Amiens Cathedral (Pipers play Amazing Grace. Memoriam for Armistice, 1918)

Pipers play Amazing Grace. Memoriam for Armistice, 1918 United Pipers for Peace, 1918-2018, was a gathering of around 400 bagpipers from across the globe to commemorate the centenary of the armistice of the First World War. In a short remembrance ceremony in Amiens Cathedral, Emma Brown sang Amazing Grace, followed by Pipe Major Tom Jamieson… Read More Amiens Cathedral (Pipers play Amazing Grace. Memoriam for Armistice, 1918)

Ordinary Love

Song by U2 The sea wants to kiss the golden shoreThe sunlight warms your skinAll the beauty that’s been lost before wants to find us again I can’t fight you any more, it’s you I’m fighting forThe sea throws rock together but time leaves us polished stones We can’t fall any further ifWe can’t feel… Read More Ordinary Love

Question (1970)

Why do we never get an answerWhen we’re knocking at the doorWith a thousand million questionsAbout hate and death and war? ’cause when we stop and look around usThere is nothing that we need.In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed. Why do we never get an answerWhen we’re knocking at the… Read More Question (1970)

Motherland

A song by Single Gun Theory a long time agoI picked flowers and sang on a hillside far awayI’m still singinga long long time agoI felt love for the first timeit’s still with me now through the years, through the years,carried pain and loss with my love a long long time agoyou and I swam… Read More Motherland

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death for protesting

NB: The brutality of religious tyrants is reminiscent of the medieval Catholic Inquisition. This is disgrace and affront to justice and to humanity. The world is witness to an assault on young people, from Gaza to American campuses, to Iran. Nationalism divides us and makes us blind to the need for human solidarity. Wake up… Read More Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death for protesting