Category Archives: middle east
Iran: what next?
this post also features in offguardian With so many brown skinned men, women and children in the Middle East maimed, bereaved or having their lives terminated by the high tech and highly profitable products of America’s military industrial complex, it’s … Read More »
Tom Watson: follow the money
Since becoming Labour Deputy Leader in September 2015, Tom has had just shy of £97,000 from two Israel lobbyists, Trevor Chinn and David Garrard, and from Labour Friends of Israel. On Facebook I came across the list below, taken from … Read More »
Book review: Israel, a Beachhead …
[ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]Ten second summary. This book is a timely response to three groups: those yet to grasp that Israel in its current form is an outrage comparable to apartheid South Africa; those who recognise this truth but fail (as had … Read More »
OPCW leak: what’s the story, George?
Dear George I’d hoped you might have changed your tune – or at least laid off the Kool Aid and for once kept your head down on things Syria. You haven’t though. Above is your bizarre tweet in response to … Read More »
Roger Waters on the Douma False Flag
Yesterday on Facebook, erstwhile Pink Floyd powerhouse Roger Waters, even better off stage than on, wrote this of the Douma lies. WHERE ARE THE HEADLINES? On April 7th 2018, Al Nusra/White Helmets, whoever, staged a chemical weapons attack in Douma, … Read More »
Syria: the lies unravel
This from Peter Hitchens in yesterday’s Mail. Strange news from the OPCW in the Hague A dissenting group of scientists and others recently published online what they say is a report prepared by an employee of the Organisation for the … Read More »
Iran and the Empire of Evil
Islington’s ban on Gilad Atzmon
Some of us have been aware for a long time of creeping inroads, on freedom and such open society fundamentals as presumption of innocence, made in the name of progressive values. Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Woody Allen stand convicted … Read More »
The West’s false narrative on Syria
Yesterday in CounterPunch, under the header, Trump’s Big Pullout, Chandra Muzaffar wrote: If we … turn to the situation in Syria, we would realise that the US role in combating terrorism was limited. The Syrian Army, with the backing of … Read More »