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Larry the cat
Dave the Rave has all the moves. Verily, is he the Lord of the Dance. Yet no one or their cat noticed the sky turning black upon his return. Only I saw the devil on his back as he leads us towards post-Brexit temptation.  But something is afoot. Mark my words. These tea-guzzling-biscuit-gobbling Fat Cats…
Voltaire’s Bastards Strike Again: How the Tyranny of Rationalism Lost America’s Vote
“Democratic systems may hold elections, but those elections are largely  ceremonial, moments in which the public is invited to endorse decisions already  taken by small groups.” — John Ralston Saul, Voltaire's Bastards, p. 52. Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election marked a seismic shift in American politics. Regardless of one's political alignment,…
Palestine Lebanon Extermination Camps: Call to Arms
14 October 2024 The ongoing extermination of the Palestinian people and the bombing of Lebanon should not be blamed on Israel alone. It is America that has been waging wars across the world since they dropped the atomic bombs in Japan, and the present crimes against humanity and genocide are American crimes through the…
Muslims Don’t Matter
BOOK REVIEW: "Muslims Don’t Matter: Sayeeda Warsi’s Candid Dissection of Britain’s Relationship with Islam", Bridge Street Press, London, 3 Oct 2024 Barely in the two decades since the infamous 9/11 marker, Muslims are right at the centre of the political discourse of assertive liberalism and more evident. Caught between the rampant Islamophobia in everyday…
One Year After Gaza: Reckoning with a Genocide Ignored
“At the dawn of decolonization, Palestine was colonized. I recall my utter confusion at this irony of history.”                 — Eqbal Ahmad, 1994 One year after the relentless bombardment of Gaza that followed the horrific events of October 7th, as Hamas launched an attack,  we are compelled to confront an unsettling truth: Is this the…
“It’s Bisan from Gaza, and I’m Still Alive”
“The assassination of a journalist is not only the murder of a voice, but an attempt to annihilate the right of the world to know, to understand, and to bear witness to suffering.”  – Shireen Abu Akleh, Al Jazeera’s Palestinian-American journalist, killed                                         by Israeli sniper on 11 May 2022 The 25-year-old Palestinian journalist…