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
On May 5th 2000, police in the south of France found a burnt body in the wreckage of a car, deep into the woods close to Nantes. The dead body was so extremely charred that it took a month for the DNA tests to ascertain the victim’s identity. The burnt
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On October 19th 2011, a convoy of cars left the city of Sirte, carrying Libya’s beleaguered figurehead Muammar Gaddafi. On October 21st, an American/CIA drone (being operated from Las Vegas) spots the convoy and alerts NATO bombers, which immediately begin bombing the vehicles.
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The Roswell Incident is, of course, one of the most famous – perhaps the most famous – incident in the modern mythology/history of UFOs (or Flying Saucers, as they were regarded at the time). The prevailing belief of many is that a spacecraft of extra-terrestrial origin crashed in New Mexico
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If the Jurassic Park films have taught us anything, it’s
So, and perhaps inevitably (?), I’ve been kicked off Twitter…
We already looked at reasons why the Orlando Massacre was
As if the 2024 Presidential Election saga could get any
It’s a curious error; assuming it was an error at
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As I didn’t write anything about Avengers: Endgame at the
Yeah OK, so it’s that age-old fandom question: who’s the
I wasn’t necessarily disappointed by the Justice League film –
So Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice went down like
X-Men Apocalypse isn’t quite the disaster some reviewers thought it
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DMX was one of the very few ‘mainstream’ rap or
So. I was supposed to be at the Pearl Jam
Considered the ‘darkest album in the history’ of music, and
There’s music photographers: and then there’s music photographers. One of
As a lifelong Nirvana fan, it has always stuck out