Month: July 2005

On Friday the British Medical Association “struck off the register” an eminent paediatrician who had given flawed evidence in baby murder cases. This is the equivalent of a US doctor losing his licence. The reason I...

This past Sunday, at about four in the morning, the first of four buses filled with Huaorani men, women and children arrived in Quito, Ecuador. They had come from deep in the Amazon. To reach the buses they traveled for days by...

I have traveled a long journey from my upbringing in a southern christian fundamentalist rightwing family and wonder sometimes if what I learned along the way would be helpful to those of you who are trying to understand...

Let’s talk about what it means to be undercover, or a covert agent. Here is a breakdown of the different degrees of cover given to CIA employees: No cover. Upper management, college recruiters, congressional liaisons,...

It has taken a long time, and a metric fuckload of provocation for me to get to this point. I have, at long last, utterly and I think permanently lost patience with so-called liberals or self-styled progressives who conflate...