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That ICC arrest warrant: an Indian view

21 Mar

Vladimir Putin with his co-accused, Maria Lvova-Belova I’ve already written two posts on the ICC warrant against Russia’s president, and had thought that the end of the matter. In itself the move isn’t all that important, and I’ve given – … Read More »

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“She could’ve danced, she could’ve sung, Played in fields where hope is young.” A Palestinian honours a murdered little girl called Hind Rajab – we are one

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  • Does Israel dictate US foreign policy?
  • As Iran and Israel stand at the brink …
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  • Israel as the end-times fanatics see it
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  • 15 reasons to support Israeli genocide!
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  • John Mearsheimer – meet Jeffrey Sachs!
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  • Red line on genocide
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  • Murder in Moscow: USA as prime suspect
  • Ukraine – does the US have a Plan B?
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  • Aaron who?
  • Maria Zhakarova: FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!
  • Russia and the art of war
  • Jeffrey Sachs meets Piers Morgan
  • Ukraine – how will history judge?
  • Atrocity in Moscow, HEP strikes in Ukraine
  • Russia’s triumph goes beyond Ukraine
  • So Evil Putin rigged the vote. Really?
  • Let the Sunshine in!
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  • Yanis Varoufakis on China-US tensions
  • The despair of the Zoomers
  • Decoding Victoria Nuland’s “retirement”
  • The Reeves’ Tale
  • In Peterborough and Stamford
  • Galloway on the white man’s burden
  • John Mearsheimer meets Piers Morgan
  • Gaza to Rochdale: 3 for the weekend
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  • A profound act of sincerity
  • Why Assange matters: a brief primer
  • Putin’s Navalnicide: at last, a motive!
  • Ukraine – a Company man speaks
  • Don and dissident: Murphy on Navalny
  • For Cod’s sake – stop this madness!
  • FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!!!
  • Quito blinks on bananas …
  • France wages war on “disinformation”
  • Conspiracy and coincidence theories
  • On the death of a dissident
  • First they came for Julian?
  • So will Zelensky get his $60bn?
  • Col. Kemp on Rafah: “IDF has no choice!”
  • Liberal comedians as lapdogs for power
  • Gaza: it’s all in paragraph 15, stupid!
  • Media responses to the Putin interview
  • Carlson-Putin: why not judge for yourself?
  • Porn in the Park probe: “arrests imminent”
  • EU fury as Tucker goes to Moscow
  • Tony Blair: “the NHS is safe in our hands”
  • Raising the pension age in Britain
  • Comfort bombing: a phrase for our times
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  • Boycott, Divest and Waitrose
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  • Zelensky he say GO; Zaluzhny he say NO!
  • Europe’s “explosive contradictions”
  • An Archduke Ferdinand moment?
  • Great Scott! Ritter goes to Russia
  • On Biden, Tower 22 and Neocon insanity
  • Iran in the empire’s cross-hairs
  • Gaza: the West’s shame deepens
  • What of ideology, when reality intrudes?
  • Russia v NATO – what would Trump do?
  • Israel has lost the ground war in Gaza
  • French mercenaries killed in Ukraine
  • The Snake Pass in ice and snow
  • The cost of marketising Britain’s NHS
  • Yemen, and empire’s moral inversions
  • Gaza Genocide – London protests!
  • Today at the Hague
  • Ben Norton on the rise of BRICS
  • TV Review: Mr Bates v the Post Office
  • TalkTV racist plays the misogyny card
  • Hamas and the fog of war
  • The lighter side of horror
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  • .. and two viewings for year’s beginning
  • Three viewings for year’s end …
  • “The war has not necessarily progressed to our advantage …”
  • The Houthis and Israel’s Achilles Heel
  • Meet USAF Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski
  • Germany’s woes are Europe’s
  • Who are Hamas? What do they want?
  • Will EU expel its Ukrainian draft dodgers?
  • Putin: “I was naive about Western intent”
  • After the war, can Russia win the peace?
  • Mutiny on the Dnieper? Putin weighs in
  • Mearsheimer: “have you no decency?”
  • The implosion of Western supremacy
  • Do not look away
  • More naked truth from Gaza
  • NATO/EU leaders fear US-Russia talks
  • Designed to humiliate: IDF strip searches
  • If I were going to commit a genocide …
  • Have NYT and Russia – with a little help from Hamas – torpedoed Bibi and put a 2 state solution in the fast lane?
  • Sheffield Hallam University – staff send open letter critical of its response to Gaza genocide
  • Currency swaps weaken dollar hegemony
  • Voodoo economics on Threadneedle St.
  • Norman Finkelstein on Hamas
  • Yes, it truly is the Empire of Chaos!
  • The USA has played a losing hand badly
  • The collapse of Israel and the USA
  • Why you should not condemn Hamas
  • Lowkey on Gaza
  • Another something for the weekend …
  • Xi meets Biden – an economist’s take
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