John Wight is a writer and political commentator. His Edinburgh Trilogy of novels is available from Amazon. He has also written a memoir of his experience of Hollywood and participation in the US antiwar movement in the runup to the war in Iraq. It is titled Dreams That Die, and is published by Zero Books. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKiipLOquMRooaignmLEqrPHrQ%3D%3D

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