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 »
[ezcol_1third]I’ve drifted into the role of photographer for Sheffield Swans, playing here at Doncaster on Sunday. I haven’t done much sports snapping but the basics are in theory simple. To freeze the action I need speeds of at least one … Read More »
In an age of identity politics it’s fashionable to dismiss talk of a ruling class and imperialism as the fetishism of old fashioned lefties but this animation, from former economic hitman John Perkins, does a pretty good job of explaining imperialism in two minutes. I … Read More »
Just five minutes thirty two seconds. What else were you figuring on doing with that time? https://www.facebook.com/IssamBayanOfficial/videos/682855851805542/
January 2nd – Jackie, Jasper and I head for Stoney Middleton, twelve miles from home. We park on the aptly named High Street, a few yards down its one-in-three incline from the entrance to what in the fifties had been a small … Read More »
Two days after Trump’s victory on November 8, Russia Today interviewed Professor Stephen Cohen, the Russia expert who used to advise Reagan. Here’s an abridged excerpt from that interview, linked below. We are in a Cold War more dangerous than … Read More »