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 Lockerbie bombing in 1988 was perhaps the 9/11 of its time: and today marks 30 years since it happened. While it didn’t result in the kind of phony Global ‘War on Terror’ that was conducted after 9/11, it did give the US and Britain the platform for beginning a
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A curious disc-like object pouring smoke and hovering over buildings was recently found in a monastery wall painting believed to date to the 16th century; the image is painted in a 14th century church in Sighisoara in Romania. The photograph (below), taken by tourist Catalina Borta, is perceived by some
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“You’re wasting your time appealing to the moral conscience of a bankrupt man like Uncle Sam. If he had a conscience, he’d straighten this thing out with no more pressure being put upon him…” “That whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America; America’s conscience is bankrupt. She
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Though the Zika virus was originally discovered in 1947, cases
We already looked at reasons why the Orlando Massacre was
There was a pre-9/11 world and a post-9/11 world. And
This is a complex one. But highly interesting. And probably
The recent anniversary of 9/11 got me thinking about some
Film
As I didn’t write anything about Avengers: Endgame at the
Christopher Lee, aside from being one of the last greats,
Modern cinema sometimes feels like a revolving door, with films
In a mansion in the fictional Xanadu, a vast palatial
A brief moment to pay tribute to someone that people
Comics
Music
The sudden and untimely death of the Cranberries frontwoman Dolores
The news that broke yesterday that Mark Lanegan had died
On 5th April it will be precisely 20 years since
As a little kid, one of my very first musical
‘The 20 Greatest Album Covers’ according to The Burning Blogger,