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3 Feb

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Hard to see this leaving the cutting room floor today but, back in ’86, Sting and Co were pleading, don’t stand so close

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ICC throws both UK and EU a curve ball
Five things to know about Kiev’s ATACMS
Words from the heart on genocide
Three Sunday shorts …
Babies, bathwater and Rachel Reeves
This was no Kristallnacht II …
Gaslit in Amsterdam/Trump foreign policy
A rubber tramp in Redcar – again
A republican clean sweep
Russia is winning, Israel is not
The rise and fall of Alejandro Toledo
Will the real Israel stand up?
3 Sunday shorts on the Middle East
The Empire strikes back (kind of)
US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 4
“I’m overwhelmed with shame”
US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 3
Torched in Gaza: Western ‘civilisation’
No, we are NOT the good guys
US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 2
The West’s silent majority is wrong!
US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 1
Baerbock backs butchery in Gaza
Burned alive for a Greater Israel
Middle East, ecocide, imperialism
Does Israel have a death wish?
They shoot children, don’t they?
Roger Waters on Us and Them
The October 7 industry
A year and a day after October 7
Ukraine’s far right: an obstacle to peace
Does Israel dictate US foreign policy?
As Iran and Israel stand at the brink …
Not rockets, Michael – missiles
Iran strikes Israel. What now?
Israel as the end-times fanatics see it
Nasrallah’s murder – reckoning the cost
Weekend fare
For The Economist, war is peace!
What is Hezbollah?
Starmer’s loathsome “2019” jibe
15 reasons to support Israeli genocide!
More IDF war crimes? Our media yawn.
US v China: zero sum or we win/you win?
John Mearsheimer – meet Jeffrey Sachs!
The children who rule the West
The Super Mario plan for Europe
The West’s poltroons and Quislings
Gaslit to Armageddon
Filmed theatre review: Prima Facie
The betrayal of liberalism
By their own words shall ye know them
Early autumn on Arran
Musings on Ukraine and Gaza
“Never Again” – a registered trademark
The iniquities of Enid Blyton
No harbour for genocide – literally!
Finkelstein: “no safe place in Gaza”
Release (ALL) the hostages now!
Joe Sacco on compassionate genocide
Britain is broken, but how to fix it?
DNC oblivious to nuclear nightmare
Ukrainian lone wolf did Nordstream!
Clueless Keir says WW3. Genocide Joe says no.
On my travel bucket list – North Korea
I heard there was a secret ~~chord~~ cord
Give peace a chance!
Film review: The Zone of Interest
Britain’s Islamophobia Cooked
From Middle East to mushroom cloud
How far to WW3, sir?
FBI raids the home of Scott Ritter
Stupid arguments for genocide #6784
On Ismail Haniyeh’s murder in Tehran
The Wrong Trousers!
Mehdi Hasan on Bibi’s Capitol gaslighting
Caitlin on Bibi’s speech to US Congress
Labour to keep 500,000 infants in poverty
Tough choice: which Zombie President?
Scott Ritter: “NATO is screwed”
“Europe aside, the world wants Trump”
Back home and catching up
Beach scenes in Suffolk
Modi in Moscow … that hospital in Kiev
Gordon is a ~~moron~~ gaslighter for NATO
Labour’s love-bombing lobbyists
Yes, IDF did apply Hannibal on October 7
Reinforcing failure: sign of empire decline
Starmer, missed steps and misused terms
Russia: Muslim Regions ban the niqab
Britain’s rulers anoint Starmer’s Labour
Always look on the green side of life!
What kind of Britain votes tomorrow?
The car in front is Chinese and electric
Think you have Putin’s number, huh?
Coups ain’t wot they used to be …
UK election: the fox and henhouse
Israel’s collapsing political economy
Morning stroll at Grimsby Fish Docks
Britain’s shame as Julian is freed
Does WW3 begin on a Crimea beach?
When empires start to panic …
If we did to you what you did to us …
Mr Putin goes to Hanoi
Mr Putin goes to Pyongyang
Zelensky ‘peace terms’ … Bibi’s ‘shrink’
Cleethorpes and Tetney Marsh yesterday
Putin sets out Russia’s peace terms
“Russia is now the world’s 4th largest economy” – World Bank
Last Supper at the G7?
“Anti-Semitism crisis”? A genocidal lie!
France is not Spain, nor Macron Sanchez
Steel City garden
Ukraine: Russia’s escalatory options
Where might Zelensky store his F-16s?
The Guardian Media Group warmongers
Ukraine: Russia has escalatory dominance
Owen Jones vs Israel war crimes apologist
Gaza: four shorts on the Strip
Moscow does not make idle threats
US State Department seizes Scott Ritter’s passport at JFK en route to Russia
The military genius of The Economist
Should Trump be in jail? Of course!
What if it was your child under the rubble?
Come you masters of war …
Talking WW3 Blues. (Somebody has to.)
Why no stars on Gaza? (and other reads)
“Mass rape by Hamas” – a truly evil lie
Legally killed children
Democracy on the eve of Armageddon
Assange ruling: a Guardian response
Benjamin Netanyahu is absolutely right!
Pulpit Rock on Constitution Day
Sunday on the fjord
Gaza and the student protests
Ukraine: will our leaders’ folly kill us all?
The train from Oslo to Bergen
The US-Israel game plan for Gaza
The new McCarthyism cries “anti-Semite”
Gen Z against genocide!
Isle of Mull in April
McGregor on Ukraine, and Israel-Iran
Why would Israel “go berserk”?
Iran’s message to Israel – new rules!
Two takes on one-upmanship
Does Washington want war with Iran?
Mass murder and the shelf-life of lies
Red line on genocide
Brilliant! Guyana president skewers BBC presenter over the West’s oil hypocrisy
Would France take us into WW3?
Murder in Moscow: USA as prime suspect
Ukraine – does the US have a Plan B?
An African hears Dylan for the first time
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!
Did Hamas weaponise sexual violence?
Generalising from personal experience
Barber’s Adagio for Vietnam
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
High interest rates = class warfare
Is now the time to buy gold?
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
Who are the Houthis?
Boycott, Divest and Waitrose
Is Palestine “two-statism” a cop-out?
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
Caitlin on voluntary migration
.. 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
Two more on Gaza and Ukraine
Caitlin on Gaza; Korybko on Ukraine
“Can’t believe I have to protest genocide!”
Taking stock – Gaza and Ukraine
A long read on Ukraine
The mad dog and its master
Can MAD bring a modicum of sanity?
The disingenuity of The Economist
Why didn’t Israel & USA isolate Hamas?
As the lights go out in Gaza
The disingenuity of Jonathan Freedland
A way forward for Palestine? Part 1
“Floating pointlessness” – warships in the Med; cluelessness in Washington
Gaza: how our governments launder lies
Gaza genocide – Sheffield protests!
Gaza to deepen Europe’s energy woes
Gaza, Ukraine, Taiwan – only connect!
“Gaza should be wiped clean with bombs”
Media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza
“Why would Israel do this?”
My Israeli friends – this is why …
The public grief of Howard Jacobson
Our media are systemically corrupt, but not always blatantly
Gaza genocide: US as culpable as Israel
Al-Aqsa Mosque .. Israel’s all-seeing blindness .. criminalising Palestine’s defenders .. a (media) lens on propaganda .. meet the Bidens ..
Hamas attacks: eight new reads
Hamas attacks: another 9/11?
Palestine – lest we forget
Hamas attacks: top ten takeaways
Hamas unprovoked? Gimme a break!
10 stupid things we’re asked to believe
So what did happen on 9/11?
Is there a way out of the dark?
What an utter Hunt!
Three takes on the denial of reality
Niger. With friends like Uncle Sam …
The parable of the sower
A year of lying about Nord Stream
Ukraine: a tale of two narratives
Is this how it all ends?
Three weekend reads on amnesia
The trial by media of Russell Brand
Media Lens on Climate Collapse – The Grim Silence Of Our Leaders
Damned by their own words
Catherine Bennett, Ben & Jerry – and the Moral Ratings Agency
Two short reads: Mary Mellor on ‘wellth’; Caitlin Johnstone on advertorial ‘journalism’
A course in Media Studies – Lesson #93
Zelensky’s patron arrested. Why now?
Scholz: “why isn’t Putin complaining about EU sanctions?”
Broken: the implicit contract between the rulers and the ruled. Part 2 of 2
Tell me again what ‘provoked’ means
More on who killed Prigozhyn
Who killed Prigozhin?
New York Times and Wall Street Journal come (sort of) clean on Ukraine’s unfolding nightmare
30 signs of Chronic Thought Disorder
The global tyrant
The night the cops tried to break Thelonius Monk
UK – Starmer’s cowardice is the least of it
Is the rouble in trouble?
No censorship please: we’re Westerners
An American in the cradle of the civil war
Yves Smith on Ukraine’s unfolding defeat
Down to the last Ukrainian …
Wizwoz on the Niger coup
Yes, the West is losing its war on Russia!
Russia’s banking system and the West’s
Eritrea’s leader pays homage to Russia’s
A canary sings: make peace, you fools!
Calling Russia’s invasion “unprovoked” is proof of media corruption on matters vital to power
Sinéad O’Connor: artist and heroine
What the Oppenheimer film ignores
Steel city house gets new keyboard mat!
Broken: the implicit contract between the rulers and the ruled. Part 1 of 2.
Ruling class devilry and the Holy Bible
Ukraine: Latin America defies the West
Remembering Nordstream
The most effective propaganda is subtle
On Vilnius, and the NATO blame game
“Putin’s War” for Dummies
Now they done moved Ukraine to Iraq!
‘Resilience’ – a sneaky neoliberal trope
A crisis created in Threadneedle Street
Yes, there is a magic money tree!
Excuse me – I just saw a golden eagle!
Is it stupid to believe media propaganda?
Two reads on media propaganda
British wildlife in May
Caitlin: “you can be happy and informed!”
Three perspectives on the UK today
Musings on an osprey
Richard Murphy on Keir Starmer
Cromarty at April’s end
The bluebells at Strelley
Alex Mercouris on the battle for Bakhmut
Empire of hypocrisy
USA: “jump!” Denmark: “how high?”
On Russia leaving the neoliberal West

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