A Political Refugee From The Global Village

When I heard he was being stripped of his dukedom I felt t his  was absolutely wrong. Titles of honour are a form of land.  Lord Melbourne l...

SIBYLS and prophets have already spoken their inexorable decree, as Goethe has said, on the day that first gives the man to the world ; no t...

 

“Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations la...

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of...

I recommend this podcast with the very well informed Max Blumenthal. It's full of plums.  An excerpt:  <And what [Gershon] Baskin ha...

Russia knows that the Americans are directing the Ukrainian operations against them. It is not so far from a hot war. Trump wants to bring P...

'At its core three things now define Westernism: a rejection of the international laws and norms that the Americans themselves played so...

Pavel Durov posted this just now on Telegram, the site he created after his earlier creation VK.com was taken away from him by Russia. I’m t...

"The people on the right make me hate the right, the people on the left make me hate the left. In fact, with a man of the right, I am o...

Dear old Jilly Cooper has died, which saddens me. I was thinking of her the day before she died and almost opened one of her silly, charming...

There is actually no agreement. Israel wants Hamas to disarm and destroy the 50 percent of tunnels the IDF have not entered (so much for the...

"But above all, in order to be, never try to seem." Albert Camus “The perpetual hesitation of the neurotic to launch out into life...

"I would suspect that I would describe my approach to this issue [abortion] as pro choice rather than pro live [sic]."  Sarah Mull...

"Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat. We are very far from having any moral qualms...

“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.” “Smoking is indispensable ...

Obviously the CIA and MI6 largely control Wikipedia from behind the scene.  You knew that.  M16 took control of the British press in 1939 an...

Mr.  Dajani, the manager of the oldest hotel in Jerusalem  the New Imperial,  told me on my last visit some years ago  that he looks at youn...

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz If I looked out my window and saw people massacring children, I'd probably think thoughts like "That's...

  Marco Rubio this month at the so-called Wailing Wall 'I concede with sorrow that the baseless fanaticism of our people is in part to b...

"Everything is theatre"  Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet "Injustice never rules forever." Seneca 

  April 2025 — 41.2% of pupils in Vienna's primary and secondary schools identify as Muslim. A year ago, this figure stood at 39.4%. Vik...

As a pedant I feel like saying the IDF is very much more anti-Semitic than Hamas measured by the number of Semites it kills. Israel is the m...

Charles W. Freeman Jr. is 2 and was the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia at the time of the Gulf War. The shock within the EU and NATO and es...

Voltaire: "Every man is a creature of the age in which lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of time." I con...

A very interesting talk on Neutrality Studies. All the talks on Neutrality Studies that I have heard are.  The message: the USA is behaving...

Evelyn Waugh said Churchill was “simply a radio personality who outlived his time”. What a great television personality Donald Trump is.  Hi...