“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again…’ So said the ‘Prince of Peace’ in a badly judged and widely condemned public statement on Tuesday. Yes, much has been made of Trump’s ominous statements about annihilating
A simple proposition: is the long-awaited destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque about to be carried out… by Iran? This has started to seem like a real possibility. Could the Israelis stage an event to look like an Iranian missile
“He’s no Churchill…” President Trump famously said of the British Prime Minister weeks ago. This
So, it looks like Bibi isn’t dead: but it was a fun diversion for some
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As ominous ‘black rain’ was falling over Tehran, the US/Israeli Holy War in Iran entered week two. There’s a lot else too.
“The President was shocked this morning when he learned of the new Israeli bombardment of west Beirut…” and ”expressed his outrage.” No,
“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon…” Events unfolding in the Middle
The devastating attacks on both Iraq (2003) and Libya (2011) were launched on symbolically significant dates. So too with this war on
Well, one ambiguity from the recent drop of Epstein files was promptly cleared up. The initially redacted name of the sender of
Last week, for the first time since the start of the War in Syria, Turkish forces, backed by the United States, crossed the Syrian border and openly intervened against so-called ‘Islamic State‘ forces with heavy artillery strikes on the city of Jarablus (controlled by ISIS), which is situated on the
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A brief word in respect for Labour MP Gerald Kaufman, who passed away a few days ago. And also on the story of Hannah Arendt (pictured above); one of the twentieth century’s most important writers. Kaufman, who served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until his death in 2017,
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So… the long anticipated and much hyped ‘JFK files’ document dump. Some 80,000 pages of files have been made public, as per promises President Trump had made during his election campaign. But does it really tell us anything? Does this massive release of documents actually bring us any
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It’s happened! The whole Epstein conspiracy has been blown wide
The last couple of days have seen a resurgence in
So… monkeypox. Has the media, particularly in the UK, overstated
A couple of days ago, media outlets in the UK
As Mossad operations go, this one was technically impressive. Not
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With all the focus on whether Luke Skywalker got the
Why on earth has Ben Hur been re-made? If we’re
Leaving Neverland is a very difficult thing to react to.
Instead of doing the usual thing this Halloween, like watching
Eighties kids and film fans have inevitably been getting excited
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The ‘turning down Amy Winehouse’ bit is admittedly a slightly
In 1994, James Dean Bradfield raised eyebrows by wearing an
The Foo Fighters are back with a shiny new album
On October 21st 1995, the 28 year-old Shannon Hoon was
It has been 100 years since the birth of the