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 »
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 »
Judaists and 7th Day Adventists aside, this week’s sabbath came early with the fire & brimstone sermon I featured yesterday by the Reverend Chris Hedges. Read this Sunday post, then, as day two of my weekend break from viewing geostrategically … 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 »
I ended Is it to be war on Iran? Part 3 – meant to be the last of three – by endorsing the view of Nel Bonilla that the billion dollar question has shifted from “will it be full-on war or … 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 »
A friend writes that he was “an idiot” to have looked, in his disgust with the Extreme Centre, to Trump for any kind of solution. Yet millions who gained nothing from globalisation but precarity, inflation, and vanishing welfare infrastructure even … Read More »