Watching the memorial service to Muhammad Ali on Friday was at times, as you’d expect, very poignant. But it was more than that: this was Muhammad Ali’s planned, final statement to the world. A man – once so eloquent, verbose and decisive, but who had been slowly robbed of his ability to speak over the […]
Today the world will say its final goodbye to one of the greatest cultural figures – and probably the most charismatic – of the 20th century. And also the greatest sports star probably of all time. So it is perhaps also an appropriate moment to travel back in time to a steaming hot night, October […]
Much has been made in the days since the death of Muhammad Ali about the ‘whitewashing’ of his life and legacy. There’s no real question that Ali was, at least at one time, a radical; and that aspect of his story has been largely glossed over in much of the coverage. This has been motivated […]
While no one is likely to dispute Muhammad Ali’s claim to the title of Greatest Sports Star of All-Time, it was his potency and relevance as an inimitable cultural and social icon that many more people beyond the realm of sport will always remember him for. There has been no one else in the world […]
‘False narratives and blatant lies continue to be put forth by the corporate media and lying “Human Rights” groups with ties to the CIA, US State Department and/or colour-revolution schemer George Soros…’ explains independent journalist Eva Bartlett. ‘In recent years, many books have been written on Syria, and with the exception of a few, they […]
So last week, as Marvel launched a new Captain America series, the first issue caught most people off-guard with its ending and even apparently offended a number of fans. It also caused on online uproar and made headlines across most major American media outlets, along with accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ and the writer even receiving death […]
In case you missed it, there was just another little tidbit – mostly ignored by the majority of the media – to further indicate (or even prove) that the Osama bin Laden ‘videos’ were being mostly faked right from the outset. The video speeches, which were so central a part of the American propaganda for […]
This is an edited version of an older article, exploring the life and legacy of Malcolm X, including in relation to Martin Luther King and the two Kennedy assassinations. It is also about the 1960s as a cultural era, about his adoption of Sunni Islam and later Pan-Africanism, and about the time he almost brought […]
I have gone back and forth with my view on Donald Trump for a long while; but it has become much clearer in the last few weeks. A while back I was having a discussion with an old friend, who I also occasionally podcast with, and who goes by the online name of ‘Mumra 2K’ […]
Meet artist and painter Illma Gore. When Gore published the now infamous nude painting of Donald Trump with a fictional micro-penis on Facebook, she probably didn’t realise the problems it would cause her. As if the farce of the 2016 presidential election couldn’t get any more bizarre or low-grade, Gore’s art prompted Republican candidate Trump […]
