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Amnesty International’s report on the apartheid Israeli regime is a welcome and significant development.

If one man’s legacy looms large over the modern history of Latin America it’s the legacy of Che Guevara.

John Wight, an author and political commentator based in Scotland, says Ukraine’s importance to Russia is historical, national, and strategic.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces mounting criticism and calls to resign over a series of parties in Downing Street while the rest of the UK was in lockdown, resulting in national outrage.

July The District Exchange, a nonprofit organization that donates clothing to those in need, started looking for a new home. During the week of July 12, Director Dave Bean asked the Bethel Board of Selectmen if the exchange could use the vacant Ethel Bisbee Elementary School. It was believed the school was deteriorating, but selectman […]

The most profound hypocrisy that prevails in our world is the legitimization of Israel as a Western-style liberal democracy.

The decision by the British government is not per se an attack on Hamas, but an attack on the entire Palestinian people.

John Wight believes the NATO chief should be begging the people of Libya for forgiveness.

Wednesday, 04 August 2021 8:58 AM   [ Last Update: Wednesday, 04 August 2021 8:58 AM ] By John Wight A recent article on the website of Bloomberg, ‘Putin flexes his muscles in Syria in test of Israel’s new leader’, reports that ‘after years of tolerating Israeli strikes in Syria under former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Moscow is eager to do more to bolster Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with a new government in Jerusalem.’ The afore quoted rev...

Photo Courtesy of John Wight BETHEL — “I am a product of my family, of my grandfather, to my father now to my son,” John Wight says in his barn, underneath a polished wooden canoe. As Wight has been teaching for 46 years [math and science at the Gould Academy], he speaks passionately. However, when he talks about his family, there is layer of respect as he describes his linage, and how he became who he is today. Starting with his grandfather, everyone in his family has carried on the cano...