Patriotism, everyoneās heard of that. Proud to be Irish, French, American? Comedian George Carlin: āBeing Irish isnāt a skill. Itās a fuckinā…
In an interview in the UK ‘Times’ today the UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has accused Jeremy Corbyn’s dog of antisemitism, making…
Front page of the Guardian Review I’m trying to get it: a US president who waged war against 7 Muslim countries; droned,…
Lefties have been warning anyone who cares to listen for two decades now, to smirks and eyerolling, about the UK’s stealthy march…
BlackKklansman is a feel-good film. Itās a great film if we want to keep our feathers unruffled and sleep peacefully at night, embedded in the system, minds comfortably turned off
A Question of Style The current events in Istanbul say nothing at all about the medieval regime in Saudi Arabia we didnāt…
A look at Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman
Who’s Faking the News and Who Leaked the DNC Emails? January 17, 2017 The answer to the second question is: probably…
According to Vladimir Putin honest diplomacy is like dry water. Maybe that’s not always true. There were diplomats who tried to find…
The pictures below are from Afghanistan in the 1970s, some of them from Kathleen Foster’s film “Afghan Women, a History of Struggle”.…
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