Yes he used to run Rhodesia, and yes it is costly to buy this book because no one wants to reprint it, for obvious reasons. Nonetheless it is a fascinating look into an era and its dissolution. Smith is a wonderful writer, and remarkably erudite, more so than virtually any politician today. He also is […]
Ian Smith’s memoir *Bitter Harvest: The Great Betrayal*
Ian Smith’s memoir *Bitter Harvest: The Great Betrayal*
25 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Rhodesia
The Battle of the Selle – Ludendorff Resigns I THE GREAT WAR Week 221
20 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I
Middle East ceasefire is widely celebrated – but Peters notes that the pro-Palestine protesters have been silent
15 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, useful idiots, war against terror
Bob Edlin writes – Come in Chloe and your fellow champions of Palestinian statehood and tell us what you think of happenings in the Middle East in recent days. There was widespread celebration – not only in Israel and Gaza but around the world – of news of a cease-fire and that the hostages taken […]
Middle East ceasefire is widely celebrated – but Peters notes that the pro-Palestine protesters have been silent
Brendan O’Neill ponders the unemployment of Israel haters
11 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
The lead story on last night’s NBC News was about the cease-fire in Gaza, and it showed Israelis celebrating the return of the hostages, and Gazan civilians celebrating the cessation of war. Even my Jewish friends in America are celebrating, though they’re properly wary of “stage 2” of the deal: will Hamas gives up its […]
Brendan O’Neill ponders the unemployment of Israel haters
A ceasefire in Gaza
10 Oct 2025 1 Comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
Stuff reports: Celebration – tinged with anxiousness – has broken out in parts of Israel and Gaza after the announcement of a ceasefire deal between the warring parties. Israel has begun implementing the ceasefire deal in Gaza, after it reached an agreement with Hamas for the Palestinian militant group to release all the hostages it holds. Crowds in both […]
A ceasefire in Gaza
The Hindenburg Line Breaks – The Lost Battalion Returns I THE GREAT WAR …
06 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I
Thursday: Hili dialogue
04 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: evolutionary biology
Welcome to Thursday, October 2, 2025, and Yom Kippur, which occupies all day and ends at sundown (it began at sunset yesterday). Considered the holiest day of the year by religious Jews, it’s the Day of Atonement, marked by fasting, praying, and confessing. There is no work for the very observant: no turning on ovens […]
Thursday: Hili dialogue
BBC News promotes CPJ claims concerning ’31 journalists’
29 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
Visitors to the BBC News website on the afternoon of September 24th found a report by Alys Davies headlined “Twenty injured in Yemen drone attack on Israel, rescuers and military say”. Notably, that report about a Houthi – rather than “Yemen” – UAV attack on the same day fails to note that it struck a […]
BBC News promotes CPJ claims concerning ’31 journalists’
Just War Theory: Before, During, and After
21 Sep 2025 1 Comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, war and peace
Just War Theory is a moral framework for evaluating the resort to war, conduct in war, and responsibilities after war. It seeks a middle path between pacifism (which rejects war) and realism (which treats war as beyond morality), arguing that war, though tragic, can sometimes be morally justified and must always be morally constrained. Classically […]
Just War Theory: Before, During, and After
Guardian is AGAIN forced to correct false claim on ICJ ruling
18 Sep 2025 1 Comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, media bias, Middle-East politics, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
As we wrote in a post last week, a Guardian article by their Beirut correspondent William Christou (“US imposes sanctions on Palestinians for requesting war crimes inquiry“, 5 Sept) included the following erroneous claim: In an interim judgment in January 2024, the ICJ ruled that the claim of genocide was “plausible”… As we’ve noted in communications […]
Guardian is AGAIN forced to correct false claim on ICJ ruling
BBC Verify’s experts on proportionality include Corbyn ‘Gaza tribunal’ participants
15 Sep 2025 2 Comments
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
The concept of proportionality – or as it is more often presented, ‘disproportionality’ – has long been a theme that is widely used in BBC reporting on armed conflicts involving Israel. However, contrary to the narrative frequently advanced by the BBC, that concept does not relate to the relative numbers of people killed on either […]
BBC Verify’s experts on proportionality include Corbyn ‘Gaza tribunal’ participants
Financial Times uncritically promotes mocked ‘scholarly’ genocide resolution
08 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
The ‘appeal to authority’ fallacy is committed when arguments are presented as true simply because an individual or group deemed to have authority supports it, rather than being backed by evidence or sound reasoning. This fallacy, our research over the years has demonstrated, is employed continually by British media outlets to defame Israel, saving their […]
Financial Times uncritically promotes mocked ‘scholarly’ genocide resolution
Guardian joins NGO campaign to libel Israel
03 Sep 2025 1 Comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, media bias, Middle-East politics, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
Imagine the reaction if Western media outlets participated in a campaign for Hamas to release the hostages in Gaza, which included suggested talking points, that was launched and coordinated in part by a pro-Israeli organisation in the UK: Let’s call it CAMERA-UK. The outrage expressed in posts decrying the media’s subservience to the “pro-Israel lobby” […]
Guardian joins NGO campaign to libel Israel
U.S. denies visa to Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas (and other Palestinians) ahead of UN meeting
01 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror, West Bank
This is from CNN, so you know it pained them to publish a piece like this (click to read): Mahmoud Abbas, 90, was elected President of Palestine in 2005 for a four-year term, but somehow has hung on for 16 more years, having been voted an indefinite Presidency by the PLO (Hamas doesn’t recognize him […]
U.S. denies visa to Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas (and other Palestinians) ahead of UN meeting
War crimes documentary not to be shown as Hamas own copyright over the images!
01 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
The NY Post report: A new documentary about the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas has been booted from the Toronto International Film Festival — because organizers insist the filmmakers need the rights from the terrorist group to use their horrific footage of the massacre. The festival claims the movie, called “The Road […]
War crimes documentary not to be shown as Hamas own copyright over the images!
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