On Listening – being listened to –

by the Palantir Corporation

“…peace and prosperity threatens the business model”

Vanessa Windgarth – Sept. 5, 2025

 

Global Rights

1

This beast inside of me

born and bred where culture

becomes the craft of the coloniser

and where nature must soon sleep

our very own insatiable sleep.

 

This beast inside of me

reared on the savage bone,

broken on the rusty wheel

of a history

disembodied of heart and

with a mind nearly mindless

 

this beast that was empire-born

and brutal-bred

in blood and bewilderment

waking with a snarl

a century's most poisonous ideology

with mask and truncheon and murder

 

now telling me

who i could be, one-day,

a rising star of the swastika, another

celebrity of chaos and cruelty

and catastrophe.                                    

 

This beast inside of me

with its desperate belonging,

in a world surely deranged by

the normality of its excess,

with its paper excrement called Money

and its morbid cunning,

its death cult of Corporation & Congress

knowing nothing of its own dialectic,

its dangerous and sudden demise

now scheduled, and on time

-  just like our own.

 

2...[contd.]

Full Poem - & - Related Links

Update on Palantir, Etc (23 October, 2025)

The Rise of the Thielverse & the Surveillance State | The Chris Hedges Report - "A Coup D'état by Inches"

"There were many, including some liberals, who mistakenly believed the Trump administration would dismantle the Deep State. In fact, as the investigative reporter Whitney Webb has documented, Trump is closely allied with the most authoritarian figures in Silicon Valley, such as Peter Thiel, who envision a world where our habits, proclivities, opinions, and movements are minutely recorded and tracked. These Trump allies do not intend to free us from the tyranny of intelligence agencies, militarized police, the largest prison system in the world, predatory corporations, or the end of mass surveillance. They will not restore the rule of law to hold the powerful and the wealthy accountable. Nor will they slash the bloated and unaccountable spending, some $1 trillion by the Pentagon. They are rapidly purging the civil service as well as law enforcement and the military not to eradicate the Deep State but ensure that those in charge of state machinery are exclusively loyal to the whims and dictates of the Trump White House. What is being targeted is not the Deep State but the laws, resolutions, regulations, protocols and rules and the government civil servants who enforce them which hinder absolute dictatorial control. Compromise, limited power, checks and balances, and accountability are slated to be abolished. Those who believe that the government is designed to serve the common good rather than the dictates of a tiny cabal of billionaires will be forced out. The deep state will be reconstituted to serve the leadership cult." Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges with Whitney Webb

Gaza, Palestine - October 2025

 UNRWA GAZA UPDATE

"Between 7 October 2023 and 15 October 2025, 

according to the Ministry 

of Health (MoH) in Gaza, as stated by OCHA,  

at least 67,938  Palestinians have been reportedly killed in the Gaza Strip  and 170,169 injured." 

 SPEECH-LESS or

Can Truth be Silenced?

on the 200-300 Gazan journalists murdered by the IDF

 We are now entering a world 

“where Everyone knows Everything - about Nothing…” 

(Rudy Ratzsch – Carrickmines - 2 September, 2025)

SPEECH-LESS - Global Rights 

1

Now, so we are told, Speaking

is soon to be cancelled.

 

The message arrives via missile or drone,

through wall or window or roof.

 

It wakes even the sleeping children

- soon to die.

 

This missile means you must stop talking.

This missile means your mouth must be permanently closed.

 

This missile means enormous profit for the arms companies

enormous loss for everyone else

 

This missile comes with a label ‘Made in the USA’.

This missile comes with a slogan ‘God Bless America’

This missile screams “Make America Great Again”

 

This missile is “the most moral missile in the world”, we are told.

 

This is the missile killed Anas Al-Sharif, (Al Jazeera correspondent) murdered Mohammed Qreiqeh, (Al Jazeera cameramen), murdered Ibrahim Zaher, murdered Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa  (“Al-Sharif's nephew, who was studying journalism”).

 

 Still, no one in Gaza shut their innocent mouths…

 

Days later

this is also the missile killed journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa herself.

Mariam Abu Daqqa who wrote a few days before:

"Abu Anas... Your departure is indescribable pain,

 as if a piece of my heart went with you.

You were my support, the voice that reassured me...

The hero has fallen, but he has not died in our hearts." (Contd.)

Full Poem & Links

Mariam Abu Dagga 

( born 1992 –  assassinated 25 August 2025)  

Mariam Abu Dagga was one of the few female war correspondents working in Gaza when she was killed by Israeli forces on 25 August 2025, at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza

 

 UNRWA UPDATE September 24, 2025

• Between 7 October 2023 and 24 September 2025, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, as stated by OCHA, at least 65,419 Palestinians have been reportedly killed in Gaza and 167,160 have been injured.
• According to records of the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), since the establishment of the Israeli militarized food  distribution system in the Gaza Strip on 27 May and as of 22 September, at least 2,340 people seeking assistance have been killed.

STARVATION

“Many new tyrants keep a copy of Mein Kampf in their drawer; it could still come in handy, maybe [NOW] with some adjustments or the substitution of some names.” 

 ( Primo Levi, 1986)

STARVATION - Global Rights 

 1

This food i eat

sticks in my throat

the inedible thoughts

of monsters must surely

torment me

 

sleepless i sleepwalk

through

this nightmare

 

fooling myself

 

all is well and

safe and sound

in a wicked world

with little wonder

left.

 

This food i eat

i cannot swallow.

These sleepless nights

storm restlessly through

my dreams

 

just like the ghosts

of what could have been

but now will not nor ever

can nor will be

no more.

 

 “NEVER AGAIN”, they whispered.  (...Contd.)

Full Poem & Links

UPDATE - 22 August 2025: "It is a Famine - The Gaza Famine" 

"More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new UN-backed food security report released on Friday.

"...UN human rights chief Volker Türk said the famine was the “direct result” of Israeli Government policies.

"...Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel. It is a famine within a few hundred metres of food, in a fertile land.

"...It is a famine that we repeatedly warned of – but that the international media has not been allowed in to cover, to bear witness,” he added.

“It is a famine in 2025. A 21st century famine watched over by drones and the most advanced military technology in history. It is a famine openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war.”

“It is a war crime to use starvation as a method of warfare, and the resulting deaths may also amount to the war crime of willful killing,” he said." 

UN Geneva Press Briefing - 22 August, 2025

 

GAZA STRIP: Famine confirmed in Gaza Governorate, projected to expand 

 Famine Review Report & Analysis 

What could have been

(...But All Now Ends in ‘War’)

“If not now, when and if not us, pushing for this change, who?..”  

Francesca Albanese

GLOBAL RIGHTS 

Child,

What could have been

but now will not

what would have taken breath

but could not

what could have been but we ourselves

both could or would not speak

 

seeing the size of our solitary catastrophe...

2

Could or would or even

"I do not know"  (nor care)

you must still stand in line

embrace now

the curse of these lawless soldiers

their flag naked with only fear

left free to unfold

 

soldiers,  they say,

the “willful executioners of a genocidal attack” (Francesca Albanese)

soldiers

“…haunted by what they have done”

and

“…what they have seen.” (Francesca Albanese)

 

Soldiers, in their strange and solitary suicide

called “war”...

 Full Poem & Links

 

5

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And being for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" (Hillel the Elder)

 

 "Young Israeli soldiers are 'wilful executioners' in Gaza, says Albanese" 

 (Sky News, July 7, 2025)

#poetry for #Gaza 🇵🇸-🇮🇪 Saoirse don Phalaistín - #FreePalestine

Some Images taken from RTE News, July 25th, 2025

(And Still…)

The Hell of Gaza

"The critique of culture is confronted with the last stage in the dialectic of culture and barbarism: to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric, and that corrodes also the knowledge which expresses why it has become impossible to write poetry today." 

 (Theodor W Adorno - 1949)

GLOBAL RIGHTS - TALKING PEACE - Palestine 

...7

Each day you will wake

Mr. Itmar Ben Gvir

Mr. Bezalel Smotrich

you will wake

from your dreamless sleep to this nightmare.

 

And all and everywhere around us

all you will see are wingless and wounded angels

silenced and sinking in their grim solitude

like ships long sunk and seething soulless

with this, the last of your incoherence

 

this

“last stage in the dialectic of culture and barbarism”:

over and over and over

 

Nach Gaza ein Gedicht zu schreiben,

ist barbarisch

 

– your own endless-bottomless-immeasurable-fearful-inhumanity…

"Whoever stays behind - needs to be burned"

(Nissim Vatari, Israeli Likud)

 FULL POEM (& Links)

The Fascist History of Ben Gvir

The Rise of Bezalel Smotrich

 “Kulturkritik findet sich der letzten Stufe der Dialektik von Kultur und Barbarei gegenüber: nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch, und das frißt auch die Erkenntnis an, die ausspricht, warum es unmöglich ward, heute Gedichte zu schreiben.”

#poetry for #Gaza 🇵🇸-🇮🇪 Saoirse don Phalaistín - #FreePalestine