2019-04-24 11:00
The terrorist attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka were absolutely horrendous. The death-toll has been enormous. And the fact that the attacks occurred on Easter Sunday specifically … Read More
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2019-04-21 11:00
So. The crucifixion. And the resurrection. A story, a myth, or an ideal or a foundation-stone of faith, that has exerted an almost unparalleled power over generations, societies, and million… Read More
2019-04-12 11:00
So Julian Assange has finally been dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy by UK police. Soon to be extradited to the United States, this development – as dramatic as the scenes were &nd&hell…Read More
2019-04-09 16:21
I wrote an article here a while ago about ‘The End of International Law‘: and how international law was being openly flouted on a casual basis by various parties, essentially ren… Read More
2019-04-08 15:00
So, I went back and forth for a few days on whether to even bother writing this article. Having already written about Kurt Cobain here at length on a number of previous occasions, I didn&rsq&hell…Read More
2019-03-25 17:00
I published a couple of pieces here last year, talking about how worrying and dangerous it was that the language – and indeed the policies – surrounding nuclear weapons appeared… Read More
2019-03-18 16:00
What happened in Christchurch, New Zealand, is not surprising. An event like that has been coming: and there’s going to be more of them elsewhere. With the extent of the continuous pro… Read More
2019-03-17 15:00
In June 2014, a group of armed militants and extremists made their dramatic journey across the Syrian border into Iraq, quickly capturing Mosul and Baiji and almost reaching the capital Bagh… Read More
2019-03-13 20:00
Leaving Neverland is a very difficult thing to react to. Because, the way it is constructed, it leaves no real room for any diversity in interpretation. The way it is constructed, there&rsqu&hell…Read More
2019-03-13 13:00
So it’s been practically impossible to avoid all of the coverage and fallout from the Leaving Neverland film, which had its UK broadcast late last week. I already covered a lot of the… Read More
2019-03-09 18:00
If ever there was a geo-political situation that seemed ultimately hopeless and perhaps destined to one day go very badly, it might be the relationship between India and Pakistan. A situatio… Read More
2019-03-07 17:00
This is a follow-up, I guess, to the article I last published here on the Shamima Begum or ‘ISIS bride’ media storm: but asking some follow-up questions and raising some related… Read More
2019-02-22 16:00
It’s been difficult to ignore or avoid the massive coverage, controversy and debate surrounding the ‘ISIS bride’ Shamima Begum that has dominated British news in the passed… Read More
2019-02-20 18:00
The war in Yemen – and it’s accompanying humanitarian catastrophe – has been going on a very long time now; and it shows no signs of abating any time soon. I talked about t… Read More
2019-02-13 16:00
Everyone will have noticed the sudden explosion of new Michael Jackson stories, claims and allegations, that have hit newspapers and websites in the passed fortnight or so – in the wak… Read More
2019-02-12 17:00
As a lifelong Nirvana fan, it has always stuck out like a sore thumb to me that the single ‘Lithium’ never had a proper music video. It was in fact the only single from Nevermind… Read More
2019-02-04 17:35
As the multi-layered manuevering in regard to Venezuela continues, it was reported a couple of days ago that the Bank of England has taken actions in line with Washington’s lead. The B… Read More
2019-02-02 15:00
So it looks like US military intervention in Venezuela might be on the cards. Certainly, with Washington and other Western governments now officially recognising someone other than the sitti… Read More
2019-02-01 15:00
I don’t usually do these kinds of subjects, for various reasons: even though they’re usually so interesting. But a couple of current stories have prompted it. I’ll get to M… Read More
2019-01-25 17:00
You know, sometimes you start out with a simple question. And you start exploring for possible answers to that question; only to end up falling down a deeper rabbit-hole than you had expecte… Read More
2019-01-23 17:00
I’ve already published a long reaction/opinion piece on the Chris Cornell tribute even – ‘I Am the Highway’, which focused mostly on the musical performances and the… Read More
2019-01-21 17:00
I’m not going to add much of my own to this, because it’s unnecessary. Naomi Wolf – one of the very best researchers and independent journalists out there – thorougly… Read More
2019-01-21 06:16
I did whole, very long piece already on the Chris Cornell tribute event on Wednesday night, in which I covered mostly everything. But I really wanted to create this space here to talk solely… Read More
2019-01-20 17:00
So the Chris Cornell tribute concert took place on Wednesday night in Los Angeles. The show was huge, with an array of high-profile performers and acts coming together to pay tribute to the… Read More
2019-01-19 14:00
The release of the Laurel and Hardy film biopic Stan & Ollie has brought the legendary comedy duo back into the public consciousness for a while. And it reminded me that, among various t… Read More
2019-01-09 15:20
Alright, so I’ve neglected to touch on this subject for a very long time. I did cover it in March 2015 when the catastrophe started (and sporadically since then), but I’ve genera… Read More
2018-12-29 15:00
Just looking ahead to 2019 a little, and wondering what fresh bullshit is on the horizon, I can see the months ahead being dominated by a few (related) things: all of it centering on the mem… Read More
2018-12-26 21:49
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2018-12-26 21:49
So I’ve just rewatched The Last Jedi for the fifth time now. And I want to talk about why it may be… time for the (Last) Jedi (hate)… to end. And why this film flourishes… Read More
2018-12-26 21:45
A fair amount of new music comes my way on a fairly regular basis: and most of the time now I decline to post reviews. This is partly because this website juggles a bunch of different conten… Read More
2018-12-26 21:45
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2018-12-23 17:00
A recent announcement in the press says an ancient ring found in Bethlehem ‘belonged to the man who crucified Jesus’. The man they refer to is actually the Prefect or Governor, P… Read More
2018-12-21 12:00
The Lockerbie bombing in 1988 was perhaps the 9/11 of its time: and today marks 30 years since it happened. While it didn’t result in the kind of phony Global ‘War on Terror&rsqu&hell…Read More
2018-12-19 18:00
Aaaand so the Tommy Robinson shit-show just goes on. And on. And on and on. I give credit to Nigel Farage for jumping ship before the Shit Show really gets going. He writes: “The very… Read More
2018-12-15 18:00
So the shooting/attack in Strasborg at the Christmas Market. It doesn’t really need much thinking to go into this, but I’m giving it a go partly for Mark from Truthscoop: because… Read More
2018-12-14 12:00
I’ve been a little late focusing on the ‘Yellow Vest’ protests or strikes in France. But it seems to me, given a cursory reading of various sources, like a legitimate, mass… Read More
2018-12-10 18:00
The rise of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil seems to be further proof that pretty much the entire planet is moving in a counter-clockwise direction. Almost everywhere you look, there seems to be th… Read More
2018-12-06 16:00
Amid all the recent provocation and manuevering concerning Russia, Ukraine and the Azov Sea (see here and here), another story may have passed under a lot of peoples’ radars: concernin… Read More
2018-12-05 12:00
It can be dangerous to be an activist for the environment or even for human rights: particularly in a country where foreign-trained Death Squads are working directly for the corporations who… Read More
2018-11-26 16:00
The burning up of so much of California over a short period of time (in 2017 and now in 2018) has amounted to what has been called the most destructive ‘wildfire’ event in the st… Read More
2018-11-15 11:00
100 years ago, the First World War was a devastating conflict in which many millions of people lost their lives and in which the political, social and even geographical state of the world wa… Read More
2018-11-12 17:00
A statue of the late Soundgarden/Audioslave frontman and rock music legend, Chris Cornell, was recently unveiled in Seattle. I haven’t been able to figure out how I feel about this mon… Read More
2018-11-11 11:00
At this time, there are no doubt scores of World War I articles and expositions being published right now. But I also want to talk about one of the more famous cultural homages to the First… Read More
2018-10-31 16:00
The highly divisive drama in the US, concerning the ‘Migrant Caravan’ from Central America, is clearly being manipulated and stage-managed by the media and by rival propaganda ca… Read More
2018-10-30 15:00
The latest episode of the Reality TV show that is presently the United States of America appeared to make very little sense: though it was a high-quality drama that helped fill media space f… Read More
2018-10-21 13:00
‘The world is a stage’, the saying goes. Lately, I’ve been more acutely aware of something that had been prodding at my mind for a while: but that I hadn’t quite put… Read More
2018-10-18 17:00
The apparent murder of US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi within the premises of the Saudi embassy in Turkey has sparked days of outrage, threats, debate, and conspiracy theory. From… Read More
2018-09-18 17:00
The recent anniversary of 9/11 got me thinking about some of the ongoing oddities around the World Trade Center attack. It also got me thinking about various interesting connections in elite… Read More
2018-09-16 16:00
The Salisbury poisoning saga has gotten more and more confusing and uncertain as it has dragged on. I don’t particularly even care: I’m just watching with baffled curiosity. In t… Read More
2018-09-06 19:45
This is ‘Part II’ of the article that was originally talking about the situation in Sweden: now I want to focus on Germany. Though, broadly speaking, this is all one subject. The… Read More
2018-09-06 12:00
I’ve been talking here for some time about a manufactured ‘race war’ or ‘civil wars’ psy-op, utilising age-old divide-and-conquer strategies and propaganda and… Read More
2018-08-28 18:00
This is an article about censorship – particularly, in this latest instance, involving (unfortunately) the very platform I am publishing on right now: and whether it will continue to b… Read More
2018-08-18 17:00
In the previous article, I laid out why I think we should be sceptical of Alex Jones and Info Wars, based on various factors. In this follow-up article, I really want to square in on why we… Read More
2018-08-16 16:00
First up, I should fully disclose my viewpoint: Alex Jones and Info Wars are psy-ops – psychological warfare/control operations, conducted primarily on Americans – but also subst… Read More
2018-08-14 22:00
I used to try to cover terror incidents or suspected false-flag ops in detail: I have an archive of articles devoted solely to the various terror incidents across the West in the last severa… Read More
2018-08-10 12:00
So the Labour Party is now “an existential threat” to Jews in Britain…? Really? I mean, think about what that language is actually supposed to imply or evoke. We’re… Read More
2018-08-07 15:00
I mean that pretty much sums it up. Which is what I’ve been saying here the whole time anyway – that the whole Tommy Robinson thing is a staged psy-op for dummies and for the sak… Read More
2018-07-26 15:00
You will have seen the headlines over the last week, concerning the ‘evacuation’ of the White Helmets from Syria. With the regime-change operation in Syria appearing to have stal… Read More
2018-07-24 09:28
Admittedly, I am guilty of mixing a couple of apparently unrelated subjects here: but, as you’ll see, there’s probably good reason for doing so. There’s a big debate curren… Read More
2018-07-14 11:00
He does seem to have a lot of friends. Some in high places; lots of them in not very high places at all. Later today, lots of them will be out in the street again, apparently embracing their… Read More
2018-07-05 02:32
Another two people have been allegedly poisoned by the Soviet-era nerve-agent ‘Novichok‘, this time in Amesbury. And Russia and England are both still in the 2018 World Cup, with… Read More
2018-06-21 18:00
It’s a curious error; assuming it was an error at all – and it might’ve cost someone in admin their job. A couple of weeks ago, an odd story popped up in the media very bri… Read More
2018-06-17 15:33
For at least two months after Chris Cornell died a year ago, I didn’t listen to any Soundgarden music or any other Cornell music at all. And I avoided all videos or Cornell-related con… Read More
2018-06-10 08:52
There are some days when the sheer scope of the idiocy makes me want to not get out of bed. If ever you needed proof of how many witless muppets are – hook, line and sinker – cau… Read More
2018-06-03 14:00
The mysterious death of movie legend Natalie Wood might be the most troubling and tragic ‘Hollywood Mystery’ that there is. It’s a case that hasn’t been resolved &nda&hell…Read More
2018-05-24 16:00
I noticed something curious recently, nestled away in one of the newspapers: that the Chinese government has apparently banned the classic book 1984 by George Orwell. There’s som… Read More
2018-05-16 11:00
Well, that was bloody insane – all of it. But then we appear to be living in an insane asylum in which the inmates have taken control. If you ever needed a more perverse and overt expr… Read More
2018-05-13 11:00
This is just a short one; and is really just an anecdote and not anything important. But the most random, odd thing happened to me a couple of weeks back. It was on the day my grandfather pa… Read More
2018-05-10 13:00
It has of course been clear for a long time that the Trump presidency is very much in bed with the Netanyahu government in Israel. If it hadn’t already been obvious, the Jerusalem decl… Read More
2018-04-18 15:00
Am I the only one who can’t quite work out what happened last weekend in Syria or what it’s all supposed to mean? That is, I can’t work out what the US-UK-France Triumvirat… Read More
2018-04-08 14:00
The mess that’s been created in Syria is extraordinary. Syria is also definitively where international law died. Arguably, Iraq and Libya saw international law already collapsing: but… Read More
2018-04-03 15:00
There is a very serious problem with the resurgence of genuine anti-Semitism in different parts of the world, including in much of Europe. The Internet is playing a massive part in that &nda&hell…Read More
2018-03-25 16:00
With the fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre, it freshly occured to me that the harrowing subject of My Lai actually also sheds some light on the reality of the decline in real journ… Read More
2018-03-18 12:00
Human beings aren’t just getting greedier, but stupider. That’s according to Professor Stephen Hawking: and, really, it doesn’t seem like a particularly shocking statement… Read More
2018-03-15 15:50
Just when you thought the massive, endless distraction/pantomime of Planet Trump couldn’t get any sillier, the President ditches his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: and is replacing… Read More
2018-03-11 15:00
In the sixth Star Trek film, The Undiscovered Country, Ambassador Spock tells Captain Kirk, “There’s an old Vulcan saying – only Nixon could go to China.” The l… Read More
2018-03-07 10:00
And it is a pretty big rabbit-hole – based entirely on the location where this incident is said to have happened. Which we will get to in a moment; and then you can decide for yourselv… Read More
2018-03-05 10:00
Following, somewhat fortuitously from an article here a few weeks ago on protest music, I’ve had the opportunity to interview self-identified Protest Singer, Sam Draisey, to talk about… Read More
2018-03-03 19:00
This could actually be viewed as a follow-up to the post from a couple of weeks back on the Pentagon‘s ‘Nuclear Posture Review’ and the threat of another Hiroshima-like eve… Read More
2018-02-24 16:00
I haven’t seen the Black Panther movie yet; but I’m looking forward to it. T’Challa, the Black Panther, has for a long time been one of my absolute favorite comic book char… Read More
2018-02-22 15:00
When it comes to Syria, you can set your watch for all the different acts in the stage-play that is the mass-media and international coverage. I referred to Syria previously as ‘Syria… Read More
2018-02-15 17:00
Do you ever get the feeling that our collective destiny or well-being is in the hands of madmen? Something very worrying has been suggesting itself for a while now – a notable change i… Read More
2018-02-13 18:20
The sudden and untimely death of the Cranberries frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan made for another sad start to another year, with the loss of another great, iconic rock star of the last t… Read More
2017-12-28 14:35
Is The Last Jedi the ‘worst Star Wars movie ever’? Possibly. Even probably. But what does that even mean? Needless to say, this is my provisional review of The Last Jedi. Writing… Read More
2017-12-23 21:00
Every few Christmases, I tend to re-read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, as the book has always had a hold on me ever since I first read it as a child. When I read it as a child, I had no… Read More
2017-12-16 10:43
Three men were charged two weeks ago with the murder of the Maltese investigative journalist/blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was murdered in a car bomb on the 16th October. George and Al… Read More
2017-12-14 15:00
As Episode 8 of the Star Wars saga hits cinemas and adds a new chapter in the mythology of the galaxy far, far away, here’s a timely revisit to all the existing films in the epic, magi… Read More
2017-12-14 10:00
There is something that occurred to me ever since seeing The Force Awakens for the first time. It’s a theory based firmly in the mysticism and esoteric nature of the Star Wars mytholog… Read More
2017-12-13 11:00
I noted a few days ago the similarities between the late Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. We noted that the unsettling footage circulating on t… Read More
2017-12-10 11:00
Jerusalem is regarded as an international city, under a world body protectorate. That is its prevailing status. The United Nations has affirmed in a number of resolutions that continued Zion… Read More
2017-12-07 16:00
It is baffling that ‘Russia-Gate’ is still going on – much less that so many platforms or agencies seem to be taking it so seriously. It is clear to most discerning minds t… Read More
2017-12-06 15:00
The murder of former Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh by Houthi rebels will simply guarantee continued and intensified attacks by the Saudi-led coalition that has been bombing Yemen since… Read More
2017-11-22 15:00
The situation in Libya has largely – and probably by design – fallen off the radar of most mainstrean news or journalism. Ever since the fall of the Gaddafi government in 2011 &n&hell…Read More
2017-11-16 20:07
It’s difficult to tell – particularly for someone like me, who isn’t particularly well versed in the Zimbabwe situation. That being said, judging by the reactions of journa… Read More
2017-11-12 11:00
It’s a story that seemed to suddenly blow up out of nowhere. And it resulted in Pritti Patel being called back from Nairobi to meet with the Prime Minister – after which she imme… Read More
2017-11-05 12:00
Official British events to mark the centennary of the Balfour Declaration could be seen as questionable, to say the least. Theresa May’s commitment to the commemorations were promised… Read More
2017-11-01 22:00
So, a few quick notes on the apparent terror attack/incident in New York. As usual, this entirely could’ve been a straight-up ISIS-inspired, low-tech, ‘lone wolf’ attack. A… Read More
2017-10-31 13:01
The riddle of the Roman ‘ghost legions’ is one of the most fascinating anomalies or urban legends around, particularly in Britain. As it’s that time of the year, I want to… Read More
2017-10-29 05:55
Mainstream and online media outlets have been pouring over the release of thousands of documents pertaining to the JFK assassination. But the result, near as I can tell, appears to be that w… Read More
2017-10-20 17:00
I’ve been pondering this for some time; and have tried to somewhat lay out the subject as best as I can here in this article. This is something of a thought-experiment; trying to track… Read More
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