Back to Buccaneering and the Jolly Roger?

Posted by on Aug 22, 2015 in east west issues, miscellaneous | 0 comments This article was first published in New  View magazine 3rd Quarter Summer 2015   I am myself. I “identify” with myself and am responsible to and for myself and my actions and for the care of my body. I am also a member of the human race, the extended human family or community, and identify as such. I am aware of the body of the world, which supports my earthly existence, and I...
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William Shakespear – Saudi Arabian Pilgrim

Posted by on Apr 22, 2015 in east west issues, First World War | 0 comments This article was first published in New View magazine No.75 April-June 2015 Canterbury -  the capital of the English shire of Kent, the shire closest to the European Continent. It was an ancient Celtic and then Roman settlement, where St Augustine arrived from Rome in 597 to convert the Anglo-saxons, beginning with King Aethelbert of Kent, whose Christian wife Bertha was a Frank (another...
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The Poppies of 2014 – Goodbye to All That?

Posted by on Dec 27, 2014 in First World War, nwo | 0 comments A slightly shorter version of this article first appeared in New View Magazine  #74 Jan – Mar 2015 And so we came to the end of 2014, the centenary  year since the outbreak of the First World War, the catastrophic conflict  which can be said to have opened the actual 20th century, which was a very short century and ended in 1989/90 with the termination of ‘the Soviet...
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日本の危機？好機？福島（福運の島）

Posted by on Dec 20, 2014 in east west issues, 日本語 | 0 comments 来年で還暦を迎えると、私の日本で過ごした時間は人生の６分の１になる。日本は私にとって非常に身近な存在であり、その国土、社会、文化を思うと感謝の念をおぼえずにはいられない。
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A Seasonal Blog – The Christmas Truth, 1914 [External Link]

Posted by on Dec 11, 2014 in blog, First World War | 0 comments This is an interesting piece written by Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor on the Christmas Truce of 1914 and the current attempt by a British supermarket chain to cash in on the memory of the Truce, from Docherty and MacGregor's blog "Hidden History". Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor are the authors of the book Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War (2013), which investigates the activities of the Rhodes-Milner Group in the period 1890-1914 and their influence on British war-planning.
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