: About Me

I was born in the United Kingdom, have flown aircraft in the Royal Air Force, lived in the Middle East for ten years and travelled throughout South Asia and West Africa.

I've made my career in computing and have brought up a family during my travels. Even so, I've had political, spiritual, and technical articles published - and some poetry.

I now live in Northern California and am returning to my writing

My interests - politics, Buddhism, novels, open-source computing, hiking, comparative spirituality - among others.

My passion is ...

life

I know too much about ...

computing

My parents always told me ...

I'd be on the stage someday

My childhood ambition ...

To be a journalist

My favorite memory ...

The garden at my grandma's house

Why I write ...

To raise consciousness

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Source books on modern Middle Eastern history

My first job ...

working in a brickyard

My best moment ...

there have been many

My inspiration ...

Patrick White, Naguib Mafouz, James Joyce, Somerset Maugham, John Steinbeck

Politics, News & Issues > Politics in Latin America The future of Socialism in Latin America

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Without a doubt, twenty-first century socialism is permanently affecting Latin America. Not because socialism itself is permanent, but because it provides a screen behind which the nascent democracies of the southern continent can build. When rampant poverty has subsided and governments are able to support themselves without recourse to the rack of the IMF, the veil will be put aside and Latin America will be revealed as a major trading partner of China, India, and Europe. The Monroe Doctrine is dead. The Banana republics, the economic dominance of Washington Consensus, Regan's Contras, tr...

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