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
The plight of blogger Raif Badawi in Saudi Arabia has garnered international attention, particularly in the context of the freedom of expression. Badawi is facing a 10-year jail sentence (and I can hardly believe I’m having to say this in the 21st century, but 1,000 lashes in public) for the
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“Every person has two homelands,” the French archaeologist Andre Parrot once commented; “His own and Syria”. T.E Lawrence (of Arabia), who spent a great deal of time exploring Syria, wrote specifically of Palmyra; “Nothing in this scorching, desolate land could be so refreshing”. It might also have been Lawrence who
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I’ve been pondering this for some time; and have tried to somewhat lay out the subject as best as I can here in this article. This is something of a thought-experiment; trying to track the various strands of consequences from a single event, but moreover, trying to understand why that
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Masked men, showing up without warning. Often with no warrants,
What Jeffrey Epstein’s brother just said is very telling. And
If the Jurassic Park films have taught us anything, it’s
It sounds like bleak science-fiction; a side note in some
Is that a tongue-in-cheek title? Not really. It isn’t much
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This is going to be nothing like as long-winded as
So Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice went down like
My original – and admittedly very long – review of
“So this is how liberty dies,” she says, with a
For me, a Star Wars movie used to be a
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The term ‘icon’ gets thrown around a little too casually
There are bands. And there are albums. And then there’s
A statue of the late Soundgarden/Audioslave frontman and rock music
Malala Yousafzai, the now world-famous (and Nobel Prize winning) Pakistani
I remember the first time I started paying attention to