Let’s not look at Africa
It’s been 30 years since the genocide of Rwanda. I recall driving my children to school as the news was on the radio, the numbers […]
Articles by Bert Hetebry
Destructive despotic power
“I saw the emperor – this soul of the world – go out from the city to survey his reign. It was truly a sensation […]
Exceptionalism is a wonderful thing
I got brass in a pocket I got bottle, I’m gonna use it Intention, I feel inventive Gonna make you, make you, make you notice […]
Neocolonialism is alive and flourishing. The human cost… immeasurable
My People When you gonna leave My People Give them room to breathe My People Stop oppressing My People All they want is bread and […]
The rise and rise of the right
I hate it when this happens: stroll into a bookshop and see a book that looks good, read the cover notes and spend the money. […]
Zionism, Imperialism and conflict in the Middle East
As we are constantly bombarded by the ongoing conflict in Gaza and the ever-widening theatre of war to now include The West Bank, Golan Heights […]
False Equivalence. Life is full of ‘could be’s’
A young woman was killed at the music festival which was attacked by Hamas on 7 October 2023 and a friend of hers who was […]
How Bad (or Good) is it Today?
I do love my morning beach walks. Between 6 and 7, ride the bike down to the beach, greet the various regulars down there, James […]
How many holocausts?
Browsing through the new releases at a local bookshop I found a new book by Robert Fisk. I was most surprised since he died in […]
Build more prisons or close some down?
He was 18 years old, didn’t have a driver’s license but had his L plates and a hot Ford Falcon. He worked in a bar […]
From Empire to Liberalism to Neoliberalism
The shift from an essentially liberal, that’s with a lowercase ‘l’, to a neoliberal nation has been most evident in the last few years. How […]
The Pursuit of Happiness
The preamble to the American Declaration of Independence opens with, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they […]
What is Justice?
As I recall, the opening scene of the 2005 movie “Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman” see a woman who had been executed, hanged, removed from the […]
Information, misinformation and blatant lies
Does truth matter? How is truth discerned? Or more importantly what is truth? The German historian and philosopher, Hannah Arendt wrote of the Nazi regime […]
