A Head Unbowed.
I must confess that with the dizzying number of causes, campaigns and events in the world to be active about - enough to keep a brigade of activists busy for a lifetime, the story of Mordechai Vanunu ...
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Being Human
Given the time in which we live, when all seems so dangerous and unstable; when the cry of the suffering seems so loud - yet unheard; when the tears of the broken seem like floods - yet left untended....
Insignificant Flim Flam.
A storm is blowing this week after a Swedish business magazine claimed that Bill Gates was no longer the world's richest person. Not only has Mr Gates been apparently been dislodged from the number on...
Back in the Fold (a.k.a Business as Usual)
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' Weapons of Mass Destru...
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 connection to the human family and I cast ...
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 conspire to ensure they do. ...
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 interesting to note the uses of this li...
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 have never conflicted. Not befo...
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 thousands a...
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 interned in a militar...
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 it in pictures and reading a li...
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 wife a...