Don’t get me wrong. This isn’t a red line for me. Voices I respect – from Alexander Mercouris to Vladimir Putin (though not, I gather, Xi Jinping) have been forthright in condemning the October 7 attacks even as they condemn … Read More »
Lowkey addresses a Free Julian Assange demo in London, October 2021 I’ve seen and snapped Lowkey twice at rallies for Julian Assange but, not being a rap fan, paid little heed beyond noting with approval that, as with Roger Waters … Read More »
My sole recommend for this weekend is a podcast. Make a space in your busy life, settle into favourite armchair and, on your super-smart TV, surf to YouTube for sixty-eight minutes fifteen of Bangkok based Brian Berletic in dialogue with … Read More »
To anyone observing the rise of China – and more of us should be – it has been evident for well over a decade that Western financial media have descended into self parody on the subject. The outlets best known … Read More »
I speak often of the burgeoning ranks of gamekeepers-turned poacher who mark, as I yet again switch metaphors, canaries in the coal mine of the west’s increasingly transparent decadence. One such is the former UK career diplomat, Alastair Crooke. His … Read More »
The virulent hatreds – not to mention rank bad salesmanship from a hasbara point of view – routinely spewed out by Israel’s far right are not the voice of that country as a whole. If they were, there’d have been … Read More »
The BBC say 300,000; Stop the War 800,000. Neither divulged their counting methodology but let’s split the difference and say over half a million marched on Saturday, November 11th, from Hyde Park down Park Lane and Grosvenor Place to Victoria, … Read More »
I’ll be in London on Saturday, inshallah, for a pro Palestinian demo which PM Rishi Sunak, Home Secretary Suella Braverman – who calls it a “hate march” – and other senior members of the UK government wanted Metropolitan Police Commissioner … Read More »
Who’s up for a 9150 word read, for no good reason beyond my recommendation and its subject being a wholly avoidable bloodbath, on whose causes we’ve been lied to by criminals and their useful idiots, and which may yet take … Read More »
The USS Gerald Ford, the world’s largest warship ever, is now in the Eastern Mediterranean Should we banish XL Bullies, or just these canine killers’ owners? Pending part two of A way forward for Palestine? do recall the claim … Read More »