I write while looking out over England’s largest lake, over whose glassy depths I glided most idyllically by canoe yesterday under a blazing sun. Mine eyes lifted unto the hills of Grasmere Common, I haven’t time to explain the divers … Read More »
At what point does simple spill over into simplistic? It’s not always an easy call, least of all amid the fog of war – any war, let alone the shifting currents and swirls of one linked in diverse ways to … Read More »
Britain’s right-wing Telegraph has its own reasons to crow over VDL/Brussels humiliation, but humiliation it assuredly was Four days ago I posted Part 3 of my ongoing series, Road to WW3. It outlined the case, not hard to make, that … Read More »
Long before I set up this site in 2015, it had become clear to me that the greatest threat to world peace is the US empire. The White House aide [thought to be Karl Rove] said guys like me were … Read More »
A missile capability on show to traumatised Israelis in response to June 13, together with the prospect of a Hormuz closed by Iranian mines, saw Trump – misled by Netanyahu’s hubris into thinking Iran could be regime-changed by chutzpah, without drawing the … Read More »
June 13: IDF image of Israeli warplanes, US supplied with help from UK and EU, en route to Iran Two posts ago, in June 13 was a game changer, I wrote … Middle East state after vilified Middle East state … Read More »
* Here’s a question. Why do you suppose a Western-vilified DPRK, aka North Korea, hasn’t been bombed or invaded while Middle East state after vilified Middle East state has suffered one or both at the hands of the Empire of … Read More »
Even Trump admirers are waking up to the truth their man is an IDIOT who thinks he can RUN THE WORLD through the caps lock on his keyboard. Dmitry Orlov June 22 A nuclear armed ethno-state 623 days into a … Read More »
Yesterday, in a pub amid the spires and ivory college walls of Cambridge, I tapped out my take on the war so far. It prompted reader Dave Hansell, who should be on a steel city retainer, to supply a link … Read More »
The fog of war is always and necessarily thick but, like banks of cloud viewed from a plane, it shifts in swirling patches which here and there part to bring moments of unexpected clarity. Not everything is anyone’s guess; some … Read More »