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Category Archives: china rising

Enter the dragon?

18 Sep

Meanwhile the West backs its genocidal beachhead in the Middle East and US warships threaten Venezuela on bogus pretext. At the very least Washington is doubling down on the Monroe Doctrine in the face of rising Chinese and Russian commercial presence … Read More »

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Road to WW3. Part 3: capturing minds

24 Jul

Long before I set up this site in 2015, it had become clear to me that the greatest threat to world peace is the US empire. The White House aide [thought to be Karl Rove] said guys like me were … Read More »

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Road to WW3. Part 2: 12 day war

18 Jul

A missile capability on show to traumatised Israelis in response to June 13, together with the prospect of a Hormuz closed by Iranian mines, saw Trump – misled by Netanyahu’s hubris into thinking Iran could be regime-changed by chutzpah, without drawing the … Read More »

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Road to WW3. Part 1: Iran

13 Jul

Right. Sure guys. Persistent campaigns to deliberately manipulate people’s minds using mass media has no effect on their decisions at all. I guess that’s why that whole “advertising” fad never made any money – Caitlin Johnstone A drum I’ve been banging … Read More »

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June 13 was a game changer

29 Jun

* Here’s a question. Why do you suppose a Western-vilified DPRK, aka North Korea, hasn’t been bombed or invaded while Middle East state after vilified Middle East state has suffered one or both at the hands of the Empire of … Read More »

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Why Iran? Context & Consequences

22 Jun

Yesterday, in a pub amid the spires and ivory college walls of Cambridge, I tapped out my take on the war so far. It prompted reader Dave Hansell, who should be on a steel city retainer, to supply a link … Read More »

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The war so far …

21 Jun

The fog of war is always and necessarily thick but, like banks of cloud viewed from a plane, it shifts in swirling patches which here and there part to bring moments of unexpected clarity. Not everything is anyone’s guess; some … Read More »

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Ukraine: a NATO division of labour (b)

31 May

Social programs do not die in committee rooms; they die in the realm of justification. Through the threat of looming abandonment by Uncle Sam, German voters will accept that their €49 rail ticket cannot be renewed because the Bundeswehr needs … Read More »

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Ukraine: a NATO division of labour (a)

29 May

In a preamble to yesterday’s post on the world’s first livestreamed genocide – Gaza: lies and ‘spiritual’ cant – I promised a return, later in the week, to the ultimately related matter of: … America’s proxy war on Russia in … Read More »

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Three Sunday shorts on China

11 May

I don’t post on China half as much as I’d like – events keep getting in the way – but I’ve opined as clearly as I can, in posts like this and this, that its rise offers the only credible … Read More »

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Iranian children’s choir: Light within us

last 350 posts (most recent first)

  • Russia’s UN Envoy roasts Kaja Kallas
  • Blockade: US empire is evil, not stupid!
  • Can’t believe I agree with Tucker Carlson!
  • Orbán defeat is a victory for empire
  • Israel strikes Caspian to provoke Russia
  • Israel in Lebanon
  • Keswick, Darlington, Saltburn & Durham
  • The voice of Hind Rajab
  • Israel’s ongoing slaughter in Lebanon
  • Brian Berletic: “this ‘ceasefire’ is a trap”
  • Brilliant rescue – or failed uranium grab?
  • Insider dealing: how could it not happen?
  • Varoufakis on form over Iran fallout
  • Iran: global impact will be devastating
  • Israel & USA – does the tail wag the dog?
  • Hezbollah v army of rapists
  • Woodland stroll to Grindleford Station
  • From my anti-imperial scrap book
  • Craig Murray: “Trump is no clown”
  • Why are America’s rulers allowing this?
  • The Iran war is unlikely to end soon
  • Where’s Netanyahu …
  • Game theory says Iran should go nuclear
  • Iran has the upper hand
  • Iran: matters arising
  • Donald who?
  • Iran’s more clinical realities
  • Israel – you’ve got a lot of nerve!
  • Iran holds firm; US-Israel cracks appear
  • Iran: is Trump seeking an off ramp?
  • Iran’s war of economic attrition
  • Richard Murphy: false equivalence on Iran
  • This criminal war
  • Thoughts on the war, Day 4
  • Trump’s Operation Epstein Epic Fury
  • A green light for Britain’s left?
  • Rain in Ambleside, war clouds over Iran
  • Thought showering
  • Is it to be war on Iran? Part 5
  • America: lawless abroad, lawless at home
  • “We’re on a runaway train”
  • Is to be war on Iran? Part 4
  • On Israel, Epstein and the elephant
  • Was Navalny frog-poisoned?
  • Is it to be war on Iran? Part 3
  • Is it to be war on Iran? Part 2
  • Britain’s High Court finds Palestine Action ban “unlawful” – but it’s still in force
  • The Bad Trump theory of history
  • Is it to be war on Iran? Part 1
  • Epsten-Israel .. union flags .. shopping
  • Yes, Chomsky too
  • Sunday shorts
  • Yes, we can blame it all on the empire!
  • Media silence on Epstein-Israel ties
  • Mainly Epstein
  • From mea culpa to Milosevic
  • Appeal: Palestine Solidarity Campaign
  • More on the empire’s zugzwang …
  • Has the US empire hit zugzwang?
  • Iran, Western idiots, Guardian and BBC
  • Will this ‘beautiful armada’ deliver WW3?
  • Minnesota: Kristi’s “a pathological liar”
  • Understanding Carney at Davos
  • How fiction advances empire agendas
  • Why didn’t China prop up Iran’s rial?
  • Arms fairs and Gaza, Greenland, Iran, info hegemony and a violently dying US empire
  • Europe psycho-analysed …
  • Mist in the park on Sunday
  • CIA/Mossad fingerprints are all over this!
  • Iran, and liberal blindness to empire
  • Padley Gorge to Grindleford and back
  • From Minnesota to Middle East, by way of UK, Venezuela and China
  • Tehran tells Trump: “destroy us, and we destroy Israel”
  • They who damn Tehran and Washington
  • I will not cheer for regime change in Iran!
  • Renee Good and America’s corruption
  • A US Greenland grab makes evil sense
  • When criminals show their true face …
  • Venezuela: Brian Berletic weighs in
  • The criminal act of a criminal empire
  • Israel: ‘Caitlin Johnstone is top antisemite’
  • Col. Baud is tip of an iceberg. Here’s why
  • America’s chaotic foreign policy
  • US paints itself into a Venezuelan corner
  • Elon Musk gets $150 billion payday
  • More dishonesty at the Jerusalem Post
  • AI fakery in a ‘post truth’ era
  • Waddya mean: “Globalise the Intifada”?
  • Does China have Maduro’s back?
  • This really can’t be said too often …
  • Genocide apologist takes to the Guardian to exploit Bondi Beach atrocity
  • Owen Jones on Bondi Beach weaponised
  • The Bondi Beach attack
  • Reith lecturer calls for ‘moral revolution’
  • Don’t worry, be happy …
  • Primal Scream gig antisemitic? WTF?!?
  • US “madness disguised as strategy”
  • US seizes Venezuelan oil tanker
  • The gentle art of existential inquiry
  • Why China beat the USA on rare earths
  • Two musings on life, love and genocide
  • Venezuela killed the Monroe Doctrine
  • The mesmerising chimera of “me”
  • Media Lens on the failure of success
  • Venezuela: follow through or dial down?
  • Mearsheimer: “The US will not invade Venezuela”
  • Murdoch shills for war on Venezuela
  • Palestine: Labour’s war on NHS workers
  • From Japan ‘Ukrainised’ to Caribbean plunder – a dying empire imperils us all
  • How wealth disparity erodes democracy
  • Israel’s right to self defence …
  • What price British justice? State v Palestine Action
  • Why I keep quoting Caitlin
  • Brian Berletic on Venezuela
  • Winter rains hit Gaza
  • Will the US invade Venezuela?
  • Empire amok, Starmer on the ropes
  • But when you kiss a dollar bill …
  • The New York Times: a party to genocide
  • Sachs on Venezuela
  • Let’s talk about Venezuela
  • Richard Bruce Cheney – curriculum vitae
  • My enduring image of the late Mr Cheney
  • Fast shut-downs of crap canards #6348
  • On the nature and origins of Islamism
  • Korybko on Mali, Caitlin on media
  • Blue remembered Levers Water
  • Are US elites seeing the light on China?
  • Roaming charges on a benighted planet
  • Ceasefire? A short history of Israel
  • Why aren’t we celebrating a “ceasefire”?
  • Can the West turn Lukashenko?
  • One day everyone will have always …
  • What price AI?
  • Dark drama from Delhi
  • Israel sexually abused Greta Thunberg
  • Swarm! A systems view of class rule
  • Gaza, London – and faces of protest
  • Faith, hope and clarity on Gaza
  • Gaza Protest: Forged Solutions, Sheffield
  • On Gaza, power, justice and peace
  • More on the Manchester murders
  • Meanwhile at a synagogue near me …
  • Job done, Sir Keir: you may now leave
  • Road to WW3, Part 5: information space
  • The seeds of fascism, part 3
  • I was wrong (again) about Palestine
  • Sachs on Ukraine and Western decline
  • Dancing fruit
  • The seeds of fascism, part 2
  • The seeds of fascism, part 1
  • Jonathan Pye on the death of discourse
  • ‘Sparta non merci!’ – Zionist disowns Bibi
  • Enter the dragon?
  • Even the Guardian has its Owen Jones
  • Even the Guardian wants the ban lifted
  • Three more shorts on Sunday
  • The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
  • First they came for the Spaghetti
  • Israel has never ruled the-West
  • Imagine your city under siege
  • They just bombed Greta’s boat
  • Road to WW3. Part 4: ‘Only Connect’
  • Under pressure: Maduro and Corbyn
  • Dear Britain …
  • Even the Guardian thinks Yvette’s a liar
  • Gaza is a mirror on Western civilisation
  • Effecting change – or blowing off steam?
  • Idiocracy! Our profit-driven infantilisation
  • Evil ayatollahs bomb Oz synagogues!
  • Nessun Starmer
  • Right Alexander: let’s talk about Germany
  • Georgia on my mind
  • Meditations on a sinking ship
  • Labour: fearmongering party to genocide
  • Yvette Cooper takes to The Observer
  • Four nights in Lakeland
  • Half-Baked Alaska
  • Two shorts on the UK Israel Lobby
  • Palestine Action – “Yvette is lying”
  • Britain is broke?!? That’s absurd …
  • Do the UK cops want the ban lifted?
  • Ursula – “in Russia you’d be arrested!”
  • Yesterday in Parliament Square, London
  • Palestine Action? Meet Lord Dannatt!
  • Dutch authorities: “Israel a state threat”
  • Palestine Action: Craig Murray reports
  • A Ukraine update
  • 7/10/23. What was Israel supposed to do?
  • Roger Waters meets Chris Hedges
  • It’s the economy, stupid!
  • Will ‘Your Party’ fall to IdPol? Ask Mr Pye!
  • Palestine Action set to challenge UK ban
  • So little. And so-o late …
  • Trump dictates terms to VDL
  • Gaza: the Golgotha and the Stalingrad …
  • Sweeteners for Streeting
  • Paul Mason: “crack-smokingly inaccurate”
  • Francesca – “this speaks to who they are”
  • Ex UN chief on why Gaza is starving
  • Road to WW3. Part 3: capturing minds
  • “First they came for Palestine Action …
  • Rain did not stop play protest
  • Road to WW3. Part 2: 12 day war
  • A nuclear war in Europe?
  • Road to WW3. Part 1: Iran
  • “Don’t mention the dead children!“
  • Epstein and the criminally insane
  • Affirmation? From the criminally insane?
  • Wishful thinking at The Economist. Again.
  • Richard Murphy on neoliberal academia
  • Israel’s crimes: too depraved to be true?
  • To Kill a War Machine – update
  • The British in Palestine, 1936-1939
  • “We were the Nazis, they the Jews”
  • The genocide-haters of Glastonbury
  • The “Jew-haters” of Glastonbury
  • A little more on June 13 and all that
  • Everybody should see this film!
  • June 13 was a game changer
  • No one has the right to abandon Gaza
  • Bibi accuses Haaretz of “Blood Libel”
  • So Palestine Action are terrorists?
  • Ceasefire schmeasefire!
  • Why Iran? Context & Consequences
  • The war so far …
  • Iran is not backing down
  • This won’t be a short war (nukes aside)
  • “Israel’s strategy leads to nuclear war”
  • All eyes are now on America
  • “Demand an end to this madness!”
  • Israel is a US proxy, not its puppet master
  • “The planet is hostage to a death cult”
  • One more on the US-Israeli war on Iran
  • Iranian nukes? It’s regime change, stupid!
  • Israel needs Iran to strike back …
  • Iran goes soixante-neuf
  • Iran in the empire’s cross-hairs
  • Global Delinquents in Syria: Part 1 of 2
  • War on Iran? A monumental folly!
  • Greta Thunberg: kidnap on the high seas
  • Gaza. French is “sorry”, Dylan “too clever”
  • The dangerous idiocy of Piers Morgan
  • In praise of MADNESS
  • Russia’s Pearl Harbour? I think not …
  • Keir Starmer: a dead man walking
  • Gaza – what can I do FFS?!?
  • Ukraine: a NATO division of labour (b)
  • Ukraine: a NATO division of labour (a)
  • Gaza – lies and ‘spiritual’ cant
  • Yes – it really is a genocide!
  • 3 for Sunday: Gaza, Trump, Doug Murray
  • US Embassy shootings: the gunman’s tale
  • Lowkey on “corporate capture” at the BBC
  • Gaza – hats off to Gary Lineker!
  • London: “No ‘both sides’ to a genocide!”
  • Norway boycotts the rogue state
  • After 19 months of war crimes, The Independent says it’s “time to speak up”
  • Who said (war) crime doesn’t pay?
  • Three Sunday shorts on China
  • On Israel the tide is turning
  • Those Houthi missiles: Part 2
  • Omit, obfuscate, gaslight: BBC on Gaza
  • Those Houthi missiles: Part 1
  • Electoral reform – an aspirin for cancer
  • Feed Gaza, just feed Gaza …
  • Fat is a socialist issue
  • 15 dead medics: a tale in GuardianSpeak
  • Don’t ever say “fuck Israel, free Palestine”
  • Method in madness; Trump’s tariffs Part 4
  • Method in madness; Trump’s tariffs Part 3
  • Israel is About to Empty Gaza
  • Method in madness; Trump’s tariffs Part 2
  • Method in madness: Trump’s tariffs Part 1
  • The far right will blame the Jews
  • UN: “Israel rapes its Palestinian hostages”
  • Bath & the Somerset Levels
  • Do you think we’ll get away with this?
  • Palestine Rally in Sheffield in pictures
  • Fighting talk from the EU: Part 3
  • Fighting talk from the EU: Part 2
  • Genocide: the last chapter
  • “We are alone. Nobody cares”
  • Trump does not seek peace in Ukraine
  • A Ukraine timeline
  • Yanis: Europe’s dream is dead
  • Fighting talk from the EU: Part 1
  • Islamist terror grips “liberated” Syria
  • Syria’s Kristallnacht
  • Trump as backstabber: a myth is born!
  • On Zelensky’s ordeal at the Oval Office
  • Look what they did to Syria, ma …
  • For Gaza the future is bright!
  • Because I object to genocide …
  • Bibi & Co have zero interest in a ceasefire
  • Ukraine: Trump’s good cop to Biden’s bad
  • Team Trump stuns Europe’s leaders
  • We are a grandfather
  • Media collusion in genocide
  • Israel – what can a poor girl do?
  • All mouth and no Baltic trousers
  • Burbage Rocks today
  • Trump throws Zelensky onto the third rail
  • More on USAID and narrative control
  • So Trump is to cancel USAID?
  • Ukrainian gun crime and the legacy of war
  • Gloves off in Gaza
  • Owen Jones on Sir Keir Starmer
  • In the park today
  • The western way of genocide
  • Trump’s Iron Dome: Rods from God
  • DeepSeek – and Mandy Rice-Davies
  • Silicon Valley just got DeepSeeked!
  • Owen Jones on Team Starmer
  • US decline – what’s Trump gonna do?
  • 16 scintillating minutes on “austerity”
  • The heartless idiocies of Team Starmer
  • Two new takes on the Heart of Darkness
  • What is to be done?
  • “Donald Trump is the empire unmasked”
  • Western values
  • Saturday’s Palestine rally in London
  • Gaza ceasefire: what did Trump tell Bibi?
  • The economic illiteracy of Rachel Reeves
  • Israel has failed on every front
  • Friday on Watendlath Fell
  • Thursday on Cat Bells
  • Syria’s new justice minister
  • On the state we’re in
  • Galloway on Assad. Damo on Starmer
  • Three video shorts to start 2025
  • It’s another year, folks …
  • Why do we have a mental health crisis?
  • Notes on the West’s economic decline
  • Syria: will Turkiye prove the big winner?
  • Will China Just Stop Oil?
  • Jack is looking at Anne …
  • On controlling the narrative
  • Syria glimpsed through the fog of war
  • Did the empire strike back in Syria?
  • On Syria, chess, and Nat King Cole
  • Bashar al-Assad was no Michael Corleone
  • Vanessa Beeley weeps for Syria
  • South Korea – the Kiev connection
  • Syria’s tragedy: why states must protect their information space from the US
  • HTS’s triumph is a blow not just to Syria
  • A Gaza Lad, and a Man in Full
  • Another dark hour for Syrians
  • Why Syria is kicking off again
  • Westerners who trust too much
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