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Brian Robinson's avatar

It's a moot point as to how much of humanity will be in the earthly coil after the climate crisis gets going. Might be OK for rats, I don't know, that's the rodent, not the human sort. You hear the likes of Peter Thiel building bolt-holes for themselves in New Zealand but I don't know what sort of a world they think they're going to emerge into, and anyway, how are they going to get their food on a hyper-hot planet? Others are off to Mars but their bones will turn to mush in the gravity, they can't breath the "air" and the blade-like stones will slice their feet. No escape, as Greta says, there's no planet B.

COREY GAVIN's avatar

Starmer is a useless piece of shit that loves to lick Trump's feet!

Nosmo King's avatar

There is a UN report on the mass murder and the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war on 7/10 but I think you will enjoy reading the full details in the Dinah report here https://thedinahproject.org/the-book/

Zach's avatar

There is no less appropriate person to talk about the truth than Tony L(iar) Blair. He lied about the reasons to go in war with Iraq, he lies about reasons for digital ID, he lies about Palestine. He is a war criminal, killer of Iraq’s and Palestinian’s babies and civilians, who should be in prison for the length of his natural life. He is the most dishonest and diabolical figure in history of the British Labour movement. In truth, Kier is closing the gap very fast with keeping the practice of arresting peaceful pensioners for holding the sign ‘Stop the Genocide’.

Kojo's avatar
Apr 17Edited

The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Courts, for over a year now are indicating that that zionists are perpetrating genocide and apartheid in Palestine. And the zionists have followed that up with a crusade and mass murder of people of Iran and Lebanon and Yemen.

And yet Mr Blair thinks it is appropriate to write: “We must end the left’s unholy alliance with the Islamists.”

Just how much have the zionists paid Mr Blair for crafting and publishing this misdirection and gaslighting?

Andrew Brel's avatar

How Blair remains free to this day is a triumph of Zionist immunity. Full credit to our Tone for his role in the Palestinian wombicide. Get em before they get the chance to be young. For me, the greatest crime against humanity of them all. I call it wombicide because legal jurisprudence has yet to formally define the crime of killing infants in the womb. But if the legal community are looking for alternatives, calling the deliberate targeting of mothers by toxins causing critical birth defects, I suggest they use the term Blairicide. The act of premeditated poisoning of pregnant women intended to kill the infant in utero. Has a ring to it. Blair will likely be flattered.

Nancy's avatar

Powerful. An exceptional piece of journalism. Thank you, Jonathan. Last night I saw the documentary, Coup 53, about the UK and U.S. -instigated coup that toppled the government of the secular, democratically-elected Iranian prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1953. At the time, Mossadegh wanted to increase Iran’s profits from its own oil from the 16% it was allowed by the British. When Britain (and later the U.S.) resisted, Mossadegh nationalized Iran’s oil. That was the reason for the coup. Stephen Kinzer, a former NYT bureau chief who wrote, “All the Shah’s Men” and was interviewed in the film, said that the U.K. and U.S. had deposed Iran’s only democratic government.

What I didn’t know before watching the film was that the U.S. under President Truman rejected the UK’s pressure to participate in the coup. President Eisenhower wasn’t so reluctant.

In the film, Iranian survivors of the coup, including some who worked for Mossadegh, as well as his grandson, were interviewed, as were U.K. and U.S. officials, or actors standing in for them, reading from official transcripts of interviews.

Both the Iranian and British interviewees spoke of the deep racism of the British in their dealings with Iranians, in the oil industry and the government. The British acknowledged it as if it were to be expected. A member of MI6 also acknowledged that he had been “involved” in the murder of Mossadegh’s top military officer. Initially, the story they told was that the officer had been killed by an Iranian who became irate because of the officer’s condemnation of the Shah. Later, however, the officer’s body was found dumped on the roadside with signs of torture as a warning to others who might resist the installation of the Shah by the two western governments.

The two countries undermined the Mossadegh government with sanctions and paid provocateurs. They also bribed Iranian newspapers to publish negative stories about Mossadegh. (Mossadegh was arrested and spent the last three years of his life in solitary confinement. He was described in the film as “the most educated man in Iran,” one of integrity, with a deep commitment to the poor. He was also immensely popular, illustrated in the film by huge crowds cheering for him).

This is the same playbook the U.S. has used in Latin America and we see signs of a replay now in Iran. We should again be allowed to choose Iran’s government and seize its oil, as Trump has threatened to do.

Charles Fox's avatar

It's not genocide if you label it "self defense".

Tony Baloney defends the indefensible. He's really quite the "statesman".

Jill Azzouzi's avatar

Please stop calling them Islamist. Would u call jewish terrorists Judaists??? I doubt it. Thats where the conflation comes from. All muslims are islamic and Islamist. We are not terrorists. He has no proof any muslim was involved. Just like the previous false flags he announced as muslim terrorism

Dillon's avatar

Britain has been Islamophobic for as long as I can remember

Mumtaz ahmed's avatar

Tony blair is america/israels son of a bitch

Joe Meyer's avatar

Excellent and helpful dissection of Blair and the genocidal leanings of the new labor left in England. We face very similar issues with US media and politicians. Israel has two forks in the head of America: the Epstein files and AIPAC:

https://meyerja.substack.com/p/three-aipac-spigots

Diana van Eyk's avatar

Blair is out of step with most of humanity, but in lock step with the western elite, which is terrifying. These people don't represent anything resembling fairness, concern for the well-being of others, or common decency. Their values don't reflect the values of those they're supposed to represent.

And the burning of ambulances is something done by the likes of the CIA and MI6, not the left or anyone it's aligned with.

Antonio's avatar

Anyone who teams up with someone like Larry Ellison must be a nasty piece of work. Labour appears to be infested with right wing politicians sprinkled with libertarianism!

Alan Sutton's avatar

Thank you Jonathan. As always, well written and properly aggrieved opinion from you.

I have never commented here before. I am only a free subscriber but any mention of Tony F***ing Blair sets me off.

I had a vote in his election to Labour Party leader by virtue of paying the political levy in my union membership dues in 1989ish (? Can’t quite remember the date. Probably a little later actually). The field of candidates was pretty uninspiring. I think I voted for Bryan Gould if anyone remembers him? Was no other real left candidate.

Anyway, my point is that Blair was, and is and always will be a complete and totally self advertising arriviste c**t.

Admittedly I am a left wing hater of him. But, most English people, to my knowledge, know what he is and how he betrayed everyone during the Iraq war and also how he gutted the Labour Party.

People are not stupid.

My question is, why do the tired old Telegraph et al keep trotting him out? Everyone hates him. It doesn’t do their cause any good. When he says anything virtually everyone says “arsehole” and tunes out.

Does anyone take him seriously? Seriously.