Remembering Tiananmen Square And The Pro-Democracy Protests
In any given life, there are certain events that remain firmly imprinted in our memories. I carry an indelible memory of an evening in late May 1989. I had just…
Vincent Di Stefano
Expanding The Poetic Field. From Ford Madox Hueffer to Kate Tempest
I have for many years now held a deep fascination for Ford Madox Hueffer's Antwerp, a poem as little known as the man himself, a poem written in 1915 that…
Lines From The Edge Of Darkness
At a time when military planners intensify the demonic work of softening the world up for a normalisation of the use of tactical nuclear weapons in the ever-growing fields of…
As the Sun Sets On The Nuclear Wasteland
The problem of nuclear waste has yet to be dealt with. There have been numerous plans made, numerous barrel-loads of dangerous waste dumped into rivers, water-ways and oceans, numerous false…
Careful Now
This is the wall of stone faces This is the plain of lost skulls How much blood must fallow Before we've had enough?
Guarding The Flame. Reflecting On The Herbal Medicine Traditions
The Western herbal medicine tradition represents a neglected and devalued repository of much of the knowledge developed over many thousands of years of medical experience in Europe, the Mediterranean and…
Poison In The Heart: The Nuclear Wasting Of South Australia
"Nuclear weapons and nuclear power are both leading instances of the irrationalities that result from a social world that has been constructed to concentrate power in the hands of tiny…
The Devil’s Century
Our present generation is living out of the spiritually vacuous philosophies of modernism and post-modernism, the cancerous ideologies of free-market economics and unrestrained economic growth, and the corporate and political…
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