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Category Archives: middle east

Russia is winning, Israel is not

3 Nov

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 »

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Will the real Israel stand up?

28 Oct

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 »

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3 Sunday shorts on the Middle East

27 Oct

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 »

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The Empire strikes back (kind of)

26 Oct

Britain’s, The Telegraph, October 26, 2024 After finishing my four-parter on US Neocons & Israel’s far Right, all written in the context of Israel’s unusually delayed response to October 1st, I’d aimed to spend today gathering material on a BRICS … Read More »

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US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 4

24 Oct

Part 3 opened with the Greater Israel aims of men like Itamar Ben-Gvr and Bezalel Smotrich. While their messianic vision does not directly encroach on Iran’s territorial integrity … … its eastern borders would push it towards the Islamic Republic … Read More »

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“I’m overwhelmed with shame”

23 Oct

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US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 3

23 Oct

The territorial aspirations of Israel’s religious Right, by no means confined to West Bank settlers who deem the bible a Deed of Entitlement which trumps international law, look for legitimacy to conflictual texts written between the 7th and 1st centuries … Read More »

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Torched in Gaza: Western ‘civilisation’

22 Oct

I’ve posted this twice now but, in case you missed it, here’s the Green Party foreign minister in Germany’s governing (and if the polls are reliable, electorally doomed) coalition energetically backing the war crime of collective punishment in Gaza. Her … Read More »

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US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 2

18 Oct

Netanyahu is doing just what the US wants. The dream of Netanyahu is the dream of the US neo-cons: war with Iran. If you can conquer Iran, you close up everything between Israel and Iran. You take up Syria, Iraq; … Read More »

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The West’s silent majority is wrong!

17 Oct

Most of those who judge historic evils correctly in hindsight are sleepwalking through their present-day reiteration in Palestine … Those who stood against such evil at the time were by definition a minority, else they wouldn’t have happened in the … Read More »

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last 350 posts (most recent first)

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  • Israel’s ongoing slaughter in Lebanon
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  • Where’s Netanyahu …
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  • Israel – you’ve got a lot of nerve!
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  • Europe psycho-analysed …
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  • CIA/Mossad fingerprints are all over this!
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  • They who damn Tehran and Washington
  • I will not cheer for regime change in Iran!
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  • A US Greenland grab makes evil sense
  • When criminals show their true face …
  • Venezuela: Brian Berletic weighs in
  • The criminal act of a criminal empire
  • Israel: ‘Caitlin Johnstone is top antisemite’
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  • Owen Jones on Bondi Beach weaponised
  • The Bondi Beach attack
  • Reith lecturer calls for ‘moral revolution’
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  • Murdoch shills for war on Venezuela
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  • Israel’s right to self defence …
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  • Jonathan Pye on the death of discourse
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  • Road to WW3. Part 2: 12 day war
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  • “Don’t mention the dead children!“
  • Epstein and the criminally insane
  • Affirmation? From the criminally insane?
  • Wishful thinking at The Economist. Again.
  • Richard Murphy on neoliberal academia
  • Israel’s crimes: too depraved to be true?
  • To Kill a War Machine – update
  • The British in Palestine, 1936-1939
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  • A little more on June 13 and all that
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  • June 13 was a game changer
  • No one has the right to abandon Gaza
  • Bibi accuses Haaretz of “Blood Libel”
  • So Palestine Action are terrorists?
  • Ceasefire schmeasefire!
  • Why Iran? Context & Consequences
  • The war so far …
  • Iran is not backing down
  • This won’t be a short war (nukes aside)
  • “Israel’s strategy leads to nuclear war”
  • All eyes are now on America
  • “Demand an end to this madness!”
  • Israel is a US proxy, not its puppet master
  • “The planet is hostage to a death cult”
  • One more on the US-Israeli war on Iran
  • Iranian nukes? It’s regime change, stupid!
  • Israel needs Iran to strike back …
  • Iran goes soixante-neuf
  • Iran in the empire’s cross-hairs
  • Global Delinquents in Syria: Part 1 of 2
  • War on Iran? A monumental folly!
  • Greta Thunberg: kidnap on the high seas
  • Gaza. French is “sorry”, Dylan “too clever”
  • The dangerous idiocy of Piers Morgan
  • In praise of MADNESS
  • Russia’s Pearl Harbour? I think not …
  • Keir Starmer: a dead man walking
  • Gaza – what can I do FFS?!?
  • Ukraine: a NATO division of labour (b)
  • Ukraine: a NATO division of labour (a)
  • Gaza – lies and ‘spiritual’ cant
  • Yes – it really is a genocide!
  • 3 for Sunday: Gaza, Trump, Doug Murray
  • US Embassy shootings: the gunman’s tale
  • Lowkey on “corporate capture” at the BBC
  • Gaza – hats off to Gary Lineker!
  • London: “No ‘both sides’ to a genocide!”
  • Norway boycotts the rogue state
  • After 19 months of war crimes, The Independent says it’s “time to speak up”
  • Who said (war) crime doesn’t pay?
  • Three Sunday shorts on China
  • On Israel the tide is turning
  • Those Houthi missiles: Part 2
  • Omit, obfuscate, gaslight: BBC on Gaza
  • Those Houthi missiles: Part 1
  • Electoral reform – an aspirin for cancer
  • Feed Gaza, just feed Gaza …
  • Fat is a socialist issue
  • 15 dead medics: a tale in GuardianSpeak
  • Don’t ever say “fuck Israel, free Palestine”
  • Method in madness; Trump’s tariffs Part 4
  • Method in madness; Trump’s tariffs Part 3
  • Israel is About to Empty Gaza
  • Method in madness; Trump’s tariffs Part 2
  • Method in madness: Trump’s tariffs Part 1
  • The far right will blame the Jews
  • UN: “Israel rapes its Palestinian hostages”
  • Bath & the Somerset Levels
  • Do you think we’ll get away with this?
  • Palestine Rally in Sheffield in pictures
  • Fighting talk from the EU: Part 3
  • Fighting talk from the EU: Part 2
  • Genocide: the last chapter
  • “We are alone. Nobody cares”
  • Trump does not seek peace in Ukraine
  • A Ukraine timeline
  • Yanis: Europe’s dream is dead
  • Fighting talk from the EU: Part 1
  • Islamist terror grips “liberated” Syria
  • Syria’s Kristallnacht
  • Trump as backstabber: a myth is born!
  • On Zelensky’s ordeal at the Oval Office
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  • For Gaza the future is bright!
  • Because I object to genocide …
  • Bibi & Co have zero interest in a ceasefire
  • Ukraine: Trump’s good cop to Biden’s bad
  • Team Trump stuns Europe’s leaders
  • We are a grandfather
  • Media collusion in genocide
  • Israel – what can a poor girl do?
  • All mouth and no Baltic trousers
  • Burbage Rocks today
  • Trump throws Zelensky onto the third rail
  • More on USAID and narrative control
  • So Trump is to cancel USAID?
  • Ukrainian gun crime and the legacy of war
  • Gloves off in Gaza
  • Owen Jones on Sir Keir Starmer
  • In the park today
  • The western way of genocide
  • Trump’s Iron Dome: Rods from God
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  • Owen Jones on Team Starmer
  • US decline – what’s Trump gonna do?
  • 16 scintillating minutes on “austerity”
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  • Two new takes on the Heart of Darkness
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  • “Donald Trump is the empire unmasked”
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  • Saturday’s Palestine rally in London
  • Gaza ceasefire: what did Trump tell Bibi?
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  • Israel has failed on every front
  • Friday on Watendlath Fell
  • Thursday on Cat Bells
  • Syria’s new justice minister
  • On the state we’re in
  • Galloway on Assad. Damo on Starmer
  • Three video shorts to start 2025
  • It’s another year, folks …
  • Why do we have a mental health crisis?
  • Notes on the West’s economic decline
  • Syria: will Turkiye prove the big winner?
  • Will China Just Stop Oil?
  • Jack is looking at Anne …
  • On controlling the narrative
  • Syria glimpsed through the fog of war
  • Did the empire strike back in Syria?
  • On Syria, chess, and Nat King Cole
  • Bashar al-Assad was no Michael Corleone
  • Vanessa Beeley weeps for Syria
  • South Korea – the Kiev connection
  • Syria’s tragedy: why states must protect their information space from the US
  • HTS’s triumph is a blow not just to Syria
  • A Gaza Lad, and a Man in Full
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