:: Poetry ::

"About 20 years ago, when cable TV arrived with great fanfare, the upbeat futurist Alvin Toffler foresaw the emergence of “a truly new era - the age of the de-massified media.” In theory, the country would be cable-wired for democracy."

"The US veto was representative of the minority view with respect to the nations of the world and its population but it was not even representative of its own population, because Bush himself was fraudulently elected, and his government is also illegal and unrepresentative by the extension of that same reason."

"Why didn't King Abdullah correct President Bush and point out Sharon's government continues to build Israeli settlements in violation of peace?"

"Sudan has been at war, off and on, since 1955. The war has been fought between the Sudanese government and rebels in southern Sudan. Since 1983 the war in the south has been largely conducted by the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) led by John Garang."

"Sharon rode into power on a double promise: security and peace. And yet Sharon has not made even one significant act of progress to achieve either."

"Sharon, and his coterie of bloodthirsty thugs who terrorize Palestinians, and who smugly rely on American media distortion to mischaracterize Palestinian freedom fighters as "terrorists," control a moribund economy and a dying regime."

"India talks constantly about “cross-border terrorism” emanating from Azad Kashmir, conveniently forgetting that, viz (1) within Kashmir there is no international border because Pakistan does not accept division of the State (2) in any case it would be impossible to seal the LOC (has the US with all its expertise and technology managed to stop the Mexicans from crossing over regularly in great numbers into the US?) and (3) the spontaneous uprising in Kashmir is mostly indigenous because the atrocities by Indian Armed Forces gives it a life of its own. The brutal suppression in Kashmir has few parallels in history, this is probably one of the worst cases of “State-sponsored terrorism”. Why else should India react to a call for peace so violently?"