A few days later I was occupying my usual perch on Walking street, reading my book, writing my scribbles and watching the world walk by. Suddenly I was interrupted. A thin, bespectacled man was introducing himself.'First time in Pattaya?' he nodded a

A recent study published in the highly respeceted British medical journal the Lancet, indicated recently that as many as 100,000 people have been killed in Iraq. Suprisingly, the US propaganda machine and the British foreign office have been muted

Warning - contains sexually explicit languageThe second night in Pattaya saw me charged and raring to go. I always like to take some time to get to know a place before diving right in. Central Pattaya consists of a two mile long beach front, known im

Warning - contains explicit languageI arrived in Pattay lateish, about 7.00pm. I hadn't eaten all day and I was irritable, the long, long love last night with Anna in Bangkok had left both of us with little sleep, indeed we didn't wake up until two i

Many more Americans than ever before are living in the outer suburbs, now being called 'exburbs', springing up like topsy around every US city; a network of soulless shopping malls, never ending identical streets, newly built churches. They are commu

The next four years will certainly be a roller-coaster ride for the whole world thanks to Bush being returned to office by a superstitious nation, cowed and afraid.But the situation would have been much the same even if Kerry had been returned. The s

Four more years. How did it happen? Why was the election race even close? Of course Kerry was a dour, unimaginative character, with little stage presence, but there was something more important that he had for American voters to vote him into offic

The US was complicit in aiding the construction of Nazi Germany, with companies like General Motors, Exxon, Du Pont and Standard Oil all pouring millions into building and supplying the Nazi war machine.The US itself did not 'join in' the war but sto

Here's Octobers round up of some strange stories from around the world. Enjoy! Or don't -Â suit yourselves you miserable bastards.This week passers by in Chaing-Rai, Northern Thailand, refused to help the victims of a collision between a lorry and a

The Mekong river is a mighty one.Born in the mountains of far off Tibet, it makes its way down through China, Mynamar (Burma), Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia before reaching the sea. Along it's length there are legends of an inhabitant of the river,

While too late now to influence American voters, the following is of interest harvested from newspapers around the world concerning the way that they percieve America and the US elections. What's particularly interesting is the uniformity of the op

Our ace reporter, Roy Rubberplunger, has just filed the following copy after being the only person to interview both Bush and Kerry on the eve of self-destruction, sorry, that should read, the American Democratic elections sponsored by Big Business i