I ended the previous post – “The planet is hostage to a death cult” – with this … If Israel is the mad dog, the madman holding the leash is Uncle Sam. … and in an exchange below the line, cautioned … Read More »
So said Pepe Escobar yesterday, speaking to Nima Alkhorshid at Dialogue Works. But which is the death cult? Is it the ethno-supremacist regime, already mid-genocide and now embarked on what Nuremberg called “the supreme crime” of waging aggressive war; one … Read More »
Yesterday Israel and the US Neocons finally got what they’ve sought for at least a quarter of a century: hot war on Iran. The big question now being, how will Iran respond? In my previous post – It’s regime change, … Read More »
* In the early hours of today, Israel, with every sign not just of US approval but its involvement at all stages of the planning … I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in … Read More »
Though my post late last night predates Israel’s early hours strikes today, my e-alert to that post does not. Had I checked the morning’s news first, I’d have written differently. This much is obvious. The ethno-supremacist entity which is Israel … Read More »
Alert, Friday June 13: what follows was posted late last night, before Israel’s strikes on Iran in the early hours of today. Yesterday Jeff Bezos’s WashPo ran this: June 12, 2025 Also yesterday, apropos US-Israeli verbal threats on Iran, I … Read More »
In my last post but one I wrote: The war with Iran sought by an Israel fast running out of options, ideas and indeed any discernible strategy (since ethnic cleansing and genocide do not a strategy make, nor does the … Read More »
Then there’s 9/11. Whatever the truth of that – and I ate my share of humble pie – it greenlit the War on Terror within the West to fast track a Patriot Act (and non US equivalents) while making free with such rule-of-law fundamentals … Read More »
I’m still working on my Syria post. Meanwhile here’s Simplicius, writing today. Since his cavalier approach to layout is always confusing, I’ve tidied it up – itself an editorial decision when ‘form’ cannot be neatly distinguished from ‘content’ – and … Read More »
Asked what kept blowing his nineteen fifties government off course from its manifesto pledges, British PM Harold Macmillan famously replied, “events, dear boy, events”. I know the feeling. Itching to pen a post on US backed Islamist terror in Syria, … Read More »