A Voice of the Unheard Wednesday, September 23, 2026
In James Cameron’s curiously prophetic 1984 movie “The Terminator,” a cyborg assassin is sent back from the year 2029 by Skynet, an artificially intelligent military defense system that has grown smarter than its human inventors and taken over the world. The mission of the Terminator, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is to kill 19-year-old waitress Sarah Connor...
According to the usual media suspects, an alliance of critics determined to seize any opportunity to undermine Saudi Arabia, the recent Red Sea International Film Festival was a “whitewash.” December’s inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and the Dakar Rally? Cynical exercises in “sportswashing.” Likewise, the Saudi International golf tournament, to be held at King Abdullah...
With hindsight it seems incredible that, until now, ever since COP1 in 1995 the words “coal” and “fossil fuel” have failed to make the cut in the final reports of any of the conferences of the parties to the UN’s Framework Convention in Climate Change. That would be like a report by the World Health...
Less than a month after the sinking of the MV Gulf Livestock 1, who in the world mourns Captain Dante Addug and his 38 fellow Filipino crew members, lost when their ship sank off the coast of Japan during Typhoon Maysak? Their families, certainly. Captain Addug, who was 34, has left behind five children under...
So the unseemly bargaining between Britain and the US over the judicial fate of the alleged mass murderers El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey has reached its unsavory conclusion. If all goes to plan, the two members of the ISIS gang known by their captives as “The Beatles” on account of their British accents will...