Ecuador’s worsening security situation deteriorated further in spectacular fashion this week, with gunmen armed with explosives storming a TV station during a live broadcast. The country has been rocked by blasts, police kidnappings and prison disturbances in a wave of violence authorities are struggling to contain. The immediate trigger was the prison escape of one… Read More What’s behind the chaos in Ecuador?
The dark-money junktanks, and the Atlas Network, are a highly effective means of disguising and aggregating power. They are the channel through which billionaires and corporations influence politics without showing their hands, learn the most effective policies and tactics for overcoming resistance to their agenda, and then spread these around the world. This is how democracies become new… Read More What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies
NB: 21,600 people have been killed in Gaza, the majority women and children, and thousands more buried under the rubble, if this is not state terrorism and genocide, what is? How much more butchery do Messrs Netanyahu and Biden need to satiate their blood lust? DS Israeli planes bombed refugee camps in Gaza on Saturday… Read More Israel bombs refugee camps; UN warns of famine risk; skirmishes on Lebanon border intensify
First posted September 13, 2013 Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical extension of business. It’s all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify… “By his very existence, Verdoux renders society guilty.” Approaching eternity, the convicted killer subtly reverts… Read More When Charles Chaplin Became the Enemy
Extreme wealth is becoming the narrative preoccupation of our times. The obscenely rich entrepreneur, or sometimes the heir to an immoral fortune, has been all over television in 2023, from Beef to Dead Ringers, Succession to The Fall of the House of Usher to The Morning Show. In A Murder at the End of the… Read More A Murder at the End of the World: Emma Corrin is the ‘Gen Z Sherlock Holmes’
The notion that the war would end if Hamas was overthrown or surrenders is as ahistorical as it is false…We should end the charade that this is an Israeli war against Hamas. We should call it what it is: a joint U.S.–Israeli war against the people of Gaza. Indeed against Palestinians as a people. Jeremy… Read More This Is Not a War Against Hamas / Top ten US Politicians taking Israel Lobby Cash
Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame: Revelation 16:15. More than 100 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes late on Sunday in the centre of the besieged Palestinian territory, including at least 70 in bombings that hit a residential block in the Maghazi refugee camp near… Read More Israel murders over 100 Palestinians in a designated safe zone. Christmas Day, 2023
Despite the violence it has unleashed on Palestinians, Israel is failing to achieve its political goals. TONY KARON and DANIEL LEVY It may sound daft to suggest that a group of armed irregulars, numbering in the low tens of thousands, besieged and with little access to advanced weaponry, is a match for one of the world’s most… Read More Israel Is Losing This War
Gideon Levy As if all this were not enough – the thousands of dead children, the death toll nearing 20,000, the hundreds of thousands uprooted from their homes, the tens of thousands of wounded and the starvation, disease and destruction in Gaza – on top of this, they must also be humiliated. Humiliated to the… Read More By Trying to Humiliate Gaza to Its Core, Israel Is the One Being Humiliated
With short amulet-covered spears made of blackened chonta palm, GIS mapping phones, walkie-talkies and wearing black and green uniforms, the A’i Cofán seem to merge into the jungle as they march silently down a path through their land. Calling themselves the Indigenous guard, the 27-strong group patrols a territory of 243 sq miles (630 sq… Read More ‘Leave the gold in the ground’: Ecuador’s forest guardians mobilise against illegal mining in Amazon
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