ISRAEL and Iran are staging a Japanese kabuki-style confrontation that borders on the absurd. So far, it has been mostly harmless (not counting Gaza), but behind the posturing by both sides lies the deadly ...
THE renowned writer Arthur Koestler warned a decade ago that Israel risked becoming “a nasty little Sparta”. Ten years later Israel, grown rich on US military and financial aid, has become a very nasty ...
GOOD work, President Joe Biden. You have managed to do what America’s enemies have not – creating widespread hatred for the US around the globe. Your destruction of the Gaza refugee camps has inflamed ...
AS we remember the Auschwitz death camp and the Jewish Holocaust, let us recount the greatest mass killer of prisoners during World War II, the by-now-forgotten Soviet Major General Vasily Blokhin.
IT is not a real war. The bloody carnage in Israel and Palestine that we now witness is a large prison uprising being crushed by Israel’s military might.
M-16 lightweight rifles against Merkava tanks, home-made ...
WHO murdered Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar? This crime, which occurred last June near Vancouver in British Columbia, has riveted Canada and put Ottawa on a collision course with India, now ...
AH, Paris in the springtime! Clouds of tear gas. Tough CRS riot police breaking heads. Plate glass windows being smashed. Heaps of noxious garbage burning away. Retail stores being denuded of business ...
TRUTH is always the first casualty of war and no less so than the current conflict in Ukraine. Russia insists it’s a localised police action to uproot a new Nazi uprising.
IT was an unforgettable evening in Moscow. I was taken by Russian friends to the city’s then largest cathedral which had been closed for decades under Joseph Stalin’s orders.