John Wight

John Wight

  • Joined: Tue, Dec 02, 2008
  • Articles: 24

The tragedy Of Susan Boyle

We live in a world in which the ephemeral is real and the real is, for many, hopefully only ephemeral. How else to explain the religious obsession with celebrity which governs everything in our lives from the way we see…

For counter terrorism read reaction

For counter terrorism read reaction The British government’s new counter terrorism strategy was unveiled yesterday accompanied by the usual fanfare of publicity, designed to remind us that terrorists are lurking under the bed and so best allow further erosion of…

The Real IRA announce that the war is not over

(first published on Marxmail listserv) A political crisis has been created in the space of 48 hours in the North of Ireland. First two British soldiers were shot dead outside their base just outside Belfast on Saturday night, with a…

A return to war in Ireland?

The recent attack on a British army base in Antrim by, it appears, so-called republican dissidents, will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with politics in the six counties of Ireland or who’s spent even a small amount of…

Israel’s coming war with Hezbollah

Evidence points to the strong possibility that Israel’s military operation in Gaza is being viewed by the Israelis as a dress rehearsal for another war with Hezbollah. Since its defeat at the hands of the Iranian-backed Lebanese resistance movement during…

Slaughter in Gaza

Israel has unleashed hell on Gaza. At time of writing 200 men, women, and children are known to have been slaughtered in airstrikes using US supplied fighter aircraft. Over 300 are known to be injured, many of whom will undoubtedly…