ISIS and Syria: the Game of Thrones
- September 27, 2014
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- Matt
I have long since despaired of the ability or willingness of the mainstream media to give a full and honest analysis of Western foreign policy. With the exception of a few writers, I rely on the MSM to tell me only what has happened, but I don’t expect any in depth analysis of why it is happening.
Take for example, today’s Guardian editorial, which praised yesterday’s ‘thoughtful and reasoned’ parliamentary debate on the UK’s decision to carry out air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq. In the Guardian’s opinion
this was the vote of...
The Eyes of Richard Cheney
- August 26, 2014
- by
- Matt
Some years back, Faye Dunaway starred in a kinky thriller called The Eyes of Laura Mars. Dunaway plays a glamorous fashion photographer who specializes in taking pictures of stylised violence, only to develop a second sight that enables her to see actual murders through the eyes of a real-life killer. At first sight...
ISIS: Made in Washington?
- June 23, 2014
- by
- Matt
As a result of its continuing offensives in Iraq, the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIS) has become the latest Islamist threat to civilisation. If the rightwing Internet website World Net Daily is to be believed however, the US government may have inadvertently played a direct role in ISIS’s creation, through a...
Negotiating With Boko Haram?
- May 15, 2014
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- Matt
Is Nigeria intending to negotiate the release of the 276 kidnapped schoolgirls or it preparing to attack Boko Haram? Throughout the crisis the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan has hinted at some kind of behind-the-scenes dialogue with the kidnappers.
The content of these negotiations, if they have taken place, is not known. But reports...
Hashtags, Militarism and the ‘Konyisation’ of Boko Haram
- May 10, 2014
- by
- Matt
In the last week the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have become the object of the same kind of international crusading zeal that was once directed at Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. Hashtag twitter campaigns, celebrity condemnation, political outrage, and now Michelle Obama holding up a placard calling for the release of our girls...
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