Here we have a fine song of protest at the Zionist occupation of Palestine and the brutality of the Israeli forces of darkness. Music can be a great healer. It can inspire. It can also be utilized to highlight the injustice to be found around our world. It will be seen, then, that the people […]
The Bosphorus is a place of many legends. Jason and his Argonauts would have travelled through this sea-passage in search of the Golden Fleece. Achilles, Hector and Agamemnon would have been familiar with it as Troy is but a short distance away. The Persians used it, as did the Romans. From Byzantium to Constantinople to […]
He was wacky and much-loved. His energy was legendary, as was his kindness. Robin Williams was a gentle soul. Sadly, his life was cut short when he was unable to face a future with a debilitating illness. Yet his legacy lives on. From his movies to his stand-up, he has left a fine body of […]
Palestine grows heroes and heroines. That troubled and storied land grows them strong and many. Unfortunately it has to. In Gaza, the people fight for their dignity. They fight for their rights. They fight for their lives. The press are there to document this war for survival as citizens struggle to counter the fascist aggression […]
Rats! They’re everywhere. In the sewers, the bins, the trees, the cellars, The White House, the building sites, the rubbish dumps (White House again) and now, sadly, on coral islands where they are affecting the health of coral reefs. You see, rats eat the eggs of sea birds, and sea birds excrete guano (poop) that […]
A name that sticks in the memory and one particular song that still echoes across the mountains and glens of Ireland, Goats Don’t Shave were very big in the nineties where they rocked across the land sowing drunken revelry and dancing disorder wherever they stopped to play. It was an exhausting time for those who […]
The caravan of refugees that is moving slowly from Honduras to the Mexico-US border is gaining quite a bit of media exposure, not least from the aggressive rhetoric of Donald Trump. The families in the group have been portrayed as a threat to US national security. Such ill-conceived language serves only to heighten ethnic and […]
One look at the photo of the murdered child should be enough to cause an ache in most hearts. The 11-year-old boy, Nasir Musbah, was helping at a medical tent just prior to being executed by an Israeli sniper. He is one of more than 200, including many children, to have been murdered in this […]
The controversy continues as Sacha Baron Cohen manages to humiliate yet another US celebrity. On this occasion he pranks the actress Corinne Olympios (from Bachelor in Paradise). Granted, she doesn’t appear to be the sharpest tool in the box, but still, the results of this social experiment (that doubles as a good laugh) demonstrate the level […]
It was and still is genocide. The actions of the government and military of Myanmar, formerly Burma, are abhorrent. They have ethnically cleansed the ethnic Rohingya from their homes. They have raped women and children and murdered countless innocent people. They have burned villages and watched as refugees fled the nation for sanctuary in Bangladesh. […]
Here’s a classic rock track from the Dublin rock group, Thin Lizzy. The lead singer, bassist and composer, or co-composer, of most the band’s songs, Phil Lynott, died in 1986 at the age of 36. He was a victim of his own success and perished from conditions allegedly brought about by drug abuse. He is […]
There seems to be no end to the number and scale of stories that are emerging across western nations in relation to the abuse of children, particularly those who were incarcerated in state institutions. It’s sickening to think that any children would suffer such vile abuse, but to understand that often the main perpetrators were/are […]
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