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The Tap Blog started twenty years ago. I had retired and gone to live in Manila. Being eight hours ahead gave me time to analyse the various newsfeeds and write something pertinent before the western world awoke. It was conventionally political writing, until 2009 when a reader sent in a comment suggesting I studied some videos and writings of Dr Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty in Monterrey Bay. This was 2009. Read more...
Iran is demonstrating her ability to react logically and strategically, both diplomatically and militarily. Trump can’t complete one thought before starting another. Iran has played another blinder while the US is acting suspiciously and reacting to Iran’s carefully thought out steps..to link Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon and Iran into a single issue – Israel. In Europe, Italy …
The US is controlled by US-based corporations Americans themselves fund daily by buying their goods and services; These corporations are lead, chaired, and owned by majority white nominally “Christian” men, or in other words, Westerners – not ethnic or religious minorities like “Jews;” These corporations also make up the vast majority of lobbying money spent annually in …
Stanislav asks the obvious question. He can’t see why the bridges were left standing all this time. Russians don’t want a deal. They want capitulation by Kiev and by NATO. Russians are angry. Pregozin recruited from the prisons, gave them no training, mostly thieves. He suffered 18,000 casualties going faster than the Russian …
It was nothing to do with Iran, according to military officials. US forces are unlikely to shoot down their own helicopter. There is another party in the region with form for attacking US military assets, when it suits. What does Professor Marandi and Daniel Davis think? Story of Apache landing OK with no casualties is …
Barry Young Has Been Persecuted by the State for Blowing the Whistle on Death by Covid Injection in New Zealand “…Barry Young has been persecuted by the state. He has lost his job, been arrested, spent two nights in jail, had his home ransacked and endured being within the court system for 900 days.” Lioness …
Once all Ukrainian men have been slaughtered, all German men will be slaughtered. French and British. Stanislav Krapivnik is a former US Army officer from Donbas, who has since returned. Krapivnik discusses the growing anger in Moscow at NATO gets more involved in the war, the massive attacks on Kiev, and the possibility of Belarus …
The New Atlas 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Reality Check: Claims of Israeli Spying on the US 1. If true, it would not be reported – real counter-intelligence is infinitely more effective if the targeted nation is unaware they’ve been caught spying; 2. Because Israel is a nominal US “ally” (it is a proxy) the desire to keep this quiet would …
Why did Yugoslavia have to die? And what exactly happened in Europe to the Slavs? Why is eastern Europe routinely left out in popular histories of the continent? Dr. Višeslav Simić is a professor from Mexico and former Yugoslav emigré. We speak about how Slavs have been erased from Western history, Yugoslavia as a test case …
The article on Israel spying on the US (especially wrt the Iran war) has become big news. Here is the NYT story Meryl Nass Jun 6 Thought you might want the long version. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/us/politics/pentagon-sees-growing-espionage-threat-from-israel.html Recent U.S. intelligence reports have raised concerns about Israeli spy agencies eavesdropping on American negotiators working on a peace deal with Iran, amid rising …
Former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson join the show as Iran continues to retaliate against US aggression, this time launching missiles at a US Destroyer in the Gulf of Oman. Iran has said it isn’t done yet, and Trump appears paralyzed. Two of the top analysts in geopolitics with a wealth of experience break …
Some good news today Funny how the little primary elections are blown up to mean much more than they actually do Meryl Nass Jun 5 Before Tuesday, it was said that Trump’s picks were winning all their primaries. Republian members appeared to stay in line, in part as a result. Then 2 days ago, Trump’s picks did …
Israel pulled back from attacking a Lebanese city (Abahe, Abaye, Abay – 300,000 – 400,000 people) when Iran threatened to destroy Northern Occupied Palestine in reply, and told the Israeli population to leave their homes. M Marandi says other Gulf States are refusing to accept Lebanese refugees, as are other regions within Lebanon. Laith …
Peter Oborne, associate editor of Middle East Eye, argues that if Abdullah II goes to war to protect the holy site, Jordan may find it has more allies than US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expect. Middle East Eye reported last week that the US and Israel are conspiring to strip …
The US is controlled by US-based corporations Americans themselves fund daily by buying their goods and services; These corporations are lead, chaired, and owned by majority white nominally “Christian” men, or in other words, Westerners – not ethnic or religious minorities like “Jews;” These corporations also make up the vast majority of lobbying money spent annually in …
It was nothing to do with Iran, according to military officials. US forces are unlikely to shoot down their own helicopter. There is another party in the region with form for attacking US military assets, when it suits. What does Professor Marandi and Daniel Davis think? Story of Apache landing OK with no casualties is …
The New Atlas 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Reality Check: Claims of Israeli Spying on the US 1. If true, it would not be reported – real counter-intelligence is infinitely more effective if the targeted nation is unaware they’ve been caught spying; 2. Because Israel is a nominal US “ally” (it is a proxy) the desire to keep this quiet would …
The article on Israel spying on the US (especially wrt the Iran war) has become big news. Here is the NYT story Meryl Nass Jun 6 Thought you might want the long version. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/us/politics/pentagon-sees-growing-espionage-threat-from-israel.html Recent U.S. intelligence reports have raised concerns about Israeli spy agencies eavesdropping on American negotiators working on a peace deal with Iran, amid rising …
Some good news today Funny how the little primary elections are blown up to mean much more than they actually do Meryl Nass Jun 5 Before Tuesday, it was said that Trump’s picks were winning all their primaries. Republian members appeared to stay in line, in part as a result. Then 2 days ago, Trump’s picks did …
Peter Oborne, associate editor of Middle East Eye, argues that if Abdullah II goes to war to protect the holy site, Jordan may find it has more allies than US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expect. Middle East Eye reported last week that the US and Israel are conspiring to strip …
Stanislav asks the obvious question. He can’t see why the bridges were left standing all this time. Russians don’t want a deal. They want capitulation by Kiev and by NATO. Russians are angry. Pregozin recruited from the prisons, gave them no training, mostly thieves. He suffered 18,000 casualties going faster than the Russian …
Barry Young Has Been Persecuted by the State for Blowing the Whistle on Death by Covid Injection in New Zealand “…Barry Young has been persecuted by the state. He has lost his job, been arrested, spent two nights in jail, had his home ransacked and endured being within the court system for 900 days.” Lioness …
Once all Ukrainian men have been slaughtered, all German men will be slaughtered. French and British. Stanislav Krapivnik is a former US Army officer from Donbas, who has since returned. Krapivnik discusses the growing anger in Moscow at NATO gets more involved in the war, the massive attacks on Kiev, and the possibility of Belarus …
Why did Yugoslavia have to die? And what exactly happened in Europe to the Slavs? Why is eastern Europe routinely left out in popular histories of the continent? Dr. Višeslav Simić is a professor from Mexico and former Yugoslav emigré. We speak about how Slavs have been erased from Western history, Yugoslavia as a test case …
Former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson join the show as Iran continues to retaliate against US aggression, this time launching missiles at a US Destroyer in the Gulf of Oman. Iran has said it isn’t done yet, and Trump appears paralyzed. Two of the top analysts in geopolitics with a wealth of experience break …
Israel pulled back from attacking a Lebanese city (Abahe, Abaye, Abay – 300,000 – 400,000 people) when Iran threatened to destroy Northern Occupied Palestine in reply, and told the Israeli population to leave their homes. M Marandi says other Gulf States are refusing to accept Lebanese refugees, as are other regions within Lebanon. Laith …
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