Two days ago in the centrist Middle East observer, Al-Monitor … Syrians to be deported for eating bananas ‘provocatively’ in Turkey As tensions soar between Turks and their country’s 4 million refugees, a viral trend of young Syrians posting videos … Read More »
Two days ago Israel’s liberal daily, Haaretz, ran this: ‘Israel Was Born in Sin. I’m Collaborating With a Criminal Country,’ Says Former PM’s Son [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]Scion to an iconic Zionist family and former member of the Shin Bet [“MI5” to … Read More »
BBC said a documentary on alleged chemical weapon attack had inaccuracies The programme dealt with an alleged chemical attack at Douma, Syria, in 2018 It included an account of ‘Alex’, a former inspector with the poison gas watchdog BBC said it … Read More »
Seen on Facebook today. My name is Shahar. I’m 18 years old and I live in Kfar Yona, Israel. In two days, I’m going to arrive at the Israeli military enlistment center where I will declare my refusal to be … Read More »
One of these two is a self confessed liar – and it’s not the one on the left. The abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours … We didn’t … Read More »
Last night I watched for the second time an episode of Accused, the 2010 series from the pen of Jimmy McGovern, now on Netflix. Here’s an abridged Wiki synopsis of Frankie’s Story: Frankie and Peter join the army to get … Read More »
Wall Street Journal, August 25: Erik Prince is no stranger to monetising human suffering. He founded Blackwater, whose antics in Baghdad in 2007 drew down a search beam on the world of Western ‘security’ firms in post invasion Iraq. These … Read More »
My last post but one was on whistle-blowers, after the jailing of Daniel Hale. An employee of the US Airforce, Daniel leaked documents to allow more reliable estimates of the thousands of innocents killed since Obama’s 2004 launch of the … Read More »
Warning. This post contains heavy irony. Read with caution. That Bashar al-Assad is a brutal thug, loathed and feared by the overwhelming majority of the Syrian people, is beyond dispute. Not just right-wing Western Media but many on the far … Read More »
See also, Reading the middle east: part 1 [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end][/ezcol_1third_end] * Topping the returns for a search on “full spectrum dominance” is a wiki page citing Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech: … the United States is now totally frank about putting … Read More »