Syria is now being carved up by Western powers, with Israel taking huge swaths of land as well as water resources and building a military base in the south, while Turkey is building a military base in the north. The … Read More »
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post hosted, as did most mainstream media, the video below: President Trump has shared an AI-generated video depicting his resort-like vision for the future of Gaza — featuring a gigantic golden statue of the president … 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 »
Netanyahu released a video statement while waving an enlarged photograph of the children and talking about what savage monsters the Palestinians are. While the camera zooms in on the adorable little redheads, he tells us: Hamas murdered them in cold blood. As … Read More »
Cracking rumours emerge from the US-Russia bilateral negotiations in Riyadh. The US is reportedly offering to withdraw its military presence from former Soviet republics, dismantle missile sites in Poland and Romania, cancel all sanctions and even tease the eventual withdrawal … Read More »
Britain’s Neoliberally Atlanticist, The Economist, February 18 2025 The air is thick with dust far from settled following twin shocks delivered last week to Europe’s Atlanticist leaders by their US masters. Specifically, Defense Secretary Pete Hegsworth told them what all … Read More »
Yesterday – see What can a poor girl do? – I referenced Caitlin Johnstone’s post, written the same day and containing this: According to an Israeli media report, last May IDF troops strapped explosives to the neck of an 80 year-old Palestinian … Read More »
So Israel held a bunch of Palestinians in concentration camps without charge just for being Palestinian, and then they not only starved and tortured them but actually made them wear a Star of David on their prison garments. But remember kids, it’s evil and wrong to … Read More »
On many matters our ‘quality’ media serve us passably well but this enables a greater lie. They must show themselves trustworthy even if it embarrasses high office. (Not only does long term capacity to manufacture consent depend on it. So … Read More »
It’s at best ignorant and at worst dishonest to quote the “then” part of an if-then conditional as a standalone. I’m not one for defending war criminals but a textbook case is the oft repeated claim that President-elect Richard Nixon’s … Read More »