An Israeli police officer and Palestinian women in Hebron, last year In many aspects of life the lesser details can be as telling as the most eye catching. So it is with those smaller manifestations of racialised oppression in Palestine, … Read More »
We always have to remember that it’s not just the conflict in Ukraine, it’s not just Gaza, it’s not just Taiwan or the Philippines; all of this is interconnected. Please look at a map. Look at how the US is … Read More »
There’s only so far we can go in understanding why the US behaves as it does without applying a materialist perspective to the geopolitical-economic realities confronting it. And no one has to my mind set out more thoroughly or clearly … Read More »
My sole recommend for this weekend is a podcast. Make a space in your busy life, settle into favourite armchair and, on your super-smart TV, surf to YouTube for sixty-eight minutes fifteen of Bangkok based Brian Berletic in dialogue with … Read More »
I speak often of the burgeoning ranks of gamekeepers-turned poacher who mark, as I yet again switch metaphors, canaries in the coal mine of the west’s increasingly transparent decadence. One such is the former UK career diplomat, Alastair Crooke. His … Read More »
The virulent hatreds – not to mention rank bad salesmanship from a hasbara point of view – routinely spewed out by Israel’s far right are not the voice of that country as a whole. If they were, there’d have been … Read More »
I’ll be in London on Saturday, inshallah, for a pro Palestinian demo which PM Rishi Sunak, Home Secretary Suella Braverman – who calls it a “hate march” – and other senior members of the UK government wanted Metropolitan Police Commissioner … Read More »
Who’s up for a 9150 word read, for no good reason beyond my recommendation and its subject being a wholly avoidable bloodbath, on whose causes we’ve been lied to by criminals and their useful idiots, and which may yet take … Read More »
The USS Gerald Ford As Israel commits war crimes in Gaza with impunity, could anything epitomise more starkly the hubris, bankruptcy and reckless folly of America’s foreign policy – if that’s not a contradiction in terms – than the presence … Read More »
Other than the Ukrainian people – hijacked, deceived and finally betrayed by false friends – the main loser of America’s proxy war on Russia in Ukraine is Europe. Not one of its leaders has so far broken ranks and dared … Read More »