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Mar.08.2010
My publisher didn't notify me, but War on the Margins, my first novel about the German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII, is now available in the US as a Kindle edition. Text-to-speech is ENABLED. Any Kindle book can be downloaded to an iPhone or a PC. Check out the Web site!
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Mar.07.2010
We’ve all heard the stories—the stories of people being starved, abused, left to die in conditions so grim we try to forget what we know.
We’ve all seen the pictures of the emaciated bodies withered to the point of paper thin skin hanging on bones, the look of defeat in those eyes.
We’ve all...
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Jan.15.2010
Antisemitism is on the rise again. Never since the end of the Second World War have there been so many antisemitic incidents worldwide. The world suffers from amnesia and disregarding the lessons from the past looks the other way. Film director Mel Gibson releases The Passion of the Christ, a...
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Dec.10.2009
Imagine if you can, Bambi meeting Godzilla. That’s how dissimilar the combatants are in Red Storm. Innocent children transform into sword wielding defenders who face-off against a race of beings nurtured by a dark goddess.
This intergalactic fantasy is a gripping and often bloody story of a...
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Nov.27.2009
Tough message to Holocaust deniers
You are a disgrace to your countries and your communities. People like you encourage racism, sexism, tribalism, homophobia, fascism, nazism and so on.Do you really think that you can change the world? When you can’t even change your attitudes and...
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Nov.23.2009
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Latent shame over the Jews' failure to stand up to the Nazis is cited as a reason for the success of "Inglourious Basterds." </span>By Matt Beynon Rees - <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/general/091118/israel-...
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Nov.16.2009
Thank you, Armenian Odar (aka Myrthe), my wonderful blogger fan in Yerevan, who reads large stacks of books and reviews them with great insight. I'm so pleased you saw fit to mention my book again in your blog today.
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Nov.13.2009
After Chagall
A man grips a woman by the shoulders On a bed in the open air, a courtyard With a wall no taller than their knees stopping No one from getting in or seeing them there In the middle of a town blue as the sky, An anxious...
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Sep.04.2009
Palestinians and Israelis take an eternal debate into the classroom, leaving the UN stuck in the middle. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPost
JERUSALEM — In the Book of Lamentations, the people of Jerusalem cry out against the destruction of the city: “Is any suffering like my suffering?”
The answer,...
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Aug.19.2009
As my recent posts would suggest, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s o.k. to write poetry in the first person about experiences one hasn’t had, even knowing that such poems defy convention and that one’s audience might mistakenly believe such verse to be autobiographical. I think such defiance...
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