On August 6, 1945, the biggest act of mass murder in a single hour in human history took place when a US airplane dropped a nuclear bomb on citizens living in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later the second greatest act of mass murder took place when another US plane dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. …
I can still recall on November 28, 1990 walking into a café in Cornwall in the west of England and picking up a newspaper with the headline that Margaret Thatcher had resigned as Prime Minister. …
I jumped for joy on November 28,1990 when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got evicted….Read More »
I jumped for joy on November 28,1990 when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got evicted…. Read More »
Successive British governments for generations, as well as far too many British citizens, have promoted the view that Britain is a truly civilised nation. There is an immense amount of hubris around such a viewpoint that must make countless numbers around the rest of the world shake their head in disbelief at such naivety at our history. …
Yes, it is heartbreaking to read of the massacre of the 20 children and six teachers at the Sandy Hook School at Newtown, Connecticut, where Adam Lanza, 20, pumped bullet after bullet into the vulnerable bodies of the children and teachers. Political leaders and religious leaders, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslem alike and civic leaders have rightly expressed their grief and offered their counsel. Yes massacres take place elsewhere as well – Norway, Scotland, Australia, Switzerland etc – but 80 per cent of all massacres of children occur in the USA. Why? What are the major steps protect children and adults from the bullet? …
Our compassion will not stop the massacre of US schoolchildren.Read More »
Our compassion will not stop the massacre of US schoolchildren. Read More »
The emotional and physical scars from the eight day bombardment this month will long linger on with the impoverished Gazan citizens with 104 civilians killed – a third were children. Another 970 civilians were maimed or wounded including around a third of them children. …
