[ezcol_2third][/ezcol_2third] [ezcol_1third_end]BBC editor Laura Kuenssberg inaccurately reported Jeremy Corbyn’s views on shoot-to-kill in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, says the BBC Trust Regulator today. The broadcast was “not duly accurate” in presenting “an answer Mr Corbyn had … Read More »
One thing missing from discussion of Baa’thist Syria’s record on human rights, which I’ve long insisted was (a) distorted and (b) nothing but a pretext for removing another insufficiently Washington compliant government – where (a) follows (b) as night on … Read More »
That zerohoursuni fellow’s been at it again. Today’s Guardian had Lucianna stating, in a below-the-line comment on a characteristically superficial piece on whether Dodgy Dave Cameron is “fit” – whatever that means – to head NATO, that: Poland and the … Read More »
https://youtu.be/w8DJJDCGQ9g Meanwhile, here’s a leaked recording of what Secretary of State John Kerry said – and the New York Times obligingly omitted in its coverage of a meeting with a small group of Syrians at the UN General Assembly … Read More »
In an interview with French TV station LCP, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said: I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to … Read More »
[ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]My FB post elicited the exchange below. It alludes to two comments not shown. One is by Mick, who’d cited Niemoller’s famous words, ‘first they came for the Jews ..’ The other is to a video targeting Meryl’s attack … Read More »
Many people buy the line on White Helmets as heroes doing Good Works to alleviate a Syrian nightmare caused by Assad’s “bloody crackdown on Arab Spring protests” at Daara in 2011, and refusal since then to ‘step down’ as western … Read More »
[ezcol_1third]JAN OBERG is a professional photographer and Director of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research in Lund, Sweden. Both capacities took him to Aleppo in December, where he saw at first hand its people’s liberation from Islamist nightmare. … Read More »
This guy says in three minutes what I’ve been trying to say for a year or more in exchanges with liberals who saw in Brexit, and now in Trump’s victory, some inexplicable plunge from day unto night. He also expresses … Read More »