Israel – you’ve got a lot of nerve!
12
Mar
Iran holds firm; US-Israel cracks appear
11
Mar
As indicated in yesterday’s post, Tehran is in no mood to allow Washington an easy way out after its catastrophic miscalculation. Blitzkreig and decapitation having failed, the US faces a stark choice of either a protracted war inflicting astronomic damage … Read More »
Iran: is Trump seeking an off ramp?
10
Mar
Last night Lt Col (Retired) Daniel Davis, one of many gamekeepers turned poacher to feature on this site, began his podcast with a whopping eleven and a half minutes given over to a press briefing by the 47th US President. … Read More »
Iran’s war of economic attrition
9
Mar
Even if I didn’t enjoy the own-goals of those I despise, especially own-goals vainglorious in the making, I’d be delighted that the phrase Operation Epstein Fury, a play on Operation Epic Fury, has caught on. And just the other night … Read More »
Richard Murphy: false equivalence on Iran
7
Mar
I’m reproducing here an exchange below a post yesterday by Professor Richard Murphy: MMT advocate, tax specialist, Quaker, bird watcher and much else. His clarity on how money works – hence on how the cruelties of decades of UK neoliberal … Read More »
This criminal war
4
Mar
General Smedley Butler, War is a Racket * If our corporate media were even capable of doing their ostensible job … On many matters ‘quality’ media serve us tolerably well but this truth enables a greater lie. They need to … Read More »
Thoughts on the war, Day 4
3
Mar
I’m packing boxes in a race against time for the house move on Thursday. Why oh why did the empire choose this of all weeks to strike? I listen to podcasts as I work, read stuff when I can. In … Read More »
Trump’s Operation Epstein Epic Fury
1
Mar
February 28, 2026: Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, where a US strike killed over 100 children As in June, the USA went through the motions of negotiating while preparing for a criminal war – I use that … Read More »
A green light for Britain’s left?
28
Feb
Here in the UK a plumber by the name of Hannah Spencer confirmed what many already knew; a century of Labour-Conservative duopoly of government is over. Standing as a Green at the Gorton-Denton byelection two days ago, she overturned a … Read More »
Rain in Ambleside, war clouds over Iran
26
Feb
When I left Burton-in-Kendal services just before nine last night, showered and dined, I should have been forty-five minutes tops from my destination and frequent home from home; a small triangle of car park by Waterhead Pier on the northern … Read More »