June 13: IDF image of Israeli warplanes, US supplied with help from UK and EU, en route to Iran Two posts ago, in June 13 was a game changer, I wrote … Middle East state after vilified Middle East state … Read More »
TO KILL A WAR MACHINE is screening Monday June 30th and on various July dates in towns as far removed as Derry (itself no stranger to Occupation) and Penzance, Bristol, Newcastle, London and divers UK venues between and beyond. Since … Read More »
* Here’s a question. Why do you suppose a Western-vilified DPRK, aka North Korea, hasn’t been bombed or invaded while Middle East state after vilified Middle East state has suffered one or both at the hands of the Empire of … Read More »
This was posted on X by Doctor Ezziddeen, still alive in Jabalia al-Balad. Four kilometres north of Gaza City, he calls the place “a graveyard that hasn’t finished burying its dead”. I found it yesterday. A piece of shrapnel, cold … Read More »
Haaretz, June 27 2025 It’s official: the truth is antisemitic. Yesterday Israel’s liberal daily, Haaretz, used testimony from IDF soldiers to report how they and comrades less troubled were ordered to gun down starving Gazans at food queues. A furious … Read More »
Yvette Cooper in the House of Commons, 2018, sporting a rosette marking the centenary of (some) women getting the vote Four days ago Yvette Cooper – UK Home Secretary, expenses cheat and wife to rottweiler for Israel Ed Balls – announced … Read More »
Even Trump admirers are waking up to the truth their man is an IDIOT who thinks he can RUN THE WORLD through the caps lock on his keyboard. Dmitry Orlov June 22 A nuclear armed ethno-state 623 days into a … Read More »
Yesterday, in a pub amid the spires and ivory college walls of Cambridge, I tapped out my take on the war so far. It prompted reader Dave Hansell, who should be on a steel city retainer, to supply a link … Read More »
The fog of war is always and necessarily thick but, like banks of cloud viewed from a plane, it shifts in swirling patches which here and there part to bring moments of unexpected clarity. Not everything is anyone’s guess; some … Read More »
Yesterday I wrote of the US-Israeli war on Iran as “a matter too critical to power for Western corporate media to be reliable”. That was me being English. We do so love our understatement; a subset of the irony we’re … Read More »