Matthew Carr's Blog, page 60
June 30, 2014
Savile Country
The more we learn about the horrendous crimes committted by Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, the more it becomes clear that the former ‘national treasure’ was one of the most prolific and psychopathic sexual predators in British history – a … Continue reading →
June 28, 2014
The Strategy of Blood
If the twists and turns of US foreign policy in the Middle East were ever presented to a Hollywood producer as a script or treatment for a movie or a tv drama, it is very likely that it would be … Continue reading →
June 24, 2014
Egypt’s Comedy Hour
Even the most brutal dictators and tyrants are comical, and every dictator is comical in his own way. It’s not the kind of humour that really makes you laugh or go home with a warm glowing feeling. The comedy is … Continue reading →
June 23, 2014
ISIS: Made in Washington?
As a result of its continuing offensives in Iraq, the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIS) has become the latest Islamist threat to civilisation. If the rightwing Internet website World Net Daily is to be believed however, the … Continue reading →
June 19, 2014
The Former Friends of Tony Blair
Tony Blair’s latest self-aggrandizing and bloodthirsty pronouncements on Iraq have not surprisingly been greeted with a storm of ridicule, contempt, and disgust across a wide spectrum of political opinion. Boris Johnson, Clare Short, Malcolm Rifkind, Christopher Meyer and even … Continue reading →
June 17, 2014
Iraq: A Brief History of Bombing
Faced with the prospect of the imminent disintegration of the Iraqi state, the installation of of a jihadist caliphate in the heart of the Middle East, an all-out sectarian civil war, and the final collapse of US policy in Iraq, … Continue reading →
June 15, 2014
Iraq Implodes
The startling advances of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in Iraq are the most dramatic and visible success that the transnational jihad movement has achieved since its intitial emergence in the war against the Soviet occupation … Continue reading →
June 11, 2014
Ofsted: Gove’s Trojan Horse
For some time now it has been clear that Ofsted functions as the political instrument of central government. Until recently this instrumentalization was mostly manifest in general terms; for governments intent on scapegoating teachers for the many failings of British … Continue reading →
June 9, 2014
Spiking the Homeless
Many years ago back in the early 1980s, I lived in New York. One of the many novelties that I was exposed to during those three and half years was the spectacle of homelessness. At that time tramps and homeless … Continue reading →
June 6, 2014
Dugway to D-Day: a photo-essay
Today is the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings, an event that is rightly celebrated as a key moment in the defeat of Nazism and the liberation of Europe from fascist tyranny. Last year I visited the beaches at Omaha … Continue reading →
