The Telegraph, December 3 2024 There’s truth to the above but that doesn’t mean the efforts are genuine. [HTS leader] Joulani has the backing of powerful interests to depose Assad and become Emir of Syria, but one able to be … Read More »
Jihadists about to enter Aleppo, November 29 The above shows Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham – a rebranding of al-Qaeda cut-out, Jabhat al-Nusra – on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria’s second city, five days ago. That’s almost twelve years to the day … Read More »
A few months ago a reader asked a rhetorical question. Why, she demanded, should we trust those who can’t call a genocide a genocide on anything at all? I’ve since used it a number of times, most recently when someone … Read More »
Friday morning I awaken to peel away the suction blinds on two of the van windows. In minutes I’m dressed and wellied up to walk the two hundred metres to where shapely Milton Ferry Bridge, on the southwest edge of … Read More »
In US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 2, I wrote: As in Afghanistan, 9/11 legitimated – as did the WMD lie and risible notion of Saddam in bed with Al Qaeda – what Nuremburg called “the supreme crime” of … Read More »
These are disturbing times for the even partially awake. To monitor and as best we can draw attention to the criminality of those who, beneath a thinning veneer of ‘democracy’, rule the Western world may lead us into the realms … Read More »
Simplicius the Thinker opens his post today with this: Swell of ‘WWIII’ Red Herrings Aims to Drown Out Mounting Russian Success An outrageous deluge of exaggerated WWIII propaganda has hit the networks. Every pundit is tearing their hair out at … Read More »
Moscow Times, November 21st In the sole footnote to my post yesterday, Ukraine and the escalation ladder, I wrote: Today, both Caitlin Johnstone and Simplicius the Thinker – she with her characteristic forthrightness of tone, he more nuanced – point to Trump’s … Read More »
If my post yesterday, Hands up if you think Russia is bluffing – and the Scott Ritter address it housed in the opening minutes of this video – were unnerving (and we should be unnerved) here’s a slightly more reassuring … Read More »
The RF President on Thursday: “It is not Russia but the US that has destroyed the system of international security” There’s no inherent contradiction between materialist understandings of the root drivers of war, and idealist assessments of the role played … Read More »