Porter Valley in ice and snow
23
Nov
The snow arrived on Tuesday night. But not until Thursday did a steel city lull release me to walk with steel city canine, in the cold and sparkling, up the Porter Valley. * * *
Category Archives: life
Will the real Israel stand up?
28
Oct
The late Christopher Hitchens Israel’s Western backed war crimes in Palestine and Lebanon, its serial incursions in Syria, and WW3-inducing aggression on Iran have a single overarching aim. All should be viewed through the lens, because none can be understood … Read More »
Roger Waters on Us and Them
10
Oct
So Bruce Springsteen – a man I’ve admired since 1978 and The Wild, The Innocent and The E-Street Shuffle – is supporting Kamala Harris. Those who follow this site will know my dismay does not arise from an equally deluded … Read More »
US v China: zero sum or we win/you win?
19
Sep
When we pay attention to what John Mearsheimer says in that stellar debate with Jeffrey Sachs, featured in yesterday’s post, two things are clear. One is his insistence that the US-led proxy war – fighting Russia down to the last … Read More »
John Mearsheimer – meet Jeffrey Sachs!
18
Sep
I ended the previous post, on the Children who rule the West, with this promise: Coming soon: the zero sum addiction of the West’s rulers, versus China’s we win-you win. Before I move on to fulfilling it, I want to show a video … Read More »
Gaslit to Armageddon
14
Sep
A placard I saw on an 800,000 strong London protest rally, thirty-four days after the onset on October 8th of genocide in Gaza, supplied the title for my photographs of that rally: Even now, after ten further months of mass … Read More »
Filmed theatre review: Prima Facie
13
Sep
Years ago I featured as a masthead quote Anatole France’s dry observation that: The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. It’s a … Read More »
Early autumn on Arran
10
Sep
The human world grows more frightening, and those who rule it more unabashedly ugly, by the hour. All the more vital that we meditate in whatever ways work best for us on the beauty of life itself. On the lovely … Read More »
The iniquities of Enid Blyton
28
Aug
The Telegraph yesterday, August 27: Sir Alexander McCall Smith has criticised the “censoring” of children’s books by authors such as Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton, arguing that they presented a “sanitised world view”. McCall Smith, who is best known for … Read More »
Finkelstein: “no safe place in Gaza”
27
Aug
Norman Finkelstein is not one for mincing words. That doesn’t make him a motor-mouthed rabble rouser. Far from it, and it’s a point I’ll return to in a moment, the research on which his conclusions are based is never less … Read More »