Caitlin today. Perhaps I should say this more often but when I refer to America in the context of posts like this – which is to say, in any political context – I mean its machinery of deep state government … Read More »
Image from a BBC story – Iraq: ‘We are systematically programmed to kill’ Caitlin Johnstone – yes, her again – says today that: The Capitol riot wasn’t the worst thing a US president has done. It’s not even the worst thing … Read More »
I ought to credit Ozzie blogger Caitlin Johnstone as an honorary steel city scribbler given how often I replicate her posts on this site, in full and with her blanket permission for “everyone but racists and fascists”. Today’s is a … Read More »
See also yesterday’s post, Stop trivialising the term, coup! Below are my shamelessly cherry-picked highlights from a predictably flawed but highly entertaining piece today in the liberal centrist Middle East outlet, Al-Monitor. Turkey awash with schadenfreude over Capitol takeover A large … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone opens her post today: Stop trivializing the term “coup”. It’s a real thing the US government really inflicts on other countries in a way that actually does topple governments and cause immense destruction. You cannot take over the … Read More »
I began political blogging ten years ago, with increased intensity in the past five or six. On a few issues – Russia, the 2016 US Election, Brexit, Syria, Venezuela – my positions, and reactions to them, have threatened or actually … Read More »
Jonathan Cook, today in CounterPunch: Assange Wins. The Cost: The Crushing of Press Freedom The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US super-max jail … Read More »
Just another dreary Monday morning – but what happens next has generated 27.5 million hits on Youtube.
Attenborough on the last day of 2020 … A happy new year to one and all …
The Andrew Cohen Community at Foxhollow, Massachusetts, 2002 Did I fail in Part 4 to show, as any storyteller should, those ‘deep’ or ‘heightened’ states of ‘non dual’ consciousness I say were milestones on my road to culthood? In fairness … Read More »