A return to America’s proxy war on Russia in Ukraine, in which it seeks to “freeze” the conflict at Europe’s expense – i.e. have the latter’s deeply unpopular comprador leaders cut welfare even further to ramp up “defence” spending in … Read More »
Rapper Lowkey at a rally for the woke-abandoned Julian Assange, October 2021 This follow up to Gaza – hats off to Gary Lineker features George Galloway’s Mother of All Talk Shows, and the guest he introduces as: a professor of the … Read More »
Though I’d rather he hadn’t apologised … Before I get to the principled sports presenter and former England, Spurs and Barcelona striker axed by the BBC on Sunday, ostensibly for failing to spot an antisemitic emoji; in fact for calling … Read More »
‘Lord of the Flies’ by Dwayne Booth, aka Mr Fish On October 9 2023, two days after Hamas broke out of what a former chief of Israel’s National Security Council had nineteen years earlier called the world’s largest concentration camp, … Read More »
The strictly bilateral ceasefire Washington has agreed with Ansar Allah – see previous post – cannot but alarm a Tel Aviv whose nuclear status has no value other than as the bargaining chip of a madman with his back to … Read More »
If we could spend five minutes in Gaza without the constant, babbling distractions of these so-called journalists, the truth would be clear. It’s a genocide. It was always a genocide. Lies of omission are a stock in trade when corporate … Read More »
Middle East Eye, March 31 2025 * Last Friday Jonathan Cook wrote with his customary lucidity on yet another Gaza war crime; the March 31 slaughter in a hail of gunfire of fifteen uniformed Palestinian medics, their ambulances clearly marked … Read More »
Lord of the flies: by Mr Fish Palestine is on my mind. On yours too, I dare say. In her post today – Israel … As Perpetual Aggressor And Perpetual Victim – Caitlin Johnstone writes on how: Israel [can] go … Read More »
May 18, 2015: Remains of an Eastern Orthodox church after shelling by the Ukrainian Army near Donetsk International Airport. Eastern Ukraine. (Mstyslav Chernov. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) March 6, 2025: front door in the English village of Sutton Bonington. … Read More »
Owen Jones opened a fourteen minute podcast yesterday with this: The fact that almost the entire Western media hasn’t reported on this tells you all you need to know. He has in mind a story covered by Arab media, including … Read More »