A large, openly declared war against Iran would be risky, expensive, and domestically explosive. A form of blockade combined with sanctions, sabotage, and intermittent strikes, on the other hand, is cheaper, deniable, and far more flexible … Nel Bonilla I … Read More »
Part 1 set aside eight decades of Anglo-US interference in Iran since WW2. Instead it took as backdrop to the current rounds of US-Iranian talks the US-Israeli failures both of last June’s decapitation strikes, and last month’s ‘colour revolution’ from … Read More »
The Guardian yesterday: Judges have humiliated ministers by insisting Palestine Action should not be banned under anti-terrorism laws in a ruling that has left thousands of its alleged supporters in legal limbo. The high court said on Friday the government’s … Read More »
A friend writes that he was “an idiot” to have looked, in his disgust with the Extreme Centre, to Trump for any kind of solution. Yet millions who gained nothing from globalisation but precarity, inflation, and vanishing welfare infrastructure even … Read More »
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, an esteemed source for this site, thinks the US will attack Iran. “I hope to God I’m wrong”, he adds. The rest of us, noting the pressures on Trump the real estate mogul, and unsuitability … Read More »
I’d intended to return today to what, in the face of intense competition, is the most burning question of all – will the USS Abraham Lincoln and its carrier fleet really strike Iran? – but I’m not there yet. Here … Read More »
I don’t expect much from politicians, corporate tycoons, the presidents of prestigious universities, billionaire philanthropists, celebrities, royalty or oligarchs. They live in narcissistic and hedonistic bubbles that cater to their self-worship and moral depravity. But I do expect a lot … Read More »
The lawsuit itself doesn’t matter. The threat is the point. Deep of pocket, thin of skin and lacking the cognitive capacity to fight barbed humour on its own turf, the writ-happy Trumps are big on lawfare. The oval office tangerine … Read More »
For the time being I’ve said all I have to on matters Minnesota. Likewise Gaza, Ukraine and Epstein – though all are connected within the overarching context of a US oligarchy masquerading as a democracy and determined at all costs, … Read More »
A thought experiment – imagine detailed emails surfacing of a suicided blackmailer, pimp and all round pervert with ‘friends’ in the highest echelons of Western government having had close ties with – even procuring cyberweaponry for – Russia. Wouldn’t corporate … Read More »