The Burrowing Cockroach in a World Gone Mad
Despite my shortcomings, I have evidence of a better world and it cannot be discovered by digging deeper into this one
Israeli Organ Harvesting
Are the allegations “hate porn” or a hitherto hidden, but now unravelling crime? Alison Weir weighs the balance
Body Snatchers Are Back
Every poor man on the planet is a Palestinian – though the means of his dispossession may vary. Israel Shamir on the plunder and trade of vital human organs. Warning – Graphic Photos
A Fly on the Wall of a Cosmic Nightmare’s End
Maybe it was the Chinese stir fry I ate last night or maybe it’s the result of not sleeping very well for a very long time. Whatever it is, I’m laying here in the early morning light thinking about the fabric of manufactured reality being torn asunder
The Meaning of Life for Dummies
I’ve been receiving ten times my usual emails lately. Many of you are grateful for the work and that’s been motivating and heartening since I was going to stop altogether for awhile and this has put that on hold
The Hostage Dream
Gilad Atzmon on how the ‘activist hostage dream’, (a real nightmare actually) is commonly experienced by those people who support Palestine
Dog Poets Broadcasting from the Sirius Cluster
Includes audio links to Smoking Mirrors own radio show
Walking about Jerusalem
I walk it almost every day, and the Old City shopkeepers and artisans call me out, “Ahalan, Shamir!” They all know me because I am a guide, guiding discerning travellers about town
The Reality TV at the End of the World
Seek out the concentrations of light. Move away from the centers of darkness. That rough beast is on the move
The IDF: Israel’s Organ Grinder
After so many years of Western inclination to dance to the crying violin of the Jewish melancholic victim serenade, the Western media may now be willing to confront Jewish institutional crime
Gaboon Vipers March in their own Parade
Here in the final moments of the resolution of the age we are going to get to see what everyone is made out of and we are going to get to see what we are made out of too
Obama is a “Corporate marketing creation”
John Pilger’s brief, incisive and penetrating assessment