In US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 2, I wrote: As in Afghanistan, 9/11 legitimated – as did the WMD lie and risible notion of Saddam in bed with Al Qaeda – what Nuremburg called “the supreme crime” of … Read More »
These are disturbing times for the even partially awake. To monitor and as best we can draw attention to the criminality of those who, beneath a thinning veneer of ‘democracy’, rule the Western world may lead us into the realms … Read More »
Much ado about nothing? Yes it is – given that a UK visit by either the genocidal state’s leader or the defence minister he sacked is about as imminent as seeing Joe Biden on Mastermind. We may safely assume that … Read More »
Question: what have the following in common? One, the eye surgeon thrust by destiny, Michael Corleone style, into the role of Arab leader falsely vilified by the same dark forces – their true motives hidden, their power to gaslight vast … Read More »
Three video shorts, average duration twelve minutes, hand-picked by The Steel City Elders for your enlightenment and ongoing edification. They begin with the significance of Kazakhstan, western neighbour to Xinjiang, north-eastern neighbour to Afghanistan and scene of the failed US … Read More »
Maccabi fans in Dam Square chant Zionist slogans before the UEFA cup match with Ajax. Middle East Monitor, November 11 It should surprise nobody. Why would anyone of sound and attentive mind expect the political and media classes who’ve spent … Read More »
The Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, November 8, 2024 Gaslighting for Israel continues apace, regardless of the hit to corporate media credibility, but as Newton helpfully pointed out, “every action has an equal and opposite reaction”. Coverage of Thursday’s events in Amsterdam triggered … Read More »
Though Western media are systemically corrupt, they do not always deceive and distract. On many matters the BBC, Washington Post, Guardian, Economist, CNN and the like bring useful facts and an informed eye to matters not at all trivial; abortion, … Read More »
The late Christopher Hitchens Israel’s Western backed war crimes in Palestine and Lebanon, its serial incursions in Syria, and WW3-inducing aggression on Iran have a single overarching aim. All should be viewed through the lens, because none can be understood … Read More »
Incapacitated on the health front, and liking it not one bit, I’m writing more slowly than I’d wish: my aim to put out a same-week post on the BRICS summit now firmly in the not-gonna-happen folder. But here are three … Read More »