In 1948, when Palestinians were driven from their nation where Israel formally declared itself a state, the Western world didn’t listen to Palestinians, who were represented as barbarians and extremists for resisting those who terrorised, dispossessed, maimed and slaughtered them, expelling them from their homes and land before declaring...
Across southern Europe resistance is taking on a new urgency. In Spain people are speaking of the start of ‘the real struggle’, while in Greece the term ‘civil war’ permeates the political climate. In both countries a frightening re-emergence of a dictatorship past seems to characterize the current historical...
Australia is sleep-walking into a confrontation with China. Wars can happen suddenly in an atmosphere of mistrust and provocation, especially if a minor power, like Australia, abandons its independence for an "alliance" with an unstable superpower. The United States is at a critical moment. Having exported its all-powerful manufacturing...
Farm free foods might be the only thing that gets us – and much of the rest of the living world – through this century.
It sounds like a miracle, but no great technological leaps were required. In a commercial lab on the outskirts of Helsinki, I watched scientists turning...
Following Donald Trump's declaration of war on anti fascists:
"Let's do some quick math, friends:
- Antifa is not an organization; nobody belongs to it, there are no membership rolls. So you cannot prove you do not belong to it.
- If you have shown up to a protest, if you...
58 Palestinian people were shot dead, 130 critical and over 2,700 injured by Israeli snipers yesterday (Monday 15th. May). There were no Israeli deaths or injury.
The Palestinians were not on land claimed to belong to Israel, but were holding a protest within the Israeli imposed prison camp known as...
I hope you saw Natural World on BBC2 on Hawaii and the dreadful plastic pollution in this remote part of the Pacific Ocean. Not sure where it all comes from (presumably Pacific Rim nations) but please do what you can to limit release of plastics into the environment to...
Why is there a worldwide revolt against politics as usual? Because corporate globalisation has crushed democratic choice. A wave of revulsion rolls around the world. Approval ratings for incumbent leaders are everywhere collapsing. Symbols, slogans and sensation trump facts and nuanced argument. One in six Americans now believes that military rule...
As the deadlock over forming a government continues, charges against the caretaker prime minister have tipped the country into an uncharted constitutional crisis.
The decision to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on three separate criminal counts pushes the country’s already unprecedented electoral stalemate into the entirely uncharted territory of...
Here are some of my initial half-formed thoughts regarding the horrific shooting incident in Christchurch New Zealand.
Undoubtedly; alas undoubtedly - we will see various politicians trying to jump on the bandwagon of outrage and use the incident for their own nefarious purposes as the dead are replaced by their...
