Thirty-three years ago, when I was a teenager in Nairobi, I was a book burner. The year was 1989, the year of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, and I was seduced by the rising tide of Islamism. I greeted the …
This is how despotism ends
The absurdly long table Vladimir Putin sits at, whether with Emmanuel Macron last month, or his terrified subordinates now, was the giveaway. There is stately furniture, then there is 20 feet of thuddingly symbolic paranoia. Isolated during the pandemic, padlocked …
Will Trump go to war with Iran to save America’s oil industry? — RT Op-ed
It’s believed that a US-Iran war would disrupt the flow of Middle Eastern oil and, as such, should be avoided at all costs. With US oil futures trading in the negative, has the risk of such a war suddenly become …
600 People Have Died And 3,000 Have Been Poisoned In Iran After Drinking Neat Alcohol To ‘Cure’ Coronavirus – Healthy Food House
The world is now witnessing something that was never seen before, or at least not to this extent. Countries are struggling to find the most suitable solution to the crisis and prevent devastating numbers of citizens infected and dead while …
This video has circulated in reports about people who died during the
A video has been viewed thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim that it shows bodies being removed from a hospital in Iran during the novel coronavirus pandemic. The claim is false; the video has circulated in …