Global

The QeRN Academy was founded in 1998 in a response to the increasing commercialization of information and its sources.

We need to come together and oppose the trends of imperialism, commercialization of the news media, distortion of the truth and bad globalization. If not, we will be relegating our children to live the lives of slaves, without being named as such.

We believe that things do not always take care of themselves, and it is always up to a small band of concerned people to take it upon themselves to restore justice and dignity to the human race.

Lurching towards catastrophe

Seumas Milne, Thursday October 11, 2001 (courtesy of The Guardian)

There is an eerie familiarity about the scenes being played out every night, as the United States and Britain launch wave after wave of bombing and cruise missile attacks on Afghanistan. The grinning marine on the USS Enterprise, promising "to destroy a lot of things over there"; the RAF corporal, showing off his "We came, we saw, we kicked ass" T-shirt; the daily military briefings with their before-and-after images of destruction; the sombre excuses offered for civilian casualties and other forms of "collateral damage"; the cheerleaders' untiring comparison of the enemy with the Nazis and the war's opponents with appeasers - they almost seem routine.