“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
This year’s Christmas piece was originally going to be like last year’s and focus on an element of the Nativity tradition; instead, given current events and the popular reaction to them, I decided to go with a different subject – specifically, Islam and Christianity. There is now, perhaps inevitably, a
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9/11. We must never forget. Of course. Never forget the almost three thousand innocent people who lost their lives in one of the biggest acts of mass murder in modern history. The plight and the suffering of all those people is burned into our collective consciousness and should never be
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“…in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death…” “…I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us
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A strange object is in our Solar System and is
About the Orlando Massacre narrative: subsequent oddities and inconsistencies in
Is this picture the proof conspiracy theorists have sought for
The wonders of the Hubble Space Telescope continue to stun
So… the Pentagon’s long-awaited and much-hyped report on UFOs has
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My original – and admittedly very long – review of
The release of the Laurel and Hardy film biopic Stan
As I didn’t write anything about Avengers: Endgame at the
What is the greatest moment or scene in all of
So Star Wars is now in the hands of Disney:
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I don’t usually do these kinds of subjects, for various
DMX was one of the very few ‘mainstream’ rap or
I don’t think too many people, other than absolute PJ
So Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam caused “controversy” after their
It so happens that so many of the albums made