syria

Jihadi Justice

Written By: te reo putake
Date published: - 87 comments

Should we let the ‘Bumbling Jihadi’ Mark Taylor back into NZ? What message do we send the world if we don’t?

Grotesque.

Written By: Bill
Date published: - 92 comments

People from Douma have been to The Hague and spoken of their experiences on the night of a supposed chemical attack by Syrian forces.

States United.

Written By: Bill
Date published: - 12 comments

On how states in conflict, have seemingly and nevertheless, managed to share in the likely or possible creation of one common goal.

UK Intelligence

Written By: Bill
Date published: - 43 comments

From the Opposition Labour Party, a rare instance of common sense and intelligence on display with regards foreign relations.

Framing Syria

Written By: Bill
Date published: - 48 comments

If you’re determined to  believe that western liberal democracy is essentially benign and only ever makes mistakes and honest mis-judgements, or is something that’s sometimes marred by an odd ‘bad apple’ or two, then this post on Syria probably isn’t the post for you.

Syria sarin capitalism and war

Written By: Anthony R0bins
Date published: - 60 comments

The dirty truth behind many of the wars that our political / media world gets itself so excited about is that they wouldn’t be happening without the arms that we (the “western” world) sell so copiously.

World War?

Written By: Bill
Date published: - 221 comments

Well…don’t know about you, but I’m feeling like I want to throw up.

Heroes

Written By: Bill
Date published: - 75 comments

All the “nobody” people.

ISIS Crisis

Written By: te reo putake
Date published: - 84 comments

Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee says our training mission to Iraq is undergoing a transformation. We were warned when the troops first went that the mission was always intended to be looser than Brownlee publicly claimed at the time. And so it has turned out to be.

Mission Creep

Written By: te reo putake
Date published: - 50 comments

The military mission to Iraq is to be extended by another 18 months, much to nobody’s surprise. John Key has put the creep into the mission.

Syria escalating

Written By: Colonial Viper
Date published: - 37 comments

Turkey has started shelling the US backed Kurdish forces that are fighting against ISIS. What could go wrong?

Collision course Syria

Written By: Colonial Viper
Date published: - 81 comments

Russia is backing anti-Islamist Kurds in Northern Syria to control their own territory, and acting directly against the interests of the jihadist groups that Turkey, a NATO member, is supporting. The temperature will only rise from here.

Corbyn’s Isis Crisis

Written By: te reo putake
Date published: - 89 comments

UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn faces his first big test. Can he command the majority in Labour over Syria? Or should he accept he is on the wrong side of history?

In Our Back Yard – Manus Island and Nauru

Written By: Bill
Date published: - 12 comments

As the photo claims, refugees are human beings. We can tell this from general expressions of resignation, desperation and misery.

But what about our own expressions of humanity?

Syria and Internationalism

Written By: Bill
Date published: - 90 comments

I wonder if the current public outpouring of sympathy for Syrian refugees is nought but a ‘fashion’, or whether it’s the beginnings of a renaissance for internationalism.

Heroes and Villains

Written By: Bill
Date published: - 9 comments

Thinking authorities in the west have yet discover the difference between their arse and their elbow…