The Iconoclast

by Michael Curtis If music be the food of life, play on. Say it with music. I’ll know that moment divine. On April 5, 2020 the 93 year-old Queen Elizabeth II delivered her fourth TV address of the 68 years on the throne, outside her annual Christmas greetings. In a gracious and indeed eloquent ...Read More...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WTVD) -- A Durham truck driver was shot and killed by law enforcement after stabbing four women at a Tennessee truck stop, killing three of them. According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Idris Abdus-Salaam, 33, is the man responsible for the violence that happened ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Elder of Ziyon has posted a piece about an Egyptian doctor who finds that the Jews – just see the Protocols – must be behind the coronavirus outbreak. Egyptian Dr. Makram El Nabrawy writes a seemingly reasonable article in Vetogate, where the author cautions against believing ...Read More...

From Sky News Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care after his condition worsened, Downing Street has said. The prime minister was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in London on Sunday night - 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus - due to his continuing "persistent" symptoms of COVID ...Read More...

From the Times Religious and political tensions have escalated in France after a knife-wielding Sudanese refugee killed two people. With police treating the attack in the small town near Grenoble as terrorism, far-right leaders seized on the incident to further their campaigns for a crackdown ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler A crescent moon appears to flow through the ether (a cloud) with Jupiter and Mars (above the moon) as the three rise in the early morning hours. By Stan Honda. I live in a building filled with the most interesting and accomplished people. Photographers, physicians, and psychoanalysts; ...Read More...

Still learning how the new tablet works (much the same as the old one, but the camera is inferior, which reflects the price). Another suburban blossom tree, of the later dark pink blossom. I have designs on some Magnolias in the next street tomorrow.  ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Bernie Sanders tweeted on Sunday about the latest outrage committed by that Oppressive Colonial-Settler State of Israel: Palestinians in Gaza already faced hardship under a blockade. Now they’re dealing with the coronavirus. My Senate colleagues and I call on Trump ...Read More...

In a speech about coronavirus, the Queen echoed the sentiments of Dame Vera Lynn to promise 'better days will return' She said: “We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will ...Read More...

From Asia Times MALE – As tourism in Maldives plummets with the travel-restricting Covid-19 pandemic, forcing many in the globally-oriented industry into unemployment, the idyllic island nation could soon become more vulnerable than ever to extremist groups like the Islamic State. That rising risk ...Read More...

Many in France look to a highly distinguished, if eccentric, microbiologist who touts a treatment for Covid-19. by Theodore Dalrymple No time is more propitious for the emergence of gurus, saviors, cranks, and mavericks than during an epidemic. Excessive fear and hope hold reason in abeyance; ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse How ironic that in Europe, which is telling its own citizens to stay behind closed doors, and in many cases, enforcing it, they are also dealing with their open borders refugee policy. The Corona virus has not deterred the hundreds of thousands of mostly young men coming from the ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Saudi Arabia is an authoritarian state, an absolute monarchy, which requires a curtailment of human rights, as enshrined in Western democracies, but also, at a time of crisis, this authoritarianism allows the government to act swiftly and relentlessly, as it has in its efforts ...Read More...

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From The Telegraph and the Mirror Two people were killed and seven others injured in a knife attack outside a bakery in the southern French town of Romans-sur-Isère on Saturday. It is believed the victims were in the queue to enter the bakery. A man has been arrested, but the motive is unknown. ...Read More...