Iran has the upper hand
18
Mar
I’ve nothing to add to this from Canadian outlet, Daily Reports. Best eleven minutes you’re likely to spend today.
Category Archives: usa
Donald who?
15
Mar
Back in 2016 I refused to support that murderous Queen of Chaos, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Not because of her venality and air of regal entitlement but because she proposed to invite WW3 by imposing on Russia – how she didn’t … Read More »
Iran’s more clinical realities
13
Mar
What I believe is more multi-layered – though no less chilling – but most Americans believe Trump started the war against Iran as a distraction from the Epstein files, while the man himself believes he has God on his side … Read More »
Iran holds firm; US-Israel cracks appear
11
Mar
As indicated in yesterday’s post, Tehran is in no mood to allow Washington an easy way out after its catastrophic miscalculation. Blitzkreig and decapitation having failed, the US faces a stark choice of either a protracted war inflicting astronomic damage … Read More »
Iran: is Trump seeking an off ramp?
10
Mar
Last night Lt Col (Retired) Daniel Davis, one of many gamekeepers turned poacher to feature on this site, began his podcast with a whopping eleven and a half minutes given over to a press briefing by the 47th US President. … Read More »
Iran’s war of economic attrition
9
Mar
Even if I didn’t enjoy the own-goals of those I despise, especially own-goals vainglorious in the making, I’d be delighted that the phrase Operation Epstein Fury, a play on Operation Epic Fury, has caught on. And just the other night … Read More »
Richard Murphy: false equivalence on Iran
7
Mar
I’m reproducing here an exchange below a post yesterday by Professor Richard Murphy: MMT advocate, tax specialist, Quaker, bird watcher and much else. His clarity on how money works – hence on how the cruelties of decades of UK neoliberal … Read More »
This criminal war
4
Mar
General Smedley Butler, War is a Racket * If our corporate media were even capable of doing their ostensible job … On many matters ‘quality’ media serve us tolerably well but this truth enables a greater lie. They need to … Read More »
Thoughts on the war, Day 4
3
Mar
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 »
Trump’s Operation Epstein Epic Fury
1
Mar
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 »