Bush

Dublin, Ireland, 2004:  At an Anti-Bush rally in Dublin, anger and frustration was very evident across a broad section of Irish society, with Bush’s upcoming visit and the EU-US summit at Dromoland Castle. A lot of criticism was directed at the Irish government for allowing the US access to Shannon airport for the refueling of US bombers, and the transit of “extraordinary renditioned” Al Qaeda” suspects to Guantanamo Bay.

 

Damascus

Damascus, Syria, November 2005:  With the escalating crisis in Syria and it’s spiral into civil war, it’s about time I posted some more images from Syria in 2005… Of the seven countries I visited in my late 2005 Athens to Cairo overland trip- over half are now going through dramatic changes… Lebanon was once again nearly bombed back to the stone ages by Israel in July 2006; Greece is now bankrupt, its EU status in jeopardy; early last year (2011) heralded the “Arab Spring” and a popular Egyptian revolution; and over the past year Syria has disintegrated into civil war…