Robert Stuart’s video shows the BBC’s Panorama Syria chemical attack was faked
I recently saw Robert Stuart’s video, about the faking of video evidence of war crimes in a BBC Panorama documentary of chemical attacks in Syria in 2014. It seems a long time back, but we need to take note, because the UK is pursuing new wars (Iran, Yemen, Venezuela) in the name of humanitarian intervention.…
Colonial Empires fight back – Britain, France and Turkey revive old imperial ambitions with a new face
20 years ago, anybody who said the British Empire was a good thing, would have been ignored as a relic of the Imperial past. Of course, such rose-tinted romanticising ignores the genocide and repression needed to maintain the colonial system. Now, neo-conservative politicians openly call for revival of colonial empires. Gavin Williamson’s 2018 newspaper interview…
Churchill, changing monuments, and the evolution of social identity
Boris Johnson says we shouldn’t “edit and censor” our past by changing our monuments. He is wrong – monuments are not, like statues in a museum, mementos of the past. They are a dynamic part of a living, evolving social culture. They need to be renewed. This story discusses what monuments mean in our society…
The Real News
Ever wondered what’s going on in the world, behind the smokescreen of endless COVID19 scare stories? Yes, COVID is a nasty disease, but the mainstream press is covering it to the exclusion of all other news. As context: COVID19 has claimed 37,000 lives in the UK. The 2017/18 winter claimed 49,000 ‘excess deaths’ (additional to…
If we tolerate this? Craig Murray journalist contempt prosecution commences in UK law courts
It’s a bit unreal writing this. I was raised in Rhodesia, a colonial country, during the liberation war. I grew up in Zimbabwe, a liberated country falling into despotism. I have seen a lot of persecution of journalists. But I never believed such persecution could exist (at least not for long) in the UK –…
A call to action: recognise the threat: resist erosion of human rights under cover of COVID19 emergency; be vigilant about dumbing down of media for the sake of our children (opinion)
Opinion by RH 20/05/2020 Dear Friends, The time has come to recognise that this COVID19 disease is less deadly than seasonal flu was only two years ago in the 2017-18 winter. In that season the UK government reported 49,000 ‘excess deaths’ – ie, more than normal. At the time of writing, the government says 36,000…
Obama explains drones strikes to US students
Video archive from 2008, when Drone Killings started in earnest. Worth watching for the argument that if we don’t kill them first they will kill us. Classic Game Theory from the 1950’s. Its self fulfilling prophesy – so we go kill them first and thieir children gonna come for us for sure. It’s also an…
Queen of Wands
A commission for Anna
Kathe Kollwitz’s ‘Grieving Parents’ at Vladslo: ‘Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground’
Originally posted on That's How The Light Gets In:
Even though I’d been there on two previous occasions, there was one place to which I had to return before I finished my brief exploration of the memorials and cemeteries of the western front. In Flanders, near to Dixmuide, north of Ypres, there is a German military cemetery where…
Post-modernism – the cultural face of neoliberalism’s spiritual vacuum
At last – an article that explains how postmodernism relates to neoliberalism … it helps explain the ‘pointlessness’ of contemporary culture… also, this is a link to great alternative news website “Off-Guardian”: https://off-guardian.org/2019/08/11/postmodernism-the-ideological-embellishment-of-neoliberalism/ I’ve chosen to illustrate this story with a portrait of David Bowie, because Bowie is emblematic of our society’s abandonment of the…
The delicate issue of how to reply to rightwing friends on Facebook -when unfriending means being trapped in a pool of those who think like you…
AM: Liberation struggle? Really? Which? A economic catastrophe already unfolded in Zimbabwe with power cuts at 15 hours per day? What planet are you living on mate? Have you any idea of the problems Zimbabweans face? Appears not. Please spare us this leftist nonsense. If any of you had any morality you’d go back to the…
Is Putin right to say this is the end of the era of liberalism? (and a great essay about our times (the ‘anthropocene’) from Mintpress)
4bJuly 2019. Last week, Russian premiere Vladimir Putin said the era of liberalism is over. He’s referring to the global culture which appears to demand everyone can do what whatever they want. There’s a whole lot to unpack there – its about freedom, individualism, the right to make dreams of riches come true. From free…
