“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again…’ So said the ‘Prince of Peace’ in a badly judged and widely condemned public statement on Tuesday. Yes, much has been made of Trump’s ominous statements about annihilating
A simple proposition: is the long-awaited destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque about to be carried out… by Iran? This has started to seem like a real possibility. Could the Israelis stage an event to look like an Iranian missile
“He’s no Churchill…” President Trump famously said of the British Prime Minister weeks ago. This
So, it looks like Bibi isn’t dead: but it was a fun diversion for some
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As ominous ‘black rain’ was falling over Tehran, the US/Israeli Holy War in Iran entered week two. There’s a lot else too.
“The President was shocked this morning when he learned of the new Israeli bombardment of west Beirut…” and ”expressed his outrage.” No,
“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon…” Events unfolding in the Middle
The devastating attacks on both Iraq (2003) and Libya (2011) were launched on symbolically significant dates. So too with this war on
Well, one ambiguity from the recent drop of Epstein files was promptly cleared up. The initially redacted name of the sender of
Mainstream and online media outlets have been pouring over the release of thousands of documents pertaining to the JFK assassination. But the result, near as I can tell, appears to be that we’ve learnt a great deal – and nothing at all. And this was probably how it was meant
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April 30th marked 70 years to the day since Adolf Hitler is recorded by history to have met his infamous end; taking his own life in a Berlin bunker as the city lay in ruins around him, the war lost. The image of a defeated, deflated Hitler confined to his
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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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Human beings aren’t just getting greedier, but stupider. That’s according
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
Queen Nefertiti has remained one of the most fascinating, elusive
If you think you understand what’s going in the Middle
The ‘joke’ about Puerto Rico wasn’t the worst part at
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Whenever I get into a conversation about what the best
You may have heard that Suicide Squad is terrible. You
The online harassment of actress Kelly Marie Tran (who portrays
There is something that occurred to me ever since seeing
In case you missed it, there was just another little
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February 1st 2015 marks twenty years to the day since
So. Soup. If you’ve already heard it, you probably don’t
Yeah, seriously. And you don’t even have to ‘win’ the
The ‘turning down Amy Winehouse’ bit is admittedly a slightly
So this feels really weird now. After Chris Cornell’s death