Topic: Riyadh

I Know the Monster

I Know the Monster

“I know the monster. I have lived in its entrails”. So said Cuban revolutionary and Guantanamero poet, Jose Marti, about the United States in the late nineteenth century. Marti was an outspoken critic of America’s imperialism, racism and rapacious capitalism. But his…

Eclipsing the ARF (and what I did about it)

Eclipsing the ARF (and what I did about it)

Leslie and I came back to Ottawa on home leave one dusty June. Returning from a hardship post was more bizarre than I had anticipated, but a week of decompression and trips to both Canadian Tire and Tim Horton’s restored my sensibilities…