A few nights ago, the call was for ‘unconditional surrender’. Not long after, the E-4B Nightwatch, also known as the ‘Doomsday Plane‘, made an unexpected journey to Joint Base Andrews near Washington, DC, on June 17th. The plane, described
Between the threats, accusations and strange decisions, it’s hard to keep up with it all. On the same day that President Trump demanded ‘unconditional surrender’ from Tehran, Israeli tanks allegedly killed 51 Palestinians who were queuing for food/aid in Gaza.
Why isn’t Iran allowed to have a nuclear weapon? That’s a question I continually ask
What really happened in Los Angeles in recent days? Was it really a ‘warzone’, as
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Do you remember the famous mind-control/torture scene from A Clockwork Orange? There’s a reason I’m bringing that up, which you’ll see in
People’s stupidity genuinely baffles me sometimes. Well, it’s either stupidity or wilful ignorance. Maybe even outright dishonesty. As the fiery feud
Let’s be brief with this one. An apparent attack on a gathering of Israelis in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday, closely follows the
Israel is in trouble. ‘Victory’ in the material sense of the word might be within reach: at least as far as land-grabs,
A bit of a coincidence. A bit of a coincidence that, just as the Israeli government was having its worst PR week
With the fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre, it freshly occured to me that the harrowing subject of My Lai actually also sheds some light on the reality of the decline in real journalism in the modern age. I would assert that you can track the decline in the
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I’ve always wondered what treasures sit in the vaults and store houses of the Vatican, gathering dust for years; historical items that may go decades without being disclosed to the public or might even go decades unexamined by anyone. A recent announcement revealed that in 2012 the Vatican authorities employed
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Augustus is without doubt one of the most fascinating figures of history; and also one of the ancient historical figures we know most about because he left such clear marks on the world: politically, religiously, even physically. He wanted everyone to know who he was, when he lived and what
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The latest apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump seems to
Widely published ‘reports’ in the last week or so claimed
We already looked at reasons why the Orlando Massacre was
As a few days ago marked the fifth anniversary of
A week now after the attacks in Paris that news
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You may have heard that Suicide Squad is terrible. You
As Episode 8 of the Star Wars saga hits cinemas and
What never ceases to amaze me about the Star Wars
There is something that occurred to me ever since seeing
X-Men: Days of Future Past is good. Really good. I
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The sudden and untimely death of the Cranberries frontwoman Dolores
Nirvana legend Krist Novoselic has entered into the controversy over
The news that broke yesterday that Mark Lanegan had died
While Glastonbury has been getting headlines recently, it’s worth saying
Hated by many, maligned by many more, mocked and frequently