Chris Hedges, two years ago to the day outside London’s Royal Courts of Justice where Julian Assange’s fate was being decided In his post yesterday, Chris Hedges added little this site hasn’t already said, and left out much that it … Read More »
I ended Is it to be war on Iran? Part 3 – meant to be the last of three – by endorsing the view of Nel Bonilla that the billion dollar question has shifted from “will it be full-on war or … Read More »
The entire Epstein Island operation was an intelligence mission aimed at entrapping politicians, celebrities, media figures, and decision-makers through sexual blackmail, recruiting them as Israeli agents Ari Ben-Menashe, former Israeli Intelligence officer (see footnote 1) * I’m human: I enjoy … Read More »
Europe’s political elites, captured and groomed decades ago by Washington, have been allotted the task of continuing to bog down Russia in Ukraine to free up the US to pursue its overarching goal of encircling China. As their citizens face … Read More »
A large, openly declared war against Iran would be risky, expensive, and domestically explosive. A form of blockade combined with sanctions, sabotage, and intermittent strikes, on the other hand, is cheaper, deniable, and far more flexible … Nel Bonilla I … Read More »
Part 1 set aside eight decades of Anglo-US interference in Iran since WW2. Instead it took as backdrop to the current rounds of US-Iranian talks the US-Israeli failures both of last June’s decapitation strikes, and last month’s ‘colour revolution’ from … Read More »
The Guardian yesterday: Judges have humiliated ministers by insisting Palestine Action should not be banned under anti-terrorism laws in a ruling that has left thousands of its alleged supporters in legal limbo. The high court said on Friday the government’s … Read More »
A friend writes that he was “an idiot” to have looked, in his disgust with the Extreme Centre, to Trump for any kind of solution. Yet millions who gained nothing from globalisation but precarity, inflation, and vanishing welfare infrastructure even … Read More »
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, an esteemed source for this site, thinks the US will attack Iran. “I hope to God I’m wrong”, he adds. The rest of us, noting the pressures on Trump the real estate mogul, and unsuitability … Read More »
I’d intended to return today to what, in the face of intense competition, is the most burning question of all – will the USS Abraham Lincoln and its carrier fleet really strike Iran? – but I’m not there yet. Here … Read More »