John Mearsheimer is prime architect of offensive realism theory, describing relations between “great powers” as driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system. I don’t buy all of it, and see greater explanatory power … Read More »
Even the non participants on Sheffield’s Devonshire Street, Fargate, Church Street and West Street observed in silence as we marched today for Palestine. Traffic at junctions let us pass; soundless save for the single beat, every seven seconds, of our … Read More »
In response to my post of March 21 – Why are America’s rulers allowing this? – American writer and scholar Ed Curtin emailed to say: Trump is not an anomaly except with his mouth, which is planned. He is carrying … Read More »
I know the feeling, Dr Shola. Unlike Tucker I do “hate Israel” just as I hated that other apartheid ethno-settler colony, South Africa. Unlike Tucker I don’t believe in the last analysis that Israel, under Bibi or any other leader, … 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 »
In the Guardian two days ago, Peter Beaumont asked why Israel is raining terror on Lebanon. What was the point of Israel’s surprise mass strikes on Lebanon that killed more than 300 people and drew widespread international condemnation? Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other … Read More »
Hind Rajab was a five year old Palestinian whose last days and hours were spent trapped with her murdered family in a car under Israeli fire as, acting on IDF evacuation orders, they tried to flee their home in Gaza’s … Read More »
Guardian, April 8 2026 * So, Persian civilisation won’t be ending quite yet. I’m featuring four reactions – with a fifth likely later today – to this morning’s news. Having had no time to gather my own thoughts, I add … Read More »
Easter Monday. By now you, me and the cat next door have heard what POTUS No. 47 saw fit to post yesterday on his laughably named Truth Social. For her part former Trumpian stalwart Marjorie Taylor Greene – “Christian, Mother, … Read More »