cruelty, detention centres, global migration, government gangs, inhumane, migrants, terror, war, white supremacy | Leave a comment

Iraq and Seduction by Delusions

Posted on July 5, 2025 by borderslynn

I was watching an old, rare archive piece of film, introduced by Christopher Hitchens, which appeared to show Saddam Hussein asserting his control over the Ba’ath Party, sorting loyalists from covert opposition at a conference. Hitchens was referring to a … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged americanisation, British rule in Iraq, conflict, corruption, culture, intervention, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi Jews, mandates, middle east, muslim, nationalism, oil, regime change, Saddam Hussein, shia, sunni, war, wealth | Leave a comment

Technological progress could have saved the planet

Posted on June 15, 2025 by borderslynn

I never knew, until I read Kara Swisher’s ‘Burn Book’, that Al Gore, when senator of Tennessee, played a key role which birthed the Internet. As a senator from Tennessee, Gore crafted and pushed through the “High Performance Computing and … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged CFCs, climate change, conflict, fertilisers, fish supply, fossil fuels, HCFCs, human flaws, human inventions, innovations, Internet invention, nuclear weapons, ozone layer, rocket fuels | Leave a comment

Humanity with and without Empathy

Posted on June 8, 2025 by borderslynn

If you are fortunate to have been born with a neurotypical brain, you will have developed empathy, an important component for interacting with other life forms, sensing what they might be thinking, using an amazing set of tools provided by … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged activism, artificial intelligence, bravery, conflict, dismantling of institutions, Empire, exhaustion, fear, human rights, humanity, journalism, lawmakers, media, persecution, semantics, speaking truth to power, technology | Leave a comment

Gulag mentality

Posted on May 16, 2025 by borderslynn

It is sad, but true. The Gulag horrors are being expanded in Russia. Innocent civilians from Ukraine are suffering there. Out of our sight, out of reach from their suffering families. Pain radiates out from their locations and maybe you … Continue reading →

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Blue collar or white collar? Is it universal?

Posted on August 17, 2024 by borderslynn

https://www.payscale.com/career-advice/salary-comparison-blue-collar-white-collar/ Reading the above, created in 2009, it is interesting to see their comparisons of salaries. This was as the world was trying to recover from the sub prime mortgage risk lending catastrophe which resulted in a global financial crisis. … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged blue collar, careers, conflict, education, fulfilment, middle class, occupation, opportunity, oppression, poverty, salaries, trades, training, upper class, wealth, white collar | Leave a comment

Poisonous Words spread by Elon Musk inciting hatred and violence

Posted on August 8, 2024 by borderslynn

We in Britain are proud of our tradition of welcoming and including immigrants in our society. The world has seen, through media outlets, how some poisoned hearts and minds have used social media to attack the fair and just immigration … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged asylum seekers, billionaires, Britain, community, conflict, criminal behaviour, Elon Musk, far-right, fear, Government, hate, hate crimes, immigrants, laws, love, mobs, murder, one percent, playing God, police, protection, protest, Starmer, thugs, violence, war, wealth, welcoming migrants | Leave a comment

Finite Resources: land grabs – is it all about oil?

Posted on December 30, 2023 by borderslynn

As we humans covet what fossil fuels still lie in the ground, we literally battle to obtain them, no matter what doom laden messages COP28 might proclaim about incurring a planet on fire. Apparently we are now ‘transitioning’ away from … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged banking investments, Chevron, climate change, conflict, death and destruction, demand and supply, fossil fuels, genocide, human greed, human rights, industry, inhumanity, mediterranean, murder, oil extraction, plastic, refining applications, scandal, Shell, war, warming planet | Leave a comment