Jonathan Cook today: The more definitive the proof of Israeli atrocities, the less they get reported Videos show Israeli soldiers push three Palestinian men off a roof in a West Bank town under illegal Israeli occupation. The western media can … Read More »
A placard I saw on an 800,000 strong London protest rally, thirty-four days after the onset on October 8th of genocide in Gaza, supplied the title for my photographs of that rally: Even now, after ten further months of mass … Read More »
Presbyterian Minister Chris Hedges, speaking at a Free Assange Rally in London, February 20, 2024 A few hours after the Harris-Trump debate yesterday – for a wicked assessment of that, see Caitlin Johnstone’s post today – my favourite pastor, the … Read More »
On a few by no means minor matters – Syria for one, Vladimir Putin for another – I don’t see eye to eye with Owen Jones. Right now, though, those matters don’t matter. What does is that he’s been outstanding … Read More »
My posts have been sporadic of late. Apologies for prioritising summer breaks even as the world grows more horrifying, to the at least partially awake, by the hour. At least partially awake. Ye who drape windows and FB profiles in … Read More »
Extrapolating conservatively from the 186,000 estimate months ago by The Lancet, one of the world’s most highly regarded medical journals, 200,000 Palestinians have died as a result of Israel’s response to October 7, 2023. Bombed and machine gunned. Struck by … Read More »
Guardian, July 9 2024 Let’s start with the hypocrisy. Gordon Brown, in Tuesday’s Guardian, wants Vladimir Putin in the dock for war crimes. This from a senior member of a government whose lies led Britain into an illegal war which … Read More »
Julian Assange is free. The criminals whose blood-soaked deeds he exposed and who had him locked up for years, many in isolation at one of Britain’s harshest jails, require one last penance of him. In a grotesque but for now … Read More »
This constant escalation can lead to serious consequences. If these serious consequences occur in Europe, how will the US behave, bearing in mind our parity in the field of strategic weapons? Hard to say. Do they want global conflict? Vladimir … Read More »
Why Celebrities Aren’t Speaking Up About Gaza Caitlin Johnstone, 711 words Fame and fortune come from elevation by film studio, record label and TV oligarchs – people with a vested interest in the status quo on which their wealth is … Read More »