10.7.17
Please support my work as a reader-funded investigative journalist and commentator. The following article is one of my few forays into topics that are not related to Guantánamo, British politics, my photos or the music of my band The Four Fathers, but I hope it’s of interest. It’s an overview of the current situation […]
27.11.15
So the sabre-rattling in the West has begun yet again, cruelly and idiotically calling for more bombing in Syria, one of the most devastated countries in the world, in response to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris — even though the terrorists were European citizens, and even though the ongoing war in Syria has, to […]
12.8.12
OK, so I’m away for two weeks, on my annual family holiday — this year to Italy, and, specifically, to Rome for a week, and then Abruzzo for a second week. It will be good to get away. I’ve been finding Guantánamo weighing heavily on me, and the state of Britain under the Tories has […]
8.8.11
Well, my friends, it has been quite a year so far, with the death of my father in February and my own rather severe illness in March and April, which had me suffering sleep deprivation at home for two weeks, then hospitalized for another two weeks, and then largely housebound for another month. I’m glad […]
13.9.10
As an accompaniment to my article examining the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, “On the 9th Anniversary of 9/11, A Call to Close Guantánamo and to Hold Accountable Those Who Authorized Torture,” I’m cross-posting two other articles that provide important perspectives on the horrendous events of that day, and their bitter […]
31.8.10
I don’t want to spend much time discussing the opposition to the building of the Park51 Project, a $100 million mosque and cultural center two blocks from the site of the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, as such a response to an assault on the First Amendment to the US Constitution […]
6.8.10
So that’s it, I’ll be out of touch until I tire of the pre-21st century isolation, and head into town for un caffé (o due), some dolci and somewhere with internet access. I’m away in Italy –- a remote location in Puglia the first week, a rooftop apartment in Napoli the second — so contact […]
22.7.10
So I hope I left enough food in the cupboards and the fridge. And don’t forget to water the plants, please. I certainly left enough reading material. If you missed any of it, there’s the latest in the case of Omar Khadr, the “child soldier” that Obama, of all people, wants to try for invented […]
22.4.10
I’m cross-posting an article about Noam Chomsky by Chris Hedges, originally published on Truthdig, because I was struck by the power of his statement, “I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime,” referring to the current state of politics in the US, and his warning, “It is very similar to late Weimar Germany,” […]
6.8.09
I developed a lifelong opposition to war at the age of ten, when “The World At War” was broadcast by ITV, and today’s anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has brought those feelings back. To mark this most distressing of anniversaries, I’m posting a commentary from the Boston Globe’s “Big Picture,” plus a few […]
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