The following sentences are memorial of the death of Berkin Elvan a 15 year old Turkish boy who was struck by a teargas canister shot by police who were sent to disperse protesters of the building of a mall in Gezi Park. Berkin was on his way to the store to buy bread for his family. […]

Robben Island, South Africa’s Alcatraz, had not suffered a loss for 27 years, until the S.A. government released its most notorious tenant according to what it had decreed. Life imprisonment was the unexpected verdict, but twenty-seven years was all that was served, the rest of the world deeming finally that the penalty was too harsh […]

There’s a cow and a bull outside the small five-house complex where I live and every now and then they talk to one another or to their owners to merely note that they’re still afield or fro that person to come and move the forage closer to where sac of them are pinioned to rope […]

Recently Stanley Pivot had been listening to an AM radio station that plays clips of well known stand-up comic’s and the longer he listened the more he disliked what he heard. The laughter from the audience which was apparently there before the comic began to seem to Stanley to be nothing more than a laugh track stuck in behind […]

He Said: “The more I read the cables [720,000 of them] the more I came to the conclusion that this type of information should become public • • . I thought that these cables were a prime example of the need for more open diplomacy”

His consternation started when a family moved into his neighbourhood, into the house across where Stanley lived, had lived for the last six years. In peace and quiet, so much so that he has a favourable atmosphere in which to write his blogs and stories and observations of the world. The family had a mother and father, […]

Dear Reader, He was asking Stanley Pivot how what he wrote about was decided upon. He answered “What needed to be said, wasn’t being said.” And so he risked stating these thoughts at the chance that they might not be printed. The world as Stanley perceived it was much more primitive than it used to […]

“We will find you. We will hold you accountable.” Barack Obama Stanley was reading the front page headlines of the Toronto Globe and Mail, Friday April 19, 2013, a few days after the pressure cooker bombs went off disrupting a premier American cultural event, the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators/participants.

Stanley decided to send his collection of essays, his blogs, to his friend and former student in Turkey without much thought to whether its contents might be considered too radical to be allowed into that country. Nor whether his mailing of the two three-ring binders might be taken from their postal route, opened and looked at with […]

An official card of protest, Mr. Harper’s short and insensitive letter that he and thus the Canadian people hoped that the Venezuelan people could build a more promising future, now that their beloved commandant Hugo was dead after his long battle with cancer. Who does this man Harper think we are that he should send […]