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
It has become increasingly evident in the last several years that if the full truth about possible child abuse among the British Establishment (and beyond) ever comes out, we could witness the complete collapse of the Establishment. Indeed, other Establishments may follow, as the (alleged) cover-up appears to stretch beyond
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It is a fascinating, though rather grim, story, spanning the First World War, the creation of the states of Israel, Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia, and taking in Lawrence of Arabia, all the way to the fall of Gadaffi in Libya, the Syria Civil War and Rise of the so-called Islamic
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A first century BC villa on the fringes of Rome is likely to be destroyed by a modern housing development. And not just a first century villa, but the villa believed to have belonged to Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus; the historical character immortalised by actor Stephen Boyd in the 1959
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I have gone back and forth with my view on
I haven’t been able to stop marvelling at this one.
That is to say, aside from the obvious links in
It won’t have escaped anyone’s attention that someone appears to
What Jeffrey Epstein’s brother just said is very telling. And
Film
X-Men Apocalypse isn’t quite the disaster some reviewers thought it
“So this is how liberty dies,” she says, with a
Yeah OK, so it’s that age-old fandom question: who’s the
I had to take a moment to mention the passing
Killing Gaza is a film chronicle of the extraordinary suffering
Comics
Music
There are bands. And there are albums. And then there’s
Following, somewhat fortuitously from an article here a few weeks
DMX was one of the very few ‘mainstream’ rap or
“I’ve always detested mechanized dance music, its stupid simplicity, the
Considered the ‘darkest album in the history’ of music, and