Two prose poems
7
Jan
Brecht is powerful but it’s Michael Rosen who captures our zeitgeist.
Author Archives: steel city scribe
How NOT to combat “antisemitism”
6
Jan
Below is a Facebook exchange, I think self explanatory, from a few days ago. Let me say right out I never set eyes on any of its three participants, though last week Ian Jenkins sent a friend request after I’d … Read More »
Three short reads for 2019
2
Jan
Coffee and funny money accountancy writ large … a supremely well penned salute to five heroic contrarians … the wickedly accurate putting straight, by a Presbyterian minister, of all who see in Donald Trump some mystifyingly aberrant wrong turn by … Read More »
Islington’s ban on Gilad Atzmon
29
Dec
Some of us have been aware for a long time of creeping inroads, on freedom and such open society fundamentals as presumption of innocence, made in the name of progressive values. Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Woody Allen stand convicted … Read More »
The West’s false narrative on Syria
28
Dec
Yesterday in CounterPunch, under the header, Trump’s Big Pullout, Chandra Muzaffar wrote: If we … turn to the situation in Syria, we would realise that the US role in combating terrorism was limited. The Syrian Army, with the backing of … Read More »
Israel’s propaganda war: who’s winning?
27
Dec
A good friend wrote the other day, apropos my recent piece on a Texas speech therapist fired for refusing to sign an employment contract debarring her from supporting the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. My friend welcomed the piece, … Read More »
Four takes on Trump’s Syria ‘withdrawal’
23
Dec
Bobby said he’d pull out, Bobby stayed in … Bruce Springsteen Western liberals despair at Trump’s avowed intent to pull troops out of Syria, a country the USA has illegally occupied since 2014 for reasons said liberals blithely and against … Read More »
The River Trent today
20
Dec
Land of the free
18
Dec
This post also features in OffGuardian The map below shows the spread across the USA of laws against support for the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. It was compiled by Palestine Legal, an organisation dedicated to protecting the civil … Read More »
Antisemitic verses
17
Dec
The OffGuardian version of my recent post, First they came for the socialists, elicited this below the line exchange: How do you respond to a comment like that? You don’t want to grace it with too considered a response. That … Read More »