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
As has been feared for weeks now, ISIS/ISIL members are reported to have begun to destroy historic sites in the Syrian city of Palmyra. The ISIS/ISIL fighters defeated the Syrian Army and took control of the historic city last month. I was watching this story closely and dreading that news.
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Much has been made in the days since the death of Muhammad Ali about the ‘whitewashing’ of his life and legacy.
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If you’ve never heard of Smedley Butler, it wouldn’t be your fault. But we all should have heard of him. Let’s rewind 80 years or so and remember the case of the Retired Marine General Smedley Butler: what he did, what it meant and what the implications are. Butler uncovered a
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I would love to have been a fly on the
I haven’t been able to stop marvelling at this one.
So. Sorry if this is a little late. But I
Should it be of concern to the general public that
So, and perhaps inevitably (?), I’ve been kicked off Twitter…
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So yesterday was Star Wars Day. I’m a day late,
With all the focus on whether Luke Skywalker got the
“Omar Sharif…? No one is called Omar Sharif! Your name
It’s a weird, difficult time to be a Star Wars
Recently, during a standard, heated argument about the Star Wars
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So with Courtney Love in the UK playing live shows
Between 1987 and 2001, Kat Bjelland (vocals, guitar), Lori Barbero
It has been 100 years since the birth of the
Very little that could be deemed exciting seems to happen
Nineties Indie kids might be pleased by the return of