The US Senate has rejected an effort to end support for the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen that has resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians and driven the country to the brink of famine. “The relationship is probably the strongest it’s ever been,” Trump said. “Saudi Arabia is a very wealthy nation and they’re going to give the United States some of that wealth, hopefully, in the form of jobs, in the form of the purchase of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world.” Meanwhile the bomb used by the Saudi-led coalition in a devastating attack on a school bus in Yemen was sold as part of a US State Department-sanctioned arms deal with Saudi Arabia, munitions experts told CNN, which has established that the weapon that left dozens of children dead on August 9 was a 500-pound (227 kilogram) laser-guided MK 82 bomb made by Lockheed Martin, one of the top US defense contractors. The bomb is very similar to the one that wreaked devastation in an attack on a funeral hall in Yemen in October 2016 in which 155 people were killed and hundreds more wounded. The Saudi coalition blamed “incorrect information” for that strike. Will anyone be prosecuted for these war crimes by the International Criminal Court?

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David Morgan – Is the International Criminal Court fit for purpose?
Dr Greta Sykes – The Fight With The Lion
Dr Ivo Coelho – Religiosity and Morals
Mark Ulyseas – Văn Miếu The Temple of Literature Hanoi
Professor Paula Banerjee – Women in Indian Borderlands
Randhir Khare – The Living Word
Mikyoung Cha – The People I Met
Ozlem Warren – Okra with Chicken…
Andrea Lamberti – My Favourite Photographs Part 1
Carl Scharwath – Fragmentary Emotion

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Shadab Zeest Hashmi – An Artist’s Impression by Peter O’Neill
Anni-Wilton Jones – Curtain
Azril Bacal – Three Tankas
Donna Prinzmetal – Repast
Jim Meirose – First Morning Coffee…
Joachim Matschoss – Coffee Fugue
John Pinschmidt – Autumn Lady
Laura J Braverman – Wonderland
M L Williams – Circuit
Maria Wallace – Beyond Veils and Matter
Susan Norton – Review of Eamonn Lynskey’s It’s Time

In the 13th century St Thomas Aquinas wrote that your property was not yours alone. It also belonged to the people you could aid with your surplus. Today Pope Francis incessantly repeats the same message. In the 13th century sharing the surplus was already an old idea. It had already been practiced for hundreds of years from the villages of Africa to the igloos of the Arctic and everywhere in between. If our ancestors had not practiced group loyalty and mutual aid, they would not have survived and we would not have been born.
– Dr Howard Richards, Solidarity for Full Employment, Live Encounters Magazine.

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Dr Howard Richards – Solidarity for Full Employment
Dr Debarati Halder – Child sexual abuse and protection laws in India
Dr Bibhu Prasad Routray – Imran Khan’s Pakistan…
Terry McDonagh – Blossom where you are Planted…
Dr Greta Sykes – Some thoughts about identity and citizenship
Susan Hawthorne – On Dual Citizenship
Mikyoung Cha – Mongolia
Mikyoung Cha – Photo Exhibition Korea and Laos
Andrea Lamberti – Colour and form of plant life
Caley O’Dwyer – First-Person Plural
Joo Peter – Cuba Impressions
Mark Ulyseas – St. Joseph’s Cathedral Hanoi
Ozlem Warren – Cherry and Almond Clafoutis

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Brian Kirk – Winter Songs
Cathy Colman – From an Imprint
Christine Murray – Review of her books by Peter O’Neill
Colette Nic Aodha – Being a Poet
Dr Hilary Perkins – Review of Suniti Namjoshi’s Aesop The Fox
James Martyn Joyce – Voyeur
John W Sexton – Ocean of Souls
Michael J Whelan – Small Copses on the Landscape
Nguyen Van Tho – The Smell of Gun Powder
Peter O’Neill – Merrion Square
Ray Whitaker – Remembrance
Ruairí de Barra – The Tower of Il-Gardjola