A Political Refugee From The Global Village

The neocons are try ing to normalize the concept of using a nuclear weapon in Iran. And as neocons always do, they are not even considering ...

Chris Hedges interviewed John Mearsheimer in a podcast published today .  JM said  Scott Bessent's  economic sanctions will not work or ...

Ukraine's drone attacks on Russian Wildberries warehouses marked an escalation in the war and predictably Russia has retaliated.  “Russi...

I heard the BBC say yesterday that the Strait of Hormuz is closed.   This is untrue.  7 ships passed through yesterday. 17 the day before.  ...

Douglas  Macgregor talking to Glenn Diesen argues that "war as a means of extending power and imposing one's will is increasingly ...

I don't support Russia, just so you know.  The 1978 Israeli invasion of Lebanon was provoked by PLO attacks on Israel launched from Leba...

General Mladic has died, the butcher of Srebrenica.  Srebrenica. was a terrible thing. I remember vividly my horror at realising a massacre ...

American strategist and historian Edward Luttwak once wrote an excellent article  that I strongly agreed with about the utter unimportance o...

Clara Weiss on the Trotskyite site World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) has a very interesting interview dated  5 January 2023 with  Christian G...

I posted this on 1 March 2023 and alas it is now even more topical. I corrected some mistakes. Joseph Kennedy was nether a bootlegger nor an...

'On one occasion, he was profoundly shocked, when sitting on the government bench as the “duty whip” during a late-night debate, to be u...

Bewitching like the wanton mermaid's songs, Yet from mine ear the templing tune is blown Venus and Adonis   THE ideal, cheerful, sensu...

Paul Craig Roberts says that Iranian leaders are mistaken if they view a pause in U.S. attacks as more than tactical. Washington is not inte...

I asked a prime minister of one of the major countries back in 2023, I said, you know, the Ukraine war is absurd. You know, it’s a dead end....

Trita Parsi is interesting on 'Why so many countries around the world quietly root for Iran': 'There is relief [among officials ...

It feels like what happened at Cambridge has been a sort of Chernobyl moment for academia. It’s revealed the incompetence, corruption and st...

"We're cooperating with the European and US far right against Islam because we have a common struggle. Antisemitism no longer works...

The number of U.S. servicemen and women reported wounded or killed in the Iran war has jumped to 774, according to the Washington Post. All ...

Turkey is the largest and most heavily armed state in the region with an army ten times bigger than the IDF. Douglas Macgregor, whom I learn...

My nose tells me the story in the very MI6-adjacent Sunday  T elegraph that Iranian hackers disabled a British power station for a time is n...

"The rise of the West was not made possible by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion... but rather by its superiority in a...

The letter to the Guardian by leftists criticising Iran is signed by the infamous communist terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, 'retired profes...

Larry Johnson was first to report that Iran disabled a base that cost  $1 billion according to his sources in Bahrain. This has forced the ...

Germany is in a crisis, her greatest crisis since Khrushchev offered to permit a united democratic neutral Germany and Adenauer at Eisenhowe...

The Iranians do not seem to me to have given Donald Trump any reason let alone justification for his attack last year or this year. America ...

In the Wall Street Journal yesterday: Is America Still Capable of Enforcing the World Order? As the Iran war drains vital stockpiles of miss...

David Miller says that a unit in the British government coordinates misinformation about Russia including the story of the poisoning of the...

In fact Shakespeare did when he made Orlando in As You Like It deplore 'violated vows/’Twixt the souls of friend and friend.' “They...

'There is no good Zionism and no bad Zionism. There is one Zionism, which established the Jewish state by forcibly expelling the Palesti...

This is from a transcript of an informative podcast about how the media and academics are used as instruments to spread the line of governm...

America's allies are observing the weakness.  Perhaps they will come to agree with Douglas Macgregor that alliances are do not protect c...