Deaconess: For all who are victims of trafficking and enforced prostitution … Choir singing: Lord hear our prayer. Deaconess: For all who are victims of violence, racism and murder … Choir singing: Lord hear our prayer. * I’ve had race … Read More »
An admirer of Pepe Escobar’s well informed writings, I was keen to read his Information Clearing House (ICH) piece yesterday. He begins. Cold War 2.0 has hit South America with a bang – pitting the US and expected minions against … Read More »
The Mississippi this morning … A walk down Magazine Street to Lafayette Cemetery, stopping for coffee, shelter from ten minute deluge and po’ boy lunch. Tour of the graves. Mahdi Gras preparations everywhere. Streetcar up St Charles Avenue to Audubon … Read More »
Tomorrow at crack of d I head for New Orleans so this is my last post for a while on Venezuela. Or anything else cept alligator shots from the bayou, live jazz from Frenchmen Street and dead footage from St … Read More »
In a footnote to my post of January 27 I wrote: Fence-sitting and having it both ways cascade through liberal media. As Guardian and Observer are vital to Chomsky’s “sophisticated system of propaganda”, so too are house leftists like Owen … Read More »
Yesterday freezing fog hung over the Trent, and hills, woods and fields of Notts, Derbyshire and Leicestershire. For the second time this week, but in transformed weather conditions, I walked with a Sheffield pal, this one of forty years standing. … Read More »
My writing cost me a friend this week. It happens. Not often, but it always hurts. Then I remind myself that the world does not throw itself at the feet of those who write as I do. I pick myself … Read More »
The best comedians are the cleverest people on the planet. I’m grateful to a BTL comment on OffGuardian, below a piece of mine on Venezuela, for linking to this forty-five minute video. It has Robert Newman saying exactly what I … Read More »