Pictures of Taipei
21
Sep
Taiwan’s capital and largest city, in the island’s northern tip. I’m now halfway down the east coast, in Hualien, but am far from done with Taipei. Here’s a sampler.
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Pirates of the Carabiner
18
Sep
Improvise and overcome – Clint Eastwood, Heartbreak Ridge I’m told the population of Taipei is 2.8 million, and I’m staying in its beating downtown heart. But yesterday a thirty second walk from the vibrantly buzzing A Dot Hostel, then a … Read More »
From Taiwan
16
Sep
My first encounter with the far east’s, and more particularly China’s, emphasis on the importance of face came not in China but Bangkok in 2009. I was at the snake farm attached to one of the city’s several world class … Read More »
Hello Mr Lennon
12
Sep
I think Marco – his comment appeared below a Youtube clip featuring Al Pacino speaking of the time he met John Lennon – must be American. In which case ‘Strawberry fields’ refers to a small part of Central Park dedicated … Read More »
Chavism: critical but unconditional ..
6
Sep
This post also features on Renegade Inc With single voice, mainstream media trash Maduro for election theft and tanking the economy. As with Syria and North Korea, many buy such poppycock. This despite the fact leaders in the global south … Read More »
Venezeula in the media
4
Sep
Good article today by Ricardo Vaz. Writing in CounterPunch, Vaz shows how poorly informed we are by Guardian, BBC, Washington Post and NYT. Actually, ‘poorly informed’ is misleading, implying as it does mere incompetence and ignorance when, as Vaz’s title … Read More »
Was Diana’s death an accident?
2
Sep
Some say the Devil’s signature achievement lies in convincing us he doesn’t exist. Substitute more secular terms – ruling class, say, or imperialism – and the wisdom of those words is far reaching. As is that of a further tweak: … Read More »
If you read nothing else on Syria ..
31
Aug
… read this. Aidan O’Brien, a Dublin hospital worker, writing today in CounterPunch. It’s not the most elegant prose. It overuses inverted commas and Aidan can for sure expect a visit from the apostrophe taliban, but his words have a … Read More »
It was twenty years ago today ..
31
Aug
… on August 31, 1997, that “the people’s princess” was killed by a high speed collision in Paris’s Pont de l’Alma road tunnel. I don’t know whether or not MI5, in cahoots with Sûreté and DGSE, engineered that collision. Neither, I … Read More »
Good King David’s Dowry
30
Aug
A claim frequently made by illegal Zionist settlers in the Occupied Territories is that the land is theirs by the deed of entitlement also known as the Bible. Well you can’t say fairer than that, now can you? This from … Read More »