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...
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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
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"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. |
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