I’m packing boxes in a race against time for the house move on Thursday. Why oh why did the empire choose this of all weeks to strike? I listen to podcasts as I work, read stuff when I can. In … Read More »
February 28, 2026: Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, where a US strike killed over 100 children As in June, the USA went through the motions of negotiating while preparing for a criminal war – I use that … Read More »
When I left Burton-in-Kendal services just before nine last night, showered and dined, I should have been forty-five minutes tops from my destination and frequent home from home; a small triangle of car park by Waterhead Pier on the northern … Read More »
I had definitive proof a quarter century ago that identity politics’ obsession with terminology … … in just 200 years we’ve progressed all the way from expecting our leaders to slaughter brown-skinned peoples while saying racist things, to expecting our … Read More »
Scope creep. I was supposed to end this series at Part 3 … Reporting back for duty this morning after my weekend away from geostrategic chess, I found in my inbox an offer(ing) I couldn’t refuse. From the pen of Simplicius, … Read More »
Chris Hedges, two years ago to the day outside London’s Royal Courts of Justice where Julian Assange’s fate was being decided In his post yesterday, Chris Hedges added little this site hasn’t already said, and left out much that it … Read More »
The entire Epstein Island operation was an intelligence mission aimed at entrapping politicians, celebrities, media figures, and decision-makers through sexual blackmail, recruiting them as Israeli agents Ari Ben-Menashe, former Israeli Intelligence officer (see footnote 1) * I’m human: I enjoy … Read More »
A large, openly declared war against Iran would be risky, expensive, and domestically explosive. A form of blockade combined with sanctions, sabotage, and intermittent strikes, on the other hand, is cheaper, deniable, and far more flexible … Nel Bonilla I … Read More »
Part 1 set aside eight decades of Anglo-US interference in Iran since WW2. Instead it took as backdrop to the current rounds of US-Iranian talks the US-Israeli failures both of last June’s decapitation strikes, and last month’s ‘colour revolution’ from … Read More »
The Guardian yesterday: Judges have humiliated ministers by insisting Palestine Action should not be banned under anti-terrorism laws in a ruling that has left thousands of its alleged supporters in legal limbo. The high court said on Friday the government’s … Read More »