ISN’T IT OBVIOUS? OBSERVATIONS ON THE UKRAINE ‘CRISIS’
Thursday, February 3rd, 2022Fifty years ago today, Beatle George told us that All Things Must Pass. Then he told us ...
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Fifty years ago today, Beatle George told us that All Things Must Pass. Then he told us ...
MARX AND WALKING ZEN
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ENDING THE PARK ERA IN SOUTH KOREA FOR GOOD
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LIBERATING EUROPE FROM RUSSIAN GAS
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IMAGINING A “CLEAN BREAK” WITH ISRAEL… OVER IRAN
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012Are people today more susceptible to lies, packaged and organised as truth? That's the true role of any "nation-building press". The world of science acknowledges matter-of-factly that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program. There is simply no evidence for one. The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, staffed by specialists ...
THE JAPANESE DISASTERS
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011We cannot attribute either divine or human agency to the movements of tectonic plates off the coast of Honshu. This is just - shikataganai - the way things happen on our young vigorous planet. But, as history professor Gary Leupp laments, it may happen that the worst part of this ...
THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011At first the revolution was televised only by Al Jazeera when the rest of the mainstream press gave passing coverage to the Egyptian revolt. The fear was that Western powers would lose their influence over a key Middle Eastern ally. But Professor Gary Leupp argues change is for the better. ...
THE YEMENI TONER CARTRIDGE BOMB STORY
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010Parcels that may or may not contain bombs. Devices in parcels that may or may not explode in mid-air. Targets in the USA that may or may not be targets if said bombs were supposed to explode mid-air. There you have it a series of contradictions, of hurriedly manufactured terrorism, ...
THE POPE’S COVER-UP
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Given the rash of reports about the current pope's alleged involvement in the cover-up of clerical child abuse in a number of countries, Gary Leupp has produced a timeline for the convenience of anyone studying the matter. As the history professor pointed out, it's no doubt incomplete, but hopefully helpful ...
FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY
Thursday, March 25th, 2010Clerics of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and the US were engaging in wide-scale child abuse, and the Church itself was covering it up, for years. Meanwhile, the Pope hasn't said anything yet about the hundreds of abuse cases in Germany occurring under his watch, when he was Archbishop ...