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Monday, July 27, 2026

Making Money from War

Global Rights - Human Rights

1

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

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

 For the Schoolgirls of Minab

1

Listen.

 

Someone is hiding-out

in this hole in my head.

 

They dug it real-deep

with difficult books about

the future of humankind

 

not the profound catastrophe

of warheads

and ballistic missiles

 

nor the grim profits

of

greedy businessmen

 

and now never to be forgotten

these countless small

schoolgirls

 

the schoolgirls of Minab

(aged only

6 – 12 years old)… [Contd.]

The Shajareh Tayyebeh School - 28, February, 2026 

 “The American and Zionist aggression against Minab Elementary School will never be erased from the historical memory of our nation.” 

Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian

The schoolgirls of Shirzaa, Southern Iran’ (2007) by, Paul Keller, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Per le studentesse di Minab

Diritti Globali (Italian)

1
Ascolta.

Qualcuno si nasconde
in questo buco nella mia testa.

Hanno scavato a fondo
con libri difficili sul
futuro dell’umanità

non sulla profonda catastrofe
delle testate nucleari
e dei missili balistici

né sui cupi profitti
di
uomini d’affari avidi

e ora, per non essere mai dimenticate,
queste innumerevoli piccole
scolarette

le scolarette di Minab
(di soli
6-12 anni) [Continued]
 

“Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran” 

 US President, Donald Trump

"His comments came as the investigative group Bellingcat said a newly released video appears to contradict Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for the attack. The three-second clip of a video circulated Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency shows a munition falling on a building. Trevor Ball of Bellingcat identified the munition as a Tomahawk cruise missile—which only the U.S. is known to possess in the war. Previous reports by the New York Times and Reuters also point to U.S. culpability for the deadly school strike.”

Drop Site News Daily – March 9, 2026

Trump's "Board of 'Peace'" (from Led By Donkeys)

Hope for the future?

 Make #Poetry a subversive activity in an age of Resurgent Fascism 

Arundhati Roy   

“Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel, and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated lying…cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power and its allies who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.” 

 (‘Iran is Not Gaza’: Acclaimed Writer Arundhati Roy - The Wire – March 9, 2026 )                  

 Aleida Guevara

Her message to the Resistance in Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine (Al Mayadeen)

The Conversation 

International law matters precisely because departures from it can be identified, judged and condemned.

“The rubble of a girls’ school is not evidence that the law is meaningless; it is a stark reminder of why the law exists, and why insisting on compliance remains essential.”

The Conversation – March 2, 2026

UPDATE MARCH 29th, 2026 

‘Remember These Criminals’: Iran Names US Officers Who Ordered Tomahawk Attack At Minab School

'Remember these two criminals. Leigh R. Tate, the commander, and Jeffrey E. York, the executive officer of the USS Spruance, who ordered the launch of *Tomahawk missiles three times, killing 168 innocent children at a school in #Minab,' reads Iran In India’s post".

 News 18 - 29 March, 2026

 *Each Tomahawk Missile, by the way, Costs $2 Million.