It is 8 years this week since the British government revealed pictures of two Russian men, captured on CCTV in Salisbury six months earlier on the day Sergei and Yulia Skripal were discovered passed out on a bench in the city centre. That it took so long to identify the alleged culprits for their poisoning… Continue reading The Skripal Hoax Revisited.
Category: Assassinations
Birth and Rebirth in Mashad
The city of Mashad is hardly known in the Western world, despite being the most visited religious site in Islam. Its location in the far North East corner of Iran, across the great central desert, makes it a natural place of pilgrimage for Shia muslims, both from Iran and Iraq, and from Afghanistan and Pakistan… Continue reading Birth and Rebirth in Mashad
Revered – or Reviled?
On the first day of the funeral for Iran’s martyred spiritual leader, when tens of millions of Iranians came to ‘pay their respects’ at the Grand Mosalla mosque in Tehran, SBS’ reporter Liz Maddox had this to say: ..Ayatollah Khamenei, killed in the opening salvo of the US-israeli attack in February, reviled by many Iranians… Continue reading Revered – or Reviled?
The Persian Gulf – Between the Banks.
Now that we’re finished with the Trump-talk of ‘opening the Straits of Hormuz’ – by force presumably, from those to whom they remain closed – the path forward between its rocky banks is a little clearer. The situation may be compared with a ‘hostage crisis’, and similar rules apply to those following Hamas’ taking of… Continue reading The Persian Gulf – Between the Banks.
Pretending Peace while Declaring War – on Russia
Following Ukraine’s massive drone attack on President Putin’s residence in Novgorod, (shown in the projected flight paths in the map above, from the Ukrainian ‘Russian’ site Meduza) Turkish TRT news interviewed Atlantic Council’s Elisabeth Braw in London. What she said in the interview below (trimmed a little for length) might be considered unhinged and simply… Continue reading Pretending Peace while Declaring War – on Russia
Australia’s war on Iran
On Tuesday the 26th of August, news broke of israel’s latest and most egregious war crime, targeting journalists, rescue workers and hospital staff outside Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. As the double-tap strike was recorded on live TV, there was no room for doubt about its intention, and global condemnation followed quickly behind details of… Continue reading Australia’s war on Iran
Defending Russia, 80 years on.
Below is an article I hoped would be published by dissident journal Pearls and Irritations when I submitted it on May 30th, after news had just emerged of the attempted assassination of President Putin as he flew to Kursk province on May 20th. The immediate trigger for my article – which aimed to put the… Continue reading Defending Russia, 80 years on.