The Iconoclast
He Said-They Said: Mahmoud Abbas October 14th speech, and the Mainstream Media
by Robert Harris (June 2016) Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority’s president, delivered an important televised speech to Arab-Palestinian society on October the 14th last year, during the height of a […]
Centenary of the Battle of Jutland ~ 31st May 1916
Two men spring to my mind during this weeks commemorations of the centenary of the Battle of Jutland. They are Boy First Class John Travers Cornwell VC, and the last […]
‘Surprise the unbelievers’: 15yo German girl knifed policewoman ‘under orders from ISIS’
From the German edition of Russia Today A 15-year-old girl who knifed a policewoman at Hanover’s main train station in February may have been acting under orders from Isis terrorists, […]
18 women are sexually assaulted at German concert, with victims surrounded by mobs of migrant men and groped in copycat attacks like those in Cologne
This is in the German press, here and elsewhere but the first English language reports I can find are the German edition of Daily Mail A group of asylum seekers sexually assaulted numerous […]
Easy Meat Part II – Political Correctness
The second part of the here. Have you ever read something and felt a kind of relief, an overwhelming sense of ‘at last, someone else gets it’? I felt that […]
ISIS Terror Plot Planning to Target England Fans at Euro 2016 Discovered by French Police
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Coffee Break
by Sanjeev Sethi (June 2016) (1) Ballyhoos contaminate mind of moneyed and the middle class. Economics doesn’t encourage more>>>
Journeys to Hell by András Mezei
translated from the Hungarian & edited by Thomas Ország-Land (June 2016) 1. DEPORTATION The people they’ve lived with in the village are being herded in front of […]
Cinema
by Ankur Betageri (June 2016) Delirium machine. Cinema. Reality. Whatever you think moves. Liquefied more>>>
The Children of Sderot
by David Solway (June 2016) know it is not mannah falling from the skies the children of Sderot know it is not the ram’s horn more>>>
What Do You Know?
by Dilip Mohapatra (June 2016) What do you know of the price of a piece of cloth fluttering on the top of the mast more>>>
The Secretary-General’s Lament
by Brandon Marlon (June 2016) Epic in scope, intimate in nature, the world’s work plods forwards or backwards depending on the council, commission, or agency. Most days the farce gauge […]
Convergence
by Bibhu Padhi (June 2016) They wait with a stillness— these words and their ingredients—almost like more>>>
Antonia’s Song
by Evelyn Hooven (June 2016) (This is from my verse play Celestial Lullaby. The spirit of Antonia seeks to comfort her mourning mother. The mood is ghostly, dream-like.) Oh, […]
Muhammad and Two Assassins Make Waraka ibn Nawfal Into a Metaphor
by A. Human Being (June 2016) November 13, 629AD: On the camel trail from al-Medina to al-Harrah, Arabia It was the strangest thing; whenever Salim ibn Umayr murdered someone, he […]
Freedom is Academic
by Timothy D. Lusch (June 2016) “The consensus of this Committee is final,” the Facilitator said. “But Your Honor—” Danny Koenig pleaded. “Mr. Koenig, you have self-identified with the male […]
