Iran goes soixante-neuf

12 Jun

Alert, Friday June 13: what follows was posted late last night, before Israel’s strikes on Iran in the early hours of today. Yesterday Jeff Bezos’s WashPo ran this: June 12, 2025 Also yesterday, apropos US-Israeli verbal threats on Iran, I … Read More »

War on Iran? A monumental folly!

10 Jun

I’m still working on my Syria post. Meanwhile here’s Simplicius, writing today. Since his cavalier approach to layout is always confusing, I’ve tidied it up – itself an editorial decision when ‘form’ cannot be neatly distinguished from ‘content’ – and … Read More »

Keir Starmer: a dead man walking

2 Jun

Guardian: June 1, 2025 – note the “military Keynesianism” spin Even with the eyewatering costs of Berlin’s slavish desire to please Washington at the expense of its own citizens factored in, the German economy is still in better shape than … Read More »