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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

Stories

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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

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

5d ago

Thoughts on the sublime martyrdom of Aaron Bushnell

5d ago

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

Assad’s fall was swift. He goes into history as a failed leader

When states implode as suddenly as Syria just has, they do so as a result of external pressures combining with internal weaknesses, to thus…

Dec 10, 2024

Assad’s fall was swift. He goes into history as a failed leader

Dec 10, 2024

Brian Thompson’s execution and its moral implications

Brian Thompson was a capitalist’s capitalist. He was a poster boy for greed in our time, a man driven by the ethos of capital accumulation…

Dec 7, 2024

Brian Thompson’s execution and its moral implications

Dec 7, 2024

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