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 »
Right. Sure guys. Persistent campaigns to deliberately manipulate people’s minds using mass media has no effect on their decisions at all. I guess that’s why that whole “advertising” fad never made any money – Caitlin Johnstone A drum I’ve been banging … 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 »
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 »
I ended the previous post – “The planet is hostage to a death cult” – with this … If Israel is the mad dog, the madman holding the leash is Uncle Sam. … and in an exchange below the line, cautioned … Read More »
When I entered this world the USA had been a nuclear power for seven years, the Soviet Union for three. Britain would explode its first device the following month off the north west coast of Australia; France and China a … Read More »
Social programs do not die in committee rooms; they die in the realm of justification. Through the threat of looming abandonment by Uncle Sam, German voters will accept that their €49 rail ticket cannot be renewed because the Bundeswehr needs … Read More »
In a preamble to yesterday’s post on the world’s first livestreamed genocide – Gaza: lies and ‘spiritual’ cant – I promised a return, later in the week, to the ultimately related matter of: … America’s proxy war on Russia in … Read More »