Satori by Don Winslow This literary gem is kinda like the thinking man’s Bond. It might make you feel that Jason Bourne has now met Indiana Jones. Satori is an espionage thriller of the highest calibre that will leave you gasping for more. The novel is based on Trevanian’s (Rodney Whitaker) novel, Shibumi, which Don […]
This is probably the song most associated with the Vietnam War. It tells of how the sons of the financial elite managed to avoid the draft to that brutal and unnecessary conflict. The question of how such monied individuals remained at home, could again be asked as Donald Trump and the US military-industrial complex prepare […]
It was during the US imperialist intervention of the Vietnam War that one of the most shockingly blatant episodes of more recent US war crimes took place. It was named, The Mỹ Lai Massacre. On 16th March, 1968, that US soldiers from Company C, Ist Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division, murdered 504 […]
Perhaps this song could serve as a reminder for those who believe that they are patriots, when they follow orders given by war mongering politicians who have not the courage to serve in wars themselves, in defence of their own countries, but would instead send young men and women to do the killing and dying […]
Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke This is book 15 in the popular Dave Robicheaux series. In this installment, the bold detective from New Iberia in Louisiana, encounters the daughter of a friend of his who was gunned down many years before in Miami. Her appearance coincides with the emergence of some seriously bad hombres […]
Can you listen to this without thinking of a Vietnam war movie. As the world moves ever closer to global conflict, perhaps this song will once again become extremely relevant. Will Trump’s children have to carry a gun and kill or be killed?
Recently, I had cause to recall an incident from my youth (not today or yesterday) when I encountered a member of the British Army who was stationed at that time in my home region of the Occupied Six Counties (OSC) of Ireland. It was a summer weekend and I was in Cookstown, a small, politically-mixed […]
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