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
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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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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You might’ve heard that the US has left Afghanistan. After twenty years there, the US and the international forces have pulled out. They tried to do it pretty quietly. So quietly, in fact, that the overnight departure from the Bagram Air Base was something the Afghan commander there didn’t even
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Is that a tongue-in-cheek title? Not really. It isn’t much
Malala Yousafzai, the now world-famous (and Nobel Prize winning) Pakistani
In honour of the new Ms Marvel title and its
If you think you understand what’s going in the Middle
This is a complex one. But highly interesting. And probably
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What is the greatest moment or scene in all of
‘Rewatch’ seems like an inadequate word; I’ve probably watched this
I deliberately waited some time before attempting to write a
As I didn’t write anything about Avengers: Endgame at the
The passing of Peter O’Toole in December 2013 was a
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As a lifelong Nirvana fan, it has always stuck out
February 1st 2015 marks twenty years to the day since
“I’ve always detested mechanized dance music, its stupid simplicity, the
On 5th April it will be precisely 20 years since
The term ‘icon’ gets thrown around a little too casually