[First published in AM New York.]

“SAY IT ISN’T SO,  Joe!” we all want to yell. But at Dan Rather (left). Continue reading “‘Sixty Minutes’ Mess Over Unverified Bush Story” »

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN ‘THE NEW YORK TIMES’ MAGAZINE

NO-ONE EXPECTED it to end with killing. In 1972, I was a junior TV journalist assigned to watch events in Northern Ireland, which that weekend happened to include a protest march in Derry. At most, I figured there would be the customary low-level standoff between protesters and the army, some stone-throwing and tear gas. But once the shooting started, that day was destined to be known as Bloody Sunday.

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[First Published in The Guardian, London, September 10^th, 1976]

LAST WEEK THREE anti-nuclear campaigners went to gaol in the small mid-California town of San Luis Obispo. They joined seven other colleagues already sentenced to periods of imprisonment ranging from 15 days to six months. All were gaoled for their self-confessed participation in a mass protest last month against the siting of a nuclear plant near an earthquake fault.  They are the first in a long line. Continue reading “‘Dust-up in Diablo Canyon’ – Retrospective Protest Coverage” »

[First published in the ‘NEW STATESMAN‘ magazine – London,  May 1973]

THE MASSIVE CABORA BASSA dam now being built in Portuguese Mozambique provokes some strong passions. For its many opponents across the world, it is a concrete symbol of white racialist determination to retain power in southern Africa.   Continue reading “The Cabora Bassa Stockade: Location Dispatch, 1973” »