Hamas attacks: eight new reads

10 Oct

Collective punishment has been clearly forbidden under international humanitarian law through Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. No exceptions are permitted Michael Lynk, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, 2020 We are fighting human … Read More »

Hamas unprovoked? Gimme a break!

8 Oct

See also my later post, Hamas attacks: top ten takeaways … * As in Orwell’s 1984, words mindlessly spewed out in unison by narrative managers have come to denote their antitheses. A current favourite is “unprovoked”. It’s been used, ludicrously … Read More »

So what did happen on 9/11?

6 Oct

. Between 2016 and 2018 my take on 9/11 changed. On the fifteenth anniversary I had derided the ‘truther’ idea of 9/11 being a false flag operation, by or on behalf of the US ‘deep state’, but the seventeenth saw … Read More »

What an utter Hunt!

2 Oct

Apologies if you think sexist or even misogynist rhyming slang the worst thing since Barack Obama … …. … but here’s Britain’s right responsible Chancellor of the Exchequer, as reported yesterday … … and here he is a few years … Read More »