Revolution Evolution
‘Revolution is internal
Help yourself at anytime
Evolution isn’t over….’
From the song Raise The Knowledge by Gogol Bordello
When I think of the West, including Japan, let’s say the G8, excluding China, I think of devolution, which in biology is also called degeneration.
How else can we explain the state of apathy and ridicule we have sank in?
Take me for example.
I’ve been teaching French and English at a language school here in Tokyo since 1991. I’ve made it rule not to teach the police, the Self Defence Forces (the Japanese army) and the U.S. military. It’s the kind of money that I can do without. I am just a teacher here, I do not own the school. An Israeli does, a Zionist I think. We never talk about politics. He knows where I stand. To make my point one day I went to work with a Palestinian keffiyeh around my neck.
In the past few years there has been a steady increase and attendance by U.S. military personnel. Right now, there is a bunch of them coming to the school where I work to learn Chinese, Persian, Thai, Indonesian, Korean from North Korea and one young, 25, American soldier studying French…not with me of course.
En passant, right here there should be a conflict, a Zionist, a pro-Palestinian and a U.S. mercenary working together but no…we allow our capitalist democracies to absorb all these potential conflicts and turn ourselves into greedy whores.
Anyway, I kind of manage to avoid them, even saying hello bothers me. Since the school reception office is not that big, I do sometimes unfortunately have them in my face.
Now, to get back to the 25 year old Yankee. He was already here about 2 years ago. The other day, there he was on the balcony, where we can smoke, with his French teacher of Moroccan origin, chatting, laughing…I said hi and out of the blue this colleague of mine starts telling me how an exciting life the Yankee has had and…boom! He hits me by saying that the Yankee was also in Irak and Afghanistan…and since that day he brought it up himself several times…the Irak and Afghanistan adventures…sometimes even complaining about the heat and the noise of the five daily calls to prayer in Irak.
To be honest with you I feel disgusted, not only with him, but with myself for just standing there, smoking, smiling and even exchanging a few words with a criminal. Yes, a criminal!
“The U.S-U.K.-led war against Irak was illegal”
Kofi Annan
International Herald Tribune, Friday, September 17, 2004 (U.N chief calls Iraq war Illegal) The Associated Press, United Nations, New York.
So, if it’s illegal, it’s a crime and the despicable people who have taken part in it are criminals as well as all those who have acquiesced .
I do throw in a few sarcastic comments and I’ve made it pretty clear about my stance on the whole Irak/Afghanistan/U.S. criminal foreign policy issue, but that’s it…Being under the same roof with criminals frustrates me very much. Sometimes the Yankee has his French lesson in a classroom next to mine and I can’t focus on my student because I tend to eavesdrop. I tried to talk about this with the secretary at the school, expecting some/any kind of shock reaction but she just said, oh, well, being a soldier is just a job…But it’s not just a job! It’s not even a job…
Here in Japan they have had 3 main bogeymen since the end of WW2: Communism, North Korea and China. The Japanese government, through its keyboard, the mainstream media, has managed to instill such fear into the hearts and minds of the Japanese people, who in turn only too readily dived into the comfort of not thinking, that it’s impossible to have a reasonable debate.
Since 9/11, in the U.S. not in Chile, in order to be in line with the foreign policy of its master Uncle Sam, Japan has added another bogeyman to its list: Islam. Here is an article that will give you a rough picture of Japan’s attitude vis-à-vis its Muslim community:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20101109zg.html
North Korea, China, as well as Arabs, beside being government/media prop up bogeymen, are also an object of great ridicule, and not only among the Japanese but also Westerners.
Ridicule. Ridiculous.
Ridicule: Words or actions intended to evoke contemptuous laughter at or feelings toward a person or thing.
This is where the G8 comes in.
When it comes to ridicule, I believe that the joke should be on us, the ridiculous-dangerous-coward-anti-depressant/Viagra popping Western degenerates.
How dare we make fun of the rest of the world?
I mean, just take a look at this headline I saw the other day, front page, the Daily Yomiuri, Tokyo: Obama says China must respect international law.
Nobody is laughing…
Obama, the apostle of ridicule. He should get another Nobel Prize just for this.
I ain’t no fan of China but this…
He should tell this to the hooded prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
http://0.tqn.com/d/middleeast/1/0/w/7/-/-/abu-ghraib-torture-22.jpg
America, our dear leader.
Most people we make fun of live in our dictatorships and there isn’t much they can do about it. But we, in our democracies with all our freedoms, rights…what do we do about being robbed blind by mega-banks that suddenly crash and we, the little guy, are forced to bail them out? About the austerity plans, the welfare cuts, the pushing back of retirement age, the tripling of university tuition fees, environmental degeneration…and hundreds if not thousands of other daily humiliations? Nothing. What do we do about the fact that most of our dear leaders are liars, thieves, war criminals who have led us to commit and support the Supreme International Crime, the attack on Irak that so far has killed more than a million of Irakis for our oil, and numerous other wars of plunder? Nothing. What do we do about our democratic ridiculous mainstream media that bombard us daily with government-fabricated lies called news, mind-numbing programs, sport, sex and violence? Nothing
What else do we do beside demonstrating in the streets five minutes before our democratic bombs are about to rain on another country that possesses our natural resources? Nothing.
What do we do here in our psychopathic democracies about our unbridled capitalism that’s destroying everyone and everything on its highway to the ever mightier buck, the ever rising unemployment, poverty, misery and add to all this the annual 30 000 suicides here in Japan….what do we do about our whole democratic malaise? Nothing
What do we do when we are led to believe that the top threats to our Western values and our freedoms (to do nothing), Western (genocidal) civilization are Islam and immigrants or when French leaders, including one socialist, pass a law banning the veil in schools and the niqab in public out of concern for the happiness of barely 2000 Muslim women in France who are forced to cover themselves when outside but no concern at all for millions of women and girls throughout the world forced by our savage democratic capitalist system to uncover and sell their vaginas 24/7 on TV, Internet, the press sold in all major bookstores on every street corner of our beautiful democratic capitals, or here in Tokyo where I’ve seen a vending machine, in a residential area, selling used panties worn by high school girls? What do we do about all this? Nothing
What do we do with all those freedoms, rights, all that democracy, all those values that the West prides itself in, to make our world, or for that matter our rotting Western societies, a better place?
Nothing…nothing…nothing…nada
The best we have come up with is to blame Islam, immigrants, Iran, China, North Korea…and that is what makes us ridiculous…so ridiculous that it’s painful.
Ridicule. Ridiculous.
That’s the feeling I’ve had when saying hello, chatting, smiling, smoking with that Yankee who visited Irak and Afghanistan…
So here I am exchanging greetings with a criminal and working for a Zionist while at the same time being anti-American and pro-Palestinian. Why? Well, I guess I gotta eat. That’s one excuse. Having to eat is one thing. But making someone starve so that one could eat is another. And my example is pretty much what the great Western civilization is about. This is pretty much how it’s done. It is millions of daily actions like mine throughout the West, harmless at first glance, actions of accommodation, appeasement, cooperation with capitalism that grease the wheels of our genocidal capitalism. And as long as we continue like this, all we’ll ever be is…ridiculous by pretending otherwise.
All our values, our democracy, our freedoms are drenched in blood. All the comforts and material wealth enjoyed by the peoples in the West and here in Japan are owed to their acquiescence to their governments’ murder and plunder of the rest of our world. And whatever is called the Left in the West, content with paper protests and playing riskless politics, is a joke.
My point is that there cannot be any accommodation, any compromise with our capitalist democracies. They have to be sabotaged from within by us with actions not words. We have to derail our capitalist train that we are on. We, on the left, gotta stop hiding behind our endless so-called organizing. Acts of sabotage can be carried out by individuals.
We have to carry out daily little individual revolutions.
The other day my brother was telling me about this article by Slavoj Zizek in which he writes how Western intellectuals want a revolution…but not here, not in their countries. They’d rather have it in Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela…
Our capitalist economies, our fake and murderous democracies must be crippled All most of us have been doing so far is greasing the wheels of our Western capitalism with our hypocrisy and with the sweat of millions of women, men and children throughout the world….or we can continue to be ridiculous.
In Iraq, children are looking towards
the night sky with fear, as though
there were no stars, only bombs in the cosmos.
And they are afraid of the earth because
they can count the cancers in their
hoods now, where once there were none.
On the brink of…..by Suheir Hammad, Palestinian poet
Brkic Sulejman
21/12/2010
http://thinklearnact.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
for sarkozy from Gogol Bordello
For sarkozy from Gogol Bordello
Yo sarko ! this is for you, you idiot hobbit!
Just because I come from Roma Camp up the hill
They put me in the school for mentally ill
Ho pa ho pa di ri da
All them lies about Roma
Just because I do refuse to take your pill
Any road I take leads to the Bastille
Ho pa ho pa di rid a
All them lies about Roma
You love our music
But you hate our guts
I know that you still want me
To ride in back of the bus
Opportunities for me
Is a red carpet to hell
But I’m a Roma wunderking
I’m gonna break the…
Break the spell
Break the spell
Break the spell
I’m gonna break the spell
Like a pro, I pack your dance floor
Yet you want me to come in and exit through back door
Ho pa ho pa di rid a
All the lies about Roma
You love our music
But you hate our guts
I know you still want me
To ride in back of the bus
Opportunities for me
Is a red carpet to hell
But I’m a Roma wunderking
I’m gonna break the…
Break the spell
Break the spell
Break the spell
I’m gonna break the spell
In average intelligence bureau on us they run big file
Average intelligence bureau sends Charlie Chaplin in exile
You always do the best what in your familia runs
And so we are original globetrotters with no guns
We came from Rajastan as non-militant travelers
The time in Byzantium made us even more advanced
And at the end I gotta say
To conclude our little study
One thing about them Gypsies, they never bored nobody
You love our music
But you hate our guts
We know all about you
You don’t know thing about us-no!
Opportunities for me
Is a red carpet to hell
But I am Roma wunderking
I’m gonna break the…
Break the spell
Break the spell
Break the spell
Break the spell
Break the spell……
Break the Fuckin spel!!
Here you go sarko, tough guy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJlPG8lsYY0
Brkic Sulejman
8/12/2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
THE COVE
The Cove
The Cove is a 2009 American documentary film that describes the annual killing of dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama, in Japan from an anti–dolphin-hunting campaigner's point of view. The film highlights the fact that the number of dolphins killed in the Taiji dolphin hunting drive is several times greater than the number of whales killed in the Antarctic, and reports that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year in the country's whaling industry. The migrating dolphins are herded into a hidden cove where they are netted and killed by means of spears and knives over the side of small fishing boats.
The film was directed by former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos. Portions were filmed secretly during 2007 using underwater microphones and high-definition cameras disguised as rocks.
The documentary won the U.S. Audience Award at the 25th annual Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. It was selected out of the 879 submissions in the category. On March 7, 2010, The Cove won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 82nd Academy Awards.
This piece is addressed to Louie Psihoyos, the Western media, particularly The Japan Times, to “activist” Ric O’Barry, the “Flipper” trainer-cum-activist who stars in The Cove and all of you Westerners with all your lofty feelings.
I live in Japan. I’ve lived here for 20 years. Japan is a country that harbors a war criminal: former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi. He has led Japan into the illegal war against Irak, alongside other Western vultures, notably the U.S.A. and the U.K.
The decision by President George W. Bush to go to war in Iraq was ILLEGAL because it didn't have U.N Security Council approval, according to Secretary General Kofi Annan in an interview with the BBC World Service on Wednesday 15 2004. On Wednesday after being asked three times whether the lack of council approval for the war meant it was illegal, he (Annan) said:
" From our point of view it was ILLEGAL."
Q: It was illegal ?
Annan: Yes, if you wish.
Q: It was illegal ?
Annan: Yes, I have indicated it is not In conformity with the U.N Charter, from our point of view and from the Charter point of view it Was ILLEGAL.
International Herald Tribune, Friday, September 17, 2004 (U.N chief calls Iraq war Illegal) The Associated Press, United Nations, New York."
Of course nobody here thinks of him (Koizumi) as a war criminal. Instead of being in The Hague, he is prancing around freely…..just like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi and all the other partners in crime, members of the coalition of the willing (to kill and plunder). The rape of Irak is barely in the mainstream media, Afghanistan even less. When it does make the news it’s usually to tell us about U.S. soldiers suffering from PTD or some other Western casualty .
I read a daily (anesthetic) called The Japan Times. The other day, Tuesday 24, I came across, again!, an article, almost half a page (by Jay Alabaster, AP), about Taiji where The Cove was shot. There has been so much in the English language press, especially The Japan Times, about The Cove, the “slaughter” of dolphins, the “dark” secret of this little town, Taiji…..hell, the slaughter of dolphins got more attention than the slaughter of more than one million Irakis (so far) by the U.S.-U.K.-led coalition of the willing (to kill for oil). Some Japanese fishermen kill some dolphins and eat the meat. So what? What is the big deal?
I am sick and tired of this intentionally misplaced Western concern! Doesn’t the director of The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, have anything better to do? Anything more important to film? And this piece of crap got an Oscar….well, on second thought, it does deserve it…just think about it…Hollywood deciding what’s important in the world….it’s just like another piece of crap, The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow, about a team of deminers in Irak. The whole of Irak, hell, most of the world is a hurt locker, and all K. Bigelow can do is make a film about a bunch of Yankees disposing of land mines in and around Baghdad that are there because of them in the first place!
How much longer will this deliberately misplaced Western concern go on? The majority of people in the world live in abject misery caused by the capitalist economic policies of the West and some dolphins, whales and a bunch of Yankee criminals turned into victims get more attention! Hello?! The West! Do you need more September 11ths, more trains blowing up in Madrid, more buses blowing up in London…to pay attention to the people that you slaughter and plunder around the world to preserve your comfort. Hello?! Louie Psihoyos! You, as an American, living in the country that has been the greatest purveyor of violence on Earth since its inception, shouldn’t you be concerned with at least the misery in your own country if you don’t give a damn about the misery in the world caused by your country??
Dolphins?? Who cares??
I don’t! Eastern Europe doesn’t! Africa doesn’t! The Arab world doesn’t! Asia doesn’t! So, who is left to (pretend to) care about some dolphins in some Taiji? So, who is left?
Again the same people, the white Anglo-Saxon god-fearing middle class Christian with his/her lofty feelings of self-satisfying compassion.
Why don’t you Louie Psihoyos with your secret, high-tech, waterproof, mini cameras film secretly the arrogance of war criminals such as Bush, Blair, Koizumi, Berlusconi, Aznar et al.? Or the daily oppression in the lives of the Chechens, Palestinians, Sudanese, Irakis, Kurds, the Indians in U.S. concentration camps, the 25 000 people dying daily of hunger, the child prostitutes, the child soldiers….and so on and on and on. Don’t tell me you didn’t have a choice. You actually chose dolphins over millions of people literally dying to be heard and seen…..you have the means, the time and obviously the dedication but all misplaced!
No one can imagine how much attention and space this whole dolphin and whale business got in the press here in The Japan Times. But what can we expect from the cowardly mainstream media? And, Louie, with that misplaced interest of yours in Japan, shouldn’t you be focusing on the “peace loving” Japan, the Japan that has renounced war and yet taken part in the supreme international crime, the attack on Irak, led by your country, America? What is this obsession with dolphins? It’s typical of the Western white man and woman. The most recent article, the one I mentioned here above, is about the annual dolphin hunt that’s about to start in early September. It says that the waters of the cove in Taiji will turn blood red. The whole of Irak and a large part of the world has turned blood red or no color at all due to the savage capitalist economic policies of the sensitive West. It also says that, and this is a good one, while for the people in and around Taiji dolphins can be playmates, they are primarily seen as big game animals, a perception many foreigners find difficult to stomach.
Again, who are these foreigners? I am a foreigner. Who are these sensitive souls with sensitive stomachs who care more about dolphins than people? I am not one of them, my brothers are not among them, my friends here in Tokyo from Palestine, Irak, Burundi, Yugoslavia, Russia, Lebanon, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia….are not among those foreigners with sensitive stomachs. The slaughter of dolphins in Taiji has been getting more attention than the Israelo-Western starving of Palestinians in Gaza or the 9 Turkish activists trying to enter Gaza to bring humanitarian aid to the Palestinians in Gaza who were killed by a demented Israeli commando.
I have eaten whale meat on several occasions. It is delicious. There is a very good restaurant in Shibuya-ward, Tokyo, that serves whale meat. Unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to try dolphin meat yet.
Hey, Louie Psihoyos, are you gonna show your pathetic little documentary to the U.S. troops in Irak to cheer them up? How about showing it in Chechnya, Gaza, Sudan, Srebrenica, Angola, Sierra Leone, the Congo, Cambodia, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Salvador, Kurdistan, Albania, Yemen, Somalia, East Timor, Pakistan, Haiti…or to all the slums and all the sweatshops all over the world, products of sensitive Western capitalism? Are you gonna send a copy to Aung San Suu Kyi, Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal, Abdullah Ocalan, Marwan Barghouti, Leila Zana….? See if they care. And please, Louie Psihoyos, if you do show The Cove in one of these places say, Irak, after the viewing in Baghdad or Fallujah you should do the Q and A thing. I am sure the people of Irak have lots of questions about the little town of Taiji and its dark secret.
You, Louie Psihoyos, and the foreigners (Westerners) who “care”, who are “shocked”, who can’t stomach the slaughter of poor little, cute, intelligent dolphins but who can stomach your governments’ slaughter of poor little, cute, intelligent Iraki children and plunder of the whole world…you are a bunch of pretenders, the typical middle class empty Westerner, pseudo activist, in search of some spiritual connection, climbing Mount Everest, traveling to Nepal and Tibet to get wasted, in love with the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Gandhi, M.L. King but not with Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the Hamas, the Iraki Resistance, the IRA, Chavez, Morales, the Maoists in Nepal……Playing it safe, aren’t you? Hug a tree, hug a dolphin, join Amnesty, organize end poverty concerts, sing we are the world we are the children…..do your best to avoid confronting the real problems in our world caused by your governments’ criminal capitalist economic policies and your greed. You hypocrites!
To an Iraqi infant by Sinan Antoon
do you know
that your mother's nipples
are dry bones?
that her breasts
are bursting
with depleted uranium?
do you know
that the womb's window
overlooks
a confiscated land?
do you know
that your tomorrow
has no tomorrow?
that your blood
is the ink
of new maps?
do you know
that your mother is weaving
the slowness of her moments
into an elegy?
And she is already
mourning you?
don't be shy!
your funeral is over
the tears are dry
everyone's gone
come forward!
it's only a short way
don't be late
your grave is looking
at its watch!
don't be afraid!
We'll arrange your bones
which ever way you want
and leave your skull
like a flower
on top
come forward!
your many friends await
there are more every day
. . .
your ghosts
will play together
come on!
Brkic Sulejman 2/9/2010
The Cove is a 2009 American documentary film that describes the annual killing of dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama, in Japan from an anti–dolphin-hunting campaigner's point of view. The film highlights the fact that the number of dolphins killed in the Taiji dolphin hunting drive is several times greater than the number of whales killed in the Antarctic, and reports that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year in the country's whaling industry. The migrating dolphins are herded into a hidden cove where they are netted and killed by means of spears and knives over the side of small fishing boats.
The film was directed by former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos. Portions were filmed secretly during 2007 using underwater microphones and high-definition cameras disguised as rocks.
The documentary won the U.S. Audience Award at the 25th annual Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. It was selected out of the 879 submissions in the category. On March 7, 2010, The Cove won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 82nd Academy Awards.
This piece is addressed to Louie Psihoyos, the Western media, particularly The Japan Times, to “activist” Ric O’Barry, the “Flipper” trainer-cum-activist who stars in The Cove and all of you Westerners with all your lofty feelings.
I live in Japan. I’ve lived here for 20 years. Japan is a country that harbors a war criminal: former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi. He has led Japan into the illegal war against Irak, alongside other Western vultures, notably the U.S.A. and the U.K.
The decision by President George W. Bush to go to war in Iraq was ILLEGAL because it didn't have U.N Security Council approval, according to Secretary General Kofi Annan in an interview with the BBC World Service on Wednesday 15 2004. On Wednesday after being asked three times whether the lack of council approval for the war meant it was illegal, he (Annan) said:
" From our point of view it was ILLEGAL."
Q: It was illegal ?
Annan: Yes, if you wish.
Q: It was illegal ?
Annan: Yes, I have indicated it is not In conformity with the U.N Charter, from our point of view and from the Charter point of view it Was ILLEGAL.
International Herald Tribune, Friday, September 17, 2004 (U.N chief calls Iraq war Illegal) The Associated Press, United Nations, New York."
Of course nobody here thinks of him (Koizumi) as a war criminal. Instead of being in The Hague, he is prancing around freely…..just like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi and all the other partners in crime, members of the coalition of the willing (to kill and plunder). The rape of Irak is barely in the mainstream media, Afghanistan even less. When it does make the news it’s usually to tell us about U.S. soldiers suffering from PTD or some other Western casualty .
I read a daily (anesthetic) called The Japan Times. The other day, Tuesday 24, I came across, again!, an article, almost half a page (by Jay Alabaster, AP), about Taiji where The Cove was shot. There has been so much in the English language press, especially The Japan Times, about The Cove, the “slaughter” of dolphins, the “dark” secret of this little town, Taiji…..hell, the slaughter of dolphins got more attention than the slaughter of more than one million Irakis (so far) by the U.S.-U.K.-led coalition of the willing (to kill for oil). Some Japanese fishermen kill some dolphins and eat the meat. So what? What is the big deal?
I am sick and tired of this intentionally misplaced Western concern! Doesn’t the director of The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, have anything better to do? Anything more important to film? And this piece of crap got an Oscar….well, on second thought, it does deserve it…just think about it…Hollywood deciding what’s important in the world….it’s just like another piece of crap, The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow, about a team of deminers in Irak. The whole of Irak, hell, most of the world is a hurt locker, and all K. Bigelow can do is make a film about a bunch of Yankees disposing of land mines in and around Baghdad that are there because of them in the first place!
How much longer will this deliberately misplaced Western concern go on? The majority of people in the world live in abject misery caused by the capitalist economic policies of the West and some dolphins, whales and a bunch of Yankee criminals turned into victims get more attention! Hello?! The West! Do you need more September 11ths, more trains blowing up in Madrid, more buses blowing up in London…to pay attention to the people that you slaughter and plunder around the world to preserve your comfort. Hello?! Louie Psihoyos! You, as an American, living in the country that has been the greatest purveyor of violence on Earth since its inception, shouldn’t you be concerned with at least the misery in your own country if you don’t give a damn about the misery in the world caused by your country??
Dolphins?? Who cares??
I don’t! Eastern Europe doesn’t! Africa doesn’t! The Arab world doesn’t! Asia doesn’t! So, who is left to (pretend to) care about some dolphins in some Taiji? So, who is left?
Again the same people, the white Anglo-Saxon god-fearing middle class Christian with his/her lofty feelings of self-satisfying compassion.
Why don’t you Louie Psihoyos with your secret, high-tech, waterproof, mini cameras film secretly the arrogance of war criminals such as Bush, Blair, Koizumi, Berlusconi, Aznar et al.? Or the daily oppression in the lives of the Chechens, Palestinians, Sudanese, Irakis, Kurds, the Indians in U.S. concentration camps, the 25 000 people dying daily of hunger, the child prostitutes, the child soldiers….and so on and on and on. Don’t tell me you didn’t have a choice. You actually chose dolphins over millions of people literally dying to be heard and seen…..you have the means, the time and obviously the dedication but all misplaced!
No one can imagine how much attention and space this whole dolphin and whale business got in the press here in The Japan Times. But what can we expect from the cowardly mainstream media? And, Louie, with that misplaced interest of yours in Japan, shouldn’t you be focusing on the “peace loving” Japan, the Japan that has renounced war and yet taken part in the supreme international crime, the attack on Irak, led by your country, America? What is this obsession with dolphins? It’s typical of the Western white man and woman. The most recent article, the one I mentioned here above, is about the annual dolphin hunt that’s about to start in early September. It says that the waters of the cove in Taiji will turn blood red. The whole of Irak and a large part of the world has turned blood red or no color at all due to the savage capitalist economic policies of the sensitive West. It also says that, and this is a good one, while for the people in and around Taiji dolphins can be playmates, they are primarily seen as big game animals, a perception many foreigners find difficult to stomach.
Again, who are these foreigners? I am a foreigner. Who are these sensitive souls with sensitive stomachs who care more about dolphins than people? I am not one of them, my brothers are not among them, my friends here in Tokyo from Palestine, Irak, Burundi, Yugoslavia, Russia, Lebanon, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia….are not among those foreigners with sensitive stomachs. The slaughter of dolphins in Taiji has been getting more attention than the Israelo-Western starving of Palestinians in Gaza or the 9 Turkish activists trying to enter Gaza to bring humanitarian aid to the Palestinians in Gaza who were killed by a demented Israeli commando.
I have eaten whale meat on several occasions. It is delicious. There is a very good restaurant in Shibuya-ward, Tokyo, that serves whale meat. Unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to try dolphin meat yet.
Hey, Louie Psihoyos, are you gonna show your pathetic little documentary to the U.S. troops in Irak to cheer them up? How about showing it in Chechnya, Gaza, Sudan, Srebrenica, Angola, Sierra Leone, the Congo, Cambodia, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Salvador, Kurdistan, Albania, Yemen, Somalia, East Timor, Pakistan, Haiti…or to all the slums and all the sweatshops all over the world, products of sensitive Western capitalism? Are you gonna send a copy to Aung San Suu Kyi, Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal, Abdullah Ocalan, Marwan Barghouti, Leila Zana….? See if they care. And please, Louie Psihoyos, if you do show The Cove in one of these places say, Irak, after the viewing in Baghdad or Fallujah you should do the Q and A thing. I am sure the people of Irak have lots of questions about the little town of Taiji and its dark secret.
You, Louie Psihoyos, and the foreigners (Westerners) who “care”, who are “shocked”, who can’t stomach the slaughter of poor little, cute, intelligent dolphins but who can stomach your governments’ slaughter of poor little, cute, intelligent Iraki children and plunder of the whole world…you are a bunch of pretenders, the typical middle class empty Westerner, pseudo activist, in search of some spiritual connection, climbing Mount Everest, traveling to Nepal and Tibet to get wasted, in love with the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Gandhi, M.L. King but not with Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the Hamas, the Iraki Resistance, the IRA, Chavez, Morales, the Maoists in Nepal……Playing it safe, aren’t you? Hug a tree, hug a dolphin, join Amnesty, organize end poverty concerts, sing we are the world we are the children…..do your best to avoid confronting the real problems in our world caused by your governments’ criminal capitalist economic policies and your greed. You hypocrites!
To an Iraqi infant by Sinan Antoon
do you know
that your mother's nipples
are dry bones?
that her breasts
are bursting
with depleted uranium?
do you know
that the womb's window
overlooks
a confiscated land?
do you know
that your tomorrow
has no tomorrow?
that your blood
is the ink
of new maps?
do you know
that your mother is weaving
the slowness of her moments
into an elegy?
And she is already
mourning you?
don't be shy!
your funeral is over
the tears are dry
everyone's gone
come forward!
it's only a short way
don't be late
your grave is looking
at its watch!
don't be afraid!
We'll arrange your bones
which ever way you want
and leave your skull
like a flower
on top
come forward!
your many friends await
there are more every day
. . .
your ghosts
will play together
come on!
Brkic Sulejman 2/9/2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
PALESTINE
PEACE IN PALESTINE : THE SOLUTION
On May 27, 2010, outside the Jewish Heritage Celebration Day event at the White House, the following exchange took place between Helen Thomas and Rabbi David Nesenoff:
Nesenoff: Any comments on Israel? We're asking everybody today, any comments on Israel?
Thomas: Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine. (laughs)
Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine.
Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine.
Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine.
Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine.
Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine.
Nesenoff: Oooh. Any better comments on Israel?
Thomas: (still laughing) Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land. It's not German, it's not Poland ...
Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land.
Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land.
Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land.
Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land.
Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land.
Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land.
Nesenoff: So where should they go, what should they do?
Thomas: They go home.
Nesenoff: Where's the home?
Thomas: Poland. Germany.
Nesenoff: So you're saying the Jews go back to Poland and Germany?
Thomas: And America and everywhere else. Why push people out of there who have lived there for centuries? See?
Nesenoff: Well, yeah, are you familiar with the, the history of that region and what took place?
Thomas: Very much. I'm of Arab background.
"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."
-- David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky's Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan's "Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.
“Jews came and took, by means of uprooting and expulsion, a land that was Arab…” Israeli Professor Ilan Pappe
Write down!
I am an Arab
You have stolen the orchards of
My ancestors
And the land which I cultivated
Along with my children
And you left nothing for us
Except for these rocks…
So will the State take them
As it has been said?!
Therefore!
Write down on the top of the first page:
I do not hate people
Nor do I encroach
But if I become hungry
The usurper’s flesh will be my food
Beware..
Beware..
Of my hunger
And my anger!
From the poem Identity Card by Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet.
Enemy by Langston Hughes
It would be nice
In any case,
To someday meet you
Face to face
Walking down
The road to hell...
As I come up
Feeling swell.
Brkic SULEJMAN
28/6/2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
THE DAILY ANESTHETIC
THE DAILY ANESTHETIC
“Hi-ho, this is Kermit the Frog here, reporting for the Sesame Street News.”
Kermit
I’ve lived in Japan for 20 years. I often read the daily The Japan Times or The Daily Yomiuri which is cheaper and worse….I’ve often wondered why I read them and I think it’s partly because they are fairly entertaining and to find out how much and what they are deliberately not saying.
I believe that the mass media is an accomplice of the capitalist system in crimes against humanity.
Above the name of the paper The Japan Times it says: ALL THE NEWS WITH(OUT) FEAR OR FAVOR.
“I don’t get it”
Bert of Sesame Street
Today, it’s Monday, April 19, 2010. The Japan Times has 16 pages.
I’ll start from the back.
Pp. 16, 15, 14 Sports.
P.13 is the TV page.
P. 12, the “opinion” page, the opinion page where you never see opinions by, say Arundhati Roy, Robert Fisk, John Pilger, N. Chomsky…or some labour union member, social justice activist, a single mother, a representative of the unemployed or the homeless….anyway, I think you get the picture of what I mean.
P.11, business insights, some article about the US, Swiss and UBS.
P.10, news analysis/topics, almost the whole page about the Vatican’s pedophiles and a much smaller piece on scientists and the Antarctic.
P.9 today is called American perspectives. There is an article about the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist church (half the page). And the other half is about journalists embedded with the US military (I told you it was fairly entertaining).
P.8…too is American perspectives, almost the whole page is about Florida’s governor Charlie Crist. The rest of the page is about N.Y. cops tackling terror in the tunnels.
“It’s good to shut up sometimes.”
Marcel Marceau
P.7, classified/ads
P.6, World
Iceland volcano/A new young king in Uganda/Poland (Kaczynski’s funeral)/Another article at the bottom about an American firm cashing in on bunker space for those anticipating apocalypse and on the side of the page, 3 in brief pieces: LBJ daughter may have rare disorder/US woman claims Powerball jackpot/Washington owes N.Y. library fees.
Pp. 5,4, World
A piece about Queen Noor al-Hussein of Jordan on getting rid of nuclear weapons/Ahmedinejad being ridiculed for asking the USA to ditch warheads first/Saudi Arabia planning center to develop nuclear renewable energy/Somalis fleeing radical Islamists/Iraqi al-Qaida starts using house bombs/Tea Party movement and Ross Perot (pretty big article)/Former US Rep.Eric Massa and his denying paying aide/Karzai on “reforming Afghanistan’s electoral system” (ha,ha,ha) and on the side again some in brief: white supremacists rally in L.A./Man shot at US border crossing/Discovery heading home from ISS/Advocates light up at marijuana expo.
“It’s not fair. It’s just not fair!”
Bert of Sesame Street
P.3, Asia Pacific
An article about a massacre that took place on Nov.23 of 57 people, among them 30 journalists, in the Philippines/The red shirts in Thailand/Something about an epic Polynesian voyage relived by descendents/Earthquake survivors in Tibet and in brief about a suicide bombing in Pakistan,/The reopening of an Aussie immigration detention center/A rare leopard spotted in Malaysia.
P.2, National
Japan falls fast from Obama’s list of priorities/A launching of a new political party in Tokyo/A missing Nepalese student in Fukuoka, Japan/Retailers gear up for 3-D TV launch by Panasonic/World expo song halted by plagiarism row/Cameraman slain in Bangkok honored at funeral/Medical procedures pitched to foreign tourists.
The front page
European flight ban stays among chaos (Iceland volcano)/Poles mass to lay president to rest/An article about the relocation of a US base in Japan/A piece about British Liberal Democrats.
Throughout the paper there are 12 advertisements of which one is on the front page, bottom right corner. It’s for a lecture. It says: A new civilization begins. The emergence of the World Teacher and the role of UFOs.
“Journalists are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.”
George Bernard Shaw
That’s it.
I picked today for no reason…it was random…there was no real need to think.
It’s pretty much the same everyday….shallow and hallow.
“The first law of journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.”
Alexander Cockburn
Is this information? Is this news? Do we feel informed? Does it make us think?
My picking The Japan Times was also random. They are more or less the same; empty, shallow and hallow. The Japanese dailies are even worse. It’s so empty that you actually start feeling as if there were something.
Most of the sources for and in the articles come from government officials, the police, people in some or other kind of power. Simply put, it hardly ever comes from a person who’s actually directly affected by the problem.
It is always some “expert” or “official” speaking for the person affected.
The “opinion” page (p.12) is all by men. There is (almost) never a woman.
“It’s not fair. It’s just not fair!”
Bert of Sesame Street
You will also notice the waste of space.
On Fridays this paper has 22 or 23 pages. The additional pages are all about art, films and more sports.
Anyway, it’s not only about what’s written in dailies of this kind. What really sticks out is what is deliberately omitted.
And that’s what makes of these dailies a muzzle owned by the rich and powerful for the voiceless, the ones who really need and have something important to say.
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
Joseph Goebbels
Brkic Sulejman
22/4/2010
“Hi-ho, this is Kermit the Frog here, reporting for the Sesame Street News.”
Kermit
I’ve lived in Japan for 20 years. I often read the daily The Japan Times or The Daily Yomiuri which is cheaper and worse….I’ve often wondered why I read them and I think it’s partly because they are fairly entertaining and to find out how much and what they are deliberately not saying.
I believe that the mass media is an accomplice of the capitalist system in crimes against humanity.
Above the name of the paper The Japan Times it says: ALL THE NEWS WITH(OUT) FEAR OR FAVOR.
“I don’t get it”
Bert of Sesame Street
Today, it’s Monday, April 19, 2010. The Japan Times has 16 pages.
I’ll start from the back.
Pp. 16, 15, 14 Sports.
P.13 is the TV page.
P. 12, the “opinion” page, the opinion page where you never see opinions by, say Arundhati Roy, Robert Fisk, John Pilger, N. Chomsky…or some labour union member, social justice activist, a single mother, a representative of the unemployed or the homeless….anyway, I think you get the picture of what I mean.
P.11, business insights, some article about the US, Swiss and UBS.
P.10, news analysis/topics, almost the whole page about the Vatican’s pedophiles and a much smaller piece on scientists and the Antarctic.
P.9 today is called American perspectives. There is an article about the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist church (half the page). And the other half is about journalists embedded with the US military (I told you it was fairly entertaining).
P.8…too is American perspectives, almost the whole page is about Florida’s governor Charlie Crist. The rest of the page is about N.Y. cops tackling terror in the tunnels.
“It’s good to shut up sometimes.”
Marcel Marceau
P.7, classified/ads
P.6, World
Iceland volcano/A new young king in Uganda/Poland (Kaczynski’s funeral)/Another article at the bottom about an American firm cashing in on bunker space for those anticipating apocalypse and on the side of the page, 3 in brief pieces: LBJ daughter may have rare disorder/US woman claims Powerball jackpot/Washington owes N.Y. library fees.
Pp. 5,4, World
A piece about Queen Noor al-Hussein of Jordan on getting rid of nuclear weapons/Ahmedinejad being ridiculed for asking the USA to ditch warheads first/Saudi Arabia planning center to develop nuclear renewable energy/Somalis fleeing radical Islamists/Iraqi al-Qaida starts using house bombs/Tea Party movement and Ross Perot (pretty big article)/Former US Rep.Eric Massa and his denying paying aide/Karzai on “reforming Afghanistan’s electoral system” (ha,ha,ha) and on the side again some in brief: white supremacists rally in L.A./Man shot at US border crossing/Discovery heading home from ISS/Advocates light up at marijuana expo.
“It’s not fair. It’s just not fair!”
Bert of Sesame Street
P.3, Asia Pacific
An article about a massacre that took place on Nov.23 of 57 people, among them 30 journalists, in the Philippines/The red shirts in Thailand/Something about an epic Polynesian voyage relived by descendents/Earthquake survivors in Tibet and in brief about a suicide bombing in Pakistan,/The reopening of an Aussie immigration detention center/A rare leopard spotted in Malaysia.
P.2, National
Japan falls fast from Obama’s list of priorities/A launching of a new political party in Tokyo/A missing Nepalese student in Fukuoka, Japan/Retailers gear up for 3-D TV launch by Panasonic/World expo song halted by plagiarism row/Cameraman slain in Bangkok honored at funeral/Medical procedures pitched to foreign tourists.
The front page
European flight ban stays among chaos (Iceland volcano)/Poles mass to lay president to rest/An article about the relocation of a US base in Japan/A piece about British Liberal Democrats.
Throughout the paper there are 12 advertisements of which one is on the front page, bottom right corner. It’s for a lecture. It says: A new civilization begins. The emergence of the World Teacher and the role of UFOs.
“Journalists are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.”
George Bernard Shaw
That’s it.
I picked today for no reason…it was random…there was no real need to think.
It’s pretty much the same everyday….shallow and hallow.
“The first law of journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.”
Alexander Cockburn
Is this information? Is this news? Do we feel informed? Does it make us think?
My picking The Japan Times was also random. They are more or less the same; empty, shallow and hallow. The Japanese dailies are even worse. It’s so empty that you actually start feeling as if there were something.
Most of the sources for and in the articles come from government officials, the police, people in some or other kind of power. Simply put, it hardly ever comes from a person who’s actually directly affected by the problem.
It is always some “expert” or “official” speaking for the person affected.
The “opinion” page (p.12) is all by men. There is (almost) never a woman.
“It’s not fair. It’s just not fair!”
Bert of Sesame Street
You will also notice the waste of space.
On Fridays this paper has 22 or 23 pages. The additional pages are all about art, films and more sports.
Anyway, it’s not only about what’s written in dailies of this kind. What really sticks out is what is deliberately omitted.
And that’s what makes of these dailies a muzzle owned by the rich and powerful for the voiceless, the ones who really need and have something important to say.
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
Joseph Goebbels
Brkic Sulejman
22/4/2010
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