At the Feast of Passover two thousand years ago it was customary for the Roman occupiers to pardon one condemned prisoner, selected by the people. All four Gospels have it that on one very special year the crowds insisted on … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian https://youtu.be/ZTnIOh6yl6Y I saw this film last night at a one-off screening in Derby. It’s all you’d expect of a John Pilger documentary. Polished and professional? Well of course, but more importantly: Hard hitting, its … Read More »
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The Nuremberg trials after WW2 found waging aggressive war to be not just a war crime but “the supreme war crime”. For years I have argued, on grounds I won’t revisit here, that what I and others call the West’s … Read More »
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The Guardian today. Snapshots from June 2017 … * Frequently deployed – cynically, stupidly and lazily – to dismiss an argument without the effort of addressing its particulars, the conspiracy theorist epithet refers to an assumed pathological condition. It’s … Read More »
Can the most terrifying rogue state – bar none – the world has ever known be brought to heel? Two days ago ninety-six year old Henry Kissinger – Indochina Bomber, right hand man to Nixon and backer of death squads … Read More »
Writing two days ago in the Spectator USA, Peter Hitchens begins: I suspect the Third World War will begin with a claimed atrocity — probably the use of poison gas by a ‘regime’ against ‘its own people’. Such things are … Read More »