Dryad Maritime, a maritime intelligence company, to provide specialist navigation and risk mitigation services for vessels transiting or coming alongside in high risk areas, has assessed the incident in the Gulf of Oman reported this morning and, unlike Pompeo, is not...
(Above: Oil Tanker "Front Altair.")
Two oil tankers are currently on fire in the Gulf of Oman, to the east of the Straits of Hormuz at the entrance to the Indian Ocean.
The incidents are variously described as “attacks” or “explosions” and though...
As per usual the kumquat kleptocrat is full of sh** and lying about crowd sizes.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1135602449987899395
Luckily Damon Evans, self styled “damocrat,” was on the ground in London to give us the real skinny.
https://twitter.com/damocrat/status/1135542670082871297
https://twitter.com/damocrat/status/1135542801234628613
https://twitter.com/damocrat/status/1135549853394776065
https://twitter.com/damocrat/status/1135555350097268736
https://twitter.com/damocrat/status/1135557928835080192
https://twitter.com/damocrat/status/1135567298138390528
Thanks to Damon for his intrepid reporting.
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London's Mayor Sadiq Khan took to the pages of The Guardian yesterday to announce his unrepentant disapproval of the State visit of Donald Trump and his roving retrogression review to his beloved city, sparing no outrage at what he views as...
They ought to run this on American Television this week end.
https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/1134833983261413376
(sorry, folks, couldn’t find it on YouTube)
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Hoo boy — the stupid, it burns….
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1134611937193578501
Luckily, Twitter was on duty:
https://twitter.com/BrodyBroshears/status/1134666534561996800
https://twitter.com/SheilaDRead/status/1134613710536728576
https://twitter.com/AnneT313/status/1134616197406830592
https://twitter.com/JamieGump/status/1134612421144928258
https://twitter.com/fsujuan93/status/1134613823581806592
https://twitter.com/trackallan/status/1134625230121553921
https://twitter.com/Sr0bi/status/1134662794975072256
https://twitter.com/ElizCab/status/1134665881949265920
https://twitter.com/durrati/status/1134820737095798784
(Above: Cartoon by Brazilian Artist Carlos Latuff)
Whether bluffing to win concessions from Iran, to distract from the plethora of growing scandals threatening to engulf his Residency, or to throw red meat to his rabid base, drumpf and his minions Pompeo and...
(Above: Who are you gonna believe, this guy or Major Chickenhawk Bolton?)
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“The US has spent the past week and a half warning that it has credible intelligence that Iran was plotting attacks against US interests in the region.
A British...
So, a few days ago Trump trotted out John Bolton to threaten Iran, saying the deployment was meant "to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of...
Pierce begins in his piece on abandonment of the INF Treaty in Esquire Magazine reminiscing about his youth, when Europe, The United States and the former Soviet Union bristled with nuclear missiles, but when also it was understood (wink, wink) that a...
