Emmanuel Macron came to power in 2017 as a politician of a new kind: a technocrat, unbound by traditional parties, a champion of modernization, progress, and European integration. He was positioned as an alternative to rising populist and radical political figures. Yet by the midpoint of his second presidential term, […]
Anti-Human Rights
The Profits From Taking Gaza
On 26 February 2025, Fox News headlined “Trump posts AI video of Gaza as luxury resort”, which showed clips from a promotional video that Trump had had done to show how he would like Gaza to be after the Gazans are eliminated from there and replaced by a world-class tropical beach-resort […]
Self-Defence And Acceptable Murder: Netanyahu Dreams Of Regime Change
These are the sorts of things that tend to be discussed in bunkered facilities and grimy locker rooms. Now, very much in the open and before the presses, the head of state of one country is openly advocating murdering another head of state before news outlets with little reaction. Lawbreaking […]
Condemning The Right To Self Defence: Iran’s Retaliation And Israel’s Privilege
There is a throbbing complaint among Western powers, including those in the European Union and the United States. Iran is not playing by the rules. Instead of accepting with dutiful meekness the slaughter of its military leadership and scientific personnel, Tehran decided, promptly, to respond to Israel’s pre-emptive strikes launched […]
The Morality Of Small Means: Sanctioning Israel’s Ministers
They really ought to be doing more. But in the scheme of things, the sanctioning of Israeli’s frothily fanatical ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich by New Zealand, Canada, Norway, the United Kingdom and Australia is a reminder to the Israeli government that ethnic cleansing, mass killing and the destruction […]
America’s Ambitions And Europe’s Colonial Wounds
When Donald Trump reiterated the United States’ intention to annex Greenland in January 2025, it was no longer dismissed as the eccentric outburst of a polarizing politician but seen as part of a calculated geopolitical power play. America is betting on strength, pressure, and media leverage, tapping into Greenland’s haunting […]
Catching Israel Out: Gaza And The Madleen ‘Selfie’ Protest
The latest incident with the Madleen vessel, pictured as a relief measure by celebrity activists and sundry accompaniments to supply civilians with a modest assortment of humanitarian aid, is merely one of multiple previous efforts to break the Gaza blockade. It is easy to forget that, prior to Israel’s current […]
The LA Unrest Poses A Pressing National Security Threat To The US
This is because it concerns the country’s second-largest city, could disrupt one of its top economic hubs, and might evolve into an irredentist campaign by Mexican nationalists and their US leftist allies. Large-scale unrest has gripped parts of Los Angeles since late last week in response to the Immigration and […]
An Empire On Crutches: How Britain Is Losing Trust — At Home And Abroad
April 15, 2025, marked two years since Sudan descended into civil war — one of the gravest humanitarian crises in recent memory. In response, London convened an international conference, presenting itself as a catalyst for global action. Ambitious? Undoubtedly. Effective? Hardly. The event slipped under the radar, barely registering beyond […]
Humanitarian Camouflage: The Debut Of The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
What a nasty thing it has turned out to be. It involved subversion – Israel’s desire to ignore international tenets of humanitarian aid in favour of expediency and security – and the naked show of violent desperation. Via the shoddy US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation company, distribution of necessaries […]
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