Of silent ships: keeping track of information that passes in the night
While it was news that caused no more than a brief stir in British corporate-media, that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized a third ship in the Persian Gulf at the end of July allows broader scope by which to appreciate the prior seizure of the MT Riah – a craft that was shrouded by a good deal of mystery at the time of More...
The MT Riah mystery, and why Johnson won’t be the help Trump was hoping for
At a time when corporate-media has been full of images of the crew of the Stena Impero, we might be excused for forgetting that Iran seized another vessel in the Hormuz Straits last week. Like the ship itself was More...
Iranian humiliation of British Government, and pressure to break the will for American sanctions
The timing was impeccable. At around the same general time as Iranian TV had pictures of a vessel being seized by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – an operation executed back on Sunday More...
Britannia waives the rules: oil tanker theatre for preserving ongoing effort to restrict Iranian infrastructure
How people would have today’s propaganda served to them with control grid technology of the 1940s: “Britannia rules the waves” shouts the movie-theatre newsreel voiceover actor, “our boys (and girls [in More...
The case of the errant missile that set fire to an entire hillside in Cyprus
As far as the consensus goes, overnight into the first day of July, the Israelis launched an attack with standoff air-to-ground missiles into areas in the west of Syria – that is to say, rather, there were More...
Iran calls Trump’s bluff – Trump (with his many helpers) keeps on a-bluffin’ – plus, the readiness crisis goes terminal?
Vali Nasr is a Professor at Johns Hopkins University, a senior fellow in foreign policy at Brookings Institution, life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and sometime advisor to the Obama State Department, More...
The American military’s “readiness crisis”: why war won’t be waged on Iran
How serendipitous it is that, at this time when a lot of angst about a looming US attack on Iran (and the impending World War which is the usual imagined inevitable development from such a thing), a leaked Organisation More...
Lesson from Christchurch: firearms are needed by those who would defend themselves against the perpetrators of terrorism
The Anglo-globalist Morloc(k)racy (explained here) that rules Britain and New Zealand would deny physics in its efforts to psychologically manipulate the populations of both countries (and many others) with false More...
Leading to World War I from behind: Britain’s neutrality tease, and smokescreen over Russian mobilisation
In this, the latest article in a continuing if slightly irregularly published series looking at an orthodox history of the events leading to the start of World War I from a post-9/11 perspective, we examine how More...
British and Russian relations ahead of World War I: paying out the rope for a self-hanging
In this continuation of a series examining the British engineering and instigation of the First World War (previous instalment here), we look at the means by which Russia must have been further reassured by Britain More...