Cross Connections

"I've laid in a ghetto flat Cold and numb I heard the rats tell the bedbugs To give the roaches some Everybody wanna know Why...

Everybody wants to claim Nelson Mandela. India has appropriated that right with its most bankable crutch: Mahatma Gandhi. Mandela, who fo...

Do we sometimes overstate racism? Emphasis on colour in politically-correct terms only consolidates stereotypes. Finger-pointing bad taste d...

They hacked a soldier to death. What was as bad as the spectacle of TV anchors giving tantalising sound bites about the possible image...

He won’t utter the R word. He won’t call it racism. His job matters. It took the President of the United States of America one month to com...

David Cameron has so canonised water cannons that they appear to be miracle-makers of the new morality drenching the fires of protest. “L...

I never did think about Spiderman’s colour, except for his blue and red costume. So, what does a new half-black replacement mean? Is he ter...

Winfrey the Pooh   Oprah’s Divine Comedy by Farzana Versey Counterpunch, May 27-29  They were discussing thighs. The woman was wea...

Inside every American there is a president waiting to come out. So it would seem from former Prez Jimmy Carter’s recent statements. I find t...