Every empire falls. The US one will be no different. Collapse becomes inevitable once its rulers lose all sense of how absurd and abhorrent they have become – as the Congress showed only too clearly in its public celebration of Netanyahu and his genocide.

Don't be fooled. The legal ruling by the world's highest court on the Israeli occupation obliges western states not just to end their persecution of the boycott movement but to take up that cause as their own.

Women and children are being targeted intentionally in Gaza, say Israeli whistleblower-soldiers. From ground troops to commanders, the rules of war have been shredded. But the western media still keeps turning a blind eye.

Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart. The media's differing treatment of these comparable events is the clue to what the media's really there to do.

Britain’s new prime minister has shown he is already an arch-exponent of the dark political arts of deceit, hypocrisy and bad faith. Listen not to what he says, but watch closely what he actually does.

Politicians battling for our votes are fully on board with the months-long murder of Gaza’s children by Israel. The western media has failed to subject these candidates to even the most cursory scrutiny for their role in perpetuating that slaughter. The current barbarism at the heart of western politics has been turned into a non-issue.

With a properly adversarial media playing the role it declares for itself, as a watchdog on power, Julian Assange could never have been disappeared for so long. He would have been freed years ago. The establishment media acted as a willing tool in the demonising narrative the US and British governments carefully crafted against him.

We live in a world of make-believe, where strings pulled in the interests of the super-rich are ever more visible. Yet we are expected to pretend we can't see those strings. More astonishing still, many people seem blind to the puppet show.

Israelis dancing in the streets, the White House hailing a ‘daring’ operation, Sunak expressing 'relief'. The day the West defined the massacre of 270 Palestinians in Gaza as 'success'.

Pick at the Israeli thread of war crimes in Gaza, and the entire cloth of atrocities around the world committed and promoted by the US and its closest allies starts to unravel. That's why it's not just Israel waging war on international law.