Josh White / 20 Mar 2023
Abandoned by the Press
The UK Media and Iraq
Twenty years ago today, US and British forces entered Iraq to bring down Saddam Hussein and rid the country of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).(...)
Politics
The Battleground / 17 Mar 2023
Giorgia Meloni, Serial Racist
The ChatGPT Sessions, Volume 1
By community standards, his trip was a failure. Italian Jews protested Netanyahu's visit, and the community's leader, Noemi Di Segni, excoriated him for the settler pogrom in Hawara and for undermining Israeli democracy.(...)
Drasko Duranovic / 09 Mar 2023
The Struggle for Montenegro
Moscow’s Hybrid War
For the Kremlin, controlling Montenegro is an opportunity to have its own proxy in NATO. For Belgrade, it’s a chance to regain the territory, which declared independence in June 2006.(...)
John Foster / 03 Mar 2023
Britain Gives Up
Post-Brexit Ireland
The end of Ireland’s Brexit crisis shouldn’t be noteworthy. As Fintan O’Toole noted in The Guardian, the Windsor Framework could have been agreed upon two years ago.(...)
Josh White / 21 Feb 2023
Lynch Mob Blog
Guido Fawkes, Phony Rebel
Guido Fawkes is the kind of media that can destroy reputations in minutes. Sometimes deservedly, but not always.(...)
Ari Paul / 13 Feb 2023
Cold War Blame Games
Seymour Hersh and Nord Stream
Seymour Hersh, the legendary investigative journalist who uncovered American war crimes in Vietnam and Iraq, has been in journalistic hibernation for some time. (...)
John Foster / 10 Feb 2023
Always Under Surveillance
The End of Mental Privacy
During the Trump era, it was often said that political satire was becoming impossible.(...)
Josh White / 07 Feb 2023
Government Policy Advocate
The BBC and Austerity
Not every media organisation can bear criticism, even self-criticism, but others require it to keep going.(...)
John Foster / 04 Feb 2023
Fake News About History
Ukraine is Not Stalingrad
Foucault once suggested that Clausewitz's famous observation, "war is not merely a political act but a real political instrument" carried out by other means, be reversed, with politics made an extension of war.(...)