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Gaza - This Bleeding Land

Gaza - This Bleeding Land

In the hours prior to Israel's ground invasion of Gaza in 2014, two rival combatants contemplate life and fate.

2024

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Where We Go, Others Will Follow: Review of ‘Gaza: This Bleeding Land’ by John Wight

Review by Jim Aitken for Culture Matters

Jul 8, 2024

Where We Go, Others Will Follow: Review of ‘Gaza: This Bleeding Land’ by John Wight

Jul 8, 2024

Holocaust Memorial Day and the truths that dare not speak

In his epic and comprehensive work, The Second World War, Anthony Beevor writes with customary economy:

3d ago

Holocaust Memorial Day and the truths that dare not speak

3d ago

Trump’s inauguration. Time to buckle up

Leaders who assume power promising a ‘new golden age’ have littered human history since the beginning of time. From Alexander the Great to…

Jan 21

Trump’s inauguration. Time to buckle up

Jan 21

Thoughts on the sublime martyrdom of Aaron Bushnell

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Soren Kierkegaard

Jan 16

Thoughts on the sublime martyrdom of Aaron Bushnell

Jan 16

Los Angeles wildfires. Why we need to talk about capitalism

Armageddon? Apocalypse? End of Days? Dante’s Inferno?

Jan 10

Los Angeles wildfires. Why we need to talk about capitalism

Jan 10

Gaza — This Bleeding Land

Below is an extract from my novel, Gaza — This Bleeding Land, which is currently available from Amazon in the US and UK and all good…

Jan 9

Gaza — This Bleeding Land

Jan 9

Luigi Mangione has them worried. Wonder why?

Unhappy the land that is in need of a hero — Bertolt Brecht

Dec 24, 2024

Luigi Mangione has them worried. Wonder why?

Dec 24, 2024

The Assads of Syria: Part 3 — Bashar’s rise and fall

Bashar al-Assad was not his father’s first choice as his successor. His older brother Basil had been earmarked to succeed Hafez al-Assad…

Dec 23, 2024

The Assads of Syria: Part 3 — Bashar’s rise and fall

Dec 23, 2024

The Assads of Syria — War with the Brotherhood: Part 2

Just over 200 miles north of Damascus on the banks of the Orontes River lies Hama, Syria’s fourth largest city with a pre-2011 population…

Dec 16, 2024

The Assads of Syria — War with the Brotherhood: Part 2

Dec 16, 2024

The Assads of Syria — a legacy of struggle, intrigue, and defiance

The name Assad was inextricably linked with Syria’s fortunes since 1970, when Hafez al-Assad (above), while defense minister, came to…

Dec 12, 2024

The Assads of Syria — a legacy of struggle, intrigue, and defiance

Dec 12, 2024

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