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
So… the long anticipated and much hyped ‘JFK files’ document dump. Some 80,000 pages of files have been made public, as per promises President Trump had made during his election campaign. But does it really tell us anything? Does this massive release of documents actually bring us any
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You don’t have to be Christian or even religious to appreciate the compelling and magical properties of the Nativity story, with its evocative and timeless images and the ideas it evokes. The imagery and mythology of the Nativity narrative – Magi, star, Herod and all – is something I’ve explored
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History is cyclical, they say. Or, to quote George Lucas, “it’s like poetry, it rhymes.” That idea has been very much in mind as I’ve watched this Imran Khan saga and the degradation in Pakistan’s politics unfolding. I examined the important details concerning Khan’s removal from office here: and, crucially,
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If the recent horse-meat scandal made a lot of people
Amid all the recent provocation and manuevering concerning Russia, Ukraine
This is probably the most important thing that will be
If you happened to enter a hotel lobby or some
Should it be of concern to the general public that
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The online harassment of actress Kelly Marie Tran (who portrays
Recently, during a standard, heated argument about the Star Wars
Like a lot of people, I was left very unsure
With all the focus on whether Luke Skywalker got the
You may have heard that Suicide Squad is terrible. You
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I was astonished to realise recently that 2017 would mark
Kristin Hersh’s debut solo album Hips and Makers, released in
So. Soup. If you’ve already heard it, you probably don’t
So. I was supposed to be at the Pearl Jam
The ‘turning down Amy Winehouse’ bit is admittedly a slightly