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
“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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Is this picture the proof conspiracy theorists have sought for so long that Adolf Hitler did not die in that Berlin bunker in 1945 but in fact lived well into old age halfway across the world? According to writer and investigator Simoni Renee Guerreiro Dias, author of Hitler in Brazil
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You might’ve heard announcements this week that the mysterious Shroud of Turin has apparently been successfully dated to the time of Jesus. After decades of claims and counter-claims, this latest claim – which purports to be decisive, but will probably be contested further – seems to suggest the legendary cloth
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I wasn’t intending to post a full article on Musk’s
Dame Janet Smith’s 1,000-page report into the sexual misconduct of
Donald Trump never did anything inappropriate with young girls. Neither
As a few days ago marked the fifth anniversary of
The Minneapolis school shooter was a weird guy. Robin/Robert Westman
Film
Leaving Neverland is a very difficult thing to react to.
First of all, Han should always have shot first! But
Rita Hayworth is still one of the most iconic pop
On the 10th anniversary since the sad passing of Christopher
35 years after the original film, the sequel to the
Comics
Music
For at least two months after Chris Cornell died a
Yep, another of those ’20 year anniversary’ posts that I’ve
‘The 20 Greatest Album Covers’ according to The Burning Blogger,
The ongoing infantilisation of American politics and discourse is something
So with Courtney Love in the UK playing live shows