Cuckooing is when criminals take over someone’s home to use for dealing drugs, storing weapons, sex work or other illegal activities. They target vulnerable people: someone with a drug or alcohol problem, money troubles, a mental health issue or disability, … Read More »
Pro-Palestine activists took to the streets of central Athens on Friday after a firebomb attack on an art gallery known for showing anti-Zionist slogans. Demonstrators gathered in Monastiraki, otherwise known as “Little Tel Aviv,” to condemn “Zionist terrorism” and “genocide” … Read More »
In a highly confrontational address to the UN Security Council, Russian Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia accused the European Union and foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas of deliberately escalating the Ukraine conflict and preparing for a major war with Moscow. Dismissing … Read More »
* Liberals temperamentally disinclined to distinguish social conservativism from creeping fascism will welcome the end of Viktor Orbán’s sixteen years as Hungary’s prime minister. So too will those who fondly believe the EU a benign and democratic entity. Me, I side … Read More »
With so much going down in and around the Persian Gulf, few of us noticed, let alone paused to make sense of, Israel’s airstrikes last month on the Iranian port of Bandar Anzali: eight hundred miles north of the Hormuz … Read More »
Today’s post picks up where yesterday’s left off. Not because it too features Owen Jones, in this case as host with the confidence and discipline to let his guest do the talking, but because it too takes as starting point … Read More »
February 28, 2026: Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, where a US strike killed over 100 children As in June, the USA went through the motions of negotiating while preparing for a criminal war – I use that … Read More »
I ended Is it to be war on Iran? Part 3 – meant to be the last of three – by endorsing the view of Nel Bonilla that the billion dollar question has shifted from “will it be full-on war or … Read More »
Europe’s political elites, captured and groomed decades ago by Washington, have been allotted the task of continuing to bog down Russia in Ukraine to free up the US to pursue its overarching goal of encircling China. As their citizens face … Read More »
I’m pushed for time but want to get this out today. I see Sunday as offering the best chance of the two videos it hosts being viewed. Tuesday’s speech at Davos by Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has generated a … Read More »