Stephen Everson

Though, from what one gathers, without the absolute theological opposition to the possession of weapons of mass destruction.

Never let it be said that the BBC misses an opportunity to manufacture consent (2)

“Battered and isolated, Hezbollah drags Lebanon into another war”

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Have we told the US that it can’t use RAF bases on Cyprus for intelligence gathering that would support its illegal campaign against Iran? If not, they’re still legitimate targets.

Given that there’s apparently some contention as to whether 16-yr-olds are suitable voters, maybe it should become a live issue as to age at which someone’s horizon and interests become too short-term for them to have a say in who governs us. Over 80? 70? 65?

🗳️ NEW | Greens lead with all voters under 65, reveals latest YouGov survey:

-- 18-64s --
🟢 Grn: 26%
➡️ Ref: 20%
🔴 Lab: 17%
🔵 Con: 13%
🟠 Lib: 14%

-- Over 65s --
➡️ Ref: 33%
🔵 Con: 26%
🔴 Lab: 15%
🟠 Lib: 14%
🟢 Grn: 6%

Poll: @YouGov, 1-2 March

Let it never be said that the BBC misses an opportunity to manufacture consent.

"Clashes between Bahraini police and protesters who took to the streets to condemn the “Israeli-American” aggression against Iran."

مواجهات بين الشرطة البحرينية ومتظاهرين خرجوا للتنديد بالعدوان "الإسرائيلي الأمريكي" على إيران.
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#Bahrain #Iran #Israel #News #WorldNews

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I seem to missing all the urgent calls to support the pro-democracy protests in Bahrain.

Maybe even Trump is sensible enough not to want nuclear war.

A modified principle might be that you shouldn’t support a war if your principal sources of information about it are the NYT, Guardian or BBC.

There is. Maybe demilitarising Israel would have been risky. Putting troops into Gaza (and the Occupied Territories) works have been feasible though.

Maybe that’s right. I mean, one could have mounted a very strong R2P case to protect Gaza by sending in a military force to disarm the Israelis —but it’s inconceivable given the political situation that such a case could have been propounded.

When Tucker Carlson in that widely shared interview with Ted Cruz discovered that Cruz, who was pressing for an attack on Iran, knew neither even roughly what the size of Iran’s population nor which tradition of Islam they followed, that did reveal him as sill simply unserious.

Which is, I guess, a way of saying that if one hasn’t expressed outraged opposition to the US blockade of Cuba, one’s in no position to be outraged by Iran’s closing the Straight.

There could be cases where you could know enough without knowing where a country is; simply knowing that a country will inflict nuclear devastation if you attack it should (at least almost) always be decisive. But I think the default should be knowledge that includes knowing where it is.

Even once the fighting has subsided — though that may be months away or longer — Iran should make it a condition of opening up the Strait of Hormuz that the US lift its blockade on Cuba.

It’s hard to think of a case where going to war is a deliberative possibility and it won’t be relevant e.g. what a country’s neighbours are (though you’d need to know something about the neighbours to get the relevance of the geographical relations).

Iraq and the Gulf are destabilised, western missile stocks are exhausted, much of Israel is levelled and popular Iranian support for the government is consolidated, make sure they take responsibility for this adventure.

Remember all those who are endorsing the attacks on Iran and insist that we should be fully supporting them; when the Western economy is strangled, inflation is sky-rocketing, …

The US killing one and hundred fifty school children in a single attack on Iran has apparently been universally decided to be a non story by the Western press. Not front page news, not in the highlights, instantly memory holed. Profession and institutions worse than worthless.

Israeli media reporting that the US and Israel have divided up the Iran attack thus: the US is targeting infrastructure, Israel is focussed on taking out Iran's leadership

It should go without saying that the aim here is to collapse Iran - a country of ninety million people - into ungovernable chaos and Mad Max-style warlord catastrophe, much as they have every other country from Libya to Afghanistan that they could not buy off.

Israel goes immediately into its military comfort zone of slaughtering children.

You should have heard the cartoonish nonsense he was allowing Nadhim Zahawi and Sonia Sodha to come out with during Sky’s coverage last night. That emoji pales in comparison.

Sectarian.

The sheer contempt and entitlement in that word.

Thousands of Muslim voters just voted for a white, (I think) working class non-Muslim woman because they feel abandoned by Labour and agree with her views on a huge foreign policy issue and on immigration policy

Stick to coin-flipping; there’s less scope for being led astray.