Yesterday I wrote of the US-Israeli war on Iran as “a matter too critical to power for Western corporate media to be reliable”. That was me being English. We do so love our understatement; a subset of the irony we’re … Read More »
After a few days off duty I’d intended to return today with a post on US backed Islamist terror in Syria. It’ll have to wait, two things having distracted me. One being the Dawn French apology for an Instagram video … Read More »
Smart people know not all Jews are Zionists. Smart people who do their homework know too that not all Zionists are Jews. Keep this in mind if, like me, you’ve been dazedly picking yourself off the floor courtesy Piers Morgan’s … Read More »
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 »