Originally posted on Political Review:
Ebola is a crisis of inequality, in the words of US evangelist Jim Wallis. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has written: “The knowledge and infrastructure to treat the sick and contain the virus exists in high- and middle-income counties. However, over many years, we have failed to make these…
Originally posted on Political Review:
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell The murder of Leon Klinghoffer was undoubtedly an atrocity, one incident in a history of atrocities in the Middle East. He was wheelchair-bound, and could not be…
Is God Only Knows the Beach Boys’ best song? The BBC obviously thinks so. Here’s the 27-star strong video they transmitted yesterday – and I loved every minute of it: And here’s the inevitable “making of” backroom video: Here is the full cast list and the lines they sing/perform: Martin James Bartlett – celeste Pharrell … Continue reading
Originally posted on Political Review:
Anna Politkovskaya, murdered by unpunished assassins on October 7, 2016. After the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, I wrote a play based on her Chechenya reportage, A Small Corner of Hell, and developed a film script as a police procedural, entitled Ivanov after the name of the (fictional) detective assigned to…
Karl Dallas Day 