Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Friday, October 23, 2026
Birds have never looked so utterly strange, gorgeous and non-human as they do in Tim Flack’s “Birds”. Set against completely black or white backgrounds, they are photographed with a starkness that renders them beautiful but also uncanny. Sean Sheehan Flack says the simple backgrounds help to heighten our […]
An acquaintance from my neighbourhood had had a recent operation, when my partner found her in the local shop. Everything had gone well while in the hospital, our neighbour asserted, even the fact that she “shared a room with a white woman”. Mabel Encinas My partner was shocked […]
The waitress comes over to take our order, and greets us with a cheery ‘Hi guys!’ Or, the call-centre operative insists on calling me by my first name, in an assumption of easy camaraderie. Steve Latham These are symptoms of the ‘first name syndrome’. Prevalent in our society, […]
To military coups, dictatorships and other direct forms of waging this cold war can be added new forms of interventionism, of modern warfare, which (without ignoring Washington’s repeated direct military intervention in the region) have centred on economic sabotage, the media war and terrorism. Terrorism is financed and directed by specialised agencies of the United States, which have started to be joined by European countries and Israel.
A mining town at 5,000 metres for decades has been a centre of exploitation of poor workers, trying to jump-start their lives. Prostitution is rife often involving underage girls. Matteo Tortone’s film “Mother Lode” investigates the myths and the exploitation through the eyes of a 13-yr old miner. Graham […]
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