NATO: By Making China the Enemy, the Alliance Is Threatening World Peace

As the saying goes, if you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. The West has the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a self-declared “defensive” military alliance – so any country that refuses its dictates must, by definition, be an offensive military threat. That is part of the reason why NATO issued … Continue reading “NATO: By Making China the Enemy, the Alliance Is Threatening World Peace”

Shireen Abu Akleh: US Media Probes One Killing but Not Countless Other Israeli Crimes

The New York Times published this week the conclusion of its investigation into the killing of the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. It was the fourth major US news organization to look in detail at what happened to Abu Akleh during an Israeli army raid into the Palestinian city of Jenin last month. The New … Continue reading “Shireen Abu Akleh: US Media Probes One Killing but Not Countless Other Israeli Crimes”

Israel Calls the Nakba a Lie. So Why Do Its Leaders Threaten a Second One?

Here is a puzzle. What did Israel Katz, an Israeli legislator and until recently a senior government minister, mean when he threatened Palestinian students last month with another “Nakba” if they continued to wave the Palestinian flag? He urged them to “remember 1948” and speak to their “grandfathers and grandmothers.” “If you don’t calm down,” … Continue reading “Israel Calls the Nakba a Lie. So Why Do Its Leaders Threaten a Second One?”

Russia-Ukraine War: George Bush’s Admission of His Crimes in Iraq Was No ‘Gaffe’

It was apparently a “gaffe” of the kind we had forgotten since George W Bush stepped down from the US presidency in early 2009. During a speech in Dallas last week, he momentarily confused Russian President Vladimir Putin’s current war of aggression against Ukraine and his own war of aggression against Iraq in 2003. Bush … Continue reading “Russia-Ukraine War: George Bush’s Admission of His Crimes in Iraq Was No ‘Gaffe’”

Why Zelensky’s Dream of Ukraine Becoming ‘Big Israel’ Makes Moscow Nervous

The Israeli government has been trying to keep as low a profile as possible over the war in Ukraine, but Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, seems determined to drag Israel on to center stage. Zelensky made a direct appeal to the Israeli parliament last month, ostensibly asking for weapons, especially the Iron Dome interception system … Continue reading “Why Zelensky’s Dream of Ukraine Becoming ‘Big Israel’ Makes Moscow Nervous”

Israel Is Stoking a Civil War Against Its Palestinian Citizens

Three separate, deadly Palestinian attacks in Israeli cities in a week have elicited a predictable response. The Israeli army has drafted large numbers of extra soldiers into the West Bank and around Gaza, Palestinian territories already under decades of brutal military occupation. But the fact that, unusually, two of the attacks were carried out by … Continue reading “Israel Is Stoking a Civil War Against Its Palestinian Citizens”

Joe Biden Has Confirmed to Russia That the US Really Wants Regime Change

Did US President Joe Biden say the quiet bit out loud at the weekend when he indicated that Washington wanted regime change in Moscow? It may well have looked that way to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Earlier this month, Biden accused Putin of being a “war criminal”, even though the charge drips with hypocrisy. … Continue reading “Joe Biden Has Confirmed to Russia That the US Really Wants Regime Change”

Putin Is a War Criminal – and So Was Madeleine Albright

Obituaries of Madeleine Albright, the first woman to be appointed US secretary of state, in 1997 by President Bill Clinton, could not have been more gushing. With the news of her death aged 84, western politicians and media united in lauding her as “a trailblazer," “a champion of democracy” and “a force for freedom." Hillary … Continue reading “Putin Is a War Criminal – and So Was Madeleine Albright”

Social Media Giants Allow Hate Speech Against Russia but Silence Israel’s Critics

Silicon Valley has rammed through a series of changes over the past few days at dizzying speed, making explicit what should already have been obvious: Social media firms have rapidly become little more than propaganda arms of the United States and its allies. That role has been increasingly difficult to conceal as western politicians and … Continue reading “Social Media Giants Allow Hate Speech Against Russia but Silence Israel’s Critics”

Russia-Ukraine War: A Different Invasion, the West’s Same ‘Madman’ Script

How convenient for western leaders that every time another country defies the West’s projection of power, the western media can agree on one thing: that the foreign government in question is led by a madman, a psychopath or a megalomaniac. At a drop of a hat, western leaders are absolved of guilt or even responsibility … Continue reading “Russia-Ukraine War: A Different Invasion, the West’s Same ‘Madman’ Script”