On the eve of what turned out to be a disastrous mid-term elections for Trump and the Republicans, the President made an interesting statement. He declared essentially that the yearly US military aid funding to Israel ($3.8 billion a year)
It’s the eve of the US mid-term elections. And the Trump Republicans have already been playing the usual game of casting doubt on the legitimacy of the process before any of it has even happened. This same strategy of
‘With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought
You might’ve noticed a number of news items about the government advising people to stock
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WandaVision really is a masterpiece. And I don’t throw that word around lightly. I always loved it, but ahead of the approaching
Russell Brand’s trial has begun in the UK, as the celebrity grifter/influencer begins defending himself against various sexual abuse allegations. Obviously, I’m
So, we’re told a major terror operation was just heroically thwarted: involving a potential hijacked plane headed for Israel. A dramatic mid-air
The RAF Fairford Incident is still veiled in mystery. I have a sneaking suspicion it might actually remain unresolved, going forward.
There’s almost nothing left to say about 9/11 that hasn’t been said already by someone at some point. And there’s nothing new
Every few Christmases, I tend to re-read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, as the book has always had a hold on me ever since I first read it as a child. When I read it as a child, I had no real social conscience or understanding, of course – I simply
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On May 5th 2000, police in the south of France found a burnt body in the wreckage of a car, deep into the woods close to Nantes. The dead body was so extremely charred that it took a month for the DNA tests to ascertain the victim’s identity. The burnt
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So… let’s establish some very important background to what’s currently going on in Israel and with the Palestinians. We really, really need a history lesson: one that shows where the downfall of the Palestinian movement occurred, where any hope of peace died, and where Hamas came from. First, I’ll just
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‘The world is a stage’, the saying goes. Lately, I’ve
So, so sick of this BS. And I know I’ve
DMX was one of the very few ‘mainstream’ rap or
If ever proof were needed that we inhabit an increasingly
Amid all the speculation surrounding the shoot-down of Malaysian Airlines
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One of the (many) weird things about the pandemic was,
So Star Wars is now in the hands of Disney:
In Lauren Bacall we lose one of the very last
There is something that occurred to me ever since seeing
I always thought The Mandalorian would be good. While I
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Music
There are bands. And there are albums. And then there’s
Tonight, twenty years after Kurt Cobain chose to burn out
Alright, so ‘saved my life’ might be a slight overstatement.
This is a complex one. But highly interesting. And probably
So, I went back and forth for a few days