It’s easy to lose touch – amid the cerebral thrill of the chase attendant on applying our powers of reason to uncover the drivers and drift of this sorry planet as a dying hence triply dangerous US empire thrashes out … Read More »
The Telegraph, December 3 2024 There’s truth to the above but that doesn’t mean the efforts are genuine. [HTS leader] Joulani has the backing of powerful interests to depose Assad and become Emir of Syria, but one able to be … Read More »
Jihadists about to enter Aleppo, November 29 The above shows Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham – a rebranding of al-Qaeda cut-out, Jabhat al-Nusra – on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria’s second city, five days ago. That’s almost twelve years to the day … Read More »
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 »