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Bad Old Habits: Israel Backs Palestinian Militias in Gaza

Nigeria, June 7 -- It is one of those things that should be recorded and replayed for eternity: Israel, in order to guard some misplaced sense of security, happily backs Palestinian groups in order to... Read More


Off to War We Go: Starmer's Strategic Defence Review

Nigeria, June 3 -- Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in obvious distractions. And there is no more obvi... Read More


Thieves in the Kitchen: The Stealing of Recipes

Nigeria, June 2 -- Recipe author Nagi Maehashi, unmoved by her own numbing banality, is peeved. Her target: Penguin books and author Brooke Bellamy. Her accusation: the apparent copying of recipes for... Read More


Roads to War: The EU's Security Action for Europe Fund

Nigeria, May 29 -- As the world was readying for the Second World War, the insightful humane Austrian author Stefan Zweig made the following glum observation: "Openly and flagrantly, certain countries... Read More


Squabbling Siblings: India, Pakistan and Operation Sindoor

Nigeria, May 27 -- On April 22, militants from The Resistance Front (TRF), a group accused by Indian authorities of being linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group, slaughtered 26 tourists in the ... Read More


The Killing of Israeli Embassy Staffers: Netanyahu's Antisemitism Canard

Nigeria, May 25 -- Here was another chance - at least as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw it - of threading one set of events with another. It's all part of the Israeli security state's p... Read More


The Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza: Israel's Operation Gideon's Chariots

Nigeria, May 21 -- The latest phase of slaughter and seizure on the part of Israeli forces in Gaza has commenced. Following relentless airstrikes that have left hundreds of Palestinians dead, Operatio... Read More


Rehabilitation and Confidence Tricks: Al-Sharaa, Trump and Sanctions

Nigeria, May 18 -- Contrary to the propaganda of moral upstarts, terrorism pays. It proves rewarding. It establishes states and reconstitutes others. It encourages change, for ill or otherwise. The st... Read More


Trump, Planes and the Arabian Gulf Tour

Nigeria, May 16 -- They seemed made for each other. A former reality television star, with dubious real estate credentials, a freakish alienation from the truth, and the various leaders of the Gulf St... Read More


White Smoke and Speculation: The Election of Pope Leo XIV

Nigeria, May 11 -- The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it. It was the one rare occasion in the twenty-first century where ancient ceremony, the old... Read More