The explosion in a Beirut portside warehouse containing over 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate on August 4 has done its bit to light more fires under Lebanon’s ruling powers. With the blast still bloodily fresh and traumatic – the destruction of the city’s port with over two hundred deaths and thousands injured – promises of…
President Trump won re-election this weekend with his four executive orders. We haven’t even reached the DNC convention in Milwaukee and it looks to me like this election season is over. I know the polls keep trying to convince me that Joe Biden, most likely suffering from dementia, is leading President Trump but I just…
Back in April I said “China’s gonna be so surprised when it finds out it interfered in the November election.” Now three months ahead of schedule China is already getting its surprise, alongside fellow unabsorbed governments Iran and Russia. Mass media throughout the Western world are uncritically passing along a press release from the U.S. intelligence community,…
It is bad enough that the media can no longer to be trusted, and worse that there are few alternative choices to turn to for reliable information that is free from spin. The audio recording group I’ve been associated with recently posted a solidarity message in support of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and against police…
The heated debate within Western governments about the best way to fight what they regard as “propaganda” has recently taken a disturbing turn towards intimidation of the outlets accused of peddling such information products and even discussions about their possible censorship, but if they were really sincere in combating this menace while staying true to…
India versus China, Egypt versus Ethiopia, Israel versus the Palestinians – the Water Wars are already here with U.S., yet American and European policymakers remain disastrously blind to them. This is certain to have catastrophic consequences for the wealthy, arrogant and ludicrously complacent elites of the West. The problem is particularly acute in the United…
