Part 1 opened with the September 10 murder of Charlie Kirk, a Christian Conservative hitherto unknown to me but with a large following in the USA. The crime led Johns Hopkins historian Todd Stoermer to find commonality between America’s post … Read More »
Trump declared antifa a terrorist organization. Within 48 hours, ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s show indefinitely. Nexstar preempted it on their stations. Sinclair went further—airing a Charlie Kirk tribute in Kimmel’s time slot and demanding he donate to [Kirk’s conservative nonprofit] … Read More »
Meanwhile the West backs its genocidal beachhead in the Middle East and US warships threaten Venezuela on bogus pretext. At the very least Washington is doubling down on the Monroe Doctrine in the face of rising Chinese and Russian commercial presence … Read More »
Three peak events last week were the murder of Charlie Kirk … more US-Israeli criminality in the Middle East, this time not against Iran but, after the genocidal ethno-state itself, Washington’s closest regional ‘ally’ … and the handful of Russian … Read More »
Candle-lit vigil in Utah, where Kirk was fatally shot Yesterday evening, in a twenty-five minute dialogue at the Duran on the Charlie Kirk shooting, Alexander Mercouris made a few excellent (and a few laboured) points. He also quoted the WB … Read More »
Having spoken but rarely and long ago on this part of the world, I can’t with confidence say why US warships are headed for Venezuela now, rather than last week .. month .. year or next week .. month .. … Read More »
* I urge a read of yesterday’s post, on Israel’s indefatigable capacity for bare-faced mendacity, by Caitlin Johnstone. Always delivering punchy but cogent reads, she has the literary adroitness of a Julie Burchill but without the moral insanity. I was … Read More »
Yesterday in the first twenty-five of seventy minutes with an interviewer unnamed and unknown to me, John Mearsheimer demonstrated both the astuteness and gravitas which keep me tuning in, and the limits to the “Offensive Realism” school of which the … Read More »
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 »