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?
At about 8:30 pm on March 8th 2025, unidentified agents seized a student from the lobby of his apartment building in Columbia University housing. The agents were not in uniform, did not identify what agency they worked for, and threatened
The latest reports from Syria are horrifying. In the few months following the collapse of
There’s no question that the Ukraine situation is a quagmire. And the series of arrangements,
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It seems like the answer is simply yes. How else to explain things like the US President casually talking about “owning” Gaza
Just when you might think it couldn’t get any more absurd or disgusting. Just when you might think this grotesque alternate timeline
This one is even less convincing than previous efforts. In fact, this one is extremely lazy. You would, at this point,
It was hailed as an immediate success of the Great Trump in his new presidency. After more than a year of
The other night, a convicted felon and a war criminal sat beside each other to answer questions from journalists. The longtime allies
I’ve been fascinated by historic letters and correspondence for some time; and I wrote a post covering some of this a while ago. Letters, particularly communications never meant for public consumption, provide a fascinating insight into significant historic or cultural events, times or figures. They also can help to humanise
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Whatever we may or may not think about Fidel Castro and his long era in Cuba (all of which is difficult, complex and debatable), it has to be said that there is something poetically pleasing about the fact that he survived some 634 assassination attempts, outlasted nine US Presidents and
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It is a fascinating, though rather grim, story, spanning the First World War, the creation of the states of Israel, Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia, and taking in Lawrence of Arabia, all the way to the fall of Gadaffi in Libya, the Syria Civil War and Rise of the so-called Islamic
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So, yes, we need to talk about DynCorp. But, first,
Right now, some over-excitable people are fretting or evangelizing about
If you think you understand what’s going in the Middle
As if the 2024 Presidential Election saga could get any
An update on the ‘Jade Helm’ business. A nice lady
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Didn’t have enough time to properly, fully eulogise concerning the
So yesterday was Star Wars Day. I’m a day late,
So I’ve just rewatched The Last Jedi for the fifth
“Omar Sharif…? No one is called Omar Sharif! Your name
Someone asked me the other day why I’ve been so
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In September, a 20th anniversary edition of In Utero is
The tradition of musicians writing songs or composing projects centered
Belated as it may be, I’m finally getting around to
There’s music photographers: and then there’s music photographers. One of
As a lifelong Nirvana fan, it has always stuck out