The terrorist attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka were absolutely horrendous. The death-toll has been enormous. And the fact that the attacks occurred on Easter Sunday specifically – and were primarily targeting innocent Christian worshippers – was clearly intended to spell out what these acts of mass murder were about. At least, that’s […]
So Julian Assange has finally been dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy by UK police. Soon to be extradited to the United States, this development – as dramatic as the scenes were – was hardly surprising: and has been on the horizon for a very long time. If anything, I’m shocked at how long it’s […]
I wrote an article here a while ago about ‘The End of International Law‘: and how international law was being openly flouted on a casual basis by various parties, essentially rendering international law meaningless. I wasn’t really talking about Israel much in that piece; but I should’ve been. While long-term Zionist colonisation and (illegal) settlement-building […]
I published a couple of pieces here last year, talking about how worrying and dangerous it was that the language – and indeed the policies – surrounding nuclear weapons appeared to be changing: and how this had ominous implications. Why that subject particularly came into focus was because of the revised ‘US Nuclear Posture Review‘, […]
What happened in Christchurch, New Zealand, is not surprising. An event like that has been coming: and there’s going to be more of them elsewhere. With the extent of the continuous propaganda and brainwashing content (or experiment) being run across the uglier sections of the Internet, it’s actually surprising that something on this scale hasn’t […]
In June 2014, a group of armed militants and extremists made their dramatic journey across the Syrian border into Iraq, quickly capturing Mosul and Baiji and almost reaching the capital Baghdad. The group possessed convoys of identical Toyota trucks and the kind of arsenal some countries in the region would be envious of. The media […]
If ever there was a geo-political situation that seemed ultimately hopeless and perhaps destined to one day go very badly, it might be the relationship between India and Pakistan. A situation that has been going on for decades, and in which it seems like the only ‘best-case scenario’ would be a permanent state of Cold […]
This is a follow-up, I guess, to the article I last published here on the Shamima Begum or ‘ISIS bride’ media storm: but asking some follow-up questions and raising some related issues. In that other article, I asked about why the teenage girl’s situation was being so blown up in the media, while other individuals […]
It’s been difficult to ignore or avoid the massive coverage, controversy and debate surrounding the ‘ISIS bride’ Shamima Begum that has dominated British news in the passed week or so. The massively inflated ‘scandal’ has created differences in opinion over what should be done with her, whether her citizenship should be revoked, whether she should […]
The war in Yemen – and it’s accompanying humanitarian catastrophe – has been going on a very long time now; and it shows no signs of abating any time soon. I talked about the humanitarian side of it here recently. And about the seeming apathy of Western media and politicians and the hypocrisy in terms […]
