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Here is a gentle poem from the Chilean literary genius, Pablo Neruda, who won a Nobel Prize in 1971. He was murdered on the orders of the fascist, General Pinochet, who was friend to both UK and US governments at the time. Leave Me A Place Underground Leave me a…
The Boy On The Bridge by M.R. Carey (2017) The Girl With All The Gifts was published in 2014 to critical acclaim. It dealt with the incidence of a pandemic that sprang from a fungus that turns infected people into zombie-type creatures similar to those to be found in the movie 28 Days Later. Unusually, […]
Action movies are great, aren’t they? Muscled men and women fighting bad guys and good guys and scary animals (how did Trump get into this?), bombs and bullets and adventures and discoveries, it’s all happening in action movies. Some are memorable and others are instantly forgettable. Predator with big Arnie? Memorable, and he can’t even […]
The House On Paradise Street by Sofka Zinovieff Antigone Perifanis lives in Russia in 2008. She’s Greek by birth but was forced to leave her home many decades previous due to her strong Communist beliefs. She was forced to leave her only child behind, a son whom she named, Nikitas. Now, some 60 years later, […]
Child suicide. These two words are an abomination. These two words represent the greatest atrocity in our world. These two words resonate with the failure of a species. These two words are to be heard more and more across the planet. Children are biologically programmed to survive. Nature intended it that way. They learn fast […]
Tito & Tarantula are a Hollywood based Chicano rock band. They are best known for providing music for the classic vampire movie, From Dusk Til Dawn, starring George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis and Harvey Keitel, in which they had a cameo role as a vampire house-band. Rebel Voice likes to throw shapes to this […]
In the natural world there are many wondrous events that capture the public imagination. There’s the frenzy of sharks as they tear through a shoal of herring. There’s the sight of Grizzly Bears fishing for salmon at the falls in Alaska. There’s the vast migrations of Wildebeest across the Savannah. There’s the White House Press […]
The Rule Of The Land by Garrett Carr There is much talk today of the Irish border. Brexit has brought this issue to the fore and demanded we pay greater attention. But there is no Irish border, not really. The border being referred to is British, or English if you really want to nail it […]
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” […]
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam fame might just be one of the coolest people on the planet. He’s up there with Kris Kristofferson, Che Guevara and auld Paddy Donnelly who works at the gardening round our way. In 2007, Vedder released his first solo album titled Into The Wild, which was the soundtrack for the […]
Echo Burning by Lee Child (2001) This is the fifth book in the very popular Jack Reacher series. Jack is a retired US Army Military Police Major who now walks around the US getting into trouble and helping people. He’s the modern take on The Incredible Hulk. Reacher is 6ft 5 inches tall and 250 […]
Originally posted on Rebel Voice:
You know, when war and oppression breaks out as it regularly does, it is heart-breaking to see images of adult civilians being persecuted, oppressed and often killed. But when those victims are children, the most vulnerable people on our planet, the situation then becomes intolerable. Adults can fight back, even…
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