This week, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of America’s militarily unnecessary[1] use of the atom bomb at Hiroshima, John Pilger wrote an excellent piece on the horrors of that day and its long bleak aftermath, linking them to the insanity of the drive currently underway for war on China. (It’s in Consortium. The days are gone when Guardian or […]
Thousands of demonstrators thronged the streets near the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in central Jerusalem on Saturday night, in a renewed show of strength as weeks of protests against the Israeli leader showed no signs of slowing. Throughout the summer, thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to call on Netanyahu […]
A deceased passenger has tested positive after death in the Kozhikode plane crash on Friday night. The passenger, one of the 18 passengers, who died in the Air India Express plane crash in Kozhikode, was returning to India from Dubai on the Vande Bharat repatriation mission flight on Friday night. The Air India Express flight […]
Dear James, I hope you are well.Surely now it is clear to you that what I said about becoming a dystopia is starting to actually hit home? No? Greater Manchester was locked down, 4,000,000 people why? Because of a 25% rise in covid cases. Sounds a lot doesn’t it? Do you know the figures? Let […]
To win the war against the novel coronavirus that has now killed over 158,000 people in this country, the only answer is compulsory vaccination — for all of us. And while the measures that will be necessary to defeat the coronavirus will seem draconian, even anti-American to some, we believe that there is no alternative. […]
How should online hate and misinformation be dealt with? When Wiley launched a tirade of anti-Semitism, his social media accounts were removed, as have the accounts of hate actors like Katie Hopkins, and Alex Jones in recent years. In response to the growing following of the QAnon conspiracy theory, Twitter has deleted over 7,000 accounts dedicated […]