Fortress Europe
From United Against Racism comes this list of 8,855 refugees who have died throughout Fortress Europe since 1993. The amount of drowning, suicide, murder and starvation on this…
Novel Award
I will enter this contest by October. Also the Jo Cowell Short Story Contest (8 June), the Keats-Shelley prize (30 June), Wellington…
Financing Terrorism
This is a bit old, but I wanted to make note of it so I can find it again later. From Narco…
Great news!
I write letters for Amnesty International. I have done (on and off) for many years, usually without any expectation of achieving anything.…
Classless Confusion
The Nation has an analysis of globalisation in its upcoming issue that is almost very good. I say “almost” because although he…
Suing the poor
As if botching a water project in one of the world’s poorest countries weren’t bad enough, UK company Biwater is now taking the Tanzanian government to court for…
Venezuela is (debt) free
Venezuela has now paid off the last cent of its debt to the IMF and World Bank, according to this article in…