In a major upset, political maverick George Galloway won the Rochdale by-election with decisive majority. The contest was dominated by Gaza and it marks an ominous turn for the opposition Labour Party’s general election prospects
Reporting from the scene, Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul said that after opening fire, Israeli tanks advanced and ran over many of the dead and injured bodies. “It is a massacre”, he said.
More than one hundred killed after Israel attacks Palestinians who had gathered to receive food and humanitarian aid. The West responds with a deafening silence
The more you scrutinize the situation in Gaza the worse Israel looks. War crimes don’t get much more despicable than this
Smoking Mirrors continues to reflect on materialism and desire and how they shape the world around us
The West wants to turn Russia into a dying, failed state, President Putin told a gathering in Moscow Thursday. What is happening in Ukraine is part of that plan but if the West wasn’t careful it could lead to a much bigger war. Even a nuclear clash
Russian claims about Western forces being killed in recent missile strikes were partly confirmed by Ukraine itself, which said two of the dead and three of the wounded were French “volunteers.”
We post this as it underscores how dire the situation is for Ukraine as the Russians continue to advance and ammunition shortages take hold. However, readers should be aware that this report also contains some glaring items of disinformation, which we identify
Google Gemini caught inventing reviews and fabricating quotes in order to discredit a book about Big Tech’s political biases
Max Igan on how the world has changed in four years since Covid-19 first appeared. With the emergence of new wars, transgenderism and the surveillance society
We watch animals at play. We play with our pets, and that brings out a part of us that we like very much. We are watched by higher life forms in the same way, and they also play with us, if… we… let… them…
In 2014 Donetsk asked to rejoin the Russian Federation. This was achieved in 2022 when Russia annexed the breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine, including Donetsk. Now Transnistria has appealed to Moscow for protection. The thing is that it is located in western Ukraine, next to Moldova, which has just applied to join the EU