I hope Sweden resists NATO pressures.
Boris survived the Cambridge Analytica scandal of interfering with Brexit. His leadership style is to showboat & to dodge responsibility. But the UK is suffering thanks to him. Let him enjoy fiesta with his bros, away from where he can damage others.
Git Be Gone ! Take Your Antics Elsewhere.
US corporatists dropped promised social services, bankrolled expansionist military policies, and failed to mop-up dangerous domestic militias. These anti-democratic elements will erupt again. America's two-party nightmare breeds insecurity; without reform we'll get warfare.
War destroys. Leaders often escape punishment for war crimes & atrocities. It would be great if the United States ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Sanctions against Russia give leverage to global banks & conglomerates sniffing Profit from legal upset. War offers opportunity to some non-combatants.
This Spring in Red Square: Building deals to last decades, Oligarchs and sharks.
Good article on the US Federal Office of Price Administration and WWII rationing. Very interesting problems & solutions.
https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/ww2/Pages/services-rationing.aspx
At Time of War, rich brats hide at the rear; the poor get shot.
Not Just your average Joe?! Joe Manchin has 10 grandchildren. Joe Biden has four grandkids age 17-28. Rich Kids to the Front!
Feel good to yell at Putin? Easy to condemn others ... and ignore huge problems at home. US poverty, racism, and warmongering remain deadly.
Struggling with rising gas prices? Darren's pet chihuahua got a gold & diamond collar. Darren's smug ... as Darren sucks away your wealth...
"One outsider, pissing in ..."
Original, often strident essays
(more await added courage)
My poetry is written under the penname Genki 元気 meaning 'original spirit' or healthy/happy