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14 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, media bias, Middle-East politics, war against terror
Three days after the announcement of the resumption of airdrops of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, the BBC News website published a filmed report showing Jeremy Bowen on one of the Jordanian flights, the synopsis to which states: “The BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen boarded a Jordanian military plane dropping humanitarian aid into Gaza. […]
BBC News uses ‘shared’ Gaza footage to promote a narrative
12 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
On August 2nd the BBC News website published a report by Thomas Mackintosh headlined “Hamas refuses to disarm until Palestinian state established”. Readers of the current version of that report are told that: “Hamas has reaffirmed that it will not agree to disarm unless a sovereign Palestinian state is established, in response to one of […]
BBC News avoids the full background to Hamas ‘disarmament’ story
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
On the night of August 1-2, 1943, during World War II, Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, future President of the United States, experienced a defining moment in his military career when his patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, was destroyed in the Solomon Islands. This event not only showcased Kennedy’s leadership and bravery but also became a significant […]
JFK & PT 109
01 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, media bias, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
The NYT has filled its main e-page with article about starvation in Gaza and other anti-Israel news. Here, for example is the upper-left of today’s front e-page: And that’s pretty much what it looked like for the past couple of weeks. My issue is that I used to trust the Times, but they’ve shown […]
The NYT screws up when touting “famine” in Gaza, but buries its correction
30 Jul 2025 1 Comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, population economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror, West Bank
A fair number of countries have decided to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state (the U.N. can’t as it requires Security-Council approval, and the U.S. is on that council). This has had little effect as simple declarations like this have no force in international law (see reference to Natasha Hausdorff below). Now, however, another state […]
French President Macron: a blockhead whose ignorance will harm Israel
29 Jul 2025 1 Comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: France, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, useful idiots, war against terror, West Bank
On July 25th the BBC promoted a report by its Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield: Readers of Schofield’s article – headlined “Pro-Palestinian convict freed by France after 41 years” and tagged “Israel and the Palestinians” and “Palestinian territories” despite the story having no direct connection to either of those topics – are told that: [emphasis added] […]
BBC portrays terrorist as ‘Pro-Palestinian convict’ and ‘teacher’
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, World War II
(Trying out a new lay out, feedback is appreciated) Executive Summary On 20 July 1944, German Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg placed a bomb in Hitler’s Eastern Front headquarters (Wolfsschanze / Wolf’s Lair) in East Prussia. The explosion injured but did not kill Hitler. The conspirators—an underground network of senior officers, diplomats, clergy, and […]
The 20 July Plot: Inside Operation Valkyrie and the Attempt to Kill Hitler
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, media bias, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
On July 14th the BBC published the findings of its internal review into the documentary ‘Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone’ which it had de-platformed in February after one of the main child narrators was revealed to be the son of a Hamas official. A BBC Media Centre press release described the breach of […]
Will the BBC’s Gaza documentary internal review make any difference?
21 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in war and peace Tags: World War II
I’m a little late to this because I don’t monitor the UK media daily but on the 17th of March 2025, a final chapter in a crucial battle of military history came to an end with the death of 105-year-old Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway of the Royal Air Force who flew Hurricanes during the […]
Passing of the last of “The Few”
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