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War Crimes in Yemen –- and Refugees
by Mary W Maxwell
In my “Melania’s Blue Dress” article, I made a throw-away remark about the proposed Mexican wall. Happily, Julius Skoolafish has challenged...
Don’t Let Pizzagate Disappear
by Phil Hingston
While it is final that Hillary Clinton lost her White House bid, we mustn’t treat Pizzagate as a dead issue. Wikipedia is...
Mucking about in the Ionosphere
by Mary W Maxwell
GumshoeNews.com wants to present articles that are properly referenced and in which the author can point to additional readings. I have...
Whoops, There Goes Melania’s Beautiful Blue Dress
Jewish émigrés turned away from Miami and returned to Germany, 1935
by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB
Boy, was I excited at the Trump takeover. The...
The Psychology of Soft Slavery
We live in a narrowed field
by Gary Z McGee
Editors Note: I have a particular interest in entrapment and slavery -- having made a film about...
Understanding Our Place In The World – And Not Accepting It
by Dee McLachlan
Gumshoe is very pleased to welcome over a hundred and fifty thousand new visitors to our site this last week. Most of...
More Magical Thinking By The Australian Government
President Trump signs an executive order to withdraw from the TPP
by James O’Neill*
The policy bankruptcy of the present Australian government has been exposed again with...
Australia Day Poems, Part 5: The Horse from Snowy River
by Mary W Maxwell
I found this on the website of Project Gutenberg which archives, for you pleasure, the Australian Dictionary of Biography. It’s a...
Australia Day Poems, Part 4: The Cruelty of Us Today
Water dreaming, artist unknown
by Mary W Maxwell
If you take the official tour of the Port Arthur Historic Site, the guide will mention that the...
Australia Day Poems, Part 3: Looking for an Uplift
by Mary Maxwell
Kath Walker (1920-1993) produced many poems under her Aboriginal name Oodgeroo Noonnuccal. To her son she wrote:
“I could tell you of heartbreak,...
Australia Day Poems, Part 2: These Knew Their Hour
Poet C.J. Dennis (1876-1938), Activist Judith Wright (1915-2000)
by Mary W Maxwell
We all know our hour, I suppose. But in Wright’s poem Black Cockatoos, printed below,...
Australia Day Poems, Part 1: My Love Is Otherwise
by Mary W Maxwell
All Aussie school children learned the poem “I love a sunburnt country”, by Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968). Well, that was only a...