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Waking To Her

Waking To Her

the sunbeam dances on the wall as i stir from my slumber lighting my return from night to day. the twilight journey was as a voyage upon hostile waters tossed about on an ocean of restless nightmares...

Terrorist Threats To Disrupt US Elections

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...

Fundamental Violation of Human Rights

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 as to be cons...

Marwan Barghouti

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 and membership of ...

Iraqi Political Command

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 His exact words...

Count Yourself Lucky

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 of battle, the loneliness of impr...

One I like

One I like

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light. Edna Saint Vincent Millay

Kill Them All

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 eye to the extermination of the Pales...

The Disapproving War Monger

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 callousness an...

Apologies Galore

Apologies Galore

Sorry does not seem to be the hardest word in Washington these days. First we had Mr Bush apologise, then Gen. Kimmet. Next in line Donald Rumsfeld sat before a Senate Committee and apologised too. ...

An Ode for our Friend Lazu

An Ode for our Friend Lazu

Stand tall, My Friend, like the giant that you are You've fought the valiant fight! Soar high, My Friend, towards the farthest star Become surrounded by it's heavenly light. Leave behind, My Frien...

Turning Thirty

Turning Thirty

No age has held ever much significance for me. Not twenty one or twenty five. Not since I was ten, when my Dad took me to buy a book of my choice - something about dinosaurs - have I held any age to ...