Tag Archives: war

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

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged conflict, conscience, Gaza, genocide debate, immorality, inhumane, israel, jew, Palestinians, war | Leave a comment

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

Ukraine and God

Posted on June 29, 2025 by borderslynn

I am reproducing a Ukrainian essay which I found highly moving but also a lesson of how war can push you to your God, rather than push your belief away.

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aggression, beliefs, cruelty, faith, feeling alone, God, grief, hate, injustice, loss, love, pain, peace, sovereign state, suffering, ukraine, war | 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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged conflict, deportation, detention centres, Gulag, human rights, immigration hubs, innocent civilians, lawless behaviour, Pope Leo XIV, prisons, psychopathic behaviour, Russia, torture, ukraine, unsafe passage, war | Leave a comment

Survivors who lived in a large land mass

Posted on April 26, 2025 by borderslynn

Since the US is now running a tarrif trade war, mostly targeting China, it has been said that Xi told his people “eat bitterness” and that was interpreted as “absorb the pain”. It is well known, throughout the 5000 year … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1930s to 1940s, 2014 to present day, children, Gulag, law against 'others', Memorial (Russian civil rights group), orphans, Russia, Soviet Russia, Stalin, survival, trauma, ukraine, war | Leave a comment

Lambs to the Slaughter

Posted on November 14, 2024 by borderslynn

I am now reading Ronen Bergman’s book, ‘Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations’. It is an illuminating book. So much to learn about how we humans damage each other beyond repair until we yearn to … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged assassination, fear, hatred, hostility, loathing, love, mass murder, Nazis, Palestine, peace, retribution, revenge, Templers, torment, war, WW2 | 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

US: Social Democracy coinciding with Jim Crow

Posted on May 20, 2024 by borderslynn

In the US, after WWII, the way to peaceful coexistence between North and Southern States was to exclude any benefit to African Americans, despite their contribution during World War II. https://www.history.com/news/black-soldiers-world-war-ii-discrimination The Republican Right had been opposed to Franklyn D … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1918 to 1950s, Africa, African Americans, American Dream, apartheid, British, complicit in human harm, democracy, discrimination, exclusion, FDR, French, human rights, israel, Jim Crow, Jordan, Kant, League of Nations, left vs right, marginalising, Palestinians, peace, peace vision, polarization, populism, Republicans, socialist, subjugation, utopia, war, welfare state, white supremacy, WW1, WWII | 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