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UK: Police Scotland Reviews Sri Lankan Police Training

(London) – The Scottish government should provide details of a review of Police Scotland training for Sri Lankan police, Human Rights Watch, Freedom from Torture, the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice, and Pax Christi Scotland said in a letter to the Scottish Justice Secretary Keith Brown. Scottish ministers should

The Houses of Dead and Crooked Souls

Photo by Krzysztof Kowalik on Unsplash “A house constitutes a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of stability.” Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space There is a vast and growing gulf between the world’s rich and poor. An obscene gulf. If we can read houses, they

Sri Lanka: Police Abuses Surge Amid Covid-19 Pandemic

(New York) – Sri Lanka’s police are increasingly killing and abusing people under cover of the Covid-19 pandemic measures and an anti-drug campaign, Human Rights Watch said today.

Support for Craig Murray

For those of you who don’t know, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and current alt-news blogger, Craig Murray is on his way to prison. We haven’t covered the story much here, being mainly concerned with the global autocratic power-grab and being cursed with only so many hours in

Trying to Put All America Behind

Sixty years ago this summer, on August 7, 1961, President John Kennedy signed the bill creating The Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts. It consists of forty miles of immaculate sandy beach, marshes, ponds, and upland along the Atlantic Ocean, with some portions stretching across the land to Cape Cod

The Woking of Tolkien: don’t let identity politics infect Middle Earth

It is 20 years since the premiere of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

The One Ring and the Villain in All of Us

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of Peter Jackson’s trilogy adapting JRR Tolkien’s Lord of Rings.

Russian Activist Targeted Under Abusive 'Undesirable Organization' Law

Update: On June 2, a court in Krasnodar ordered the pretrial detention of Pivovarov for two months.

10 Covid-Skeptic Memes to Get You Through the Day – Part 4

Happy Bank Holiday Monday! Sure, ever since lockdowns became a thing, Bank Holidays have lost some of their uniqueness and charm (just as the phrase ‘never in a month of Sundays’ will forever have different connotations), nevertheless, let’s start the week off right with a brand new selection of

Walking with Father Daniel Marking the centennial of Father Daniel Berrigan SJ, member of Catonsville Nine and criminal for peace

Catonsville Nine members Mary Moylan and Daniel Berrigan leaving the Baltimore federal courthouse at the time of their trial for burning draft files to protest the Vietnam War, October 1968 Today is a day to celebrate the prophetic voice and witness of Fr. Daniel Berrigan, the non-violent anti-war activist and

An Epidemic of Low Expectations

Years ago, I was sitting in a café with my rabble-rousing friend James, both of us gnawing our teeth over the myriad difficulties facing the peace and social justice movement in the United States. We cited the usual suspects that stood in the way of progress: the entrenched corporate and

Rise Up, Say the Birds to the Bread

It was early morning on St.

A Vision

Photo by Simon Migaj on Unsplash I had this vision back last spring, When the land was ruled by corrupted kings, And greed was fuelled by hoarding things, But things that one could touch. The vision spoke of melted gold, The value of the world resold, “The price for life”

The REAL “Lunatic Fringe”, and where to find it

On Sunday, an irate Irish society finally said ‘no more’.

The REAL “Lunatic Fringe”, and where to find it The anti-Lockdown protests in Dublin.</span

On Sunday, an irate Irish society finally said ‘no more’.