I’m sorry this is such a long letter. I didn’t have time to write a shorter one. Attributed to, amongst others, Mark Twain and Blaise Pascal Years ago a friend told me, I think he meant it as a compliment, … Read More »
This post is a third party follow up, by a Mondoweiss whose daily newsletter I recently – Iran flips the script: an Arab perspective – urged readers to subscribe to, of two other posts. One concerned the draconian and egregiously … Read More »
There is a staggering chasm between the braggadocio with which the war was launched and the reality of its outcome. Trump promised the war would end with Iran’s “unconditional surrender.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared on March 2 that the … Read More »
The Guardian this evening: The home secretary’s decision to ban Palestine Action was lawful, the court of appeal has ruled. A five-strong panel, including the two most senior judges in England and Wales, overturned February’s decision of the high court that the … Read More »
It’s been a while since I featured The Electronica Intifada, with its from-the-trenches reports on battleground realities in the resistance by Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansar Allah and now Iran itself to a Zionist expansion its secular advocates believe necessitated by a … Read More »
A judge has imposed lengthy custodial sentences on four Palestine Action activists who smashed up drones and other equipment at an Israeli arms manufacturer’s UK factory after ruling that there was a “terrorist connection” to their offending. Charlotte Head, 30, and Leona … Read More »
Did the Islamic Republic just flip the script? * The sense of aggrieved victimhood psychologists say is a hallmark of bullies and psychopaths surely extends, no matter how off the wall and upside down their reasoning, to terrorist states like … Read More »
Given the man’s known proclivities and frequent trips on Epstein’s plane to Little Saint James; given too what we know – corporate media downplaying of this aspect notwithstanding – of his host, friend and fellow sex predator’s penchant for blackmail … Read More »
Iran has shifted the entire calculus and achieved something long thought impossible. For years it was considered unthinkable that Iran would ever strike Israel directly, even after Iran was hit first. Then Iran began responding to Israeli attacks, first with ‘demonstrative’ strikes, … Read More »
Surge capacity means maintaining slack – plant standing idle – to enable a near instant stepping up of arms production when needed. Such wastefulness from a profit-centric standpoint requires levels of state oversight which are anathema to the neoliberal mind. … Read More »