Look at her…

Che Brandes-Tuka “I withdrew myself from commenting and posting on Facebook for the last couple of months, as I had to attend to other matters and had the feeling I started to have to keep repeating myself, atrocity after atrocity. I felt I reached a limit to how much one can point out the hypocrisy…

Gameela Ismail speech to John Kerry Egypt March 2013

Mrs. Gameela Ismail’s speech, that she delivered as representing herself, not as representing her party, at the meeting with U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, in the presence of his accompanying delegation and the U.S. Ambassador, Anne Patterson. “Mister Secretary of State, I saw today, and after thinking about accepting the invitation that was sent…

Strive to be Happy

“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever…

Faith.

“Faith is a unique power that works through the whole creation. Faith does not mean a belief in a certain religion or dogma or ceremony or book or teacher. Faith means trust, a trust even in the absence of reason. With faith, one can move mountains. So what mountain shall we move? It is the…

America’s Weaponising of Ignorance ~ by Finian Cunningham

The contract killing of two opposition figures in Kiev this week is stark evidence that the country under the Western-backed regime is descending into a fully-fledged state of chaos and criminality.  We have already seen the rise of Neo-Nazism militarism, and now the assassination of political opponents on the streets of Kiev. Yet, still, the…

Hollywood in Syria? ~ by Sharmine Narwani 2012.

“Hollywood” in Syria? Oh yes. Scene-setting the likes of which we have not yet seen outside of celluloid fiction. Delivering lines to a rapt audience that seems incapable of questioning the plot. Some of what transpires in Syria in the future will depend on this: Do people want to go behind the velvet curtain and…