It has become standard procedure. Can’t justify your policies? Then attack your critics. If you can’t defend your actions, then simply make accusations against your accusers. It’s the Israeli playbook – so naturally it has become the American playbook. So
It’s happened! The whole Epstein conspiracy has been blown wide open! Justice prevails. The truth has finally been exposed. Finally, we can– Oh, no, wait, sorry… what I meant to say was the exact opposite of all that.
There’s something I call the ‘codification of shared myth.’ Or, phrased another way, the reinforcing
Something very serious, and truly dystopian, happened after midnight on Saturday morning in the UK.
It’s all just useful distraction tactics, isn’t it? We see it over and over again. Find something to change the narrative and/or
A few nights ago, the call was for ‘unconditional surrender’. Not long after, the E-4B Nightwatch, also known as the ‘Doomsday Plane‘,
Between the threats, accusations and strange decisions, it’s hard to keep up with it all. On the same day that President Trump
Why isn’t Iran allowed to have a nuclear weapon? That’s a question I continually ask myself wherever thinking about this particular geo-political
What really happened in Los Angeles in recent days? Was it really a ‘warzone’, as Trump and co called it? And what
Today the world will say its final goodbye to one of the greatest cultural figures – and probably the most charismatic – of the 20th century. And also the greatest sports star probably of all time.
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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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You might’ve heard that the US has left Afghanistan. After twenty years there, the US and the international forces have pulled out. They tried to do it pretty quietly. So quietly, in fact, that the overnight departure from the Bagram Air Base was something the Afghan commander there didn’t even
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Yes, we’re going there. Why not? You know, I was
The burning up of so much of California over a
I’m not going to spend too long on this; as
The Roswell Incident is, of course, one of the most
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
“Omar Sharif…? No one is called Omar Sharif! Your name
Whilst the Star Trek franchise is generally as mainstream as
You may have heard that Suicide Squad is terrible. You
Eighties kids and film fans have inevitably been getting excited
Among all the various ‘controversies’ to surface concerning the Star
For at least two months after Chris Cornell died a
As a little kid, one of my very first musical
So Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam caused “controversy” after their
Between 1987 and 2001, Kat Bjelland (vocals, guitar), Lori Barbero
Belated as it may be, I’m finally getting around to