I’m on sabbatical from politics as I rubber-tramp the north east (again) so, as I sit with laptop in a Redcar pub with wi-fi, will confine myself to saying that, as in 2016, I can’t share the despair or despondence … Read More »
Though Western media are systemically corrupt, they do not always deceive and distract. On many matters the BBC, Washington Post, Guardian, Economist, CNN and the like bring useful facts and an informed eye to matters not at all trivial; abortion, … Read More »
Should he live long enough – and not receive one of those pardons Latin American leaders are wont to confer on fellow kleptocrats – Alejandro Celestino Toledo will be ninety-nine when he finally leaves his jail cell. Born into the … Read More »
The late Christopher Hitchens Israel’s Western backed war crimes in Palestine and Lebanon, its serial incursions in Syria, and WW3-inducing aggression on Iran have a single overarching aim. All should be viewed through the lens, because none can be understood … Read More »
Incapacitated on the health front, and liking it not one bit, I’m writing more slowly than I’d wish: my aim to put out a same-week post on the BRICS summit now firmly in the not-gonna-happen folder. But here are three … Read More »
Britain’s, The Telegraph, October 26, 2024 After finishing my four-parter on US Neocons & Israel’s far Right, all written in the context of Israel’s unusually delayed response to October 1st, I’d aimed to spend today gathering material on a BRICS … Read More »
Part 3 opened with the Greater Israel aims of men like Itamar Ben-Gvr and Bezalel Smotrich. While their messianic vision does not directly encroach on Iran’s territorial integrity … … its eastern borders would push it towards the Islamic Republic … Read More »
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The territorial aspirations of Israel’s religious Right, by no means confined to West Bank settlers who deem the bible a Deed of Entitlement which trumps international law, look for legitimacy to conflictual texts written between the 7th and 1st centuries … Read More »
I’ve posted this twice now but, in case you missed it, here’s the Green Party foreign minister in Germany’s governing (and if the polls are reliable, electorally doomed) coalition energetically backing the war crime of collective punishment in Gaza. Her … Read More »