Here’s a tale in three short parts. On November 29, 2023 – fifty-two days into Israel’s Western backed genocide on Gaza – an article on the Human Rights Watch website posed this question: I’ve had my issues with HRW. Along … Read More »
“Biden did the murder. Trump’s just the guy who showed up to help dispose of the body.” * On January 19 I opened a post on the Gaza ceasefire with this: Why did Donald Trump post, on the X/Twitter platform … Read More »
In my last post but one, Donald Trump is the empire unmasked, I quoted Caitlin Johnstone as per the above image caption. In the post which followed it, What is to be done?, I offered Chris Hedges’ slightly more detailed … Read More »
Today Mark Taliano posted this. I concur without reservation and invite those with a different view to argue it in the comments section or, by arrangement, in a guest post. What am I thinking? What am I thinking. I am … Read More »
I’m kicking myself. It’s months now since I was at a Palestine demonstration, either in London or the steel city. Why wasn’t I at this one? Fortunately, the always reliable Jonathan Cook was. The former Guardian journalist and blogger from … Read More »
Why did Donald Trump post, on the X/Twitter platform owned by the world’s richest man and now a member of Trump’s team, a clip of Jeffrey Sachs – old school liberal and scourge of the Neocons – lambasting US policy … Read More »
Britain’s Independent newspaper yesterday, January 15 The [ceasefire] announcement was met with rousing cheers throughout northern Gaza where Hamas fighters reportedly came out of their tunnels to openly celebrate in the streets – make no mistake, this is being viewed … Read More »
Praise be to God for the downfall of that wicked man, Bashar al-Assad! Those receding parts of Syria not swallowed by Israel, Turkiye and the US are now under the control of Al Qaeda/ISIS cut-out, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Now rebranded … Read More »
In a footnote to the previous post I wrote: More on Sykes-Picot here. For why I doubt that a third way, neither empire nor Ba’athism, was ever on the cards, see Syria – how Trotskyism got it so wrong. As … Read More »
My December 14 post, On Syria, chess, and Nat King Cole, generated this three-way exchange below the line. I’m dressed in a rather fetching red: You really think [Assad] a good man? A kind leader? At least read Syrian Gulag … Read More »