1 March 2025

Has the world gone mad?

Rational people should share a sense of amazement that virtually all European political leaders and Western professional commentators appear to view with shock and horror: the possibility that the United States and Russia, the two major nuclear powers with the capacity to destroy human life, might have correct and co-operative, rather than hostile, relations.

10 January 2025

Trump pressures Panama Canal and Greenland to secure UNSC votes

Many people have been understandably astonished by Donald Trump's recently proclaimed desires to take back the Panama Canal in full, quickly and without question and to take over the self-governing Danish territory of Greenland.

5 January 2025

Pretext for war: Interview of a USS LIBERTY survivor

Anyone who is not aware of the Israeli attempt to sink the aptly named USS Liberty in 1967 -- and even those who are well acquainted with this brutal and deadly attack -- should find it very worthwhile to watch the remarkable interview of a Liberty survivor at the link transmitted below, which, encouragingly, has attracted more than three million views during its first two days online.

30 November 2024

Another unwelcome ICC arrest warrant?

On November 27, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced that he is seeking an arrest warrant against Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of Myanmar's military junta, for his role in the commission of crimes against humanity against his country's Rohingya minority.

24 November 2024

ICC arrest warrants: Moral Equivalence?

One thing that reasonable people can agree with in the outraged and outrageous Israeli and American reactions to the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against two Israeli leaders and one (presumably dead) Palestinian leader is that there can be no moral equivalence between the Israeli government and Hamas.

14 November 2024

UN Membership for Palestine now

On May 10, 2024, the UN General Assembly passed overwhelmingly, with only nine negative votes (Argentina, Czechia, Hungary, Israel, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea and the United States) a resolution which Determines that the State of Palestine is qualified for membership in the United Nations and should therefore be admitted to membership in the United Nations and Accordingly recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter favorably.

9 November 2024

Pro-Israel Democrats brought down their own party

For many years, American politicians have recited and acted in accordance with the truism that no politician ever lost an election by being too pro-Israel.

21 May 2024

ICC delivers three surprises in overdue Netanyahu war crimes indictment

It had been widely anticipated that, to maintain any institutional respect, the International Criminal Court would have to indict some Israeli leaders, unavoidably including Prime Minister Netanyahu, in connection with the Gaza genocide and that, for balance, it would choose to indict at least one Hamas leader at the same time.

9 January 2024

The US, the ICJ and Gaza

US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby called the South African application meritless, counterproductive and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.

14 December 2023

What next after the General Assembly vote?

The UN General Assembly has now voted on the resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel/Gaza conflict which the United States vetoed in the Security Council. Only two European countries voted with Israel and the United States. No country in Asia either voted no or abstained on this resolution. This suggests that the U.S. government's hopes of enlisting loyal Asian support for confronting, containing and countering its perceived primary adversary, China, will not be easily achieved.

18 October 2023

Advocate of evil: Biden is complicit with Israel

As reported in the New York Times, US President Joe Biden has accepted the summons from his master and will be in Israel to physically manifest his full support for the further enhanced genocidal assault against the people of Gaza which Israel has publicly announced its intention to launch.