Above and below, US strikes on Caracas – El Pais, January 3 * It’s a measure of the immaturity of the gadfly Andrew Korybko that his response to today’s news, of the criminal act of a criminal empire, was not to … Read More »
The document attempts to make the argument that in the two months leading up to the Bondi attack there was an epidemic of antisemitic “hate speech” online, absurdly insinuating that those of us who were criticizing Israel and its abuses … Read More »
EIR, Xmas Eve 2025 The “protection” of free speech has become its subversion: authorities intervene to safeguard the principle by employing the very discretionary powers that hollow out speech in practice. Liberalism survives as ritual and language, but not as … Read More »
Merry Xmas one and all. Yesterday on Xmas Eve ‘offensive realist‘ Professor John Mearsheimer met up with Judge Andrew Napolitano on his Judging Freedom show for a half-hour discussion of US foreign policy – if that’s not too grand a … Read More »
On December 5 – Venezuela: follow-through or dial-down? – I provided in single paragraph summaries the arguments for and against the likelihood of American piracy in the Caribbean escalating into full-on war to effect regime change in Caracas. I concluded … Read More »
Given the plethora of information now available to anyone taking a little effort, and possessed of the capacity to join the dots and reflect on that information, it is unacceptably naive – yet for reasons beyond my scope here dismally … Read More »
An opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post yesterday: December 21, 2025. Bondi massacre was not about free speech – it’s the cost of normalizing antisemitism It’s written by one Sharon Pardo, who begins: The Hanukkah attack in Sydney was a terrorist … Read More »
Screengrab: Novara Media on fake, AI generated podcasts * For several weeks I’ve been aware of fake videos purporting to be talking head podcasts from pundits who, while I have my differences with them, get my respect as useful contributors … Read More »
Says the Mail yesterday: Police have made their first arrests after two people allegedly shouted chants involving ‘calls for intifada’ amid a crackdown after the Bondi Beach shooting. Five people were taken into custody yesterday at a pro-Palestinian demonstration held … Read More »
Unless you’re one of them there coincidence theorists, you might suspect co-ordinated effort to capitalise on Bondi Beach to delegitimise protest at Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. Several of my posts – here and here and here and here – since Sunday have in different ways warned of precisely that. … Read More »