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Martin Jay

Martin Jay is an award-winning British journalist based in Morocco where he is a correspondent for The Daily Mail (UK) who previously reported on the Arab Spring there for CNN, as well as Euronews. From 2012 to 2019 he was based in Beirut where he worked for a number of international media titles including BBC, Al Jazeera, RT, DW, as well as reporting on a freelance basis for the UK’s Daily Mail, The Sunday Times plus TRT World. His career has led him to work in almost 50 countries in Africa, The Middle East and Europe for a host of major media titles. He has lived and worked in Morocco, Belgium, Kenya and Lebanon.
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If America’s role is to continue funding Ukrainian soldiers without genuinely wanting to negotiate peace, then all talks of peace are folly.


The stories practically write themselves for the simple reason that many of the normal requisites of reporting don’t apply in conflict zones.


Putin has already won the war in Ukraine by Zelensky already conceding that he’s dumped the idea of NATO membership, Martin Jay writes.


In terms of PR and its own identity, the failure to support Ukraine will reverberate for decades to come, Martin Jay writes.


Western media has gorged itself on the idea that there is no nuances worth looking at in the war and no place for any factual reporting.


The EU ban on RT and Sputnik is simply wrong and the thinking behind it draconian, Martin Jay writes.


War is cruelty on a level most of us can’t process. But even more cruel are those who orchestrate it and then run away and hide the moment the knife is drawn from the sheath.


Middle East countries, certainly in the GCC region, are benefitting from the Ukraine standoff as the heat is taken off them, Martin Jay writes.


Western media leads us into war in Ukraine with Russia, but don’t worry, Biden’s got the autocue working now.


For those countries who don’t think they have a good deal from the EU, their regimes might well consider working more closely with the Russians.