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 »
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 »