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Watch: One-on-one with Roger Waters

James Porteous 27 August 2022 0 Comment

An interesting interview with Roger Waters, late of Pink Floyd talking about politics, foreign policy, music, and his latest tour, “This is Not a Drill” – which he calls “part of a global movement...

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Watch: Ukraine: The Seeds of War (AJE)

James Porteous 11 April 2022 0 Comment

An unsettling and detailed documentary describing the many events over the past decade that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine 11 April 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News The Fake and...

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Photos: Tom Stoddart’s career in pictures

James Porteous 6 March 2022 0 Comment

For four decades, photojournalist Tom Stoddart covered Lebanon, apartheid’s end, the Berlin Wall, Sarajevo, Gulf Wars… He worked in B&W throughout his career. Photo: The first section of the Berlin Wall is pushed down...

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Saudi Arabia’s desert camel carvings dated to around 7,000 years ago

James Porteous 20 September 2021 0 Comment

Photo: (AFP/Hassan Ammar) 19 September 2021 | KELLY MACNAMARA | AFP via Jakarta Post Life-sized carvings of camels and horses hewn into rock faces in Saudi Arabia could be around 7,000 years old, according...

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Watch: The Fall of Saigon (1975)

James Porteous 28 August 2021 0 Comment

In the decades to come, The Fall of Kabul may be remembered for being little more than manifestly different from The Fall of Saigon. But is it? Photo: In the iconic photo from 1975,...

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It’s time for Sirhan Sirhan to go free

James Porteous 24 August 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Sirhan Sirhan, left, reacts alongside his attorney William Pepper, as he is denied parole, at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, 10 February 2016. Gregory BullAP Photo That tumultuous decade had already...

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100 years after forced removal, Nez Perce people celebrate reclaimed land

James Porteous 3 August 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Members of the Nez Perce Tribe ride to Am’sáaxpa or “the place of boulders,” to bless the ancestral land they reclaimed. In direct violation of the 1855 Treaty of Walla Walla, the Nez...

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Egypt finds ancient military vessel, Greek graves in sunken city

James Porteous 21 July 2021 0 Comment

Photo: A diver examines the remains of an ancient military vessel discovered in the Mediterranean sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, in this handout image released on July 19, 2021....

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Backstory: The UK’s Troubles ‘Amnesty’

James Porteous 15 July 2021 0 Comment

A series of articles discussing what some are calling the UK’s “de facto amnesty” for those involved in Troubles-related killings. Northern Secretary says proposals are ‘painful recognition of the reality of where we are’...

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Study reconstructing Da Vinci’s genealogical profile finds 14 living relatives

James Porteous 8 July 2021 0 Comment

Photo: A person looks at an electronic display of The Vitruvian Man 1490, a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Researchers hope to understand genius of artist by reconstructing his genealogical profile...

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V&A ‘Epic Iran’ puts 5,000 years of artefacts on display

James Porteous 26 May 2021 0 Comment

Photo: A V&A employee looks at colour images projected onto casts on loan from the British Museum, based on originals from the Palace of Darius, on display at Epic Iran, an exhibition soon to...

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‘War lawyers’ decide who lives and who dies in modern war zones

James Porteous 13 May 2021 0 Comment

War lawyer: I am being asked by the commander whether he may legally kill these humans. I am the judge — he the jury and executioner 12 May 2021 | Craig Jones | The...