FROM OUR MIDDLE EAST WRITERS THOUSANDS OF IRANIANS have called on Ireland to lend its support against Israel, as the two Middle Eastern nations exchange missiles. A huge crowd in Teheran cried, “Martin and Harris, don’t dare pause, you support our friends, so support our cause!” One of the demonstrators said: “Israel’s aggression in Palestine…

TEHERAN LAST MONTH HOSSEIN Salami, leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, said that if Israel attacked his country, Teheran would “open the gates of hell”. Yesterday, Israel killed him with a missile strike. Among many missile strikes. For much of its life, the Islamic Republic has talked a great game, and yet failed to equal it…

JERUSALEM GRETA THUNBERG’S SO-called “selfie yacht”, Madleen, was a deep-cover Mossad agent, according to Israeli government officials. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessel was recruited by the much-vaunted Israeli intelligence service after it was compromised in a sting operation, the Israelis say. “Mossad found the vessel at a moment of weakness – we can’t say what…

GRAPEVINE, USA THE NAME’S BOND, Treasury Bond. Donald Trump may be facing his most formidable opponent yet. His recent bust-up with Elon Musk has the Washington Beltway community buzzing with tales of the tech billionaire revealing himself to be a super agent dedicated to stabilizing US Treasury Bond yields and saving the world from the…

HOLLYWOOD A FILM CRITIC who says the Entity in Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning is clearly meant to represent Donald Trump, has been blasted by the American President’s supporters, who insist Trump can only be seen as Ethan Hunt in the action franchise. “The female president in the movie is so much like Kamala Harris, that…

MELBOURNE A NEW MUSEUM dedicated to the history of thongs in Australia is being planned for Sydney. The exhibition, which is likely to be based in Bondi, will trace the cultural impact of the thong as footwear across the centuries, focusing on its rise from casual beach accessory to national icon. “It’s hard to imagine…

FROM OUR CLIMATE DESK AND WIRE SERVICES NORTHERN IRELAND MAY be unwitting sitting on a virtually unlimited supply of clean energy which if captured could bring untold wealth to its people and spark a new industrial revolution powered by human emotion. “For hundreds of years, the furious anger of Ulster’s Protestant Loyalists has been spent…

OTTAWA COULD DONALD TRUMP be an unwitting agent of a secret scheme for a Greater Brexit? The American President’s courageous gamble to make his country great again is clearly bringing old British Empire stalwarts back together as Canada hosts its usually absent monarch, who brings with him together with the standard fraternal sentiments, a solid…

HANOI VIETNAM IS IN turmoil after video footage of a teacher apparently slapping her student in the face went viral in the south east Asian country. “While corporal punishment is accepted up to a reasonable point in the family home, it is not lawful in school in Vietnam,” explained Nguyen Van Duc, a school principal…

CANBERRA ANY FUTURE CHINESE invasion of Australia could come in the guise of an old folks’ tour, with People’s Liberation Army soldiers advancing in wheel chairs and on walking frames, says a secret Department of Defence study. “Such is the problem with aging in China, that future armies could be peopled with millions of soldiers…