Author: Suneil Sharma
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Israeli or Palestinian?
UNPRECEDENTED The word unprecedented, with adjectives like audacious and horrific, has been used on numerous occasions to describe the brutality of the attack by Hamas, largely on innocent Israeli civilians. What is also unprecedented about this attack is the abject failure of Israeli intelligence, regarded by many as the best in the world, to see…
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Small boats,Small beer?
I have often mentioned that the greatest existential threat to our species is the climate crisis and its implications for global stability. So, let’s look specifically at it through the prism of climate-related mass migration in 4 areas: Food insecurity is rising as a direct consequence of climate change. It is estimated that 80% of…
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As the World Polarises the Planet Burns
As we helplessly and hopelessly observe the world becoming more politically polarised, here and in Israel, the US, Spain, India, and the only place that seems to have missed out on this polarisation is Orwellian China. Brutal wars are going on in Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen, and Mali. The new cold war is the stand-off between…
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Stop selling utopias: A bit of Objectivity and Nerdiness, Please!!!
New Ireland or Just the old one in Drag
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Dear Sam
In his recent article in Sunday Independent Sam McBride starts with an unexpected eugenic trope, that it was “Horny Catholics” that laid the foundation for Sinn Fein’s recent success. Sinn Fein’s success is more accurately a consequence of the post-Brexit antics of the DUP (Death of the Union Party), the demise of the SDLP as…
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Pivotal, Definitely Not
The outputs of reconciliation and peace-building ecosystem/industry have not and cannot be measured because the system and funding lines were designed to buy reconciliation. An interviewee asks “Are we settling for separation, rather than reconciliation? The answer is yes, in working-class areas, no, in middle-class areas. Those who have made a good living in this…
The Gob 