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 »
So I didn’t lose you with my unforgivable use of the d-word in the title? Excellent. I’ve several times on this site found cause to roll out one of my favourite Caitlin Johnstone quotes: In 200 years we’ve progressed from … Read More »
A trail of destruction, chaos and terror left by US wars on the middle east (with Britain, the EU, Canada and Antipodes fully onboard) has seen some of us in the predator nations waking up to a core feature of … Read More »
Now that Netanyahu has departed, we anticipate a calmer panorama in the Knesset. [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Gaza should be “wiped clean with bombs” Avi Dichter, Minister of Home Front Defence [/ezcol_1half_end] [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] “We must blow Gaza back into … Read More »
Of course Sheffield couldn’t match the 150,000 who today marched from Speaker’s Corner to the Israeli Embassy in London. Still, several hundred of steel city’s finest turned out in solidarity with their Palestinian brothers and sisters outside the Town Hall, … Read More »
Yesterday to be precise. Bowed down under the yoke of Bashar the Brutal, a subdued people – Alawite, Catholic, Druze, Maronite, Orthodox, Shia and Sunni – lament the departure of the Moderate Islamists of David Cameron’s imagination, and Isis reality.
For socialists and internationalists (and how can you be the one without being the other?) the only thing more dismaying than the ability of ‘our’ power-serving media to whip The People into a frenzy of Orwellian loathing for manufactured bêtes … Read More »