The latest reports from Syria are horrifying. In the few months following the collapse of the Assad government, international coverage of Syria has largely disappeared. Which meant either that nothing much was happening (unlikely): or that international media largely preferred
There’s no question that the Ukraine situation is a quagmire. And the series of arrangements, miscalculations, provocations and maneuvers that have led to this impasse is ultimately a saga of manipulation and hypocrisy. And that it’s not even clear
It seems like the answer is simply yes. How else to explain things like the
Just when you might think it couldn’t get any more absurd or disgusting. Just when
This one is even less convincing than previous efforts. In fact, this one is extremely lazy. You would, at this point,
It was hailed as an immediate success of the Great Trump in his new presidency. After more than a year of
The other night, a convicted felon and a war criminal sat beside each other to answer questions from journalists. The longtime allies
Everything about this latest change in presidency in the US has felt slightly off. Amid everything else that drew attention around the
It was really sad hearing the news that legendary filmmaker and artist David Lynch had passed away. He has been not only
Last week, for the first time since the start of the War in Syria, Turkish forces, backed by the United States, crossed the Syrian border and openly intervened against so-called ‘Islamic State‘ forces with heavy artillery strikes on the city of Jarablus (controlled by ISIS), which is situated on the
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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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On the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, the world-changing event – which, combined with the bombing of Nagasaki, is the only (officially) recorded use of a nuclear bomb against an enemy target – still divides opinion. The famous, haunting statement by Robert J. Oppenheimer,
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You might’ve heard announcements this week that the mysterious Shroud
So, and perhaps inevitably (?), I’ve been kicked off Twitter…
The case of escaped prisoner Daniel Abed Khalife, who has
So, so sick of this BS. And I know I’ve
Is that a tongue-in-cheek title? Not really. It isn’t much
Guardians of the Galaxy was about as enjoyable as I
One of the (many) weird things about the pandemic was,
My original – and admittedly very long – review of
The mysterious death of movie legend Natalie Wood might be
It is 20 years since the first broadcast of the
February 1st 2015 marks twenty years to the day since
Every couple of months, in the last few years, it
Yep, another of those ’20 year anniversary’ posts that I’ve
Belated as it may be, I’m finally getting around to
I’m not the only one who’s sad to hear that
