“You can’t be neutral on a moving train,” is the title of US historian and activist Howard Zinn’s 1994 autobiography. The world (or the ‘train’), wrote Zinn, “is already moving in certain deadly directions, often toward war, injustice, inequality, or suffering.” Pretending to be neutral often means accepting the status quo, he concluded. Pretending to … Continue reading Iranian Sailors Trapped in Sri Lanka: Tehran Demands Return, US Pressure Mounts — Can Colombo Stay Neutral?