Tag Archives: war

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 | 1 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

Ralph Nader’s Perspective on Dec 2023 Israel-Hamas War

Posted on December 10, 2023 by borderslynn

I am reproducing this letter from: https://nader.org/2023/12/08/israeli-governments-war-crimes-enabled-defended-by-biden-congress Israeli Government’s War Crimes – Enabled & Defended by Biden & Congress Share on FacebookFacebook 𝕏Share on TwitterTwitter Share on RedditReddit Share on EmailEmail Share on PrintPrint By Ralph Nader December 8, 2023 … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged collective punishment, conflict, death, destruction, economics of war, human aggression, innocents, international law, land theft, mental illness, murder, occupation, perceptions, perceptions of power, savagery, war, war crimes, weapon sales | Leave a comment

The Eternal Economic Costs of War

Posted on November 14, 2023 by borderslynn

Look back in recorded history and see the financial costs of war. While some are in a position to profit, most are broken nations. The domino effect was summarized neatly for the resulting economic cost to many of WW1 in … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged conflict, devastation, diversity loss, do no harm, economics, empathy, extinction, fear, finite resources, Maslow, survival, war, WW1, WW2 | Leave a comment

Creating Enemies

Posted on August 22, 2023 by borderslynn

Commenting in The Indian Express on the shocking violence, clearly green-lit by the government, Pratap Mehta wrote: The targeting of enemies—minorities, liberals, secularists, leftists, urban naxals, intellectuals, assorted protestors—is not driven by a calculus of ordinary politics….When you legitimize yourself … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged arms sales, army training, conflict, cruel rhetoric, drowning, fake news, fascism, hate, hostility, inhospitable, lies, massacres, migrant deaths, Migration routes, misery, money generation, mythical histories, persecution, propaganda, security forces, torment, war, weapons | Leave a comment

Nader on War

Posted on August 15, 2023 by borderslynn

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Biden, costs, dilemma, exit plan, politics, Ralph Nader, Russian invasion, ukraine, uranium, war | Leave a comment

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