NO ONE LIKES “DUNKIRK” – Apart from the movie-goers, that is. First, the movie reviewer at “USA Today” whinges about “the fact that there are only […]
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13 Reasons Jeremy Corbyn is a Scumbag and a Moral Midget
In little less than a year, Jeremy Corbyn went from being a political joke with a -40 per cent net favourability rating, against Theresa May’s +35 per cent, […]
Continue reading »WORDS OF WISDOM FROM THE LEFT – Matt Taibbi of “Rolling Stone” to his credit has been on this issue for a while now in […]
Continue reading »ENOUGH OF THIS S*** – I don’t think I’m the only one to think that enough is enough. We have now had months after months […]
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Donald Trump – the president the left deserves, and we all get
After crying wolf (or rather crying fascist) about every prominent right-wing politician for several generations, the left has finally got someone who comes closer to […]
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Bulldozing the “liberators”
How do we remember the dead? How do we remember the war dead? How do we remember the controversial war dead? In Europe, history is […]
Continue reading »THOSE POOR ENCIRCLED RUSSIANS – An “independent Lebanese geopolitical commentator” Sarah Abdallah asks an important question: https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/858707189359366145 Maybe because Poland and the Baltic states have […]
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Who’s your mummy? Who’s your daddy? World leaders and their missile envy
Feminists are right; there is something phallic about bombs and missiles, and something very guy-esque about the fascination with their, ahem, size, penetration ability, and explosive […]
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Jossy the Credibility Slayer
A periodic reminder there are some real hellholes around the world: The crusading [Russian] newspaper Novaya Gazeta published a startling article April 1 that reported […]
Continue reading »RED UNDER EVERY BED – Grassy knoll, meet the mainstream media, the MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell edition: “Wouldn’t it be nice,” O’Donnell asked a nodding, smiling Rachel […]
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Trump bombs, heads explode
Trump’s cruise missile attack on a Syrian army base, where supposedly the recent gas attack against civilians originated, was largely smoke and mirrors (Russians, and […]
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The Problem from Hell
Some 14 years ago, Samantha Power, the then Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, wrote a weighty and important […]
Continue reading »THERE HAVE BEEN RUSSIAN COLOURS ON BRANDENBURG GATE ONCE ALREADY – Berlin’s – left-wing – local government doesn’t pray for St Petersburg: A decision by […]
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St Petersburg
A shrapnel bomb full of nails exploded on St Petersburg metro at 2:40pm local time, killing 11 and wounding 50. Second bomb, disguised as a […]
Continue reading »‘ZOO SUES PRODUCERS FOR “TRAUMATISING” RACCOON WITH AN “EROTIC VIDEO” SHOOT’ – This is quite possibly the best headline of the week. Employees at a […]
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Yes media, there were reds under the bed
In another fake outrage story and anti-Trump hyperventilation, CNN has come across a recording of an interview by Steve Bannon with a journalist and an […]
Continue reading »PAULINE HEARTS VLAD – What is it with the Neo-Populists around the world and their love affair with Vladimir “Ras” Putin? Pauline Hanson joins the […]
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Party like it’s Chernobyl again
Just over three decades on and another mysterious radioactive cloud is hanging over Europe: Scientists are struggling to explain why traces of Iodine-131 have been […]
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Out like Flynn
I’m on record being consistently concerned by and opposed to Donald Trump and people in his circles playing footsie with Putin and being soft on […]
Continue reading »JUST LIKE THE COLD WAR, ONLY THE OTHER WAY AROUND – According to the latest Pew polling, Democrats and Republicans find themselves in a switcheroo […]
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