Salafi Arabia has possible large uranium deposits. Now that fission power is effectively obsolete, the only reason the country would be interested is to make nuclear weapons.

It would be natural to propose a nuclear disarmament treaty for Salafi Arabia and Iran — and perhaps Israel too.

Julian Assange's hearing has resumed, and Craig Murray is covering it as before. I was unable to post these before because I was overloaded writing a long article.

Murray reports that Keir Starmer, the tame new head of the Labour Party, condemns Extinction Rebellion as a threat to the free press for blocking right-wing newspaper trucks one morning, but says nothing when the free press is truly threatened.

In the first day of the resumed hearing, Assange saw for the first time the totally new charges, which his lawyers saw only in the past few weeks and had been unable to show him in prison. They had a discussion about them and asked for an adjournment to gather evidence. The judge refused this.

The defense will not be allowed to call witnesses except the ones it chose for the old charges.

This continues what we have seen all along: the rules of justice twisted over and over to assure a politically pre-decided outcome. This is not as obvious a show trial as the ones Stalin held, but it is substantively similar.

Organizations such as Amnesty and Reporters without Borders had to fight for a chance to view the hearing, so strong were the efforts to prevent public monitoring of the treacherous proceedings.

A UK thug called for making it a crime to go limp when arrested.

It makes me think of Israel fining Palestinians for not demolishing their own houses.

*People want a fairer, greener Britain after Covid, inquiry reveals.*

I wish they had voted for the leader who really stood for this: Corbyn.

The US government is pretending that sanctions against Iran, ended by virtue of US rejection of the non-nuclear deal, will come back into force on Sep 20. This could be meant as an excuse for the wrecker to launch a war to "enforce the sanctions", to manipulate the election.

Will Iran's rulers have the self-discipline to refrain from retaliation until after November 3 so as to refuse to help the wrecker?