Waking To Her
mhsuttonthe 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…
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…
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
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…
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…