The Vietnam War: Riding The Tiger – the problem with Ken Burns’ Vietnam documentary
“The most ominous danger we face comes from the marginalization and destruction of institutions, including the courts, academia, legislative bodies, cultural organizations and the...
Triumphalism, pro-NATO and pro-Russian
Those of us who began chronicling the current NATO proxy war with Russia over Ukraine from the launch of the Russian SMO in February...
Whose Disinformation Is It Anyway? BBC vs Critical Academics
BBC Radio recently broadcast a File on 4 programme called Ukraine: The Disinformation War, promoted with the strapline ‘British academics accused of sharing Russian...
Will US Hegemony Persist?
Russia is indeed winning on the battlefield. Yes, progress has been glacial relative to Hollywood standards of military success and to the pre-drone era....
Did UK intelligence stage the Salisbury Novichok attack?
The final report delivered to the public inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, a British woman who died four months after the Russian...
What ‘Kabul’ Fails to Tell Us About Afghanistan
In 2025 a six-part English language television drama titled ‘Kabul’ premiered in France, though it only released in the UK in August of 2026....
Thugs vs Wimps in the House of Dynamite
We approach the end of 2025 on a very dangerous note. Regardless of a certain bravado among alternative media commentators and even by Putin...
Imagine There’s No Heaven, Nor NATO USA
Jeffrey Sachs certainly has many interesting things to teach us about the history of Western-Russian relations, particularly around the time of Gorbachev's fateful transition...
War is Peace: How journalists vilify peace to rationalize war
Not too long ago, a meme was going viral on social media. It showed the horrified face of George Orwell, looking in disbelief and...
Schrödinger’s novichok: 12 points from the Dawn Sturgess inquiry, part 3
What happens when official evidence about a nerve agent death exists in impossible dual states? Part three of a three-part report on the Dawn...