Alone
May 14, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A poem by Elizabeth Ellis
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The Writer, Almeida Theatre
May 7, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A review of the angry new play at the Almeida.
From Afghanistan to Anantnag via Abbotabad (Part 2)
May 1, 2018 9:21 pm Leave your thoughts
On 22 March 2018 The Washington Post published Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman's confession regarding the Saudi Arabian government's facilitation of the CIA in financing and offering support to an Islamic cultural narrative across the 'Muslim world'.
The Great Day
May 1, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Two days ago, the State of Israel celebrated its 70th birthday. For days we heard about nothing else. Innumerable speeches full of platitudes. A huge festival of kitsch.
Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising
May 1, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The Fed is aggressively raising interest rates, although inflation is contained, private debt is already at 150% of GDP, and rising variable rates could push borrowers into insolvency. So what is driving the Fed's push to "tighten"?
The Victorious Delusional Three in Damascus
April 22, 2018 7:18 pm Leave your thoughts
The US, UK, and France launched a 30 minute attack on Syria for an alleged chemical attack by the Syrian military on Islamist militants in the small city of Douma, just 9km away from the capital Damascus
From Afghanistan to Anantnag via Abbotabad (Part 1)
April 22, 2018 7:09 pm Leave your thoughts The death of twenty people on April 1 between Indian security forces and armed Hizbul Mujahedin militants in Anantnag district in Indian-controlled South Kashmir is a stark reminder of a criminal legacy of the anti-colonial religious-nationalism that has its modern roots in the Afghan jihad
A Song is Born
April 22, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The situation in the Gaza Strip is as close to hell as one can get. Food at subsistence level, electricity for two to four hours a day, the water is polluted. Work is extremely scarce. Only the most severely ill are let out.
Eyeless in Gaza
April 22, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts I, Uri Avnery, soldier number 44410 of the Israel army, hereby dissociate myself from the army sharpshooters who murder unarmed demonstrators along the Gaza Strip, and from their commanders, who give them the orders, up to the commander in chief.
Civilisations, a current television project, stimulates responses
April 22, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Civilisation is the culture of cities, of permanent settlements. These demand social organisation to administer to the needs of citizens