Search Results for: Hitchens
Battling Covid Disinformation in the West…. Dr Rajeev Fernando in Frontline
Marianna Spring, Specialist disinformation and social media reporter, where the title is “Coronavirus: The human cost of virus misinformation” …. https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-52731624 A BBC team tracking coronavirus misinformation has found links to assaults, arsons and deaths. And experts say the potential … Continue reading →
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Covid Apocalypse: Advocates and Challengers
Fauci with Trump As the Covid Pandemic has spread its tentacles across the world, it has spawned conspiracy theorists of all kinds – not just that powerful idiot in Washington. One line of gloom and doom targets that very regime … Continue reading →
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Happy Heathen’s Insights on the Raging Debate on Eelam War IV in the Year 2012
Christopher Hitchens and the Pic accompanying his article on the Sri Lankan situaiton in late May 2009 … Sri Lankan soldiers with the remains of what’s said to be Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran PREAMBLE from Michael Roberts: On the … Continue reading →
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Steve Waugh as a Mother Theresa and Cameraman
Greg Bearup, in The Weekend Australian Magazine, October 9, 2020, where the title is “Different Strokes. Life after Cricket” The office of the Steve Waugh Foundation is up the stairs and down the back of a block of shops on the … Continue reading →
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Ludicrous Science. Huge Error Margins in Death Toll Figures
Chandre Dharmagunawrdena, in Island, 26 July 2019, where the title is “Genocide Claims, Number Games and their margins of error” June 23, 1983 known as “Black July” was a day of shame for Sri Lanka where a government calling itself … Continue reading →
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Christopher Hitchens in Perceptive Reading of the LTTE Defeat in May 2009
Christopher Hitchens,in Slate, 25 May 2009, where the title is “The End of the Tamil Tigers” … and where the chief by-line says “Insurgencies don’t always have history on their side” … See my brief NOTE at the end re … Continue reading →
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Holy War Unmasked
Brian Victoria …… Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. John Donne Introduction: Is religion a force for peace or war? Or to borrow a phrase from the title of Christopher Hitchen’s book, God … Continue reading →
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Liddle’s Sarcastic Criticism of David Cameron’s Arrogance in Sri Lanka at its CHOGM Occasion in 2013
A NOTE: With the UNHCR sessions looming in Geneva this month and CHOGM due to take place in London in the near future I am stirred to visit this moment when a local journalist broke away from the miasma clouding … Continue reading →
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and her “Infidel: My Life” …….. 2006
I. The book Infidel: My Life, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali ….Courtesy of Wikipedia Infidel (2006/published in English 2007) is the autobiography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-Dutch activist and politician. Out of consideration for the safety of the female ghostwriter, her … Continue reading →
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Hitchens in 2009 on the Tamil Cause … and its Fate under Pirapaharan
Christopher Hitchens, on 25 May 2009, in an article in SLATE entitled “The End of the Tamil Tigers. Insurgencies don’t always have history on their side” — see http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2009/05/the_end_of_the_tamil_tigers.html ** In the late fall of 1978, I was approached by a Sri … Continue reading →
