On February 3rd, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was murdered in his home in Zintan, Libya. Four unidentified gunmen invaded the property and opened fire. The 53 year-old son of the late Muammar Gaddafi is reported to have tried to fight back,
Where to even begin? Implied murders? Missing babies? A reinforcement of Pizzagate…? And plenty of ambiguity and continued enigma. And that’s barely scratching the surface. The release of some three million files relating to Jeffrey Epstein on January 30th kicked up
Some kind of US attack on Iran seems to be imminent. Iran hasn’t been out
Have you illegally invaded another country and waged war? Do you stand convicted of war
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“Venezuela’s struggle is Israel’s struggle…” Guess who said that? It sounds like something Netanyahu would say. But no, it wasn’t him.
The killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by ICE agents could be a turning point, according to some. Then again, maybe
The protests in Tehran have been somewhat overshadowed by what the US just did in Venezuela. But the situation appears to be
So, no one really needs a recap of what transpired in Caracas on the third day of the new year. Essentially, US
On September 1st 1918, Damascus fell. Or was liberated – depending on your perspective. It fell to the Arab Revolt, carried out
At this time, there are no doubt scores of World War I articles and expositions being published right now. But I also want to talk about one of the more famous cultural homages to the First World War – the fourth and final series of the classic British series Blackadder;
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It is interesting, as the tensions and provocations between North Korea, the US and China continue, that it wasn’t that long ago when South and North Korea appeared to be moving mutually towards more cooperation and friendlier relations. Things, it appeared, could’ve been very different. Before South Korea’s more conservative
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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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That’s right; the brave, elite soldiers doing what they apparently
The recent Apple Maps picture of an unidentified object in
If the recent horse-meat scandal made a lot of people
DMX was one of the very few ‘mainstream’ rap or
The mass shooting in Las Vegas has prompted all the
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X-Men Apocalypse isn’t quite the disaster some reviewers thought it
A brief moment to pay tribute to someone that people
Among all the various ‘controversies’ to surface concerning the Star
So, I don’t necessarily like doing this sort of thing.
Like a lot of people, I was left very unsure
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“You mean like a funeral?” the producer of Nirvana’s MTV
It’s been 20 years, unbelievably, since Bjork released her second
Much as I slated the Kurt Cobain statue in Aberdeen
The sudden and untimely death of the Cranberries frontwoman Dolores
This April marked the 20th anniversary of the release of