Jonathan Freedland's Corbyn Apology

In an attempt to restore some his fast-disappearing credibility, Jonathan Freedland gives a half-hearted, over-qualified apology to Jeremy Corbyn. It's self-serving, dishonest, and far more revealing than he meant...

General Election 2017 – Polling Day is Here

For the first time in my living memory a General Election is happening with a real choice on offer. Not just a political either/or, but a real moral decision....

JFK at 100: The War on Our Heroes Part 1

If the bullets hadn't flown, John Fitzgerald Kennedy might have been one hundred years old today. Granted, it's not likely, put definitely possible. If the parade route hadn't been...

"Is free-speech really worth all this hassle?" – Gaby Hinsliff

Kit Knightly I’ve never written a response to a Gaby Hinsliff column before. I’ve never felt the need. In much the same way that I’ve never written an online...

Comey’s “incompetence” gets dropped down the Memory Hole

So - seven months ago we were being told again, and again that Obama must fire Comey. Today we are being...

VIDEO: U.S. Crimes of Genocide against Korea

Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, via Global Research Video: Michel Chossudovsky’s Presentation to the Japanese Foreign Correspondent’s Club on US Aggression against the People of Korea, Tokyo, August 1, 2013 The...

French Election Hack: What do we know so far…

More elections. More hacking. The same headlines with slightly different words. This time it’s in France. This time the “victim” is Emmanuel Macron. The “outsider”, “independent” candidate, a man...

Endgame: Comparing results and intentions in the terrorism narrative

Generally speaking, ideas are like plants and animals. Over time, they evolve, things change - we keep what works and throw away what doesn't. Humans don't have tails. Dolphins...

Why did the American Military take precautions to prevent "fanciful" impossibilities?

by Kit Late last night, The Pentagon stated that their attack on the Syrian Government air-base near Homs was not targeting the regime’s supposed chemical weapon stocks. Despite “all...

BBC redacts article on Idlib to hide unwelcome facts

The push for “action” following the alleged chemical attack in Idlib, Syria is reaching fever pitch. Indeed, it may already have had disastrous consequences. The spokespeople for power that...

Idlib chemical attack: A sign no change of policy is on the horizon

The alleged chemical attack, reported yesterday, is the latest in a series of atrocities notionally carried out by the Syrian government ("The Regime", in the partisan parlance of the...

The establishment needs to make up its mind: do "false flags" happen, or not?

Just hours after the alleged terrorist attack on a St Petersburg metro station, a BBC news reporter stated (see the video above): Well, there have been demonstrations – political...

"Experts" reveal their "evidence" of Russian "hacking"

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence convened today, hearing testimony from three “star witnesses”. If you have a spare three hours, and a strong stomach, feel free to watch...

Article 50 triggers strong reactions on both sides…but what will change?

There is a wonderful episode of South Park from 2008, based around the first election of Barack Obama. As the results are announced the democrats...

Global Laundromat update: "Bank did bank things with famous person"

Perhaps this is the beginning of a new series for the Guardian? Maybe in the future we can expect stories entitled “Man who voted Brexit regularly beats wife” and...

"There is no American Deep State…it just looks like there is"

Last week the New Yorker, and yesterday Salon magazine, published editorials arguing against the very existence of an "American Deep State". The arguments presented are very...interesting. Both are, perhaps,...

"Global Laundromat" has the Guardian in a Spin

by Kit The latest “breaking” story from the Guardian and Luke Harding is hitting the headlines. Almost exactly 1 year after the explosive anti-climax that was “The Panama Papers”,...

Guardian promoting GCHQ demand for more internet censorship

In the past year the Guardian has been overtly promoting internet censorship. A while back they uncritically coordinated with Yvette Cooper’s insinuating “take back the internet” programme to make...

Crumbling Monolith Resents an Angry Public

Nick Cohen's latest column is headlined: Farage meets Assange in a shameless illiberal alliance, but might more properly be entitled "Why I drink more than I...

Wikileaks’ Timely Reminder of our Digital Panopticon

Wikileaks latest release of classified documents, entitled Vault 7, comes as a timely reminder to all of us (as if we needed it) that the theorized panopticon – the...