UK daily, The Independent, yesterday: Keir Starmer hailed his “good relationship” with Donald Trump just hours before the US President’s special envoy slammed the PM’s Ukraine peace plan as “a posture and a pose”. Steve Witkoff said the Labour leader’s idea of a peacekeeping force made up … Read More »
Lord of the flies: by Mr Fish Palestine is on my mind. On yours too, I dare say. In her post today – Israel … As Perpetual Aggressor And Perpetual Victim – Caitlin Johnstone writes on how: Israel [can] go … Read More »
Nuseirat refugee camp after Israel’s bombardment of Gaza on March 18, 2025. (Photo by Moiz Salhi) Philistines call it “mansplaining” but for those who seek to make sense of a world whose most perilous aspect is a dying empire fighting … Read More »
Everybody’s shouting: which side are you one? – Bob Dylan Let me also restate my opinion, argued in posts like this, that despite a tone markedly different from that of his predecessors, Trump represents greater continuity of foreign policy than either … Read More »
May 18, 2015: Remains of an Eastern Orthodox church after shelling by the Ukrainian Army near Donetsk International Airport. Eastern Ukraine. (Mstyslav Chernov. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) March 6, 2025: front door in the English village of Sutton Bonington. … Read More »
Europe’s [Atlanticist] leaders are finished. What we are seeing in real time is their destruction and that’s why people are crying at the Munich security conference. A shake out of this magnitude usually happens only after a revolution or a … Read More »
* Eight days ago ago the European Commission, executive body of the EU, issued a statement by its president, Ursula von der Leyen. This is its opening paragraph: We are living in the most momentous and dangerous of times. I … Read More »
Struggling to frame a response to last week’s announcement by EC President Ursula von der Leyen, that the EU is to prepare for war with you know who, I now have to put those efforts on hold and add to … Read More »
17 February, 2025. For updated maps see the Institute for the Study of War website. This morning’s inbox brought a query from a friend, noting that I haven’t posted for a few days and wanting to know if all is well. I … Read More »
Short follow up to my previous post, on Zelensky’s ordeal at the Oval Office. That focused on rebutting the absurd but wall-to-wall promoted thesis of gallant Kiev, having done nothing but mind its own business – if we leave aside … Read More »