Buildings Fall…but they were pushed

Global Rights

a note to the “assassins”  

of the Israeli ‘Defence’ Forces

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Buildings may fall but they were pushed.

 

Flowers refuse to grow in shredded bone

and dust.

 

Bare hands don’t break bread when they

are buried deep in dark earth.

 

So tell me, when, when, will all this killing

stop?

 

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Autumn wind will soon strip soft

flesh for feeding

as hunger now walks

even without legs

 

and yet so-many must sit

and somehow survive

while the monstrous bombs

still fall

 

fall and savage soft flesh for feeding. (...Continued)

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And all this and more

and still to be called  “anti-Semite”!

 

“People call us baby killers, but you know what?

They're not wrong and we should not be ashamed of it.”

(משה מרדכי לוי - Moshe Mordechai Levi,

from the 84^th Givati Brigade, Gaza)

 

all this and more as the

cold-blooded-killers creep closer

and the wind camouflages our voices

- in contradiction

 

“I’m proud to be one because this is what HaShem

ordered. To kill the Amalek, that includes men, women,

baby, animals and even their trees.”

(Moshe Mordechai Levi, 84^th Givati Brigade, Gaza-Genocide).

Still, tell me, Moses,

if and when, when, your killing will ever stop?..

Global Rights - Palestine 

 

"Cries from a Child trapped beneath rubble in Gaza City 

- September 16, 2026

#Make #thewrittenword a #subversive activity in an age of Resurgent #Fascism.

Finally: Hope for the future? 

"On a human level, I fully understand the criticism voiced by some Palestinian writers regarding the ineffectiveness of poetic language when faced with the horrific power of weaponry, the impunity enjoyed by the killers within the IDF—as well as their government and those who direct them—and the unprecedented complicity, whether active or passive, shown by much of the world in the face of the suffering and extermination of an entire people. In this context, poetry might appear to be a luxury or an act of hypocrisy. Yet, I continue to believe that poetry—and artistic expression in general—is a powerful weapon; it speaks to the heart as well as the mind, setting the possibility of beauty against the monstrosity of injustice and war waged against the defenseless and children. Admittedly, the dormant consciences of the West are difficult to rouse or penetrate, but however challenging it may be, poetry acts as a tool—a kind of crowbar—capable of prying open and dismantling indifference.

After every winter, spring arrives. Provided we do not stop believing in it, and provided we do not give up." (Sergio Segio - 3/11/2026)

 POISON…

Global Rights

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Listen now

 

so you may welcome,

your daily dose of this

Loudmouth’s lies

 

just more icing

on the cake

of their crude confessions

or like nails that nail truth’s

coffin-lid shut tight.

 

Observe,  

(“treasonous SCUM”),

 

all these grand gestures

(“Quiet, quiet, Piggy!”)

from the sickest circus in a

sad sick world

 

…and Beware

 

this loud-mouthed mendacity, its fabrications,

his posturing, how they prevaricate and proliferate,

how they hover in the air, like a poison or a promise

of worse-to-come…

 

(“A whole civilisation will die tonight.

Never to be brought back again.”) 

Contd: GLOBAL RIGHTS 

“The events of 2025 made one thing painfully clear: the world’s super-rich have not only accumulated more wealth than could ever be spent – they have also used this wealth to secure the political power to shape the rules that define our economies and govern nations and the world. As this chapter will show, the super-rich have built their political power in three main ways: by buying politics, investing in legitimizing elite power, and directly accessing institutions.

“Many billionaires are seeding a philosophy of division that spreads racial, sexist and anti-LGBTQI+ hate, and seeks to divide the working class and all others who oppose billionaire power. A range of state and religious actors in the Global North are capitalizing on this to reorient state power towards a reassertion of an often racist and sexist system that favours the wealthy, privileges men, and harms and disadvantages women and LGBTQI+ people in the name of ‘traditional’ family values.”

Resisting the Rule of the Rich - Oxfam Ireland  – January, 2026

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Oh, and then

 this loud mouthed “mountaineer”,

another old man with his dark despicable habits

who floods the air with poison and the promises

that we are all now no better than mud-creatures

dumb-thoughtless-monsters, half-human, senseless,

endlessly marauding, rapacious, repellent,

repulsive...

 

And so, the poet said:

“He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries.

He wishes he could hug them like big friends from home.”

 

(“Thank you for your attention.”)

UPDATE - Minab - Iran

"...their smug ceaseless death and destruction / their pestilent pogroms of power and petty profit..."

Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave 

(Drop Site News Video)

 UPDATE - Gaza - Palestine

 

#Make #thewrittenword a #subversive activity in an age of Resurgent #Fascism.

 

 MONEY...

 

...A “Love” Poem for North America

 “I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls the British money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply." Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild (16 September 1777 – 28 July 1836)

Money (“noun”) is:

an invisible breakfast our kids can't eat

on their way to your school, its bitter and bewildered

windows all broken but its steel doors

still secretly forged, and always open, for suffering.

 

Money (aka “plunder”) is

an American word for regime change

an Israeli word for friendship

a Russian word for the revolution of the kleptocrat

a Spanish or Chilean word for a fascist military coup

…and more, much more…

Global Rights - Cultures

...And here, for those who do not know (nor care)

here are the uncountable, unrecognisable,

the poorest of people, the ones Neruda called:

“Frutas de sol a todos los oscuros!

…Tú encendiste la vida”

the ones Roque described as

“those who had a bit more luck,

the eternal illegal immigrants,

who’d do anything, sell anything, eat anything,

the first ones to pull a knife,

the saddest of the sad,

my compatriots,

my brothers…”

 

but they have no names (only shadows

on the peripheries of poverty),

no faces we will recognise (as they pass

us by)

only statistics:

 

“In 1842 in Manchester, UK,

the average age of death for labourers was 17 years,

men, women and children were worked to death to fuel rapid

industrial expansion and grow the expansion and grow

the fortunes of the owners of this new economy.” (Oxfam)

 

…only a fear of figures that never match up,

bills unpaid, hunger hidden, debt collectors come

kicking at your door

 

… and still, they say,

we live,

in “the best of all

possible worlds”..?

Full Poem, Links & References 

Rather than solely a US phenomenon Oxfam’s paper demonstrates that rising oligarchy is undermining societies worldwide. Oxfam’s report finds...

The report  [19 January 2026 ]  

  Resisting the Rule of the Rich: Protecting Freedom from Billionaire Power  

"analyses how the super-rich are securing political power to shape the rules of our economies and societies for their own gain and to the detriment of the rights and freedoms of people around the world."

"It is one thing for a billionaire to buy an enormous yacht or many luxury homes around the world. This excessive consumption can be rightly criticized in a deeply unequal world where the majority of people have very little and our planet is suffocating from relentless carbon emissions and waste. But many would reject this criticism, describing it as the politics on envy.

Yet far fewer people would disagree that when a billionaire uses their wealth to buy a politician, to influence a government, to own a newspaper or a social media platform, or to out-lawyer any opposition to ensure they are above the law, that these actions undermine progress and fairness. Such power gives billionaires control over all our futures, undermining political freedom and the rights of the rest of us."

SEE ALSO

 

"Takers Not Makers: The unjust poverty and unearned wealth of colonialism"

20 January 2025:  "Billionaire wealth has risen three times faster in 2024 than in 2023. At least five trillionaires are now expected within a decade. Meanwhile, the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990. Inequality is out of control.

Our latest annual inequality report, “Takers Not Makers” explores how most billionaire wealth is taken, not earned - with 60% coming from either inheritance, cronyism or monopoly power. Furthermore, our deeply unequal world remains colonial in many ways. There is a long history of colonial domination which has largely benefited the richest people. This system still extracts wealth from the Global South to the super-rich 1% in the Global North at a rate of $30million an hour. This must be reversed."

  ...

"And so Marx wrote:

"The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and size. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he produces."

(Capital, Volume I, Chapter 25)

 And even Timothy, the Disciple of Jesus, agreed

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”  (1 Timothy 6:10 - King James Version)..."

"Il denaro (o meglio, il “bottino”) è / una parola americana per il cambio di regime / una parola israeliana per l’amicizia / una parola russa per la rivoluzione del cleptocrate / una parola spagnola o cilena per un colpo di stato militare fascista /
…e altro, molto altro… – Una poesia di Séamas Carraher"

DENARO – Una poesia “d’amore” per il Nord America

"Life has become unbearably difficult for ordinary citizens and now - from Nairobi to Bangladesh, Italy to Peru - workers of the world are downing their tools and demanding better, rejecting a global economic order that treats their suffering as necessary for profit." (WANJIRA WANJIRU) 

#Make #thewrittenword a #subversive activity in an age of Resurgent #Fascism.

Making Money from War

Global Rights - Human Rights

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Listen:

 

We stand at the edge of a fucking Abyss. Its rabble-rousing smoke

silently sucking the oxygen from already crucified lungs. Like

lemmings, a hundred million motherless soldiers, our long-lost

brothers and sisters, (your own sons and daughters, comrades and

-neighbours), must soon step out into desolate space

 

…must soon fall fearlessly where there's no need for flags no more,

no need to fan the bloody fearful flames. Just Money. Only the crude

patriotism of profit, the precision strike of its grasping claws, its

exchange value in an endless use of “smart bombs” and “suicide drones”

 

…of “Explosive munitions, such as “bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar munitions of war and parts”…“cartridges”, some types of “ammunition and projectiles” and parts, including “shot and cartridge wads”… “bullets”, “Parts and accessories” (of military weapons, including components for “revolvers and pistols”, “Shotguns and rifles”, “Rocket launchers, flamethrowers, grenade launchers, torpedo tubes and similar projectors”, “Tank and other armoured fighting vehicle, motorised, whether or not fitted with weapons, and parts”

 

…all now lurking overhead, they loiter loveless and indecent in their

homicidal and hateful seduction, soon to descend swiftly with their

algorithms of arrogance and anger, of acquisition, asset and

annihilation… just more “business as usual”…

 

Welcome then …to the financialisation of fear and terror [Contd.]

               Full Poem, Links & References

Military Industrial Complex Benefits from Israel's war machine - Davidsvine, CC BY 4.0 

"Fare soldi con la guerra" (Diritti Globali) 

UPDATE - The Gaza Strip (14, July, 2026)

Fatalities and injuries

• Between 7 October 2023 and 12 July 2026, according to the Ministry of Health, as reported by the Health Cluster, 73,231 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip and another 173,686 were injured. This includes 1,084 fatalities and 3,491 injuries between the announcement of a ceasefire agreement on 10 October 2025 and 8 July 2026.
• UNRWA has recorded 392 colleagues killed in Gaza since the start of the war (310 UNRWA personnel and 82 persons who were supporting UNRWA),^[2] up to 15 July. 
• The latest Protection Cluster snapshot revealed that communities continued to report persistent fear and insecurity due to ongoing shelling affecting displacement sites, residential areas, streets, and public spaces. The continued unpredictability has reinforced psychological distress, disrupted daily life, and contributed to a persistent sense of fear and uncertainty among affected populations.

UNRWA - Situation Report #230 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem