I recently decided to live on the edge and do more dangerous things, so yesterday I walked into a Wetherspoons holding hands with an attractive Pakistani man. The response was akin to a western movie scene: drinks held mid-air, arrested on the way to gaping mouths, an atmosphere you could cut with a knife. I expected to hear, ‘you ain’t […]
By waging an all-out war on the left and its ideas, the Labour leader is strangling hope of change in a time of crisis and risks driving voters towards right-wing authoritarians here is a reason – and not the one given – why Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has announced that he is banning his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, from standing as a candidate for the party at […]
The White Helmets are not “born-again angels”, they are still Al Qaeda auxiliaries The West is exploiting the earthquake to restart the military war against Syria. I will be writing in more detail this week. I just returned from the coastal town of Lattakia which was terribly broken by the earthquake on the 6th February and subsequent aftershocks and secondary […]
The economic stranglehold and selective approach to aid will lead to more death and displacement Following the devastating earthquakes that rocked Turkey, Syria and their neighboring countries on February 6, leaving more than 20,000 dead, Damascus is struggling to deal with this unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe as it remains under brutal Western sanctions that have brought the country to its knees. […]
The Israeli occupation forces storm the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, waging large-scale aggression against the Palestinian people. The Israeli occupation forces unexpectedly stormed on Tuesday the West Bank city of Nablus in occupied Palestine, waging a round of unprecedented aggression in recent years. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that the Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinians and wounded […]
Earlier this month, activists and comic book fans alike were in uproar over Marvel Studios’ announcement that Israeli actress Shira Haas will play Zionist superhero Sabra in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Captain America: New World Order. Many Palestine advocates accused Marvel’s decision to add Sabra to the MCU as exalting Israeli abuse and war crimes. “By glorifying the […]
Much of the legacy media “revolution” hysteria is being dismissed out of hand I speak to Iranian academic and historian Seyed Mohammad Marandi in Tehran about the recent legacy media explosion of “revolution” and “regime change” propaganda after the tragic death of 22 year old Masha Amini. Marandi dismisses much of the Western hyperbole and we talk about Ukraine, Russia, […]
A review of the book by Grezgorz Rossoliński-Liebe: Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult. (Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2014. Unless otherwise indicated, all references are to this book). Little known outside of Western Ukraine during his lifetime, Stepan Bandera is now a celebrated figure in modern capitalist Ukraine with streets, statues and museums […]
‘Believe me, I’ve sobbed. I keep myself together while filming & speaking, but I do also feel deeply the pain & horror of what these people are being put through and what I’m seeing.’ Eva Bartlett The level of downright lies coming out of the western corporate media on Ukraine – let’s not even pussyfoot around with words like ‘misinformation’ […]
Kevork Almassian writes: In the past years, Israel and Azerbaijan have established strong ties based on a few mutual interests: arms sales, energy and geopolitics, which had directly shaped the outcome of the conflict between Yerevan and Baku in favour of the latter. In this video, Kevork Almassian sheds light on Aliyev’s regime’s relationship with Tel Aviv with statistics, maps and reports.
September 30, Wars should be avoided at all costs. Nuclear conflict should never be contemplated. These two truisms are often spoken, but rarely adhered to. Wars occur all too frequently, and so long as nations possess nuclear weapons, their use is contemplated on a continuous basis. The ongoing Ukrainian-Russian conflict has put the world’s two largest nuclear powers on opposing […]
‘I report from Donbass and refugee communities inside Russia.’ The Donetsk City polling station and surroundings were targeted around one hour after we left for the border. Under a constant barrage of Ukrainian shells being intercepted overhead by Donbass Air Defence we managed to observe the referendum in sectors of Donetsk including the City of Donetsk and Makeevka school which […]
