It’s Official: Stop the War is responsible for the Syrian Civil War
- November 08, 2015
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- Matt
I am not a member of the Stop the War Coalition, but I have been part of the movement ever since it developed in the lead up to the Iraq War. I may not agree with all of its positions, and I don’t share the politics of some of its members, but I share its central aims, and I can’t help noticing that the usual criticisms against it have risen to a new crescendo recently.
No one will be surprised that Douglas Murray regards Stop the War as ‘ a meeting point for hardline...
Erdogan’s Massacre
- October 12, 2015
- by
- Matt
Terrorist atrocities tend to provoke a predictable stock response from politicians and governments. Invariably there is a great deal of sonorous rhetoric, accompanied by exhortations to the population to stand firm and show unity in the face of the universal evil of ‘terrorism’. Nearly always there is a lot of use of...
Save a Refugee – Bomb ’em all to Hell
- September 09, 2015
- by
- Matt
In less than a week, the British government has frantically changed its line on Europe’s refugee crisis like a twitchy gambler shuffling cards in the hope that the right one comes up. First David Cameron rejected the notion that accepting more refugees was a ‘solution’ to the crisis, as if anybody had ever said...
John Kerry’s Moral Compass
- August 27, 2013
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- Matt
The Imperium and its allies are preparing public opinion for their forthcoming bombing of Syria, and morality is the order of the day, as it must be, considering the very flimsy legal basis for this ‘intervention.’
So today we find John Kerry insisting that Syrian involvement in the Ghouta chemical weapons attack is ‘undeniable’, and delivering...
Egypt’s descent into Hell and the death of R2P
- August 18, 2013
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- Matt
The savage purges of the Muslim Brotherhood unleashed by the Egyptian military have exposed – perhaps definitively – the dishonesty, hypocrisy and opportunism with which human rights discourse has been co-opted by Western states in order to lubricate the neo-imperialist ‘interventions’ of the last decade or so.
From the Kosovo war to Libya, Western governments have...
Massacre In Cairo
- August 15, 2013
- by
- Matt
There was a horrible predictability about yesterday’s terrible events in Egypt for which many different protagonists are responsible. Primary responsibility, of course, lies with the army, for launching a brutal all-out assault on the Muslim Brotherhood, which deserves nothing but universal condemnation.
From the moment the army took advantage of the anti-Morsi mobilisations to...
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