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Doing the Rounds 27 Aug 2013 | 02:41 am
So much lazy thinking. Here’s an agit-prop picture doing the rounds, the sort to appeal to the George Galloway crowd. And here’s my comment: “Except it isn’t familiar. In one case they wanted to invad...
An Occupation Cannot Be Covered By A Music Concert 26 Aug 2013 | 02:37 pm
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! Thanks! 26 August 2013 To Ambassador Michael Steiner, German Embassy, New Delhi, India. Subject: URGENT Protest Letter to German Embassy on scheduled Zubin Mehta concert in Srinag...
Herzog: Cave Of Forgotten Dreams 25 Aug 2013 | 10:07 pm
Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a 2010 3D documentary film by Werner Herzog, about the Chauvet Cave, a cavern in southern France that contains the oldest human-painted images yet discovered, some as old a...
A Curse on Dostoevsky 25 Aug 2013 | 03:43 pm
This review was published at the Guardian. As so often, in places it’s been edited so it makes little sense and becomes clumsy. (Not a Guardian-specific problem, but a general problem with subeditors....
Creative Community for Peace in Letter to Jose Feliciano: Healing with Music in Colonial Times, Building Bridges Over the Bodies of the Oppressed 23 Aug 2013 | 01:34 am
Jose Feliciano is scheduled to perform in apartheid Israel on October 10, at Nokia Stadium. Already he’s being sent messages professing liberal language of equality and harmony for all, by that elite ...
Malcolm X: Make It Plain 21 Aug 2013 | 12:32 am
Malcolm X: Make It Plain is a 1994 documentary by PBS about the life of Malcolm X, or El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
Gore Vidal – American Presidency 18 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
This film presents Gore Vidal’s views on the American presidents.
Letter to John Baron MP 16 Aug 2013 | 06:42 pm
Behind the scenes at Newsnight, John Baron MP said to me, “If you put your emotions aside, for the sake of containment, wouldn’t it be better if Assad won?” I wrote him the following response. As he h...
Politics not Theology 15 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
This was published by the National. If you’d prefer to read my tense choices, before the subediting process, read this version here. I live in Scotland, where I am witness to the continuing legacy of ...
Journey to Kafranbel 15 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm
This account of my trip into Syria’s partially liberated Idlib province was published by the Guardian. To cross the border I had to climb a wall three times my height. It was the most frightening part...