Monthly Archives: April 2024

THE WRONG SIZE SHOES by Peter Nolan Smith

April 13, 2024 – 8:18 am

Twenty-five minutes after the stroke of Twelve New Year’s Eve 1982 a masked assassin shot dead the main investor a block away from the Continental Club on West 25th Street. The FBI and NYPD Internal Affairs investigating Viktor Malenski’s murder and quickly drew lines between the dots. My ex-girlfriend was living with the dead man’s […]

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The Marxist Monster from Milwaukee

April 11, 2024 – 9:19 am

The Marxist Monster from Milwaukee Professor Bertell Ollman In 2005, as a protest against Israel, Ollman wrote and published a Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People, stating: “Socialist and ex-Jew that I am, I guess I still have too much respect and love for the Jewish tradition I left behind to want the world […]

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Duch Choi Cha’ kai Anh

April 11, 2024 – 6:29 am

Written on Jun 11, 2017 In 1975 the Khmer Rouge converted the Tuol Svay Prey High School on the outskirts of Phnom Penh into the murderous Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison. An estimated 17,000 prisoners had been subjected to the following code of behavior enforced by its administrator Comrade Duch or Kang Kek Iew and […]

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Sophie’s Bar Phnom Penh – Songkran 2007

April 11, 2024 – 12:58 am

Entry by Ty Spaulding In 1999 Cambodia was at peace. No weapons were seen on the streets, but once off the main avenues the streets were unlit Phnom Penh landmark was located on an unlit side street. Nik and I were looking for Sophia’s a notorious short-time bar. It is not easy to find even […]

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BLINDED BY THE SUN – KATHMANDU – NEPAL – 1995

April 8, 2024 – 12:55 pm

In 1995 I traveled with a lapsed Catholic nun from Lhasa to Shigatse. After several days Dorothy returned to Lhasa. We woke at dawn and breakfasted on Momos or dumpling and butter tea. I wanted to get an early start and Dorothy accompanied me to the southern edge of town. The Asia Friendship Highway ran […]

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