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
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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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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The plight of blogger Raif Badawi in Saudi Arabia has garnered international attention, particularly in the context of the freedom of expression. Badawi is facing a 10-year jail sentence (and I can hardly believe I’m having to say this in the 21st century, but 1,000 lashes in public) for the
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There was a pre-9/11 world and a post-9/11 world. And
The apparent Russian attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol
Queen Nefertiti has remained one of the most fascinating, elusive
Have you fallen down the ‘Q-Anon’ rabbit hole yet? Let’s
Malala Yousafzai, the now world-famous (and Nobel Prize winning) Pakistani
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It is hard to imagine that the original Star Trek
X-Men: Days of Future Past is good. Really good. I
Among all the various ‘controversies’ to surface concerning the Star
Someone asked me the other day why I’ve been so
Eighties kids and film fans have inevitably been getting excited
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This April marked the 20th anniversary of the release of
Alright, so ‘saved my life’ might be a slight overstatement.
Following, somewhat fortuitously from an article here a few weeks
Belated as it may be, I’m finally getting around to
For at least two months after Chris Cornell died a