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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

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

Jul 8

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Gaza — This Bleeding Land

Below is an excerpt from my novel — recently, published — which tells the story of this prolonged tragedy through the eyes of two rival…

May 28

Gaza — This Bleeding Land

May 28

John Wight

The enduring truths of Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Miserables’

Modern literature lacks the epic works that encompass and define the times in which we live, capturing that elusive but necessary…

3d ago

The enduring truths of Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Miserables’

3d ago

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The 2024 RNC was a festival of crackpots and cranks

In George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel, 1984, the main character Winston Smith has this to say:

Jul 19

The 2024 RNC was a festival of crackpots and cranks

Jul 19

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Was October 7 Israel’s 9/11, or was it a Palestinian Tet Offensive?

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders…

Jul 16

Was October 7 Israel’s 9/11, or was it a Palestinian Tet Offensive?

Jul 16

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A review of the multiple security failures surrounding the Trump assassination attempt

In a past life I spent years working security, from the age of 17 all the way up my mid-thirties (I’m now in my fifties) to be precise.

Jul 15

A review of the multiple security failures surrounding the Trump assassination attempt

Jul 15

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Trump assassination attempt. Has the US entered a pre-civil war period?

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the…

Jul 14

Trump assassination attempt. Has the US entered a pre-civil war period?

Jul 14

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Genocide Joe Biden is not fit to run a bath, never mind a country

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, ‘1984’

Jul 11

Genocide Joe Biden is not fit to run a bath, never mind a country

Jul 11

John Wight

NATO is not a shield it is a sword, covered in blood

The current and ongoing conflict in Ukraine reminds us that the existence of NATO 75 years on from its creation stands as an insult to the…

Jul 10

NATO is not a shield it is a sword, covered in blood

Jul 10

John Wight

What to the slave is your Fourth of July?

The Fourth of July is America’s Independence Day, one of the most important dates in the nation’s calendar. It is a day when myth and…

Jul 4

What to the slave is your Fourth of July?

Jul 4

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