A Political Refugee From The Global Village

An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms

Wednesday, 15 April 2026

We're all Iranians now

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We're all Iranians now. At least since 2000 America has become a much bigger threat to world peace than the old USSR ever was.  In fact ...

Rape in Israel

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American podcast star Ana Kasparian has read out the most damning report on Israel's prisons. Sexual torture is organized state policy, ...

Jewish Currents: Iran Is Not an Existential Threat - Iran poses no significant danger to Israel, let alone the US.

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I recommend this very cogent article in Jewish Currents. I quote It wasn’t until the 1990s that Israeli and American leaders began describi...
Sunday, 12 April 2026

The way we live now

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From an opinion piece in the Washington Post on 8 April by Marc A. Thiessen advising Trump on five things to do in his [unprovoked] war agai...
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Saturday, 11 April 2026

Pluck the moment

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Robert De Niro: 'Now is now. Then is then. And the future will be what the future will be. So enjoy the moment while you are in it.'

Seen this afternoon

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South Korean President Lee, addressing Israel

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"It’s disappointing that you don’t even once reflect on the criticisms from people around the world who are suffering and struggling du...

Professor Norman Finkelstein

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  “Israel is now a madman.” “It didn’t get its way with Iran, and so it is totally destroying Lebanon now.” “It is in a state of catatonic l...

World turned upside down

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In a world gone mad few things are any longer incredible but this is. A report claims senior Pentagon officials, including Elbridge Colby, i...
Friday, 10 April 2026

This extraordinary moment in history

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Donald Trump has accused Iran of behaving "dishonourably". I am not making this up. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia says Iran bombed t...
Thursday, 9 April 2026

BBC on Israel’s massacres

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BBC whitewashing Israel’s killing yesterday of more than 250 civilians in Lebanon by flattening entire neighbourhoods: “Israel says it hit m...
Wednesday, 8 April 2026

Peace in our time? It looks like Trump will invent a victory and leave, giving Iran the things she asks for. At least let's hope so

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A disturbing number of Britons, it seems, would gladly see the survival of the world’s worst regime. So wrote Jake Wallis Simons a couple of...
Tuesday, 7 April 2026

Chinese propaganda, as seen from Germany

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Peace is impossible in the 3rd Gulf War - it would give the US and Israel time to prepare a new war. Peace is impossible in Ukraine too. China will not attack Taiwan but enjoy the spectacle.

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  I have been saying on this blog for many years that America is the great danger to peace and that Great Britain should if not leave then q...
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Sunday, 5 April 2026

The Americans are deliberately bombing schools and hospitals

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Al Jazeera confirms the US and Israel have bombed over 760 schools and 350 health centres in Iran. I have listened on podcasts to more than...
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Saturday, 4 April 2026

She is arguing for killing Iranian and Arab children on religious grounds

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Israeli analyst Orit Perlov who works for a think tank called the Institute of National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, felt happ...

Why is the BBC trying to make us care about a downed American airman?

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We are finished - unless we see that America is now the threat to world peace. I can only see one chance.

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Trump who is clearly mentally unfit for his or any job boasted the day before yesterday about having killed 88 Iranian leaders. It was about...
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Friday, 3 April 2026

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Left: President Trump, "Regime change (in Iran) was not our goal" Right: President Trump, "But we also want regime change (in...

The Iranian President's Letter to the People of the United States: Iran Has Never Initiated a War

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Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian's Letter to the People of the United States: Iran Has Never Initiated a War Addressed to the people of the United ...
Thursday, 2 April 2026

Chas Freeman: The era of Western dominance that started in 1492 is over

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Chas Freeman was US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Nixon's senior translator in Peking. He said yesterday in this  podcast  that  I high...

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Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in. https://t.co/OwfZYKy0Lj — Hend Amry (@LibyaL...

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Israeli authorities confess they are singling out the Shi'ite Lebanese population for destruction. This is textbook ethnic cleansing, de...

Anthony Scaramucci 1 hour ago on X

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Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes. $1.5 billion in notional S...

"We're seeing the ending of an era, not a decline but an abrupt change."

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I have been saying on this blog for a long time that America is the great threat to world peace, that Biden and now Trump are war criminals ...

When Greek meets Greek

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Sweet are the uses of adversity. Iran has been released from prison by this war and is or will be, Robert Pape predicts, one of the five mos...
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Wednesday, 1 April 2026

This is my prediction

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The war ends when Iran says and Iran will keep the Strait in her hands till America leaves the Middle East. That would be good even for Amer...

April Fools

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Volpone: Fools, they are the only nation Worth men's envy, or admiration: Free from care or sorrow-taking, Selves and oth...
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