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There is a giant problem that commentators are ignoring. The United States' trade deficit is of incredible proportions and is only sustainable because the dollar is the world's reserve currency - a status it is going to lose.
The US trade deficit in 2024 was
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There are two drivers behind my support for Scottish Independence.
The first and most obvious is to see our ancient land restored to the place it held so long in the community of free and self-governing nations, and end the colonial exploitation of our peopl
My latest article attempts to synthesise the knowledge I gained during four months in Lebanon under Israeli attack.
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On 26 January heavily armed UN Peacekeepers watched as Israeli forces shot dead 26 unarmed civilians in Lebanon and wounded 147 others.
It should be a massive scandal, but the legacy media has completely ignored. I asked the UN the vital questions that nobody else is asking.
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Tiny Lebanon is a country with the area and population of Yorkshire or Connecticut and is much poorer than either.
Yet the USA is building the second largest Embassy, of any nation, anywhere in the world there. For 5,000 staff.
Why?
We investigate
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The devastation of Southern Lebanon by Israel has received extraordinarily little coverage. Plus there have been more than 1500 breaches of the ceasefire here, Israel shows no signs of withdrawing as agreed and is building fortifications and taking more land.
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The Bank that Israel Bombed.
Israel has bombed all 38 branches of the Al Qard Al Hassan Association. I investigate why it is so determined to destroy a savings and loan institution.
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Reflections on Lebanon
In my six weeks here there has been a fundamental change in the balance of power in the Middle East, in favour of the USA and Greater Israel, while the Holocaust of the Palestinians continues.
I try to absorb this and take stock.
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On the Lebanon Syria border, I find that all is not as the BBC tells you.
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With Israel and Salafist Islam as dual centres of intolerance and violence both commanding active US military and weapons support, the future of the Middle East looks bleak indeed this morning.
The video starts half way through, for some reason. You can slide it back to the start.
This is the second mini documentary we have made in Lebanon.
This one covers our report from Baalbek just before the so-called ceasefire, when 60 civilians had been killed in the small city the day before by Israeli bombing.
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This is our mini-documentary about the lives of some of the 1.2 million people displaced in Lebanon by the Israeli invasion.
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I could not tell the easy, comforting lie.
“No”, I told the woman, her traumatised children clinging to her legs, “I can’t say you are safe here; not one of us is safe. The Israelis are genocidal. But in Lebanon so far, I don’t think they have bombed a school”
Blueprint of Destruction
The United States funds Israel to pound Lebanon into Submission Ahead of Envoy's Visit
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I have just joined bluesky as another vehicle to give people a chance to read my writing. Currently reporting from Beirut under the bombs.
I don't mind if you disagree with me, but I do want you to think and be prepared consider new information and arguments.
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