The United States has been accused of obstructing justice by refusing to endorse the legal procedures recommended by a recent United Nations report on the humanitarian situation in Sudan’s Darfur region. The report identifies more than 50 individuals suspected of committing “crimes against humanity” and other war crimes; it proposes that the suspects be tried […]
&ldquoThis was an event like an apocalypse – says American jounalist William Nessen, describing accounts of the Tsunami given to him by local people in Aceh, Indonesia – Many people thought it was judgement day. The sea went dry for kilometres, some say for 5-7 kilometres, and then came in as a giant wall of […]
Nervous times for non-believers are here, as the press and media in Italy go into a mystical overdrive inspired by the death of Sr. Lucia of Fatima fame; the death of Don Luigi Giussani, the founder of Comunione & Liberazione*; and the continuing illness of Pope John Paul II (6 pages devoted to him in […]
The new issue of ThreeMonkeysOnline is available just a click away. Plenty of substantial pieces, including interviews with Jim Crace, author of titles such as Quarantine, Being Dead and Six; Asne Seierstad, author of The Bookseller of Kabul and A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal; and Andrew Loog Oldham, the music svengali who […]
Ishiguro’s story of love, loss and hidden truths, reviewed by Shane Barry, is a flawed but consistently unsettling work.
Well, after I put the boot into Enda Kenny on Friday, the guy goes and proves himself to be a regular hero, pulling a woman from a minibus just before the vehicle rolled down an embankment. And he declines to make a big deal about it. See here for the story.
I hope to add a lenghthyish post later on this week–I’ve just finished Emmanuel Todd’s After the Empire, which I found interesting and infuriating in equal measure. I’ll explain why in due course–let’s say Thursday?But I’m currently writing up a few reviews for the main site, which should also appear this week.
I suppose that the Northern Bank robbery and the subsequent investigation into money laundering has become such a major crisis for Sinn F�in for three reasons. First, and probably least important, was the sheer size of the haul. That was guaranteed to generate headlines. Second, now that the armed struggle is over/suspended, the traditional rationale […]
Headline from the RTE website:Bono included on Nobel Prize list?