Just an add-on here to some of what I was talking about yesterday. The more I look at the entire paradigm, the stranger it gets and the more I wonder if we’re trapped in a kind of weird reality TV show. I use the term ‘reality TV show’ not just because the US President is […]
It’s fair to say that what unfolded in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday is the kind of thing that has been expected for some time now. The ongoing inflamation of identity politics and provocation of divide-and-conquer or ‘strategy of tension’ conditioning has been paving the way for incidents like this one; with more probably to come. […]
The Lockerbie bombing in 1988 was perhaps the 9/11 of its time. While it didn’t result in the kind of phony Global ‘War on Terror’ that was conducted after 9/11, it did give the US and Britain the platform for beginning a targeted downfall of a particular nation and society, this being Libya. This was […]
A couple of days ago marked the one-year anniversary of the failed coup attempt in Turkey. This event has been substantially commemorated in Turkey in recent days; although, even now, it really isn’t clear precisely what happened a year ago. Some still think the ‘coup’ attempt was staged by the government as a means for […]
It was difficult to work out exactly what is behind the ‘Qatar Diplomatic Crisis’ that seemed to suddenly emerge early in June. The Qatar diplomatic crisis apparently began on 5th June when several countries – principally Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE – abruptly cut off diplomatic relations. This included trade and travel bans. […]
The ‘age of stupid’ is the only term I can think of for framing this ongoing nonsense. President Trump and members of his administration have taken the questionable approach of stating outright that the US will respond severely if the Syrian government carries out another chemical attack on civilians. More than that, it is insisting […]
Widely published ‘reports’ in the last week or so claimed that the so-called ‘Islamic State’ group’s elusive ‘caliph’, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had been killed in a Russian airstrike in Raqqa. In fact, the reports are now that this story was false – which makes me wonder why it was doing the rounds at all. Baghdadi […]
Seriously? A ‘Day of Rage’? The problem I have with this protest in London is two-fold. The first is wanting to ‘bring down the government’ (according to the event page on Facebook), which is totally wrongheaded. And I say this as someone who generally supports Jeremy Corbyn. The second reason is much more ominous to […]
A quick post here on the Finsbury Park attack – because what I actually want to talk about more is the so-called ‘race war’ meme or the widespread predictions/fears of a ‘civil war’ type scenario on the streets of England, as well as France, the US and elsewhere. That, however, is such a big, important […]
This is probably being a little tongue in cheek; and it probably isn’t the most serious or important story in the news right now. But it bothered me enough to want to say something about it. Specifically about Liberal Democrats leader, Tim Farron, resigning. The reason he has specifically given for having done so is […]
