Dirty in a Dirty Game
mhsutton Politics, it is said, is a dirty game. As political games go, the Israeli/Palestine issue is perhaps one of the dirtiest. With rules that appear to be non-existent and anger…
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An Uneasy Silence
Over the last few months I have read little of mainstream news and more worrying, have written less socio-political commentary. My lack of zeal for the tasks of keeping up…
A Different Approach Part 1
The storming of the school in North Ossetia, by Russian forces to ‘free’ hostages taken by suspected Chechen rebels, is exceptionally tragic. Hundreds of hostages – school children, their teachers…
Terrorist Threats To Disrupt US Elections
Reading various reports that ‘terrorists’ have threatened to launch terror attacks to disrupt US presidential elections scheduled for November fill me with so much cynicism and immediatedly ignite the torch…
Fundamental Violation of Human Rights
Recent events in the world – Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, DR Congo and the Sudan have highlighted gross human right violoations. These occur so often now, are so widespread and commonplace…
Marwan Barghouti
So called justice was done today as the Israeli legal system sentenced Marwan Barghouti to five life terms AND forty years for a range of offences including attempted murder, murder…
Iraqi Political Command
Get out the blankets, hell has frozen over. Radio the tower, the pigs are landing. Today Mr Blair suggested in his latest speech, that the incoming Iraqi (interim) administration would…
Count Yourself Lucky
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who won’t survive the week. If you have never experienced the danger…
Kill Them All
I started this article over a year, under the original title of ‘A Final Blind Eye’. Out of frustration, my contention was that the world should just turn a blind…
The Disapproving War Monger
The pictures have been published – some of them anyway. The shock , horror and revulsion that professional soldiers could have debased and humiliated prisoners in Iraq with such inhuman…