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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Fallujah. Uncovering a massacre - interview with Maurizio Torrealta, co-producer of Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre

  One year on from Operation Phantom Fury/al-Fajr, the second battle for Fallujah, the American military have been forced to admit to the use of white phosphorus as an offensive weapon. Three Monkeys Online looks at the background to the battle in Fallujah, and interviews Maurizio Torrealta, co-producer of the controversial RAI News 24 documentary Fallujah - the hidden massacre.

  
  
• Under a decidedly different Tuscan Sun- Cooking with Fernet Branca - James Hamilton-Paterson in interview

  Admired by writers as diverse as Michael Ondaajte and Alex Garland, James Hamilton-Paterson's latest novel Cooking with Fernet Branca is a comedy set in the Tuscan Hills (where the author lives). A delicious page turner, with a dark heart. Not surprising considering the author's wide range of interests. He's written about Elgar, the Sea, Marcos and the Philippines, as well as a regular science column, two collections of poetry and a number of critically regarded novels.

  
  
• 'Return of the Red Card: Israel-China-U.S. Triangle

  Tension in the US-Israel relations has resurfaced over the issue of arms and technology sales with China. This report, drafted by the PINR, examines the competing needs of Israeli foreign policy to develop an independent arms export policy, and to remain in Washington's good books.

  
  
• In Defence of a Liberal Education.

  Would we accept the foundation, with tax-payers money, of political schools? For example, a neo-conservative school here, or a communist school there, where pupils would be instructed uncritcally in a political ideology? Dr. Stephen Law, author of The War for Children's Minds, argues that we would not, and why, then, should we accept religious schools so readily?

  
  
• From the outside looking in – Norway and the EU

  Norway remains one of those rarer than rare things, a non-EU nation in Europe. Ten years after the Norwegians rejected full EU membership, for the second time, Berit Haugen Keyes examines the arguments both for joining and for remaining outside the EU.