Back in the Fold (a.k.a Business as Usual)
mhsutton With a few master strokes – principally paying off the billions in compensation to the families of the victims of the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie and renouncing its ‘advanced’…
March 2004
In the moment
Looking out from my third floor flat , out over the lights of small town England. The lights, the quiet, the peace; a wave of humility hits me, a spontaneous…
Calm and Restraint
‘… we appeal for calm and restraint…’ – part of US statement on Israel’s assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Just as it seems things could not get any worse, events…
A Preoccupation With War
No matter how hard they try, it would seem the specter of launching an unjust war, invasion and the sustaining of an occupation refuses to be shifted. But it is…
Of Hornets and Terrorists
More blood in Baghdad, more suicide bombers and more raids against the occupying forces. It is billed as Shia on Sunni violence (or Sunni on Shia). But these two groups…
Crimes of the Elected , Sins of the Electorate
It is impossible not to feel revulsion at the bombing of the rush hour trains in Madrid. Ten simultaneous explosions ripped through trains and stations killing hundreds of people, injuring…
Enough is enough
The Guantanamo Five – five British men held in Guantanamo Cuba (formerly Camp X-Ray) have now been released to British authorities and returned home after two long years of being…
A Question Of Humanity
I have just read a photo journal of a retired Israeli physician working in the Israeli occupied territories of the West Bank. (Photo Journal ). The idea of this, seeing…
Haiti Voodoo
A lot of speculation surrounds the departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide; popular reports suggest he resigned the presidency and is now in exile in the Central African Republic with his…
Can The Rich Help The Poor?
Apparently there isn’t enough money in the world to address the serious problems facing the planet and its inhabitants. The serious problems identified include hunger, poverty, lack of education, disease…