Genocide in Us: How Creative Artists Depict the Armenian Genocide

On April 24, 1915 the Turkish government began to implement a policy that amounted to the genocide of Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. On that date hundreds of Armenian intellectuals were forced from their homes, taken to Constantinople, and murdered. Read more

Artists Embedded within the Military-Industrial Complex

In 1961 U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the “unwarranted influence…by the military-industrial complex.” By the time Eisenhower uttered his speech the military-industrial complex (MIC) was 20 years old. Beginning in 1941 after the U.S. officially entered World War Two, the U.S. industrial and manufacturing industries began to produce the weapons and vehicles needed by the military. As a result of the MIC’s creation, the U.S. economy rebounded from the depression that had plagued it since the 1929 stock market crash. Read more

I’m Going Green in 2008

This year in New Zealand is an election year, as it is in several other countries, and as far as I am concerned, it is time to have a Green Government in power in every nation in the world. Here’s my reasoning. Read more

Another great idea: Eliminate Corporate Criminal Liability — Robert Reich’s Package Deal

The Free Articulator is interested in great ideas that advance civilization and resolve problems. We look for such ideas and let our readers know about them, so that these ideas can inform their creative products:

• Poems
• Songs
• Fiction
• Nonfiction
• Visual art
• Sculpture
• Scripts
• Plays
• Etc.

Many of the songs Joel Falconer and I have written have developed out of online conversations about social and political events that we have had some pretty animated discussions about. So one of the things we do, as contributors to the Free Articulator is forward ideas that seem to us to be worthwhile in terms of advancing our civilization and making it possible for human civilization everywhere to shuck off those artifices that are creating problems for us. The corporation is one such device.

It’s no secret that I’m not very happy about corporations and their irresponsibilities. The idea of a corporation was basically good and initially served society very well, as you’ll find out if you watch The Corporation. Since becoming aware of corporations and how they work I’ve done quite a lot of research into them and also looked to ways and means of combating the evil they do. Robert Reich however, has come up with a novel idea. I think it’s worthy of consideration, and may provide a storyteller, scriptwriter or other Creative Artist with story material. So check it out.

How do I feel about America and Americans? It takes a lot of balls…

I feel I ought to clarify how I feel about America and Americans as we have recently received some rather uninformed and disturbing anonymous defamatory communications and accusations challenging the Free Articulator and me personally. We are now investigating further with the possibility of additional action to be undertaken given the nature and frequency of the communications received and threats made. The person making these statements is obviously unaware of defamation law and is probably in violation of their ISP’s terms of use and we are looking into that and their obvious personal agenda.

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America, leave Iran alone!

I watched the BBC with mounting horror last night as America’s Secretary of Disaster Capitalism, Condoleeza Rice, ‘declared war’ on Iran by announcing the imposition of sanctions that are designed and intended to do nothing more than provoke Iran and provide Fascist Imperial America, the Duperpower (opposite of Superpower: a duplicitous, deceitful, dishonest rogue nation whose words of ideal mean nothing) with the opportunity to begin World War III.

“Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any given time. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty. This is passing the buck.

The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own hands. In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these same masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anyone else. To stress this guilt on the part of the masses of people, to hold them solely responsible, means to take them seriously. On the other hand, to commiserate masses of people as victims, means to treat them as small, helpless children. The former is the attitude held by genuine freedom fighters; the latter that attitude held by power-thirsty politicians.” - Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

I want to see Bush and his cronies in the International Courts at Nuremberg for War Crimes, crimes against humanity and the subversion of democracy. The last time Fascism raised its head in the world, the world said “No,” and for 5 years fought to create freedom and liberate the German people from tyranny, millions died. An attack on Iran today is going to be Poland in 1939 all over again. I hope you will all join me in telling the Duperpower to leave Iran alone.

Warning you may be offended if you click the link…

It’s a serious warning, you may be exposed to words and language that may offend your sensibilities, if you still have any. And if you do have some, please let us know how you have managed to preserve them in the face of such offensive journalism that passes for respectability. This is pretty clever stuff, and it illustrates a point found elsewhere. I’m truly encouraged to see this sort of thing going on.

To enjoy being offended click through to this YouTube video.

US Corporate Censorship of Political Statements by Artists — Pearl Jam

If you monitor the art & entertainment industry closely you’ll see how careers are often destroyed simpy by denying access to broadcast channels and the opportunity to address the public in talk shows and current affairs programs. In America such censorship is emerging in a number of different ways, The Dixie Chicks’ statements about George Bush was but one example. The most recent example is to do with Pearl Jam and AT&T. Read more

Changing the World - A Peaceful Evolution - Changing Our Ideas

Since I was 7 years old I have been aware that the world is not a good place. But what is the world? And what is “changing the world”? Why did “changing the world” lose favor? How did it lose favor? Read more

A Live Earth observation…

I find it very interesting to observe that Al Gore, a statesman I much admire for his real commitment and firm stance on Global Warming and Climate Change, was unable to bring about any change in awareness through the political process of democracy, and that it took moving into the field of art & entertainment to make any sort of meaningful progress in raising awareness and consciousness.

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