PEREGRINE PULP

Folks just love flipping everything on its head, applying absurdist euphemisms or simply arguing that what we can all see happening is somehow the reverse. My favourite local examples have been "harm reduction" and "safe supply" which have only ever correlated with far more harm and even whole new dimensions of it. On the international front we've seen the most aggressive form of this phenomenon come out of the war in Gaza. In the continued insanity surrounding Israel's confl

Though I've been following along, I haven’t written at length about Ukraine since the opening weeks of this most recent Russian invasion. At that time, in late Winter and early Spring of 2022, knowing almost nothing about the conflict or what precipitated it, I was studying the previous decade of local and regional history with a focus on politics and ethnic violence. Doing so, most annoyingly, I was finding plenty that contradicted what I was hearing in the popular press and

Ziggy : I don't know. Is it just me? Tolga : What? Ziggy : Seems all the same people we all watched dedicating the last decade of...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) just published "Women and girls bear the brunt of conflicts..." In the thread that followed they described how, for example, "The escalating humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, continues to force thousands of people to flee, the vast majority of whom are women." With that they shared three other examples of terrible violence, really the worst kinds of things your imagination can conjure, experienced by p

EVERY EXPERT:  Putin just has nothing to gain from launching a war with Ukraine. He would never do it. ME:  I don’t know about that. ALL...

I was told to go read something said to be a newly published and “damning UN report about Israeli war crimes and ‘extermination’ via its war on Gaza's hospitals.” The document was a Report of Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel . It is the third such report to the UN General Assembly by this group and covers the period from October 7th, 2023 to August of 2024. The report states at the outs

NADAV: It’s difficult to understand how we aren’t gleefully waltzing toward a global war. VANDANA: And the real thing, not the isolated pseudo-conflicts we’ve been dabbling in for two decades. NADAV: Yeah. VANDANA: Indeed, that’s my sense. And I've been hearing others riffing about this. NADAV: These things just seem to spark off. Do they not? I'm no historian. VANDANA: Folks have to want it, I suppose. But there are loads of triggers and slopes. NADAV: And how many co

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NON-FICTION Today, August 22, 2024, a fellow recorded a video on his phone as he witnessed the Marinovka air base, on the Don river in...

MI-CHAEL:  I dunno. It’s like how I play this game. It’s a kind of World War II simulation. The creators have attempted to faithfully...

Two people are having a conversation over the phone. One is in a typical Singapore apartment complex. Lush green trees are all around....

Thinking about journalism and public perception, I was reminded today that in 1979 Australian journalist John Pilger entered Cambodia....

I haven’t written anything about the encampments, the ones that have sprung up seemingly over night, like springtime mushrooms, on the...

No one finds it the least bit interesting when folks suddenly flip reality on its head and offer up the very arguments they just finished spending weeks and months and years loudly and aggressively shooting down? That phenomenon occupies me. This sort of behaviour is so frequent at present it could be a weekly show on CBC Radio. Speaking of which, did you catch the recent Front Burner episode on CBC about the keffiyeh? The feature  came about because the Ontario legislature

Deborrah Smallrich — former army intelligence officer, new mother, and her household’s sole breadwinner — decided to leave her husband...

As the leadership of Hamas has explained publicly, they expected, at the very least, for Iran and her proxies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq,...

Regardless of what happens, what actions are taken or not taken, the same blood libel will be offered up. Israel will be accused of using...

The New York Times just published a flashy article on its website accusing Israel of deliberately starving Palestinian children . They...